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HEATHENDOM

Definitions: HEATHENDOM

HEATHENDOM

Noun

1. Heathenism.

2. That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "HEATHENDOM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms within Context: HEATHENDOM

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Heterodoxy

Paganism, heathenism, ethicism; mythology; polytheism, ditheism, tritheism; dualism; heathendom.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: HEATHENDOM

English words defined with "HEATHENDOM": Heathenesse, Heathenry. (references)

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Historic Usage: HEATHENDOM

AuthorDateQuotation

Communist Manifesto

1848

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translations: HEATHENDOM

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

Albanian

  

popuj pagane, idhujtari (heathenism, idolatress, idolatry). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

езичество (heathenism, paganism), езически свят (pagandom). (various references)

   

Czech

  

pohanství (paganism). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pakanamaailma. (various references)

   

French

  

paganisme (heathenism). (various references)

   

German

  

Heidentum (heathenism, paganism). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ειδολολατρεία (heathenism). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pogányság (pagandom, paganism). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eathendomhay

   

Portuguese

  

paganismo (paganize), gentileza (favor, kindling, kindness, niceness), bárbaro (barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, brute, bumbling, cloddish, cruel, fell, gothic, inhuman, larrikin, lawmaker, low-lived, ruffianly, tramontane, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, wild). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pãgânime (pagandom), pãgânãtate. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

язычество (heathenism, pagandom, paganism). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neznaboštvo (atheism, heathenism, paganism). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

paganismo (heathen, heathenism, pagandom, paganism). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hedendom (heathenism, paganism). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

putperestlik alemi. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

язичество (heathenism, infidelity, pagandom, paganism). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: HEATHENDOM

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Late Latin300-700

paganismus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: HEATHENDOM

Derivations

Words beginning with "HEATHENDOM": heathendoms. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "HEATHENDOM"

Words rhyming with "HEATHENDOM" (pronounced 'Hea"then*dom'): Anglo-Saxondom, Archdukedom, Bachelordom, Birthdom, Bishopdom, Boredom, Christendom, Churchdom, Cockneydom, Cuckoldom, Dukedom, Duncedom, Earldom, Enfreedom, Flunkydom, Freedom, Halidom, Heirdom, kingdom, Marquisdom, martyrdom, Masterdom, Mormondom, Pagandom, Patriarchdom, Peerdom, Polypidom, Popedom, Princedom, Puzzledom, Queendom, Rascaldom, Rebeldom, Rhabdom, Sachemdom, Saintdom, Scoundreldom, seldom, subkingdom, Swelldom, Thanedom, Thedom, thraldom, Underkingdom, Unseldom, Unwisdom, Uppertendom, Usherdom, Whoredom, Wisdom. (additional references)

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Anagrams: HEATHENDOM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-h-m-n-o-t"

-1 letter: methadone.

-2 letters: anthemed, headnote, methadon, nematode.

-3 letters: demeton, headmen, heathen, hothead, methane.

-4 letters: anteed, anthem, atoned, daemon, demean, dement, demote, denote, donate, emoted, ethane, hanted, heated, hented, hetman, meated, method, moaned, moated, oedema, omened, omenta, tandem, teamed, themed, toneme.

-5 letters: adeem, admen, amend, ament, anode, anted, atone, death, demon, doeth, donee, eaten, edema, emend, emote, enate, enema, hated, heath, homed, honda, honed, mahoe, maned, mated, meant, menad, menta, meted, monad, monde, monte, month, named, neath, nomad, noted, oaten, tamed, thane, theme, toman, toned.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-h-m-n-o-t"
 

+1 letter: heathendoms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HEATHENDOM


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

48 45 41 54 48 45 4E 44 4F 4D

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)

01001000 01000101 01000001 01010100 01001000 01000101 01001110 01000100 01001111 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#65 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#78 &#68 &#79 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0041 0054 0048 0045 004E 0044 004F 004D

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

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

42393554423948384947

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Historic
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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