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Definition: ESTANCIA |
ESTANCIANoun1. A grazing; a country house. |
Date "ESTANCIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Estancia \Es*tan"ci*a\, noun. [from Spanish expression See Stanza.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: ESTANCIA |
| Etymologies containing "ESTANCIA": stanza. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ESTANCIA" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (abode, cattle ranch, country estate, dwelling, farm, imprisonment, living room, lounge, ranch, residence, residency, small farm, sojourn, stanza, stay, stop). |
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Movie/TV Titles | La Estancia de gaucho Cruz (1938) | |
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| "ESTANCIA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ESTANCIA" is used about 11 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 (singular) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Estancia, NM (town, FIPS 25380) |
| 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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Words beginning with "ESTANCIA": estancias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ESTANCIA" (pronounced 'Es*tan"ci*a'): Breccia, Dioecia, Dystocia, Facia, Fascia, Gastromalacia, Indicia, Monoecia, Myrcia, Osteomalacia, Pistacia, Residencia, Scolecida, Semuncia, Trioecia, Uncia, Valencia. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: acetins, catenas, cineast, entasia, satanic, taenias. | |
-2 letters: acetin, actins, ansate, antics, ascent, casein, casita, catena, centai, centas, enacts, enatic, incase, incest, insect, nastic, nicest, sancta, secant, stance, taenia, tenias, tineas, tisane. | |
-3 letters: aceta, acnes, actin, aecia, anise, ansae, antae, antas, antes, antic, antis, cains, canes, canst, cants, caste, cates, cents, cesta, cesti, cines. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: analcites, anapestic, anelastic, ascertain, caseating, caseation, caseinate, craniates, estancias, fascinate, laitances, sectarian. | |
+2 letters: analeptics, analgetics, anamnestic, anapestics, anticaries, ascertains, assistance, blatancies, candidates, cantilenas, caseations, caseinates, catenaries, chatelains, diaconates, discarnate, escalating, escalation, euthanasic, fascinated, fascinates, incarnates, isocyanate, machinates, sectarians, semantical, tarriances, vaccinates. | |
+3 letters: abreactions, accidentals, acetanilids, adjutancies, admittances, aeronautics, anaesthetic, annunciates, anthracites, anticipates, ascertained, assistances, beauticians, cachinnates, calumniates, cantatrices, cantharides, cantillates, captaincies, caretakings, carnalities, carnallites, catarrhines, catenations, ceratopsian, chatelaines, deracinates, dilatancies, emaciations, emancipates, escalations, evacuations, excavations, fanaticizes, inactivates, isocyanates, lacerations, macerations, pancreatins, reacquaints, sanctuaries, stagnancies, tetracaines, vacationers, vaticinates, vulcanisate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 53 54 41 4E 43 49 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ... - .- -. -.-. .. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001110 01000011 01001001 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E S T A N C I A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0053 0054 0041 004E 0043 0049 0041 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3953543548374335 |
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