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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Narrow House or ~~~Home. Home. A coffin; the grave. Gray calls the grave a "narrow cell." "Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep." Elegy. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Interment | Grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate; burning ghat; crematorium, crematory; dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | He too, however, occupies an equally narrow house at present. |
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| 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 |
narrow house plan | 42 |
narrow house | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "NARROW HOUSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | могила (cell, grave, last resting-place, sepulchre, the narrow bed, the narrow home, the narrow house, tomb). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-n-o-o-r-r-s-u-w" | |
-2 letters: honourers. | |
-3 letters: honorers, honourer, warhorse, whoreson. | |
-4 letters: arenous, arouser, harrows, hoarsen, hoarser, honorer, honours, narrows, onerous, onshore, reshown, senhora, serrano, swooner, unhorse, unswear, unswore, warners, warrens. | |
-5 letters: ahorse, answer, arouse, arrows, arseno, ashore, aswoon, harrow, hausen, hawser, herons, hoarse, honers, honors, honour, houser, narrow, nooser, nosher, nurser, onrush, owners, rasher, rasure, reason, reruns, resawn. | |
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