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QUARTERON

Definition: QUARTERON

QUARTERON

Noun

1. Alt. of Quarteroon

2. A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: QUARTERON

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

Mixture

Half-blood, half-caste. mulatto; terceron, quarteron, quinteron;quadroon, octoroon; griffo, zambo; cafuzo; Eurasian; fustee, fustie; griffe, ladino, marabou, mestee, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule; catalo; cross, hybrid, mongrel.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: QUARTERON

English words defined with "QUARTERON": Quateron. (references)
Etymologies containing "QUARTERON": Quadroon. (references)
Non-English Usage: "QUARTERON" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (handful).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: QUARTERON

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

quarteron

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: QUARTERON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-n-o-q-r-r-t-u"

-1 letter: quartern.

-2 letters: equator, outearn, quarter, torquer.

-3 letters: atoner, errant, nature, ornate, outran, quarte, quarto, quatre, quoter, ranter, retorn, return, roquet, router, tenour, torque, tourer, turner.

-4 letters: antre, atone, noter, oaten, oater, orate, outer, outre, quant, quare, quart, quate, quean, quern, quota, quote, rater, reran, rerun, retro, roque, rouen, route, tarre, tenor, terra, toner, toque.

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

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Alternative Orthography: QUARTERON


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

51 55 41 52 54 45 52 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)

01010001 01010101 01000001 01010010 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#81 &#85 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0051 0055 0041 0052 0054 0045 0052 004F 004E

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

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

515535525439524948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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