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Definition: Grasshopper |
GrasshopperNoun1. Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping. 2. Creme de menthe and cream sometimes with creme de cacao. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grasshopper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Grasshopper belongs to the class of neuropterous insects called Gryllidae. This insect is not unknown in Palestine. In Judg. 6:5; 7:12; Job 39:30; Jer. 46:23, where the Authorized Version has "grasshopper," the Revised Version more correctly renders the Hebrew word ('arbeh) by "locust." This is the case also in Amos 7:1; Nah. 3:17, where the Hebrew word _gob_ is used; and in Lev. 11:22; Num. 13:33; Eccl. 12:5; Isa. 40:22, where _hagab_ is used. In all these instances the proper rendering is probably "locust" (q.v.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing grasshoppers on green vegetables, denotes that enemies threaten your best interests. If on withered grasses, ill health. Disappointing business will be experienced. If you see grasshoppers between you and the sun, it denotes that you will have a vexatious problem in your immediate business life to settle, but using caution it will adjust itself in your favor. To call peoples' attention to the grasshoppers, shows that you are not discreet in dispatching your private business. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Grasshopper as the sign of a grocer, is the crest of Sir Thomas Gresham, the merchant grocer. The Royal Gresham Exchange used to be profusely decorated with grasshoppers, and the brass one on the eastern part of the present edifice is the one which escaped the fires of 1666 and 1838. There is a tale that Sir Thomas was a foundling, and that a woman, attracted by the chirping of a grasshopper, discovered the outcast and brought him up. Except as a tale, this solution of the combination is worthless. Gres = grass (Anglo-Saxon, græs), and no doubt grasshopper is an heraldic rebus on the name. Puns and rebuses were at one time common enough in heraldry, and often very far-fetched. Grasshopper (The). A compound of seven animals. (Anglo-Saxon, græshoppa.) "It has the head of a horse, the neck of an ox, the wings of a dragon, the feet of a camel, the tail of a serpent, the horns of a stag, and the body of a scorpion." - Caylus: Oriental Tales (The Four Talismans). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Giant South American Grasshopper (Tropidacris violaceus). This insect is
two inches long (5 cm).
Larger version
A Grasshopper is a type of insect similar to a locust but less damaging because it is usually found in much smaller numbers and it doesn't swarm.
Grasshoppers have very powerful back legs and they can jump long distances and they have an open circulatory system in which blood bathes the tissues directly.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Grasshopper."
Synonym: GrasshopperSynonym: hopper (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Leap | Kangaroo, jerboa; chamois, goat, frog, grasshopper, flea; buckjumper; wallaby. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Grasshopper |
| English words defined with "grasshopper": acridid ♦ Cricket bird ♦ genus Onychomys, Grig ♦ Jerusalem cricket ♦ katydid ♦ Lubber grasshopper ♦ Onychomys ♦ Rocky Mountain locust ♦ sand cricket, short-horned grasshopper, Stenopelmatus fuscus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "grasshopper": ACRIDIDS ♦ DIAPAUSE DORMANCY ♦ Gresham and the Grasshopper ♦ KATYDID. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "grasshopper": Tettix. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Grasshopper (1970) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Farmers spreading poison grasshopper bait, Richland County, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Irrigated sugar beet fields along Yellowstone River. Note grasshopper damage. Rosebud County, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Grasshopper eating cornstalk. Grant County, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Farmers sack mixed grasshopper bait for use on their farms to control the pest. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tenant farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field, five miles from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Preparing poison bait in grasshopper control program. Forsyth, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Farmer loading spreading device with grasshopper poison. Forsyth, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Loading sacks of poison grasshopper bait. Forsyth, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Farmer spreading poison grasshopper bait in sugar beet field. Forsyth, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Darktown athletics-a running high jump: Match between the darktown grasshopper and the blackville frog. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Grasshopper on Vacation" by Tijs Gerritsen Commentary: "Grasshopper sitting on a tentpole somewhere in beautifull Italy (Tuscany)." | "Grasshopper out house" by Luca Pellanda Commentary: "Grasshopper out house :)." |
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 | Cricket; cicada; grasshopper; nocturnal; nighttime; chirp; droning; humming; intensifying; growing; increasing . | | Cricket; cicada; grasshopper; nocturnal; nighttime. |
| Flow; water; aqueous; fluid; fluidity; croaking; frog; pond; cricket; grasshopper; . | | Click; clicking; grasshopper; grasshoppers. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | And Hatta went bounding away like a grasshopper. |
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| "Grasshopper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.11% of the time. "Grasshopper" is used about 45 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) | 91.11% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.89% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "grasshopper". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Gob | N/A | Biblical | Grasshopper |
| Hagab | N/A | Biblical | A grasshopper |
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| Country | Name |
| Switzerland | Grasshopper Fussball AG |
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Expressions using "grasshopper": Grasshopper engine ♦ Grasshopper lobster ♦ grasshopper mouse ♦ grasshopper warbler ♦ Lubber grasshopper ♦ migratory grasshopper. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "grasshopper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | veldsprinkaan (locust), sprinkaan (locust), spr. (various references) | |
Albanian | një lloj kokteji, karkalec (grig, hopper, locust, shrimp). (various references) | |
Arabic | جندب, جراد (locust). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скакалец (grig, locust). (various references) | |
Chinese | 螞 (ant, Cyperus rotundus, dragonfly, Skimmia japonica, smile), 蚱蜢 , 蚱 (blossom, fancy pattern, flower, to spend), 蚂蚱 (grasshoppers), 蜢 (rushes, sedges), 蛩 (a cricket, anxious), 蠓 (midge, sandfly). (various references) | |
Czech | saranèe, koník (nag), kobylka luèní. (various references) | |
Danish | græshoppe (locust). (various references) | |
Dutch | sprinkhaan (locust). (various references) | |
Esperanto | lokusto, akrido (locust). (various references) | |
Faeroese | grashoppa (locust), eingispretta (locust). (various references) | |
Farsi | ملخ (Quaker), اتش بازی کوچک . (various references) | |
Finnish | heinäsirkka (locust). (various references) | |
French | sauterelle. (various references) | |
Frisian | sprinkhoanne (locust). (various references) | |
German | heuschrecke (locust), grashüpfer (locust). (various references) | |
Greek | λιβαδοτριλιστής (Palla's grasshopper warbler), ακρίδα της Δυτικής Aμερικής (american grasshopper, american locust, south american locust). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חגב (locust), חרגול. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szöcske. (various references) | |
Icelandic | engispretta (locust). (various references) | |
Indonesian | belalang (cricket, locust). (various references) | |
Italian | cavalletta (locust). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蟋蟀 (cricket, katydid), 蝗虫 , 飛蝗 , 稲子 (locust), 機織り虫 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きりぎりす (cricket, katydid), ばった, いなご (locust), こおろぎ (cricket, katydid), はたおりむし. (various references) | |
Korean | 메뚜기 (grasshoppers, locust). (various references) | |
Manx | lhiemmeyder glass, lhiemmeyder faiyr, folleyder (acridian, concealer, hider, mower). (various references) | |
Maya | saak. (various references) | |
Mohawk | tsihstarare. (various references) | |
Norwegian | gresshoppe. (various references) | |
Papago | shoh'o. (various references) | |
Papiamen | dalakochi (locust). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asshoppergray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | gafanhoto (locust). (various references) | |
Romanian | lãcustã, cosaş (grass-mower, harvester, haymaker, mower, reaper, scytheman). (various references) | |
Russian | кузнечик (grig). (various references) | |
Scottish | fionnan-feòir. (various references) | |
Sepedi | taie. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skakavac (flying adder, locust). (various references) | |
Shona | hwiza. (various references) | |
Spanish | saltamontes (hopper, locust). (various references) | |
Sranan | dyompodyompo (locust). (various references) | |
Swazi | ín-tsetse. (various references) | |
Swedish | gräshoppa (hopper, locust). (various references) | |
Thai | ไม่สูงมาก (knee-high to a grasshopper). (various references) | |
Turkish | pırpır (palpitant, power glider), küçük uçak, çekirge (locust), çekírge (locust). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сарана (locust), коник (hobby). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | liên lạc. (various references) | |
Welsh | sioncyn y gwair, ceiliog rhedyn. (various references) | |
Yucatec | saak'. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | locusta. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Leviticus Chapter 11, Verse 22 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai tauta fagesqe ap' autwn ton broucon kai ta omoia autw kai ton attakhn kai ta omoia autw kai thn akrida kai ta omoia auth kai ton ofiomachn kai ta omoia autw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Comedere debetis ut est brucus in genere suo et attacus atque ophiomachus ac lucusta singula iuxta genus suum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | As is bruk in his kynde, `that is the kynde of locust er it haue wenges, and attachus, `that is the kynde of locust, whanne it bigynneth to flee, and opymachus, `that is a foule enemy to serpentes, and a locust, eche after his kynde. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Euen these of them ye maye eate: the arbe and all his kynde: the Soleam with all his kynde: the Hargol and all the kynde, ad the Hagab ad all his kynd. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the beetle after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Such as all the different sorts of locust. |
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| Language | Leviticus Chapter 11, Verse 22 |
| Cebuano | Makakaon kamo kanila: ang dulon ingon sa iyang matang, ug ang alasiw-siw ingon sa iyang matang, ug ang gangis ingon sa iyang matang, ug ang lukton ingon sa iyang matang. |
| Croatian | Od njih možete jesti: svaku vrstu skakavaca, cvrèaka i zrikavaca. |
| Danish | Af dem må I spise følgende: De forskellige Arter af Græshopper, Solamgræshopper, Hargolgræshopper og Hagabgræshopper. |
| Dutch | Van die zult gij deze eten: den sprinkhaan naar zijn aard, en den solham naar zijn aard, en den hargol naar zijn aard, en den hagab naar zijn aard. |
| Finnish | Niistä te saatte syödä seuraavia: heinäsirkkalajeja, solam-sirkkalajeja, hargol-sirkkalajeja ja haagab-sirkkalajeja. |
| French | Voici ceux que vous mangerez: la sauterelle, le solam, le hargol et le hagab, selon leurs espèces. |
| German | von demselben mögt ihr essen die Heuschrecken, als da ist: Arbe mit seiner Art und Solam mit seiner Art und Hargol mit seiner Art und Hagab mit seiner Art. |
| Hungarian | Ezeket egyétek meg azok közül: az arbé-sáskát az õ nemével, a szolám- sáskát az õ nemével, a khargol-sáskát az õ nemével és a khagab-sáskát az õ nemével. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jadi belalang, jangkerik dan belalang hijau boleh dimakan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka dari padanya boleh kamu makan segala jenis belalang, yaitu belalang solham dan hargol dan hagab sejenis-jenisnya. |
| Maori | Ko enei o ratou e kainga e koutou; ko te mawhitiwhiti, me nga mea e rite ana ki a ia, me te tatarakihi, me nga mea e rite ana ki a ia, me te pakauroharoha, me nga mea e rite ana ki a ia, me te koeke, me nga mea e rite ana ki a ia. |
| Norwegian | Av dem kan I ete: arbe efter sine arter og solam efter sine arter og hargol efter sine arter og hagab efter sine arter*. # <* d.e. forskjellige slags gresshopper.> |
| Portuguese | isto é, deles podereis comer os seguintes: o gafanhoto segundo a sua espécie, o solham segundo a sua espécie, o hargol segundo a sua espécie e o hagabe segundo a sua especie. |
| Rumanian | Iatq pe cari sq le mkncayi: lqcusta, lqcusta solam, lqcusta hargol wi lqcusta hagab, dupq soiurile lor. |
| Russian | УЙИ ЕЫШФЕ ЙЪ ОЙИ: УБТБОЮХ У ЕЕ РПТПДПА, УПМБН У ЕЕ РПТПДПА, ИБТЗПМ У ЕЕ РПТПДПА Й ИБЗБВ У ЕЕ РПТПДПА. |
| Spanish | los siguientes: Comeréis la langosta según sus especies, el langostín según sus especies, el grillo según sus especies y el saltamontes según sus especies. |
| Swedish | Dessa fån I äta bland gräshopporna: arbe med dess arter, soleam med dess arter, hargol med dess arter och hagab med dess arter. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "grasshopper": grasshoppers. (additional references) | |
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"Grasshopper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: grasshooper, grasshoper, grasshoppered, grasshqpper, Gresshop, Gristhorpe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "grasshopper" (pronounced gra"shÄ'per) |
| 4 | -h Ä' p er | leafhopper. |
| 3 | -Ä' p er | eyedropper, sharecropper. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-o-p-p-r-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: prophages, prophases. | |
-3 letters: apposers, aspersor, graspers, pharoses, progress, prophage, prophase, prospers, sharpers, shoppers, spargers. | |
-4 letters: apposer, apposes, gaspers, gophers, grasper, gropers, grosser, harpers, hoarser, hoppers, oppress, parsers, perhaps, phrases, pressor, propers, prosers, prosper, rappers, rashers, raspers, sappers, seraphs, shapers, sharers, sharper, sherpas, shopper, shoppes, soapers, soarers, sparers, sparger, sparges, sparser. | |
-5 letters: ahorse, appose, ashore. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-o-p-p-r-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: grasshoppers. | |
+2 letters: spectrographs. | |
+3 letters: physiographers. | |
+4 letters: prosopographies, spectrographies, sporangiophores. | |
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