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GELADA

Definition: GELADA

GELADA

Noun

1. A baboon (Gelada Ruppelli) of Abyssinia, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GELADA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

 

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Crosswords: GELADA

Specialty definitions using "GELADA": Theropithecus. (references)

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Usage Frequency: GELADA

"GELADA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GELADA" is used about 35 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 (singular)100%3558,339

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

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Expressions: GELADA

Expression using "GELADA": Gelada Ruppelli. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "GELADA": gelada-like.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GELADA

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

baboon gelada

9

gelada torta

6

gelada

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: GELADA

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

Japanese Kanji 

  

ゲラダ'' (gelada baboon, gerrymander, Guerlain, guerrilla). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ゲラダひひ (gelada baboon). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eladagay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: GELADA

Derivations

Words beginning with "GELADA": geladas. (additional references)


Misspellings

"GELADA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elaad, galad, Galadari, galaga, galatai, Geala, Gelande, Gelard, Gelardi, Gelasa, gelate, gelida, Gidada, gilad, Gilardo, goldgar, Gualdo, Gwiazda, Gwladfa, Jelata, Nelida, Oglada, Tejada. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "GELADA"

Words rhyming with "GELADA" (pronounced 'Gel"a*da'): Abada, Acraspeda, Amblypoda, Amphipoda, Anaconda, Anarthropoda, Andromeda, Anisopoda, Apoda, Arachnida, Archiannelida, Armada, Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Bretwalda, Cassada, Cephalopoda, Cheilopoda, Chilopoda, Chorda, Cicada, Coda, Coloquintida, Copepoda, d8Gregarinida, Delenda, Diplopoda, Dravida, Edda, Elasipoda, Eucopepoda, Euisopoda, Euryalida, Gastropoda, hacienda, Haggada, Heteropoda, Hexapoda, Ichthyopsida, Isopoda, jacaranda, Kuda, Laemodipoda, LAMBDA, Linguatulida, Lucernarida, Malacopoda, Marimonda, Mastigopoda, Mida, Morinda, Myriapoda, Myriopoda, Neocarida, Nonda, Olla-podrida, Ophiurida, Ornithopoda, Ornithoscelida, Orthopoda, Pagoda, Paleocarida, panda, Pauropoda, Pinnigrada, Planarida, Plantigrada, Platypoda, Plegepoda, -poda, Podrida, Poecilopoda, Propaganda, Pteropoda, Pudenda, Pulmogasteropoda, Pycnogonida, Racoonda, Reseda, Rig-Veda, rotunda, Sadda, Salsoda, Sauropoda, Sauropsida, Scaphopda, Schizopoda, Scolecida, Sida, Siphonopoda, Sparada, Stellerida, Stelmatopoda, Stomapoda, Stomatoda, Taeniada, Tardigrada, Taxeopoda, Tetractinellida, Tetradecapoda, Theropoda, Tienda, Trachelipoda, Tubularida, Tylopoda, Urochorda, Veda, Venada, Veranda, Vifda, Yajur-Veda, Zerda. (additional references)

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Anagrams: GELADA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-l"

-1 letter: adage, algae, galea, glade.

-2 letters: aged, alae, alga, dale, deal, egad, egal, gaed, gala, gale, geld, glad, gled, lade, lead.

-3 letters: aal, aga, age, ala, ale, dag, dal, del, eld, gad, gae, gal, ged, gel, lad, lag, lea, led, leg.

-4 letters: aa, ad, ae, ag, al, de, ed, el, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-g-l"
 

+1 letter: geladas.

 

+2 letters: amygdale, diallage, galeated, galopade, gladiate, gradable, laagered, magdalen, megadeal, salvaged, seladang, tallaged.

 

+3 letters: algaecide, amygdalae, amygdales, angulated, cataloged, diallages, engarland, gallanted, gallopade, galopades, garlanded, glaciated, magdalene, magdalens, megadeals, rangeland, saddlebag, seladangs, tailgated.

 

+4 letters: agendaless, agitatedly, algaecides, analogized, catalogued, coagulated, deflagrate, degradable, engarlands, escalading, galavanted, galivanted, gallopades, galvanised, galvanized, granulated, gratulated, magdalenes, quadrangle, rangelands, saddlebags, upgradable.

 

+5 letters: allografted, amalgamated, ballyragged, calendaring, camouflaged, defalcating, deflagrated, deflagrates, deglaciated, devaluating, diagnosable, diagonalize, engarlanded, flagellated, galactoside, gallbladder, gallivanted, gastrulated, gradualness, halogenated, laggardness, lallygagged, pedagogical, plagiarised, plagiarized, plantigrade, quadrangles, sandglasses, uncataloged, upgradeable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GELADA


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

47 45 4C 41 44 41

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)

01000111 01000101 01001100 01000001 01000100 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#69 &#76 &#65 &#68 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0045 004C 0041 0044 0041

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

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

413946353835

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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