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Glans

Definition: Glans

Glans

Noun

1. A small rounded gland-like structure; especially that at the end of the penis or clitoris.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Etymology: Glans \Glans\n.; plural Glandes. [Latin expression See Gland.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definitions: Glans

DomainDefinitions

Multilingual Slang

Spanish (capullo ). (references)

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

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Crosswords: Glans

English words defined with "glans": Glandes, glans clitoridis, glans penisParaphimosis, phimosis. (references)
Etymologies containing "glans": Glandiferous, Glandiform, Glandule. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Glans" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (gloss, sheen), Latin (acorn), Norwegian (glamour, glory, gloss, lustre), Swedish (brightness, brilliancy, burnish, eclat, glare, glaze, glitter, glory, gloss, lambency, lustre, panache, polish, pride, resplendence, sheen, shine, splendor, splendour).

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Commercial Usage: Glans

DomainTitle

Books

  • De glans van Cîteaux in de Nederlanden : 900 jaar cisterciënzerabdijen 1098-1998 (reference)

  • De glans van oud ijzer : herinneringen, 1928-1982 (reference)

  • Expanding the Circle: The Art of Guud San Glans, Robert Davidson (reference)

  • Glans en glorie van de Grote Kerk : het interieur van de Alkmaarse Sint Laurens (reference)

  • Glans langs de IJssel : zilver uit Zutphen, Deventer, Zwolle en Kampen (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: Glans

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This patient has a primary syphilitic chancre of the glans penis. A chancre is a primary skin lesion of syphilis, which begins at the site of inoculation after an interval of 10-30 days, and appears as a papule or red ulcerated skin lesion.Credit: CDC.

A small atypical darkfield-positive chancre of the glans. A chancre is a primary skin lesion of syphilis which begins at the site of infection after an interval of 10-30 days as a papule or red ulcerated skin lesion.Credit: CDC.

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

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Usage Frequency: Glans

"Glans" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Glans" is used about 18 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 (plural)100%1882,615

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

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Expressions: Glans

Expressions using "glans": glans clitoridis glans penis. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Glans

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
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  glans

109

  glans enlargement specialist

3

  glans penis

50

  glans enlargement surgeon

3

  clitoris glans

14

  glans enlargement procedure

3

  glans enlargement

10

  glans enlargement expert

3

  corona glans

7

  glans enhancement surgeon

3

  glans swollen

5

  glans enhancement procedure

3

  glans photo

4

  glans enhancement expert

3

  glans large

4

  glans enlargement doctor

3

  glans red

4

  glans enhancement doctor

3

  exposed glans

3

  glans enhancement surgery

2

  clitoridis glans

3

  dry glans

2

  glans enlargement surgery

3

  glans huge

2

  glans shape

3

  foreskin glans

2

  glans enhancement specialist

3

  glans penis red

2

  female glans

3

  glans splitting

2

  circumcised glans guy

3

  bacterial glans infection

2

  erection glans

3

  eczema glans

2

  glans enhancement

3

  glans penis skin

2
  

exposed glans time

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

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Modern Translations: Glans

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

Arabic 

  

‏حشفة القضيب, ‏رأس العضو التناسلي عند الذكر. (various references)

   

Danish

  

glans (brightness, brillance, brilliance, finish, glaze, gloss, lustre, lustre of fabric, polish, sheen). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

glans (brilliance, finish, gloss, haze, light diffusion, lustre, polish, sheen), eikel (acorn, tassel). (various references)

   

French

  

gland. (various references)

   

German

  

Eichel (acorn, glans penis). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βάλανος (barnacle). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"עטר" (coronation, crowning). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ghianda (acorn, tassel). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

, グラ 陽性菌 (environmentally friendly, gland, glee club, gram-positive bacteria, grand, grand opera, grand piano, Grand Prix, Grand Prix race, grand sale, grand slam, grandstand play, grease, green, greeting card, ground). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きとう (a cylinder, prayer), グランス . (various references)

   

Manx

  

kione y woid (glans penis). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ansglay

   

Portuguese

  

glande (acorn, mast, tassel). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

коронование, венчание (wedding). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

glavić, žir (acorn, mast, oak apple, oak gall, oak-nut, pannage). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

glande. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ollon (acorn, mast, pannage). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

penis ucu, klitoris başı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Glans

Derivations

Words ending with "glans": raglans. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Glans"

Words ending with "ans": Sans. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Glans

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: slang.

Words within the letters "a-g-l-n-s"

-1 letter: gals, lags, lang, nags, sang, slag, snag.

-2 letters: als, gal, gan, gas, lag, las, nag, sag, sal.

-3 letters: ag, al, an, as, la, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-l-n-s"
 

+1 letter: algins, aligns, angels, angles, clangs, glands, gleans, gnarls, lagans, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, logans, signal, slangs, slangy, slogan.

 

+2 letters: ablings, agnails, analogs, angelus, anglers, anlages, bangles, dangles, flagons, flanges, fungals, galenas, gallons, gelants, gingals, glances, glandes, glucans, glycans, jangles, jingals, kalongs, lacings, ladings, lagends, lagoons, lagunas, lagunes, lakings, langues, langurs, lanugos, lapsing, lasagna, lasagne, lashing, lasting, lawings, leasing, ligands, linages, lingams, linsang, longans, lungans, maligns, mangels, mangles, nilgais, nilgaus, palings, raglans, sailing, salting, salving, sapling, scaling, sealing, signals, slaking, slanged, slating, slaving, slaying, slogans, spangle, spangly, staling, tangles, wangles.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Glans


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

47 6C 61 6E 73

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01101100 01100001 01101110 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#108 &#97 &#110 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 006C 0061 006E 0073

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

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

4178678085

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INDEX

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


  

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