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PORTAGUE

Definition: PORTAGUE

PORTAGUE

Noun

1. A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Portague \Por"ta*gue\, noun. [See Portuguese.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: PORTAGUE

English words defined with "PORTAGUE": Portegue, Portigue. (references)

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Rhyming with "PORTAGUE"

Words rhyming with "PORTAGUE" (pronounced 'Por"ta*gue'): Adder's-tongue, Analogue, Apologue, Azogue, Bague, Beaumontague, Betongue, Bird's-tongue, Blague, Brogue, Cangue, Cholagogue, Cogue, Collogue, Comrogue, Decalogue, Deer's-tongue, Demagogue, Eclogue, Embogue, Fugue, Galacta-gogue, Gangue, Gigue, hound's-tongue, Lithagogue, Long-tongue, Madrague, Melanagogue, Menagogue, meringue, monologue, Monopolylogue, morgue, Myriologue, Mystagogue, Mythologue, Orgue, Outargue, Outtongue, oxtongue, Philologue, Phlegmagogue, Pirogue, Prorogue, Psychagogue, Psychologue, Ptyalogogue, Ptysmagogue, Reargue. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PORTAGUE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-o-p-r-t-u"

-1 letter: outrage, portage.

-2 letters: aerugo, garote, orgeat, outage, parget, potage, pouter, protea, ragout, ragtop, roupet, rugate, troupe, uprate, uptear, uptore.

-3 letters: aport, apter, argot, argue, auger, ergot, erugo, erupt, gaper, gator, getup, grape, grate, great, groat, grope, group, grout, oater, opera, orate, outer, outre, pager, pareo, pareu, parge, pargo, pater, peart, prate, pruta, purge.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-o-p-r-t-u"
 

+2 letters: expurgator, promulgate.

 

+3 letters: autographed, expurgation, expurgators, expurgatory, outcapering, promulgated, promulgates, purgatories.

 

+4 letters: autographies, expurgations, outpreaching, outspreading, photogravure, postgraduate, repopulating.

 

+5 letters: daguerreotype, daguerreotypy, expurgatorial, mousetrapping, photogravures, postgraduates, precautioning, prefiguration, protolanguage.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PORTAGUE


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

50 4F 52 54 41 47 55 45

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)

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

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

01010000 01001111 01010010 01010100 01000001 01000111 01010101 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#82 &#84 &#65 &#71 &#85 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0052 0054 0041 0047 0055 0045

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

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

5049525435415539

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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