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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Old as Adam Generally used as a reproof for stating as news something well known. "That's as old as Adam," or was known as far back as the days of Adam. (See Old As Methuselah .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Oldness | Old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam, old as history. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-d-l-m-o-s" | |
-3 letters: alamos, dolmas, salaam. | |
-4 letters: alamo, almas, dadas, dados, dolma, domal, lamas, loads, loams, modal, molas, molds, omasa, salad. | |
-5 letters: aals, adds, ados, alas, alma, alms, also, amas, dada, dado, dads, dals, dams, dols, doms, lads, lama, lams, load, loam, mads, moas, mods, mola, mold, mols, odds, olds, slam, soda, sola, sold, soma. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 4C 44 41 53 41 44 41 4D |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01001100 01000100 00100000 01000001 01010011 00100000 01000001 01000100 01000001 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O L D   A S   A D A M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 004C 0044 0041 0053 0041 0044 0041 004D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)49463823553235383547 |
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