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Definition: Martinmas |
MartinmasNoun1. The feast of Saint Martin; a quarter day in Scotland. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Martinmas" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
Note: Martinmas \Mar"tin*mas\, noun. [St. Martin mass religious service.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Martinmas The feast of St. Martin is November 11. His Martinmas will come, as it does to every hog- i.e. all must die. November was the great slaughter-time of the Anglo-Saxons, when beeves, sheep, and hogs, whose store of food was exhausted, were killed and salted. Martinmas, therefore, was the slaying time, and the proverb intimates that our slaying-time or day of death will come as surely as that of a hog at St. Martin's-tide. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: MartinmasSynonyms: November 11 (n), St Martin's Day (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Rite | Sabbath, Pentecost; Advent, Christmas, Epiphany; Lent; Passion week, Holy week; Easter, Easter Sunday, Whitsuntide; agape, Ascension Day, Candlemas, Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Holy Thursday; Lammas, Martinmas, Michaelmas; All SAint's DAy, All Souls' Day |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Martinmas |
| English words defined with "Martinmas": Martin, Martinmas summer, Martlemas. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Martinmas": Wroth Money. (references) |
| "Martinmas" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Martinmas" is used about 11 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 (proper) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Martinmas": martinmas eve ♦ Martinmas summer. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "Martinmas"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Мартинов Ð"ен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Martinstag, Martini (martini). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Szent Márton Napja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Giorno Di S. Martino. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | artinmasmay Martini. (various references) Мартынов Ð"ень. (various references) dan svetoga martina. (various references) DÃa De San MartÃn. (various references) MÃ¥rtensmässa. (various references) Kış BaÅŸlangıcı. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "Martinmas" (pronounced 'Mar"tin*mas'): Allhallowmas, Candlemas, Christmas, Hallowmas, Halmas, Lammas, Martlemas, Michaelmas, Yumas. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-m-m-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: mainmast, martians, tamarins. | |
-2 letters: amritas, antiars, artisan, mantras, marinas, martian, martins, stamina, tamarin, tamaris, tsarina. | |
-3 letters: airman, amrita, animas, antiar, arista, atmans, inarms, instar, manats, manias, mantas, mantis, mantra, marina, martin, matins, miasma, nairas, ratans, riatas, santir, strain, tamari, tarsia, tiaras, trains. | |
-4 letters: airns, airts, amain, amias, amins, amirs, amnia, anima, antas, antis, antra. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-m-m-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: mainstream. | |
+2 letters: disarmament, mainstreams, maternalism. | |
+3 letters: disarmaments, mainstreamed, maternalisms. | |
+4 letters: mainstreaming, maladminister, malformations, nonmainstream, paramagnetism, summarization. | |
+5 letters: anagrammatizes, antimilitarism, armamentariums, communitarians, maladministers, microanatomies, paramagnetisms, sacramentalism, summarizations, ultramontanism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 72 74 69 6E 6D 61 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- .-. - .. -. -- .- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01101001 01101110 01101101 01100001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a r t i n m a s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0072 0074 0069 006E 006D 0061 0073 |
| 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)476784867580796785 |
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