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EARWITNESS

Definition: EARWITNESS

EARWITNESS

Noun

1. A witness by means of his ears; one who is within hearing and does hear; a hearer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonyms within Context: EARWITNESS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Evidence

Witness, indicator, hostile witness; eyewitness, earwitness, material witness, state's evidence; deponent; sponsor; cojuror.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: EARWITNESS

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Modern Translations: EARWITNESS

Language Translations for "EARWITNESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Ohrenzeuge (auricular witness, ear witness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earwitnessay.(various references)

   

Turkish

  

kulak misafiri (auricular witness, eavesdropper). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: EARWITNESS

Derivations

Words beginning with "EARWITNESS": earwitnesses. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "EARWITNESS"

Words rhyming with "EARWITNESS" (pronounced 'Ear"wit`ness'): Abstractness, Barefacedness, Bleareyedness, Commonplaceness, Complexness, Contriteness, Everywhereness, Expediteness, Eyewitness, forthrightness, Headstrongness, ladylikeness, Love-sickness, Manifoldness, Orthodoxness, Qualifiedness, Rightwiseness, Roundaboutness, seasickness, Stupefiedness, Superfineness, Threadbareness, Unifromness, uprightness, Warlikeness. (additional references)

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Anagrams: EARWITNESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: wateriness.

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-n-r-s-s-t-w"

-1 letter: arsenites, irateness, resinates, stearines, wasteries, weariness.

-2 letters: arenites, arsenite, artiness, assenter, earnests, etesians, newsiest, resinate, retsinas, sarsenet, sentries, seriates, stainers, stearine, stearins, sweaters, sweatier, teniases, tinwares, trainees, waisters, waitress, wariness, wasterie, wastries, weariest, westerns.

-3 letters: aeriest, anestri, answers, antsier, arenite, arsines, earnest, easiest, eastern, easters, entases, entasis, entires, entries, estrins, etesian, inserts, instars, nastier, nasties, nearest, nesters, newsier, newsies, ratines, rawness, renests, reseats, resents, resites, retains, retinae, retinas, retines, retsina, santirs, sateens, satires, searest, seaters, seiners, senates, sensate, sereins, seriate, serines, sestina, sestine, sinters, stainer, stearin, strains, sweater, tansies, tawnier, tawnies, teasers, tessera, tinware, tisanes, trainee, trienes, twiners, waeness, waister, waiters, waniest, wanters, wariest, wasters, wastrie, weaners, wearies, weiners, western, westers, wetness, wieners, winters, wisents, witness.

-4 letters: aeries, airest, anises, answer, antres, aretes, arisen, arises, arsine, assent, assert, astern, asters, atween, easier, easies, easter, eaters, enates, entera, enters, entire, erases, esters, estrin, inerts, insert, insets, instar, inters, neater, nereis, nester, newest, newies, newsie, niters, nitres, raises, ranees, ratine, rawest, rawins, reests, renest, renews, rentes, resawn, resaws, reseat, resent, resets, resewn, resews, resins, resist, resite, retain, reties, retina, retine, rewets, rewins, rinses, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, santir, sarees, sarins, sarsen, sateen, satins, satire, sawers, seater, seesaw, seiner, seines, seiser, senate, serais, serein, serest, series, serine, serins, sewans, sewars, sewers, siesta, sinews, sinter, sirees, sirens, sister, sistra, sitars, snares, sneers, stains, stairs, stanes, stares, steers, steins, steres, sterna, sterns, strain, straws, strewn, strews, striae, swains, swears, sweats, sweets, tassie, tawers, tawses, teaser, teases, teniae, tenias, tenser, tenses, terais, ternes, tineas, tisane, trains, treens, triene, triens, trines, twains, twiers, twiner, twines, waists, waiter, wanier, wanter, waster, wastes, waters, weaner, weiner, wester, wiener, winter, wisent, wisest, wrasse, wrests, wriest, wrists, writes.

-5 letters: aerie, airns, airts, anise, antes, antis, antre, arete, arise, arses, arsis, asset, aster, astir, earns, eases, easts, eaten, eater, enate, enter, entia, erase, ernes, erses, ester, etnas, ewers, inert, inset, inter, irate, nares, naris, nates, nears, neats, neist, nerts, nests, newer, newie, newts, niter, nites, nitre, rains, raise, ranee, ranis, rants, rases, rates, rawin, reest, reins, renew, rente, rents, resaw, reset, resew, resin, rests, retia, retie, rewan, rewet, rewin, riant, rinse, risen, rises, rites, sains, saint, saner, sanes, saree, sarin, saris, sasin, sates, satin, satis, sawer, sears, seats, seers, seine, seise, sensa, sense, sente, senti, serai, seres, serin, setae, sewan, sewar, sewer, sines, sinew, siree, siren, sires, sitar, sites, snare, snaws, sneer, snits, stain, stair, stane, stare, stars, steer, stein, stere, stern, stews, sties, stirs, straw, strew.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-n-r-s-s-t-w"
 

+2 letters: earwitnesses, tawdrinesses, waterinesses, waterishness.

 

+3 letters: seaworthiness, swarthinesses.

 

+4 letters: streetwalkings, towardlinesses, waterishnesses, watertightness, westernisation.

 

+5 letters: airworthinesses, blameworthiness, seaworthinesses, westernisations, westernizations, withdrawnnesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EARWITNESS


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

45 41 52 57 49 54 4E 45 53 53

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)

01000101 01000001 01010010 01010111 01001001 01010100 01001110 01000101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#65 &#82 &#87 &#73 &#84 &#78 &#69 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0041 0052 0057 0049 0054 004E 0045 0053 0053

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

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

39355257435448395353

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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