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DROMIO

Date "DROMIO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)


Specialty Definition: DROMIO

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Literature

Dromio The brothers Dromio. Two brothers exactly alike, who serve two brothers exactly alike, and the mistakes of masters and men form the fun of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, based on the Menæchmi of Plautus. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: DROMIO

Specialty definitions using "DROMIO": MenechmiansSosia. (references)

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Anagrams: DROMIO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-i-m-o-o-r"

-2 letters: doom, door, dorm, modi, mood, moor, odor, ordo, rood, room.

-3 letters: dim, dom, dor, mid, mir, mod, moo, mor, rid, rim, rod, rom.

-4 letters: do, id, mi, mo, od, om, or.

 Words containing the letters "d-i-m-o-o-r"
 

+1 letter: cormoid, moidore, moodier.

 

+2 letters: iodoform, microdot, moidores, myriopod, rhomboid.

 

+3 letters: cordiform, dominator, dormitory, doronicum, ideomotor, iodoforms, meteoroid, microcode, microdots, monitored, monorchid, motorised, motorized, myriopods, rhomboids, scombroid.

 

+4 letters: admonitory, bridegroom, chironomid, diadromous, dicoumarol, dimorphous, discomfort, dominators, doronicums, hemorrhoid, hippodrome, meteoroids, microcodes, microworld, miscolored, moderation, monohybrid, monohydric, monorchids, motorbiked, odometries, rhomboidal, rhomboidei, scombroids.

 

+5 letters: bridegrooms, chironomids, compromised, deformation, denominator, dicoumarols, discomforts, dormitories, endomorphic, foredooming, hemorrhoids, hippodromes, idiomorphic, meteoroidal, micromethod, microsecond, microworlds, moderations, monohybrids, motorcading, outpromised, rhomboideus, trichomonad, unmonitored.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DROMIO


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

44 52 4F 4D 49 4F

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)

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

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

01000100 01010010 01001111 01001101 01001001 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 004F 004D 0049 004F

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

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

385249474349

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INDEX

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


  

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