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Date "JANISSARIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Janissaries or ~~~Janizaries, Janizaries, a celebrated militia of the Ottoman Empire, raised by Orchan in 1326, and called the Yengi-tscheri (new corps). It was blessed by Hadji Bektash, a saint, who cut off a sleeve of his fur mantle and gave it to the captain. The captain put the sleeve on his head, and from this circumstance arose the fur cap worn by these foot-guards. In 1826, having become too formidable to the state, they were abolished. "There were two classes of Janizaries, one regularly organised ... and the other composing an irregular militia.' - Chambers: Encyclopædia, vol. vi. p. 279. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| "JANISSARIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "JANISSARIES" is used about 19 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 (plural) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
janissaries | 16 |
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"JANISSARIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Canizaris, janisaires, janisarie. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-i-j-n-r-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: janisaries. | |
-3 letters: airiness. | |
-4 letters: arsines, jarinas, raisins, sansars, sanseis, sarsens, sassier, seisins, senarii, sissier. | |
-5 letters: anears, anises, arenas, arisen, arises, arsine, assais, irises, isseis, jarina, nairas, niseis, raises, raisin, resins, rinses, sanies, sansar, sansei, sarans, sarins, sarsen, sasins, seisin, serais, serins, sirens, snares. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 41 4E 49 53 53 41 52 49 45 53 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--- .- -. .. ... ... .- .-. .. . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01000001 01001110 01001001 01010011 01010011 01000001 01010010 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J A N I S S A R I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 0041 004E 0049 0053 0053 0041 0052 0049 0045 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4435484353533552433953 |
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