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PROSTERNATION

Definition: PROSTERNATION

PROSTERNATION

Noun

1. Dejection; depression.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Prosternation \Pros`ter*na"tion\, noun. [French expression See Prostration.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: PROSTERNATION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dejection

Noun: dejection; dejectedness; Adjective: depression, prosternation; lowness of spirits, depression of spirits; weight on the spirits, oppression on the spirits, damp on the spirits; low spirits, bad spirits, drooping spirits, depressed spirits; heart sinking; heaviness of heart, failure of heart.

Servility

Noun: servility; slavery; (subjection); obsequiousness; Adjective: subserviency; abasement; prostration, prosternation; genuflection; (worship); fawning; Verb: tuft-hunting, timeserving, flunkeyism; sycophancy; (flattery); humility.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: PROSTERNATION

Non-English Usage: "PROSTERNATION" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (prostration).

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Rhyming with "PROSTERNATION"

Words rhyming with "PROSTERNATION" (pronounced 'Pros`ter*na"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PROSTERNATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-n-o-o-p-r-r-s-t-t"

-2 letters: antiprotons, perorations, personation, prostration, restoration.

-3 letters: antiproton, entropions, intertroop, nonrioters, nonstarter, operations, peroration, personator, prenotions, pretorians, pronations, pronatores, prorations, protonates, resorption, stentorian.

-4 letters: anointers, atropines, entropion, instanter, intonates, intranets, ironstone, nitrators, nonartist, nonrioter, notations, operation, operators, oratories, panettoni, patentors, patooties, patronise, portraits, posterior, potations, prenotion, pretorian, pretrains, priorates, pronation, pronators, proration, prostrate, protestor.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-n-o-o-p-r-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: containerports.

 

+3 letters: anthropocentrism, reapportionments.

 

+4 letters: anthropocentrisms.

 

+5 letters: evapotranspiration, overrepresentation.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PROSTERNATION


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

50 52 4F 53 54 45 52 4E 41 54 49 4F 4E

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)

.--.    .-.    ---    ...    -    .    .-.    -.    .-    -    ..    ---    -.

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

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

01010000 01010010 01001111 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001110 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#78 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 004F 0053 0054 0045 0052 004E 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

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

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

50524953543952483554434948

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INDEX

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


  

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