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SANTON

Definition: SANTON

SANTON

Noun

1. A Turkish saint; a kind of dervish, regarded by the people as a saint: also, a hermit.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SANTON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)

Etymology: Santon \San"ton\, noun. [from Spanish expression santon, augmented from santo holy, from Latin expression sanctus.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: SANTON

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

Clergy

Mullah, muezzin, ayatollah; ulema, imaum, imam, sheik; sufi; kahin, kassis; mufti, hadji, dervish; fakir, faquir; brahmin, guru, kaziaskier, poonghie, sanyasi; druid, bonze, santon, abdal, Lama, talapoin, caloyer.

Seclusion Exclusion

Recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite; anchoret, anchorite; Simon Stylites; troglodyte, Timon of Athens, Santon, solitaire, ruralist, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes; outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic; wastrel, foundling, wilding.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: SANTON

DomainTitle

Books

  • Diary of John Rous Incumbent of Santon (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: SANTON

"SANTON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SANTON" is used about 2 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
Noun (proper)100%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SANTON

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

santon

20

santon and hotel

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

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Modern Translations: SANTON

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

Pig Latin

  

antonsay.(various references)

   

Turkish

  

derviş (dervish, fakir, marabout). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SANTON

Derivations

Words beginning with "SANTON": santonin, santonins. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SANTON"

Words rhyming with "SANTON" (pronounced 'San"ton'): Acton, Barton, Baston, Batton, Boston, Burton, Carton, Caxton, Chiton, Croton, Emplecton, Homoioptoton, Incanton, Jetton, krypton, Melton, Monton, Moton, Mutton, Panton, Phlogiston, Phyton, Piston, Plankton, Polyptoton, Protiston, Seton, Sexton, Tetraspaston, Teuton, Triton, unbutton. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SANTON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sonant.

Words within the letters "a-n-n-o-s-t"

-1 letter: nonas, santo.

-2 letters: anon, ants, nans, naos, nona, nota, oast, oats, snot, stoa, tans, taos, tons.

-3 letters: ant, nan, nos, not, oat, ons, sat, son, sot, tan, tao, tas, ton.

-4 letters: an, as, at, na, no, on, os, so, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-n-n-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: anoints, cantons, nations, natrons, nonarts, nonpast, onanist, sonants, wantons.

 

+2 letters: absonant, actinons, annattos, antisnob, antlions, antonyms, assonant, canonist, constant, contains, enations, fondants, fontinas, montanes, negatons, neonates, nonfacts, nonpasts, nontaxes, onanists, pentosan, pintanos, resonant, sanction, santonin, sonantal, sonantic, sonatina, sonatine, sonorant, stannous, tonnages, tonneaus, townsman.

 

+3 letters: adnations, agnations, anatoxins, annotates, anointers, antinodes, antinoise, antiphons, assonants, astonying, asyndeton, banknotes, butanones, canonists, canzonets, conations, consonant, constancy, constants, constrain, cotenants, countians, covenants, dissonant, dominants, donations, dynatrons, entozoans, fontanels, fountains, gnathions, inactions, innovates, intonates, lanthorns, lunations, magnetons, mannitols, mountains, nanotesla, nanowatts, natations, nationals, negations, negatrons, nominates, nonactors, nonadults, nonartist, nonmetals, nonskater, nonsteady, notations, novations, nutations, onanistic, ornaments, pantheons, pentagons, pentanols, pentosans, planktons, quantongs, reanoints, resonants, sanbenito, sanctions, sandstone, santolina, santonins, sensation, sonatinas, sonorants, stanchion, strongman, tensional, transonic, tyrannous, venations, wantoners, xanthones, zonations.

 

+4 letters: abstention, adornments, afternoons, allantoins, andantinos, animations, annotators, antagonism, antagonist, anthelions, anthocyans, anthozoans, anticodons, antiknocks, antimonies, antinomies, antinovels, antitoxins, antonymies, antonymous, assonantal, astounding, asyndetons, atonements, attentions, badmintons, botanising, carnations, clintonias, cognations, condensate, confidants, conjugants, consonants, constantan, constantly, constrains, constraint, consultant, contagions, containers, contestant, conversant, convulsant, cotangents, crenations, damnations, emanations, inanitions, incautions, incognitas, inconstant, inflations, informants, innovators, inoculants, insinuator, insolating, insolation, insouciant, insulation, inundators, isoantigen, langostino, lineations, magnetrons, mangosteen, melatonins, mentations, misatoning, monstrance, nanometers, nanoteslas, narrations, negotiants, nervations, nicotianas, nitrations, nominalist, nominators, nonactions, nonaddicts, nonartists, nonascetic, nonauthors, nonelastic, nonfactors, nonmutants, nonnatives, nonplastic, nonseptate, nonskaters, nonspatial, nonstarter, northlands, orangutans, ornateness, outspanned, ozonations, panettones, pantalones, pantaloons, phonations, planations, pronations, resonantly, resonating, ruinations, sanbenitos, sanctimony, sanctioned, sandstones, sanitation, santolinas, senatorian, sensations, shantytown, sonicating, sonication, stagnation, stanchions, standpoint, stationing, stentorian, stonemason, stuntwoman, supination, tarnations, townswoman, transition, transposon, transsonic, urinations, vernations, wantonness, warbonnets.

 

+5 letters: abnegations, abstentions, accountants, accountings, adjunctions, admonitions, alienations, amazonstone, ammunitions, anatomising, ancestoring, angiotensin, angulations, annexations, annotations, annulations, anointments, anonymities, antagonisms, antagonists, antagonizes, anthracnose, antibaryons, antifashion, antileptons, antimoderns, antimonials, antimonides, antinomians, antiphonals, antiphonies, antipodeans, antiprotons, antismoking, antonomasia, assentation, assignation, astonishing, attornments, calcitonins, cantonments, cartoonings, catenations, codominants, commandants, concertinas, condensates, confidantes, conflations, confrontals, congregants, consolation, consonantal, consonantly, constancies, constantans, consternate, constrained, constraints, consultancy, consultants, contestants, continuants, contrabands, contrarians, contrasting, contravenes, contredanse, conventuals, convulsants, coronations, covenantees, covenanters, covenantors, cunctations, denegations, denominates, denotations, denudations, designation, destination, detonations, dissonantly, divinations, dominations, elongations, emendations, enantiomers, enervations, enunciators, extensional, fascination, fontanelles, foundations, geminations, generations, herniations, incitations, inconsonant, inconstancy, incubations, indagations, indexations, indications, indurations, infarctions, infestation, infixations, infractions, inhalations, inhumations, initiations, innovations, inobservant, inseminator, insertional, insinuation, insinuators, insolations, inspiration, instigation, insulations, intensional, intimations, intonations, intoxicants, intravenous, intubations, inundations, invitations, invocations, iodinations, ionizations, isoantigens, laminations, langostinos, langoustine, malcontents, mandolinist, mangosteens, marinations, mensuration, monstrances, montagnards, mountainous, mountebanks, naltrexones, nationalise, nationalism, nationalist, nationhoods, navigations, nitrofurans, nitrogenase, nitrosamine, nodulations, nominalists, nominations, nominatives, nonabstract, nonartistic, nonascetics, nonathletes, nonbotanist, noncabinets, noncapitals, nonconstant, noncontacts, nondeviants, nonhospital, nonmigrants, nonmystical, nonpartisan, nonpayments, nonplastics, nonreactors, nonresonant, nonskeletal, nonstandard, nonstarters, nontaxables, nontobaccos, nonveterans, notableness, nucleations, numerations, obtainments, oceanfronts, ordainments, ordinations, ornamentals, ostentation, outspanning, outstanding, paginations, patinations, patronising, pentagonals, pentathlons, personating, personation, plantations, postlanding, postweaning, pteranodons, punctations, quaternions, remonstrant, renominates, renovations, resignation, ruminations, sanctioning, sanitations, sensational, shantytowns, sinfonietta, sonications, spontaneity, spontaneous, stagnations, stanchioned, standpoints, stenohaline, stonemasons, subdominant, subnational, subornation, sulfonating, sulfonation, supernation, supinations, syncopating, syncopation, syndication, tournaments, tramontanes, transaction, transection, transfixion, transfusion, transitions, translation, transponder, transposing, transposons, truncations, turnarounds, tyrannosaur, tyrannously, unabsorbent, undulations, unobservant, venerations, wainscoting.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SANTON


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

53 41 4E 54 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)

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

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

01010011 01000001 01001110 01010100 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#65 &#78 &#84 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0041 004E 0054 004F 004E

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

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

533548544948

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INDEX

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


  

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