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ELOPED

Definition: ELOPED

ELOPED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Elope

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ELOPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

 

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Crosswords: ELOPED

English words defined with "ELOPED": eloperun off. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ELOPED": Cottage CountessElopementMalbeccoPepper GateRoderigoTROYUllin. (references)
Etymologies containing "ELOPED": Elope. (references)

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Modern Usage: ELOPED

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

He Almost Eloped (1916)

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

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Photo Album: ELOPED

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The fact is, Mr. Breith, Ellen has eloped.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: ELOPED

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Pakistan

For example, in July 1999, police in Mirpurkas District, Sindh, raided the home of Javed Dal, who had eloped with his cousin, and arrested his family members as hostages. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ELOPED

"ELOPED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "ELOPED" is used about 18 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
Lexical Verb (past tense)55.56%10111,207
Lexical Verb (past participle)44.44%8124,375
                    Total100.00%18N/A

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

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Expression: ELOPED

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ELOPED": dev-eloped.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ELOPED

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

eloped

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ELOPED

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

German

  

entlief (ran away), entlaufen (abscond, elope, run away, run-away, to break away, to elope). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elopeday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ELOPED

Derivations

Words ending with "ELOPED": codeveloped, developed, enveloped, misdeveloped, overdeveloped, redeveloped, underdeveloped, undeveloped. (additional references)


Misspellings

"ELOPED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ellopi, eloe, Elohe, eloqe, elowe, elped, Elspet, eroped. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: ELOPED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-l-o-p"

-1 letter: elope, epode, loped, poled.

-2 letters: deep, dele, dole, dope, lode, lope, oped, peed, peel, pele, pled, plod, pole.

-3 letters: dee, del, doe, dol, eel, eld, led, lee, lop, ode, old, ole, ope, ped, pee, pod, pol.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, el, lo, od, oe, op, pe.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-l-o-p"
 

+1 letter: deplore, develop, explode, peopled.

 

+2 letters: decouple, deplored, deplorer, deplores, deployed, develope, develops, employed, exploded, exploder, explodes, explored, lepidote, loppered, petioled, pledgeor, poleaxed, pollened, pommeled, redeploy, repolled.

 

+3 letters: codevelop, compelled, completed, complexed, decoupled, decouples, depletion, deplorers, despoiled, despoiler, developed, developer, developes, diplotene, dispeople, enveloped, epilogued, escaloped, exploders, exploited, lepidotes, leporidae, opalesced, outleaped, outyelped, overpedal, overplied, paloverde, pedophile, pelecypod, penholder, pewholder, pledgeors, polemized, pommelled, preboiled, precooled, premolded, propelled, recoupled, redeploys, redevelop, repeopled, replotted, ridgepole, sheepfold, unpeopled.

 

+4 letters: codevelops, coemployed, complected, depletions, deplorable, deployable, deployment, depolarize, depolished, depolishes, depopulate, deportable, despoilers, developers, developing, diplotenes, dispeopled, dispeoples, epileptoid, escalloped, euploidies, helicopted, interloped, leopardess, lepidolite, misdevelop, outspelled, overlapped, overleaped, overpedals, overplayed, paloverdes, pedologies, pedophiles, pelecypods, penholders, peoplehood, percolated, petalodies, pewholders, phelloderm, phenolated, ponderable, potbellied, powderless, powderlike, proselyted, pseudocoel, recompiled, redeployed, redevelops, reemployed, reexplored, repolished, reportedly, ridgepoles, sheepfolds, supermodel, telephoned, teleported, telescoped, unemployed, unexploded, unexplored, velocipede, videophile.

 

+5 letters: candlepower, codeveloped, codeveloper, deceptional, deployments, depolarized, depolarizer, depolarizes, depopulated, depopulates, despoilment, developable, development, doublespeak, epithelioid, heteroploid, leapfrogged, lepidolites, lepidoptera, loudspeaker, misdevelops, misemployed, needlepoint, operculated, overdevelop, overpedaled, overpeopled, overplaided, overplanned, overplanted, overplotted, overslipped, pediculoses, peoplehoods, phelloderms, pigeonholed, placeholder, polemicized, polymerised, polymerized, polypeptide, possessedly, preallotted, professedly, pseudocoels, redeploying, redeveloped, redeveloper, repolarized, repopulated, subemployed, supercoiled, supercooled, supermodels, uncompleted, undeveloped, unemployeds, unexploited, upholstered, velocipedes, videophiles.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ELOPED


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

45 4C 4F 50 45 44

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)

01000101 01001100 01001111 01010000 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#76 &#79 &#80 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004C 004F 0050 0045 0044

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

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

394649503938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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