Legerdemain

Definition: Legerdemain

Legerdemain

Noun

1. An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers.

Date "legerdemain" was first used: sometime around 1430. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream of practising legerdemain, or seeing others doing so, signifies you will be placed in a position where your energy and power of planning will be called into strenuous play to extricate yourself. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
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Synonyms: Legerdemain

Synonyms: conjuring trick (n), deception (n), illusion (n), magic (n), magic trick (n), trick (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deception	Delusion, gullery; juggling, jugglery; slight of hand, legerdemain; prestigiation, prestidigitation; magic; conjuring, conjuration; hocus-pocus, escamoterie, jockeyship; trickery, coggery, chicanery; supercherie, cozenage, circumvention, ingannation, collusion; treachery; practical joke.
Revolution	Legerdemain; (trick).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Legerdemain

English words defined with "legerdemain": Logodaedaly ♦ Prestigiation ♦ sleight of hand ♦ Thaumaturgics, Thaumaturgy, Thimblerigger. (references)

Specialty definitions using "legerdemain": Legerdemain ♦ prestidigitization. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs and Others (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Legerdemain" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Legerdemain" is used about 3 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 (singular)	100%	3	202,518

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.

Language		Translations for "legerdemain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		truk (catch, fetch, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey), shkathtësi zhongleri, mashtrim i shkafët. (various references)

Arabic		‏شعوزة (imposture, prestidigitation). (various references)

Bulgarian		софистика (sophistry), хитрина (catch, contrivance, craft, craftiness, deceit, dodgery, expedient, fetch, foxiness, shift, trickery, wheeze, wile, wiliness), фокусничество (jugglery, prestidigitation, sleight of hand), жонгльорство (hocus pocus, juggle, jugglery, sleight of hand), ловкост (address, adroitness, agility, diplomacy, neatness, skill, sleight, sleight of hand, subtlety), извъртане (chicane, dodge, dodgery, equivocation, evasion, indirection, jugglery, quibble, salvo, shuffle, taradiddle, tergiversation, torsion, twist). (various references)

Farsi		حیله (Deceit, Deception, Evasion, Foul, Gaff, Gimmick, Guile, Humbug, Monkeyshine, Ruse, Sleight, Train, Trepanation, Trick, Wile), حقه بازی (Cog, Juggle, Quackery, Underhand), تردستی (Agility, Dexterity, Juggle, Jugglery, Skill, Sleight, Versatility), شعبده (Juggle). (various references)

French		prestidigitation. (various references)

German		Zaubertrick. (various references)

Greek		ταχυδακτειλουργία. (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"טוטים (acrobatics), אחיזת עי� ים (bluff, deceit, delusion, eyewash, hanky panky, humbug, jugglery, trickery). (various references)

Hungarian		szemfényvesztés (abuse, eye-wash, flannel, hanky panky, hanky-panky, lath and plaster, prestidigitation), bűvészmutatvány (prestidigitation, sleight of hand, tour de force), bűvészkedés. (various references)

Italian		prestidigitazione (prestidigitation), gioco di prestigio (juggle, jugglery, sleight of hand). (various references)

Pig Latin		egerdemainlay

Portuguese		ligeireza de mãos, prestidigitação (Hanoi, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, juggle, jugoslav, magic, prestidigitator, sleight of hand, trick), malabarismo (juggle, jugglery), jogo de mãos (sleight of hand), fabuloso (fabulous, fabulously, mythical, mythological). (various references)

Romanian		prestidigitaţie (performance, prestidigitation, sleight of hand), escrocherie abilã. (various references)

Russian		ловкость рук (palmistry, prestidigitation, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		opsenarstvo (magic, prestidigitation). (various references)

Spanish		prestidigitación (conjuring, jugglery, prestidigitation, sleight of hand). (various references)

Swedish		taskspeleri. (various references)

Turkish		hokkabazlık (conjuration, conjuring trick, hanky panky, illusionism, jugglery, parlor tricks, pass, prestidigitation, slapstick, sleight), el çabukluğu (adroitness, dexterity, hat trick, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, pass, prestidigitation, sleight, sleight of hand, trick), aldatmaca (catch, feint, shiftiness, sleight, sleight of hand, trick). (various references)

Ukranian		спритність рук (palmistry, prestidigitation), спритний обман, жонглерство. (various references)

Vietnamese		trò lộn sòng, trò b� i tây (hanky-panky, shell game, thimblerig, thimblerigging), trò ảo thuật sự lừa phỉnh, mưu lừa gạt sự nhanh tay. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "legerdemain": legerdemains. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Legerdemain" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lagerdemain, ledgerdemain, legardemain, legedermain, legerdemaine, legerdemane. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "legerdemain" (pronounced le'jerdumā"n)
4	-u m ā" n	remain.
3	-m ā" n	domain, germane, humane, inhumane, main, mane, Romaine.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: greenmailed.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-g-i-l-m-n-r"
	-1 letter: malingered.
	-2 letters: engrailed, greenmail, madeleine, madrilene, menagerie, realigned, redeeming.
	-3 letters: adeeming, aldermen, algerine, dragline, dreaming, enameled, enameler, endemial, engirdle, enlarged, gendarme, germinal, gleamier, liegeman, liegemen, lingered, maligned, maligner, malinger, margined, medaling, midrange, reedling, regained, reimaged, remailed, remained, remedial, renailed, renegade.
	-4 letters: aliened, alienee, aliener, aligned, aligner, amender, angeled, angered, dangler, darling, dealing, deeming, delaine.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-g-i-l-m-n-r"
	+1 letter: legerdemains.
	+2 letters: semilegendary.
	+4 letters: sledgehammering.
	+5 letters: governmentalized.
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