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Open Sesame

Definition: Open Sesame

Open Sesame

Noun

1. Any very successful means of achieving a result.

2. A magical command; used by Ali Baba.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms within Context: Open Sesame

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Indication	Password, watchword, catchword; security card, pass, passkey; credentials; (evidence); open sesame; timbrology; mot de passe, mot du guet; pass-parole; shibboleth.
Instrumentality	Opener; key; master key, passkey, latchkey; " open sesame "; passport, passe-partout, safe-conduct, password.
Opening	Interjection: open sesame!
Spell	Noun: spell, charm, incantation, exorcism, weird, cabala, exsufflation, cantrap, runes, abracadabra, open sesame, countercharm, Ephesian letters, bell book and candle, Mumbo Jumbo, evil eye, fee-faw-fum.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Usage: Open Sesame

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Open sesame! (SpongeBob SquarePants; writing credit: Leonardo Fasoli; Patrizia Fassio)
Movie/TV Titles	Open Sesame (1933)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Open Sesame

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
open sesame	26
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Open Sesame

Language		Translations for "open sesame"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		オープンシステ� 病院 (open display, open door, open frame, open house, open market, open market operation, open marriage, open planning, open set, open skies, open space, open stance, open system hospital, open tennis, open trade, Open University, open-dating system, open-necked shirt, open-reel tape). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		オープンセサミ . (various references)

Pig Latin		openay esamesay

Turkish		açıl susam açıl. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Open Sesame

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-m-n-o-p-s-s"
	-2 letters: anemoses.
	-3 letters: nemeses, pensees.
	-4 letters: aspens, emeses, enemas, eposes, manses, masons, mensae, mensas, menses, mesnes, mesons, messan, paeons, paseos, passee, peasen, peases, pensee, peones, seamen, season, semens, sesame, sneaps, speans, spense.
	-5 letters: aeons, amens, apses, aspen, eases, enema, epees, manes, manos, manse, mason, masse, means, mensa, mense, mesas, mesne, meson, moans, monas, mopes, names.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-m-n-o-p-s-s"
	+3 letters: decompensates.
	+4 letters: magnetospheres, splenomegalies, treponematoses.
	+5 letters: overcompensates, proximatenesses, spermatogeneses, spermatogenesis, temporarinesses.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern

5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography

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