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ENTREMETS

Definitions: ENTREMETS

ENTREMETS

Noun sing. & plural

1. Any small entertainment between two greater ones.

2. A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ENTREMETS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)

Etymology: Entremets \En`tre*mets"\, noun. singular plural [French expression, from entre between mets dish, mess.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Crosswords: ENTREMETS

Non-English Usage: "ENTREMETS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (dessert).

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Commercial Usage: ENTREMETS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Art of French Desserts (L'Art des Entremets de France) (reference)

  • Ces merveilleux desserts : plus de 200 recettes : tartes, gãateaux, entremets, glaces, petits fours et confiserie (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: ENTREMETS

"ENTREMETS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ENTREMETS" is used about 9 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 (plural)100%9117,287

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

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Modern Translations: ENTREMETS

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

German

  

Zwischengericht. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

entremetsay

   

Swedish

  

mellanrätt (side dish), dessert (dessert). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

món ăn giậm. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: ENTREMETS

Misspellings

"ENTREMETS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: entremet. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: ENTREMETS

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-m-n-r-s-t-t"

-2 letters: entrees, meeters, netters, remeets, retenes, teemers, teeners, teeters, tenters.

-3 letters: emeers, enters, entree, esteem, eterne, meeter, merest, mestee, meters, metres, nester, netter, remeet, renest, rentes, reseen, resent, retems, retene, retest, seemer, serene, settee, setter, street, teemer, teener, teeter, tenets, tenser, tenter, terete, ternes, testee, tester, treens.

-4 letters: emeer, enter, ernes, ester, meets, mense.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-m-n-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: determents, resentment, revetments, sermonette.

 

+2 letters: betterments, centimeters, metacenters, pentameters, presentment, resentments, restatement, retirements, sermonettes, tensiometer.

 

+3 letters: curettements, densitometer, entreatments, estrangement, extensometer, exterminates, intersegment, presentiment, presentments, reenactments, reenlistment, reinvestment, resettlement, ressentiment, restatements, sensitometer, temperaments, tensiometers.

 

+4 letters: advertisement, densitometers, dethronements, embitterments, enterostomies, enthronements, entrancements, entrenchments, estrangements, extensometers, hereditaments, intermediates, intersegments, magnetometers, overstatement, penetrometers, presentiments, presettlement, pretreatments, reenlistments, reinstatement, reinvestments, resettlements, ressentiments, retrenchments, sensitometers, temperateness, tenderometers, tensiometries, underestimate.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ENTREMETS


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

45 4E 54 52 45 4D 45 54 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)

.    -.    -    .-.    .    --    .    -    ...

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

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

01000101 01001110 01010100 01010010 01000101 01001101 01000101 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#78 &#84 &#82 &#69 &#77 &#69 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004E 0054 0052 0045 004D 0045 0054 0053

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

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

394854523947395453

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INDEX

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


  

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