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Sabbatarian

Definitions: Sabbatarian

Sabbatarian

Adjective

1. Pertaining to the Sabbath and its observance.

Noun

1. One who observes Saturday as the Sabbath (as in Judaism).

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

Date "Sabbatarian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references)

Synonyms within Context: Sabbatarian

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

Asceticism

Ascetic; anchoret, anchorite; martyr; Heautontimorumenos; hermit; (recluse); puritan, sabbatarian, cynic, sanyasi, yogi.

Impiety

Bigot; saint; Pharisee; sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee; ranter, fanatic, juramentado.

Rite

Ritualism, ceremonialism; sabbatism, sabbatarianism; ritualist, sabbatarian.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Sabbatarian

"Sabbatarian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Sabbatarian" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)66.67%2245,945
Noun (singular)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Sabbatarian

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "Sabbatarian": anti-sabbatarian.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sabbatarian

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

sabbatarian

7

sabbatarian single

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sabbatarian

Language Translations for "Sabbatarian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

съботянски, съботянин. (various references)

   

German

  

strenger befürworter des sonntagsgebots, strenger befürworter des sabbatsgebots. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σαββατιστήσ, τηρητήσ του σαββάτου. (various references)

   

Manx

  

Doonaghtagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abbatariansay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

субботник (subbotnik). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

dini tatil günlerini önemseyen kimse, dini tatil gününe ait. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

суботник, "врей, що дотриму"ться суботи, адвентист сьомого дня. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

theo tục nghỉ ng y Xaba. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sabbatarian

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-b-b-i-n-r-s-t"

-3 letters: bartisan.

-4 letters: abstain, antiars, artisan, brisant, rabbins, rabbits, tsarina.

-5 letters: abasia, abatis, anabas, antiar, arista, bairns, brains, brants, instar, nairas, rabats, rabbin, rabbis, rabbit, ratans, riatas, sabbat, santir, satara, strain, tabbis, tarsia, tiaras, trains.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Sabbatarian


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

53 61 62 62 61 74 61 72 69 61 6E

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)

01010011 01100001 01100010 01100010 01100001 01110100 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#97 &#98 &#98 &#97 &#116 &#97 &#114 &#105 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0061 0062 0062 0061 0074 0061 0072 0069 0061 006E

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

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

5367686867866784756780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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