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DIVERTISEMENT

Definition: DIVERTISEMENT

DIVERTISEMENT

Noun

1. Diversion; amusement; recreation.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "DIVERTISEMENT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Note: Divertisement \Di*vert"ise*ment\, noun. [Compare to the next word.]. (Websters 1913)

Anagrams: DIVERTISEMENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-i-m-n-r-s-t-t-v"
	-2 letters: determinist, enteritides.
	-3 letters: determents, determines, detriments, divestment, entireties, eternities, interested, ministered, misentered, reinvested, revetments, temerities.
	-4 letters: determent, determine, detersive, detriment, enteritis, entremets, eternised, eventides, intermits, interties, misdriven, reemitted, reinvited, reinvites, retentive, retinites, revetment, revisited, serviette, teentsier, tenderest, teredines, trendiest.
	-5 letters: deemster, demerits, derisive, detentes, detester, dimeters, dinettes, diriment, dirtiest, disinter, diviners, divinest, emenders, emetines.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-i-i-m-n-r-s-t-t-v"
	+1 letter: determinatives, divertissement.
	+2 letters: divertissements.
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Alternative Orthography: DIVERTISEMENT

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

44 49 56 45 52 54 49 53 45 4D 45 4E 54

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

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

⁼

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 01001001 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010100 01001001 01010011 01000101 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#84 &#73 &#83 &#69 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0056 0045 0052 0054 0049 0053 0045 004D 0045 004E 0054

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

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

38435639525443533947394854

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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