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GHIBELLINE

Definition: GHIBELLINE

GHIBELLINE

Noun

1. One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "GHIBELLINE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Ghibelline \Ghib"el*line\, noun. [Italian Ghibellino; of German origin.]. (Websters 1913)

"GHIBELLINE" is a common misspelling or typo for: Guideline.

Specialty Definitions: GHIBELLINE

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Literature

Ghibelline (g hard), or rather Waiblingen. The war-cry of Conrad's followers in the battle of Weinsberg (1140). Conrad, Duke of Suabia, was opposed to Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, whose slogan was Guelph or Welfe, his family name. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: GHIBELLINE

Specialty definitions using "GHIBELLINE": Farinata, Flowers and Trees. (references)

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Modern Translations: GHIBELLINE

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

Italian

  

ghibellino. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ibellineghay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "GHIBELLINE"

Words rhyming with "GHIBELLINE" (pronounced 'Ghib"el*line'): Acauline, Acervuline, Aline, Alkaline, Amygdaline, Anticline, Aquiline, Baculine, Bandoline, Benzoline, Berylline, Bowline, Bubaline, Buntline, Caballine, Cappeline, Capreoline, Cauline, Choline, Chrysaniline, Cinnoline, Circuline, Clothesline, Colline, Contline, Corolline, Corrovaline, Cosmoline, Crepusculine, Crinoline, Crotaline, Cryptocrystalline, Deline, Disincline, Dispoline, Ecboline, Feline, Flavaniline, Fringilline, Gantline, Girtline, Glyoxaline, Gobline, Gralline, Haloxyline, Harmaline, headline, Herakline, Hexactinelline, Holocrystalline. (additional references)

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Anagrams: GHIBELLINE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-g-h-i-i-l-l-n"

-2 letters: eligible, libeling.

-3 letters: belling, billing, ghillie, heeling, heiling, helling, hilling, legible.

-4 letters: billie, ghibli, gillie, heinie, hieing, nellie, nielli.

-5 letters: begin, beige, being, belie, belle, bilge, binge, blini, genie, genii, glebe, hinge, ingle, leben, libel, liege, neigh, nihil.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-g-h-i-i-l-l-n"
 

+2 letters: embellishing.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GHIBELLINE


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

47 48 49 42 45 4C 4C 49 4E 45

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 01001000 01001001 01000010 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#72 &#73 &#66 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0048 0049 0042 0045 004C 004C 0049 004E 0045

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

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

41424336394646434839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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