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Definitions: GARTH |
GARTHNoun1. A hoop or band. 2. A dam or weir for catching fish. 3. A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth. |
"GARTH" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a garden". |
Date "GARTH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
"GARTH" is a common misspelling or typo for: girth. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Government | County, parish; city, domain, tract, arrondissement, mofussil, commune; wappentake, hundred, riding, lathe, garth, soke, tithing; ward, precinct, bailiwick. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: GARTH |
| English words defined with "GARTH": Cloister garth ♦ Fish garth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GARTH": Phyllising the Fair. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "GARTH" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Welsh (enclosure, hill). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hi Garth. (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers) Now, Garth, if you hurl, then I'm gonna spew. (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Garth Brooks Live Coast to Coast: Los Angeles (2001) This Is Garth Brooks (1992) Garth Rockett & The Moonshiners Live at the Ritz (1990) The Garth People (1976) | |
Song Titles | FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES (performing artist: GARTH BROOKS) If Tomorrow Never Comes (performing artist: Garth Brooks) The Dance (performing artist: Garth Brooks) Do What You Gotta Do (performing artist: Garth Brooks) When You Come Back To Me Again (performing artist: Garth Brooks) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Wildlife specialist, Garth Ross, bands a Spotted Owl chick for the owl census.Credit: Unknown. |  | Sir Samuel Garth, M.D. / G. Kneller prixit. J. Houbraken sculps.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Samuel Garth | A barren superfluity of words. |
Sir Samuel Garth | Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "GARTH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.16% of the time. "GARTH" is used about 182 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 (proper) | 85.16% | 155 | 25,240 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.84% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Total | 100.00% | 182 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "GARTH" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Garth | First name Male | 7,000 | 795 |
| Garth | Last name | 2,000 | 6,547 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "GARTH": Cloister garth ♦ fish garth. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GARTH": garth-bwlch. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
garth brook | 3,336 |
jennie garth | 621 |
garth brook lyrics | 473 |
jenny garth | 164 |
garth brook and trisha yearwood | 137 |
garth | 125 |
garth brook tab | 109 |
garth brook the dance lyrics | 79 |
garth brook the hit | 76 |
garth nix | 68 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GARTH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Oborr (court, Dooryard, yard). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Заградено Място, 'ътрешен "вор. (various references) | |
Czech | Zahrada (flower garden, garden, gardens, yard). (various references) | |
Danish | fiskegård (barricade, corral, fish corral, fish garth, fish weir, weir). (various references) | |
Dutch | afsluiting (barrier, clearing, closing, dam, disconnection, fence, fencing, fish garth, occlusion, stopped-off area, stopping, stopping off, termination, transfer, writing off). (various references) | |
Finnish | patolammikko (fish garth). (various references) | |
French | enclos (fish garth). (various references) | |
German | Garten (garden, orchard, yard). (various references) | |
Greek | τεχνητή δεξαμενή διατήρησης ψαριών (fish garth). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Kolostorkert. (various references) | |
Italian | griglia (air grille, anti-scatter grid, bar screen, basket, drain, fish garth, grate, grating, grid, grid of an X-ray tube, grill, grille, grizzly, rust, spinner basket, strainer, trapping sieve). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arthgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Prender Com Liga, Pequena Praça, Pátio (cattle yard, concourse, court, courtyard, farmyard, out-of-door, quadrangle, stockyard, terrace, yard), Jardim (garden, out-of-door, pleasure ground, yard). (various references) | |
Russian | "вор. (various references) | |
Swedish | stänge (fish garth), fördämning (barrage, dam, debris dam, dike, dyke, embankment, fish garth, weir). (various references) | |
Turkish | Küçük Bahçe, Avlu (atrium, close, court, courtyard, Dooryard, forecourt, quad, quadrangle, yard). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GARTH": garths. (additional references) | |
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"GARTH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aarghh, Agatho, Gaith, Garah, Garith, Garthmyl, gath, gearth, Gertcha, gerth, Ghairbh, Gharah, gratch, grath, Gruthu, gurth, Gwaith, Sgairbh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GARTH" (pronounced gÄ"rth) |
| 3 | -Ä" r th | hearth. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-r-t" | |
-1 letter: ghat, grat, hart, rath, tahr. | |
-2 letters: art, gar, gat, hag, hat, rag, rah, rat, tag, tar. | |
-3 letters: ag, ah, ar, at, ha, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-r-t" | |
+1 letter: aright, garths, gather. | |
+2 letters: agoroth, alright, draught, fraught, gathers, warthog. | |
+3 letters: affright, airthing, airtight, barghest, charting, daughter, draughts, draughty, earthing, farthing, fraughts, gathered, gatherer, goatherd, graphite, hearting, heritage, ingather, laughter, lethargy, litharge, nightjar, regather, retaught, shortage, straight, thirlage, thrawing, trashing, trigraph, upgather, warthogs, wrathing. | |
+4 letters: affrights, algorithm, authoring, autograph, barghests, breathing, daughters, draughted, earthling, farthings, fathering, forgather, fraughted, gatherers, gathering, gearshift, ghastlier, gigahertz, goatherds, godfather, grapeshot, graphites, graphitic, haltering, hamstring, hamstrung, haughtier, hectogram, heritages, hermitage, histogram, homograft, hydrating, ingathers, larghetto, lathering, laughters, lethargic, litharges, logarithm, megahertz, naughtier, nightjars, nightmare, nightwear, outcharge, photogram, regathers, reheating, rightward, roughcast, shortages, slaughter, starching, starlight, straights, straphang, straphung, telegraph, thirlages, thralling, thrashing, threading, threaping, threating, throating, thwarting, trachling, trigraphs, typograph, ultrahigh, upgathers, wreathing. | |
+5 letters: affrighted, airfreight, algorithms, altogether, antigrowth, arthralgia, arthralgic, atrophying, autographs, autography, bighearted, blathering, breathings, chaptering, charioting, chartering, chattering, distraught, dogcatcher, draughtier, draughting, earthlight, earthlings, farsighted, feathering, foregather, forgathers, fraughting, freightage, gastrolith, gatherings, gearshifts, geothermal, godfathers, graphitize, grapholect, greenheart, guitarfish, hamstrings, harvesting, hatemonger, headstrong, heartening, hectograms, hectograph, hermitages, herniating, heterogamy, histograms, homografts, inearthing, ingathered, largemouth, larghettos, leathering, lethargies, lighterage, lithograph, logarithms, nightmares, orthogonal, orthograde, outcharged, outcharges, outhearing, overhating, pantograph, photograms, photograph, pictograph, playwright, preheating, ratcheting, recharting, regathered, rematching, repatching, reteaching, rightwards, roughcasts, satyagraha, scratching, shattering, slathering, slaughters, starlights, straighted, straighten, straighter, straightly, straphangs, stringhalt, tarnishing, telegraphs, telegraphy, thermogram, theurgical, thrashings, throughway, tomography, topography, tragacanth, trauchling, trigraphic, typographs, typography, ultralight, ultraright, unearthing, upgathered, wainwright, watertight, weathering, witchgrass. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 41 52 54 48 |
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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)01000111 01000001 01010010 01010100 01001000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G A R T H |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0041 0052 0054 0048 |
| 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)4135525442 |
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