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Definitions: GLAIVE |
GLAIVENoun1. A sword; -- used poetically and loosely. 2. A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp-pointed head. |
Date "GLAIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Etymology: Glaive \Glaive\, noun. [French expression glaive, from Latin expression gladius; probably akin to English claymore. Compare to Gladiator.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger, dirk, banger, poniard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife; ataghan, attaghan, yataghan; yatacban; assagai, assegai; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: GLAIVE |
| English words defined with "GLAIVE": Glave ♦ Welsh glaive. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GLAIVE": Sword-makers. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "GLAIVE": Gladiator, Gladiole ♦ Portglave. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "GLAIVE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (broadsword, sword). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Le Glaive et la balance (1963) | |
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| "GLAIVE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "GLAIVE" is used about 5 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) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "GLAIVE": welsh glaive. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GLAIVE": glaive-like. | |
| 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 |
glaive | 28 |
glaive weapon | 3 |
blade glaive | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GLAIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shpatë (backsword, blade, sabers, sabre, smallsword, sword). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | меч (broadsword, sword). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kard (brand, iron, saber, sabers, sabres, skewer, steel, sword). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aiveglay gládio (sword), semelhante (alike, conformable, equal, identic, identical, like, near, out of order, resemblant, resembling, same, similar, such, suchlike). (various references) spadã (brand, epee, rapier, sword). (various references) меч (maiden sword, sword, unfleshed sword). (various references) mač (sword). (various references) kılıç (blade, claymore, saber, sabre, sword). (various references) đoản kiếm (small-sword). (various references) glaif (lance, sword). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GLAIVE": glaived, glaives. (additional references) | |
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"GLAIVE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Flaviae, Galiev, Galivel, glaise, glaived, Glaize, glauben, glav, glava, glaxie, glive, graive, Guljaev, laive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: vagile. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-v" | |
-1 letter: agile, alive, gavel. | |
-2 letters: egal, evil, gale, gave, give, glia, ilea, lave, leva, live, vagi, vail, vale, veal, veil, vela, vial, viga, vile. | |
-3 letters: age, ail, ale, ave, gae, gal, gel, gie, lag, lav, lea, leg, lei, lev, lie, veg, via, vie, vig. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, ai, al, el, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-v" | |
+1 letter: glaived, glaives, leaving, vealing, village. | |
+2 letters: cleaving, gaveling, giveable, lawgiver, leavings, levigate, ligative, raveling, sleaving, valeting, villager, villages. | |
+3 letters: almsgiver, clavering, deleaving, devaluing, elevating, enslaving, evangelic, galvanise, galvanize, gavelkind, gavelling, genitival, graveling, laveering, lawgivers, leavening, levanting, levigated, levigates, marveling, navigable, ravelings, ravelling, revaluing, revealing, shaveling, slavering, traveling, vestigial, viceregal, vigesimal, vigilance, vigilante, villagers, villagery, villenage, vulgarise, vulgarize. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 4C 41 49 56 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-.. .- .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01001100 01000001 01001001 01010110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G L A I V E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 004C 0041 0049 0056 0045 |
| 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)414635435639 |
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