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Date "DORCHESTER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1649. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dorchester As big as a Dorchester butt. Very corpulent, like the butts of Dorchester. Of Toby Filpot it is said: "His breath-doors of life on a sudden were shut, And he died full as big as a Dorchester butt." O'Keefe: Poor Soldier. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Dorchester is also the name of some places in Canada:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dorchester."
Crosswords: DORCHESTER |
| Specialty definitions using "DORCHESTER": Dorinda ♦ Roman Remains in England. (references) |
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 | Midway Church--This place of worship was organized by a group of Puritans from Dorchester, S.C., who worshipped in Midway, Georgia, until 1781. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Start, third class, Dorchester regatta. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Start, fourth class, Dorchester regatta. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Washington at Dorchester Heights. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fresh-picked tomatoes ready for canning. Dorchester County, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Tomatoes ripe for picking, Dorchester County, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | East New Market was once a thriving fishing village, but today it is just one of many "crossroads" found along the "East Shore." Dorchester County, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Farms in Dorchester County, Maryland are long established with large comfortable houses and substantial barns and equipment sheds. Roger Dauber farm near East New Market, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | This is the only boat that ever calls at the little port of East New Market, Dorchester County, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Dorchester County, Maryland. High tide sweeps under the floor of this "waterman's" home on Gibson Island. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "DORCHESTER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DORCHESTER" is used about 186 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 (proper) | 100% | 186 | 22,556 |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Dorchester Hugoton, Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Dorchester, IA 2. Dorchester, IL (village, FIPS 20370) 3. Dorchester, MA 4. Dorchester, NE (village, FIPS 13435) 5. Dorchester, SC 6. Dorchester, TX (town, FIPS 20932) 7. Dorchester, WI (village, FIPS 20450) |
Expression using "DORCHESTER": Dorchester County. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "DORCHESTER": Dorchester-on-thames, Dorchester-on-the-thames. | |
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| 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. |
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"DORCHESTER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bonchester, Corchester. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-h-o-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: torcheres. | |
-2 letters: coherers, corseted, coshered, erectors, escorted, hectored, redhorse, rescored, resorted, restored, secretor, sectored, tochered, torchere, trochees. | |
-3 letters: cestode, cheders, cheeros, chested, cohered, coherer, coheres, corders, crested, dehorts, echoers, erector, escoted, etchers, hectors, herders, heteros, ochered, oersted, rechose, recodes, records, rectors, reredos, rescore, restore, retched, retches, rhetors, rochets, rotches, shorted, shorter, teredos, tochers. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-h-o-r-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: orchestrated. | |
+3 letters: creaturehoods, overstretched. | |
+4 letters: reorchestrated, tetrachlorides, thenceforwards. | |
+5 letters: electrophoresed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 4F 52 43 48 45 53 54 45 52 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- .-. -.-. .... . ... - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001111 01010010 01000011 01001000 01000101 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D O R C H E S T E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 004F 0052 0043 0048 0045 0053 0054 0045 0052 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38495237423953543952 |
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