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Definition: DOMESDAY |
DOMESDAYNoun1. A day of judgment. See Doomsday. |
Date "DOMESDAY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Note: Domesday \Domes"day`\, noun. day of judgment. See Doomsday. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DOMESDAY | English | An Intelligent General Public Data,Voice and Picture Storage Retrieval System | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
List | Red book, Blue book, Domesday book; cadastre; directory, gazetter. almanac; army list, clergy list, civil service list, navy list; Almanach de Gotha, cadaster; Lloyd's register, nautical almanac; |
Record | Record, note, minute; register, registry; roll; (list); cartulary, diptych, Domesday book; catalogue raisonne; entry, memorandum, indorsement, inscription, copy, duplicate, docket; notch; (mark); muniment, deed; (security); document; deposition, proces verbal; affidavit; certificate; (evidence). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DOMESDAY |
| English words defined with "DOMESDAY": Ferding ♦ Ora. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DOMESDAY": Acorn Computers Ltd. ♦ Cotset ♦ Doom Book, Dreng ♦ Vineyard Controversy ♦ Wyn-monath. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "DOMESDAY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.16% of the time. "DOMESDAY" is used about 119 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.16% | 118 | 29,674 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.84% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 119 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DOMESDAY": Domesday Book. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
domesday book | 45 |
domesday | 5 |
bbc domesday | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DOMESDAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | Anglia földbirtokkönyve (domesday book). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ドーナツ現象 (Doberman, Dobermann Pinscher, dole queue, dome, doomsday, dope check, dope test, doping, Doria, dormer window, dormie, dormie hole, dormitory, dormy, doughnut phenomenon, drug test). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ドー ズデー (doomsday). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | omesdayday domens dag. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DOMESDAY": domesdays. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-m-o-s-y" | |
-1 letter: samoyed, someday. | |
-2 letters: dadoes. | |
-3 letters: dados, dames, deads, demos, domed, domes, dosed, dyads, emyds, mayed, mayos, meads, modes, mosey, seamy, soddy. | |
-4 letters: adds, ados, ayes, dado, dads, dame, dams, days, dead, demo, demy, deys, does, dome, doms, dose, dyad, dyed, dyes, easy, eddo, eddy, emyd, eyas, made, mads, maes, mayo, mays, mead, mesa, moas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-m-o-s-y" | |
+1 letter: domesdays. | |
+2 letters: doomsdayer. | |
+3 letters: doomsdayers, hydromedusa. | |
+4 letters: hydromedusae. | |
+5 letters: formaldehydes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 4F 4D 45 53 44 41 59 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- -- . ... -.. .- -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001111 01001101 01000101 01010011 01000100 01000001 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D O M E S D A Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 004F 004D 0045 0053 0044 0041 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3849473953383559 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Abbreviations | 9. Acronyms 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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