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Disinherited

Definition: Disinherited

Disinherited

Adjective

1. Deprived of your rightful heritage.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "disinherited" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Disinherited

DomainDefinitions

Dream Interpretation

To dream that you are disinherited, warns you to look well to your business and social standing.
For a young man to dream of losing his inheritance by disobedience, warns him that he will find favor in the eyes of his parents by contracting a suitable marriage. For a woman, this dream is a warning to be careful of her conduct, lest she meet with unfavorable fortune. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

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Synonyms: Disinherited

Synonyms by domain: heir who cannot be totally disinherited (law), succession by heirs unable to be fully disinherited.

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Crosswords: Disinherited

English words defined with "disinherited": Disheritance. (references)
Specialty definitions using "disinherited": DisinheritedI'vanhoe. (references)
Etymologies containing "disinherited": Disinherit. (references)

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Modern Usage: Disinherited

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Disinherited Son's Loyalty (1909)

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Commercial Usage: Disinherited

DomainTitle

Books

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Usage Frequency: Disinherited

"Disinherited" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 47.73% of the time. "Disinherited" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)47.73%2176,261
Adjective (general or positive)34.09%1590,616
Lexical Verb (past tense)13.64%6143,867
Noun (proper)4.55%2245,945
                    Total100.00%44N/A

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Expressions: Disinherited

Expressions using "disinherited": disinherited class disinherited person. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: Disinherited

Language Translations for "disinherited"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vegjëli (childhood, common people, disinherited class, poor people, populace, pupilage). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

legitimaris (heir who cannot be totally disinherited). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

perinnötön. (various references)

   

French

  

déshérité. (various references)

   

German

  

enterbte. (various references)

   

Italian

  

legittimario (heir who cannot be totally disinherited, some countries grant a certain reserved portion to the surviving spouse). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isinheritedday

   

Portuguese

  

herdeiro legitimário (heir who cannot be totally disinherited, some countries grant a certain reserved portion to the surviving spouse). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

dezmoştenit. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

лишенный наследства. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

arvlös. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Disinherited

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

exheres. (various references)

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Misspellings: Disinherited

Misspellings

"Disinherited" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disinhibited. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Disinherited

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-h-i-i-i-n-r-s-t"

-2 letters: disherited, disinherit, hiddenites, rhinitides.

-3 letters: dendrites, hiddenite, histidine, inherited.

-4 letters: dendrite, destined, diethers, disherit, disinter, dithered, hindered, histidin, inditers, inedited, inherits, inserted, nerdiest, niteries, nitrided, nitrides, reshined, resident, rhinitis, siderite, sintered, stridden, trendies.

-5 letters: deities, deniers, derides, desired, destine, diester, dieters, diether, dirtied, dirties, dishier, distend, dithers, ditsier, endited, endites, entires, entries, heinies, heisted.

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Alternative Orthography: Disinherited


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 69 73 69 6E 68 65 72 69 74 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ...    ..    -.    ....    .    .-.    ..    -    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101001 01110011 01101001 01101110 01101000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#115 &#105 &#110 &#104 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#116 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0073 0069 006E 0068 0065 0072 0069 0074 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

387585758074718475867170

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Disinherited"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, Albanees, albanialainen, Albanais, albaner, albanese, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, alban

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatieholandez, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, olandese, holandês, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holländsk

Finnish

määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutosfinlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, finlandese, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, finsk

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrëngjishte, frëng, franceze, ranskalainen, français, französisch, francese, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, fransk, franska

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiongjerman, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, tedesco, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, tysk

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitalialainen, italien, italienisch, italiano, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italiensk, italienska, italienare

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugez, portugalisht, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, portoghese, português, portughez, португальский, portugis

Romanian

dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcirerumun, Roemeens, romanialainen, Roumain, rumäne, rumeno, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumänsk

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеvenäläinen, Russe, russisch, russo, русский, ryss

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättningsuedez, Zweeds, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, svedese, шведский, svensk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, inglese, inglês, englezesc, английский, engelsk
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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