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Date "MELIOR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Melior A lovely fairy, who carried off Parthenopex of Blois to her secret island in her magic bark. (French romance called Parthenopex de Blois, 12th cent.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: MELIOR |
| Etymologies containing "MELIOR": Meliority. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "MELIOR" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (better, brave, good, healthy, honest, kind, noble, pleasant, right, useful, valid). |
| "MELIOR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MELIOR" 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 |
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 |
melior | 12 |
gun melior | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 5 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Melior est manifesta correptio quam amor absconditus |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Betere is open amending, than hid looue. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Open rebuke is better than secret love. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Open rebuke is better than secret love. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Better is open protest than love kept secret. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 27, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Maayo pa ang pagbadlong sa dayag Kay sa gugma nga tinago. |
| Croatian | Bolji je javni ukor nego lažna ljubav. |
| Danish | Hellere åbenlys Revselse end Kærlighed, der skjules. |
| Dutch | Openbare bestraffing is beter dan verborgene liefde. |
| Finnish | Parempi julkinen nuhde kuin salattu rakkaus. |
| French | Mieux vaut une réprimande ouverte Qu`une amitié cachée. |
| German | Offene Strafe ist besser denn heimliche Liebe. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Lebih baik teguran yang terang-terangan daripada kasih yang tidak diungkapkan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Peneguran yang nyata itu terlebih baik dari pada pengasihan yang tersembuni. |
| Italian | Meglio un rimprovero aperto che un amore celato. |
| Maori | ¶ He pai ke te riri matanui i te aroha huna. |
| Norwegian | Åpenlys irettesettelse er bedre enn kjærlighet som skjules. |
| Portuguese | Melhor é a repreensão aberta do que o amor encoberto. |
| Rumanian | Mai bine o mustrare pe fayq de ckt o prietenie ascunsq. - |
| Russian | мХЮЫЕ ПФЛТЩФПЕ П'МЙЮЕОЙЕ, ОЕЦЕМЙ УЛТЩФБС МА'ПЧШ. |
| Swedish | Bättre är öppen tillrättavisning än kärlek som hålles fördold. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MELIOR": meliorate, meliorated, meliorates, meliorating, melioration, meliorations, meliorative, meliorator, meliorators, meliorism, meliorisms, meliorist, melioristic, meliorists. (additional references) | |
Words containing "MELIOR": ameliorate, ameliorated, ameliorates, ameliorating, amelioration, ameliorations, ameliorative, ameliorator, ameliorators, amelioratory. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: moiler. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-m-o-r" | |
-1 letter: miler, moire, morel, oiler, oriel, reoil. | |
-2 letters: emir, lier, lime, limo, lire, lore, merl, mile, milo, mire, moil, mole, more, omer, orle, riel, rile, rime, roil, role. | |
-3 letters: elm, ire, lei, lie, mel, mil, mir, mol, mor, oil, ole, ore, rei, rem, rim, roe, rom. | |
-4 letters: el, em, er, li, lo, me, mi, mo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-m-o-r" | |
+1 letter: embroil, gomeril, implore, loamier, lorimer, moilers, moldier, motlier. | |
+2 letters: amitrole, bloomier, bromelin, comelier, compiler, complier, cormlike, embroils, filmgoer, forelimb, foremilk, gloomier, gomerils, heirloom, homegirl, homelier, impellor, implored, implorer, implores, lemuroid, lorimers, memorial, misenrol, moralise, moralize, mouldier, oligomer, overmild, overmilk, proemial, rimosely, rolamite, wormlike. | |
+3 letters: airmobile, almonries, amitroles, bromelain, bromeliad, bromelins, compilers, compliers, demiworld, dulcimore, embroiled, equimolar, filmgoers, forelimbs, foremilks, formalise, formalize, formulize, glamorise, glamorize, glomeruli, heirlooms, homegirls, impellors, implorers, irksomely, kilometer, klezmorim, lemuroids, meliorate, meliorism, meliorist, melodizer, memorials, micromole, micropyle, misenroll, misenrols, moldering, moralised, moralises, moralized, moralizer, moralizes, morseling, normalise, normalize, oligomers, oriflamme, overclaim, overmilks, plexiform, polymeric, prolamine, recompile, remolding, rigmarole, rolamites, sommelier, tormentil, tremolite, tumorlike, turmoiled, vermilion, womanlier. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 45 4C 49 4F 52 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- . .-.. .. --- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000101 01001100 01001001 01001111 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M E L I O R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0045 004C 0049 004F 0052 |
| 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)473946434952 |
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