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MILESIAN

Definitions: MILESIAN

MILESIAN

Adjective

1. Descended from King Milesius of Spain, whose two sons are said to have conquered Ireland about 1300 b. c.; or pertaining to the descendants of King Milesius; hence, Irish.

2. Of or pertaining to Miletus, a city of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants.

Noun

1. A native or inhabitant of Ireland.

2. A native or inhabitant of Miletus.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MILESIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)


Crosswords: MILESIAN

Specialty definitions using "MILESIAN": Milesian Fables, Milesian Story. (references)
Non-English Usage: "MILESIAN" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Albanian (milesian).

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Commercial Usage: MILESIAN

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Genealogical History of the Milesian Familes of Ireland (reference)

  • Feminine parts : a book of Milesian tales (reference)

  • Milesian fables (reference)

  • The Milesian Chief: A Romance (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: MILESIAN

"MILESIAN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "MILESIAN" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)90.91%10111,207
Noun (singular)9.09%1339,140
                    Total100.00%11N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: MILESIAN

Language Translations for "MILESIAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

milesian. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ирландски (hibernian, irish), ирландец (hibernian, irish, irishman, redshank). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

milétoszi. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ilesianmay

   

Portuguese

  

milhas (miles), irlandês (hibernian, Irish, irish accent, Irishman, irishwoman), descendente de milésio. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

милезский, ирландский (hibernian, irish). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

miletski. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

irlandés (bogtrotter, hibernian, Irish, Irishman). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

irländsk (Irish), irländare (Irishman, Paddy). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ірландський (hibernian, irish), мілетський, мілезький. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: MILESIAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: alienism.

Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-m-n-s"

-1 letter: malines, menials, mislain, seminal.

-2 letters: aliens, alines, amines, animes, animis, elains, emails, imines, inseam, lemans, liaise, lianes, limans, limens, limina, mailes, maline, menial, mensal, mesial, mesian, mislie, saimin, saline, samiel, semina, silane, sileni, simian, simile, simlin, simnel.

-3 letters: aisle, alien, aline, almes, amens, amies, amine, amins, anile, anils, anime, animi, anise, elain, elans.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-m-n-s"
 

+1 letter: alienisms, alimonies, mainlines, semifinal.

 

+2 letters: aluminizes, animaliers, animalizes, calcimines, eliminates, leishmania, lesbianism, luminaires, luminaries, medicinals, melanistic, metalising, militances, mineralise, misaligned, misdealing, misleading, missileman, moniliases, nialamides, palimonies, semifinals, sinsemilla.

 

+3 letters: animalities, antielitism, antimissile, antirealism, dimensional, eliminators, habiliments, illuminates, inestimable, inestimably, laminitises, leishmanial, leishmanias, lesbianisms, lifemanship, malignities, marbleising, marlinspike, masculinise, masculinize, mediastinal, mentalistic, mentalities, meridionals, militancies, millenaries, mineralised, mineralises, mineralizes, ministerial, misalliance, misaltering, mislabeling, mislearning, mispleading, misrelating, nonfamilies, normalities, orientalism, plebeianism, pleinairism, regionalism, semidiurnal, sillimanite, sinsemillas, testimonial, trigeminals.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MILESIAN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 49 4C 45 53 49 41 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ..    .-..    .    ...    ..    .-    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001001 01001100 01000101 01010011 01001001 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#73 &#76 &#69 &#83 &#73 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0049 004C 0045 0053 0049 0041 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4743463953433548

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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Bulgaars, Bulgaar, bulgr, ‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, Búlgaru, български, български език, българин, Bulgaryan, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarskt, bulgarialainen, Bulgaarsk, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bullgar, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, Bułgar, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri, for Bulgarian;
Hongaars, Hongaar, hungarez, ‏الهنغاري, ‏مجري, ‏هنغاري, ‏المجري, ‏اللغة الهنغارية, Húngaru, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Hungaryan, 匈牙利語 , 匈牙利语, maïarský, maïar, maïarština, ungarer, Hongaarse, ungarskt, unkarilainen, hongrois, Hongaarsk, ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, Węgier, ongrés, ungureşte, ungur, limba maghiarã, unguresc, maghiar, limba ungarã, венгр, венгерский, mađarski, mađar, mađarski jezik, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорка, угорський, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri, for Hungarian;
Portugees, portugez, portugalisht, ‏اللغة البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالية, ‏البرتغالي, португалски език, португалски, португалец, Potuges, 葡萄牙语, 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙語 , portugalský, portugiser, portugisiskt, portugalilainen, portugais, Portugeesk, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, Portaingéilis, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, Portiugish, Portiugagh, portugues, Portugalczyk, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalski, portugalac, portugués, Mreno, si-Putúkezi, portugis, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, portekizce, португальська мова, португальський, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha, for Portuguese;
Russies, Rus, ‏الروسية, ‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, Rusu, руски, руски език, руснак, Rusyan, 俄語 , 俄语, 俄文 , ruština, ruský, russer, russur, russiskt, venäläinen, Russysk, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, rússneskur, Rússi, Rúisis, russo, ロシア語 , ロシア", 러시아, Rooshish, Rooshagh, russisk, Rosjanin, русский, Lusia, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, sí-Rashîya, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga, for Russian;
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Spaans, Spaanse taal, spanjoll, ‏اللغة الأسبانية, ‏الأسبانية, ‏أسباني, испански език, испански, espanyoles, Espanyol, 西班牙语, 西班牙文 , 西班牙語 , španìlský, španìlština, spanskt, espanjalainen, espagnol, Spaansk, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, karaiñe'êmegua, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, SpÚinnis, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, Spaainagh, Spaainish, spañó, espanhol, espanhòl, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, spaniol, испанский, Sipaniolo, španski jezik, španski, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyolca, ispanyol, іспанська мова, іспанський, for Spanish;
Sweeds, suedez, ‏اللغة السويدية, Suecu, шведски език, шведски, швед, Swedis, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, svenskt, ruotsalainen, suédois, Sweedsk, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, sænskur, Sualainnis, svedese, スウェーデン語 , スウェーデン", 스웨덴, Soolynish, Soolynagh, suèc, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển, for Swedish;
乌克兰, for Ukranian;