PONTAGE

Definition: PONTAGE

PONTAGE

Noun

1. A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PONTAGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

Etymology: Pontage \Pon"tage\, noun. [from Late Latin expression pontagium, from the Latin expression pons, pontis, bridge: compare to the French expression pontage.]. (Websters 1913)

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Language		Translations for "PONTAGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Manx		keesh droghad. (various references)

Pig Latin		ontagepay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Words rhyming with "PONTAGE" (pronounced 'Pon"tage'): Cottage, Flotage, Hostage, Mutage, Pottage, Putage, Voltage. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-n-o-p-t"
	-1 letter: potage, teopan.
	-2 letters: agent, agone, atone, genoa, netop, oaten, paeon, panto, paten, pengo, tango, togae, tonga.
	-3 letters: aeon, agon, ante, atop, etna, gaen, gane, gape, gate, gent, geta, gnat, goat, gone, nape, neap, neat, nope, nota, note, open, page, pane, pang, pant, pate, peag, pean, peat, pent, peon, poet, pone, pong, tang, tape.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-n-o-p-t"
	+1 letter: gantlope, heptagon, pathogen, pentagon.
	+2 letters: gantelope, gantlopes, godparent, heptagons, operating, pathogens, patronage, pentagons.
	+3 letters: gantelopes, godparents, heptagonal, outleaping, pathogenic, patronages, pentagonal, perorating, readopting.
	+4 letters: cooperating, ethnography, evaporating, expurgation, genotypical, impregnator, nonpregnant, outcapering, outspeaking, pentagonals, percolating, perforating, personating, planetology, pomegranate, postweaning, preadopting, procreating, reoperating, reprobating, stenography, videotaping.
	+5 letters: compensating, copartnering, depopulating, ethnographer, ethnographic, expurgations, impregnation, impregnators, magnetograph, magnetopause, nonoperating, organoleptic, outpreaching, outspreading, overplanting, paedogenetic, paleontology, pathogeneses, pathogenesis, pathogenetic, pentagonally, photoengrave, photomontage, pigmentation, pneumatology, pomegranates, potentiating, preallotting, premigration, proteoglycan, reappointing, repopulating, scapegoating, speedboating, stenographer, stenographic, unapologetic.
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