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DOMESDAY

Definition: DOMESDAY

DOMESDAY

Noun

1. A day of judgment. See Doomsday.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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)


Abbreviations & Acronyms: DOMESDAY

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DOMESDAY

EnglishAn Intelligent General Public Data,Voice and Picture Storage Retrieval SystemN/A

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

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Synonyms within Context: DOMESDAY

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: DOMESDAY

English words defined with "DOMESDAY": FerdingOra. (references)
Specialty definitions using "DOMESDAY": Acorn Computers Ltd.CotsetDoom Book, DrengVineyard ControversyWyn-monath. (references)

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Commercial Usage: DOMESDAY

DomainTitle

Books

  • An Introduction to Domesday Book (reference)

  • From Domesday Book to Magna Carta: 1087-1216 (reference)

  • The Domesday Book: England's Heritage, Then & Now (reference)

  • The Foxes of Warwick(Marston, Edward. Domesday Books, V. 9) (reference)

  • The Mill's Life : From the Domesday Book to the Millennium (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DOMESDAY

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.16%11829,674
Noun (proper)0.84%1339,140
                    Total100.00%119N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: DOMESDAY

Expression using "DOMESDAY": Domesday Book. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DOMESDAY

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

domesday book

45

domesday

5

bbc domesday

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DOMESDAY

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

   

Swedish

  

domens dag. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: DOMESDAY

Derivations

Words beginning with "DOMESDAY": domesdays. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DOMESDAY

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.

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Alternative Orthography: DOMESDAY


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

44 4F 4D 45 53 44 41 59

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 01001111 01001101 01000101 01010011 01000100 01000001 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#77 &#69 &#83 &#68 &#65 &#89

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)

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

3849473953383559

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INDEX

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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