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Definition: GLOSSED |
GLOSSEDImperative & past participle1. Of Gloss |
Date "GLOSSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Crosswords: GLOSSED |
| English words defined with "GLOSSED": Magrie robin ♦ Whistling thrush. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "GLOSSED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 73.33% of the time. "GLOSSED" is used about 75 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 73.33% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 25.33% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 75 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GLOSSED": glossed-over. | |
Ending with "GLOSSED": lip-glossed, moon-glossed, re-glossed, white-glossed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GLOSSED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مصقول (brushed up, buffed, burnished, cultivated, furbished, glazed, lustered, polished, refined, scoured, smooth, smoothed, suave), لامع (blazing, bright, brilliant, burnished, dazzling, flamboyant, flashing, glazed, gleaming, glimmering, glistering, glittering, glossy, golden, high, lambent, lucid, lustrous, outstanding, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheen, shining, shiny, showy, sleek, slick, sparkle, sparkling, star, staring). (various references) | |
Chinese | 上光 (Glossing). (various references) | |
German | polierte (burnished, polished, slicked, slickly). (various references) | |
Manx | gloasit (glazed, polished, shone). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ossedglay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "GLOSSED": reglossed. (additional references) | |
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"GLOSSED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gloose, glosey, glosi, glosssed, lossed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GLOSSED" (pronounced glô"st) |
| 4 | -l ô" s t | lost. |
| 3 | -ô" s t | accost, crossed, defrost, embossed, exhaust, frost, tossed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: godless. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-l-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: dossel, lodges. | |
-2 letters: doges, doles, doses, gelds, gesso, gleds, gloss, golds, lodes, lodge, loess, loges, loses, ogled, ogles, segos, sleds, sloes, slogs, soled, soles. | |
-3 letters: dels, does, doge, dogs, dole, dols, dose, doss, egos, elds, geds, geld, gels, gled, gods, goes, gold, legs, less, lode, loge, logs, lose, loss, odes, ogle, olds, oles. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-l-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: dogsleds, splodges. | |
+2 letters: dislodges, godliness, mislodges, reglossed. | |
+3 letters: disobliges, gasholders, gladsomest, gladstones, glucosides, glycosides, goldenness, goldfishes, goldstones, groundless, groundsels. | |
+4 letters: cradlesongs, dogsledders, gladioluses, glucosidase, glycosidase, godlessness, godlikeness, godlinesses, goldenseals, ideologists, lysogenised, pedologists, soldierings, ungodliness. | |
+5 letters: bobsleddings, cladogeneses, cladogenesis, digressional, dislodgments, galactosides, gangliosides, gladsomeness, glucosidases, glycosidases, goldennesses, groundlessly, groundswells, redissolving, sockdolagers, sockdologers. | |
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