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Date "IGNARO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Ignaro Foster-father of Orgoglio. Whatever question Arthur asked, the old dotard answered, "He could not tell." Spenser says this old man walks one way and looks another, because ignorance is always "wrong-headed." (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book i.) (See Non Mi Recordo.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: IGNARO |
| Non-English Usage: "IGNARO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (ignorant, oblivious, unaware), Spanish (ignorant, unillumined, uninformed, unknowable). |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ignaro louis | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: oaring, onagri, origan. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: argon, garni, giron, gonia, grain, groan, groin, noria, orang, organ. | |
-2 letters: agin, agio, agon, airn, gain, girn, giro, gnar, gran, grin, inro, iron, naoi, noir, nori, ragi, rain, rang, rani, ring, roan. | |
-3 letters: ago, ain, air, ani, gan, gar, gin, goa, gor, ion, nag, nog, nor, oar, ora, rag, ran, ria, rig, rin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: adoring, orating, organic, origans, pignora, roaming, roaring, signora, soaring, zingaro. | |
+2 letters: aborning, aborting, adorning, agrimony, aproning, armoring, arousing, arrowing, assignor, bigaroon, boarding, borating, bravoing, caroling, caroming, croaking, favoring, foraging, foraying, garoting, garrison, geraniol, graviton, groaning, gyration, hoarding, ignorami, ignorant, laboring, longhair, majoring, orangier, orangish, organdie, organics, organise, organism, organist, organize, origanum, original, paroling, radioing, razoring, regional, rigadoon, rigatoni, rigaudon, roaching, roarings, roasting, rogation, rotating, savoring, signoras, soarings, taboring, trigonal, troaking, vaporing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 47 4E 41 52 4F |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. --. -. .- .-. --- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01000111 01001110 01000001 01010010 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I G N A R O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0047 004E 0041 0052 004F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)434148355249 |
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