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Definition: KIRMESS |
KIRMESSNoun1. In Europe, particularly in Belgium and Holland, and outdoor festival and fair; in the United States, generally an indoor entertainment and fair combined. |
Etymology: Kirmess \Kir"mess\, noun. [from Dutch expression kermis; compare to German kirmes; prop., church mass. See Church, and Mass religious service.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: KIRMESS |
| English words defined with "KIRMESS": Kermesse. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "KIRMESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | φιλανθρωπική αγορά (kermis, sale of work). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | irmesskay apanha (lifting, picking, raking, to rake). (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words beginning with "KIRMESS": kirmesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-k-m-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: kermis, kisser, krises, misers, remiss, skiers, smerks, smirks. | |
-2 letters: emirs, keirs, kiers, merks, mikes, mires, mirks, miser, mises, rimes, rises, risks, seism, semis, siker, sikes, sires, skier, skies, skims, smerk, smirk. | |
-3 letters: emir, ires, irks, isms, keir, kier, kirs, kiss, kris, merk, mess, mike, mire, mirk, mirs, mise, miss, reis, rems, rime, rims. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-k-m-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: kermises, skimmers, smirkers. | |
+2 letters: kaiserism, kirmesses, mislikers, misstrike, mistakers, murkiness, semiworks, smirkiest. | |
+3 letters: disembarks, kaiserdoms, kaiserisms, misreckons, misstrikes, musketries, samarskite, skirmished, skirmisher, skirmishes. | |
+4 letters: antismokers, dressmaking, hucksterism, irksomeness, metersticks, ministrokes, misstricken, mudskippers, murkinesses, noisemakers, reichsmarks, samarskites, shirtmakers, skirmishers. | |
+5 letters: dressmakings, hucksterisms, marlinspikes, semidarkness, taskmistress. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 49 52 4D 45 53 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, 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)01001011 01001001 01010010 01001101 01000101 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K I R M E S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0049 0052 004D 0045 0053 0053 |
| 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)45435247395353 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, grego |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, português |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglês |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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