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Definition: GERONTES |
GERONTESNoun plural1. Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority. |
Date "GERONTES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1754. (references) |
Etymology: Gerontes \Ge*ron"tes\, plural noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression,]. (Websters 1913) |
| Words rhyming with "GERONTES" (pronounced 'Ge*ron"tes'): Aetites, Antes, Ascites, Atlantes, Barytes, Bootes, Cerastes, Certes, Chaetetes, Clidastes, Cortes, Cyphonautes, Dalmanites, Dermestes, Ecclesiastes, Ephialtes, Favosites, Gasteromycetes, Halysites, Hymenomycetes, Lates, Microlestes, Mycetes, Myxomycetes, Myzontes, Nates, Nemertes, Nummulites, Optimates, Orbitolites, Penates, Pentremites, Porites, Primates, Procrustes, Pterocletes, Quirites, Rudistes, Saccharomycetes, Sarcoptes, Schizomycetes, Sorites, Troglodytes, Tympanites, Vadantes, Vagantes, Venantes. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: estrogen. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: estrone, gerents, regents, tongers. | |
-2 letters: egrets, enters, ergots, genets, genres, genros, gentes, gerent, goners, greens, greets, nester, nestor, noters, regent, renest, rentes, resent, stereo, stoner, strong, tenors, tenser, tensor, ternes, toners, tonger, treens, trones. | |
-3 letters: egers, egest, egret, enter, ergot, ernes, erose, ester, geest, genes, genet, genre, genro, gents, geste, goers, goner, gores. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: estrogens, roentgens, stereoing. | |
+2 letters: entourages, estrogenic, generators, generosity, gravestone, greenstone, lorgnettes, redingotes, teratogens. | |
+3 letters: baronetages, congregates, deforesting, dermatogens, egocentrics, egocentrism, engrossment, ergotamines, generations, goaltenders, goniometers, governments, gravestones, greenstones, groundsheet, hatemongers, interrogees, nitrogenase, outgenerals, outsteering, oversetting, progestogen, redigestion, reforesting, relegations, segregation, somerseting, sovereignty, stevedoring, terrigenous. | |
+4 letters: antiestrogen, beardtongues, cogenerators, concertgoers, copresenting, costermonger, egocentrisms, eigenvectors, engorgements, engrossments, ferromagnets, generosities, gentleperson, geometrising, goniometries, governorates, greenockites, groundsheets, heterogenies, heterogenous, heterogonies, hydrogenates, interrogates, nitrogenases, orthogeneses, orthogenesis, outbreedings, overgarments, overnighters, overstepping, overstrewing, overtightens, petrogeneses, petrogenesis, pomegranates, predigestion, progesterone, progestogens, redepositing, redigestions, regenerators, remoistening, renegotiates, segregations, seronegative, serotonergic, somersetting, songstresses, sonneteering, stenographer, stereotyping, togetherness, ungenerosity. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 45 52 4F 4E 54 45 53 |
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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)01000111 01000101 01010010 01001111 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G E R O N T E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0045 0052 004F 004E 0054 0045 0053 |
| 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)4139524948543953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Rhymes 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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