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GULISTAN

Date "GULISTAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

"GULISTAN" is a common misspelling or typo for: Glisten.


Specialty Definition: GULISTAN

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Literature

Gulistan [garden of roses ]. The famous recueil of moral sentences by Saadi, the poet of Shiraz, who died 1291. (Persian, ghul, a rose, and tan, a region.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: GULISTAN

Specialty definitions using "GULISTAN": Sadi. (references)

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Modern Usage: GULISTAN

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Movie/TV Titles

Yeh Gulistan Hamara (1972)

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

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Commercial Usage: GULISTAN

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Books

  • The Rose Garden (The Gulistan) of Shekh Muslihu'd-Din Sadi of Shiraz (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: GULISTAN

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At Gulistan station on the Quetta Railway - old man squatting with arms around pigskin [i.e. sheep skin] of water. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gulistan Station on the Great Military Railway. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: GULISTAN

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Economic History

Uzbekistan

Chirchik, Yangiyul, Gulistan, Djizzak, Bukhara have only about 800 subscribers each. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GULISTAN

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

gulistan carpet

25

gulistan

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: GULISTAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: saluting.

Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-n-s-t-u"

-1 letter: lasting, lusting, lutings, nilgaus, salting, slating, staling.

-2 letters: algins, aligns, gainst, gaslit, gaults, giants, glints, guilts, instal, insult, lasing, liangs, ligans, lingas, lingua, lungis, luting, nilgau, sating, signal, sluing, sultan, sunlit.

-3 letters: agist, algin, align, alist, angst, anils, antis, aunts, gains, gaits, gault, gaunt, giant, gilts, glans, glias, glint, gluts, gnats, guans, guilt.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-n-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: pulsating, sublating, sulfating, vaultings.

 

+2 letters: assaulting, autolysing, gelatinous, glutamines, granulites, insulating, lustrating, osculating, outlasting, outsailing, resaluting, simulating, sufflating, sulphating.

 

+3 letters: agglutinins, angulations, antifungals, antiplagues, brutalising, gesticulant, glauconites, glutaminase, langoustine, ligamentous, multigrains, outclassing, postulating, regulations, singularity, speculating, sporulating, stimulating, stipulating, sublimating, subtotaling, sulfonating, supplanting, ungainliest, unstartling.

 

+4 letters: absolutizing, agglutinates, angularities, astoundingly, auscultating, bullbaitings, centrifugals, coagulations, contagiously, emasculating, fulgurations, gastrulating, gastrulation, gelatinously, glutaminases, glutathiones, granulations, gratulations, illustrating, inosculating, insufflating, langoustines, languishment, linguistical, multitasking, naturalising, nauseatingly, neutralising, outsparkling, simulcasting, slaughtering, stridulating, subtotalling, supplicating, transvaluing, triangulates, urbanologist, vesiculating.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GULISTAN


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

47 55 4C 49 53 54 41 4E

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 01010101 01001100 01001001 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#85 &#76 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0055 004C 0049 0053 0054 0041 004E

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

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

4155464353543548

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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