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SARSEN

Definition: SARSEN

SARSEN

Noun

1. One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Sarsen \Sar"sen\, noun. [Etymology uncertain; perhaps for saracen stone, i.e., heathen or pagan stone or monument.]. (Websters 1913)

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Crosswords: SARSEN

Specialty definitions using "SARSEN": Sarsen Stones. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SARSEN

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Expression: SARSEN

Expression using "SARSEN": sarsen stone. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SARSEN

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.
 
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horseshoe sarsen

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Modern Translations: SARSEN

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

Pig Latin

  

arsensay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

bloco de arenito. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

büyük tek parça taş. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: SARSEN

Derivations

Words beginning with "SARSEN": sarsenet, sarsenets, sarsens. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "SARSEN"

Words rhyming with "SARSEN" (pronounced 'Sar"sen'): Bowssen, Brasen, Delicatessen, Fausen, Forechosen, greisen. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SARSEN

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: snares.

Words within the letters "a-e-n-r-s-s"

-1 letter: arses, earns, nares, nears, rases, saner, sanes, sears, sensa, snare.

-2 letters: anes, ares, arse, earn, ears, eras, erns, near, ness, rase, sane, sans, sear, seas, sera, sers.

-3 letters: ane, are, ars, ass, ear, ens, era, ern, ers, ess, nae, ran, ras, res, sae, sea, sen, ser.

-4 letters: ae, an, ar, as, en, er, es, na, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-n-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: ancress, answers, arsines, caserns, farness, harness, rawness, reasons, sanders, sangers, sarsens, senoras, snarers.

 

+2 letters: airiness, anestrus, anserous, anureses, anuresis, archness, arcsines, aridness, arsenals, arsenics, arsenous, artiness, assenter, assentor, assigner, bareness, baroness, casernes, coarsens, danseurs, darkness, dearness, drabness, earnests, ensnares, ensnarls, erasions, fairness, grayness, hardness, harshens, hoarsens, insnares, narcoses, nearness, pasterns, personas, pressman, raciness, rainless, rankness, raptness, rareness, rashness, realness, reassign, rennases, reseason, responsa, retsinas, salterns, sanserif, sardines, sarments, sarsenet, saunters, scanners, seasoner, seminars, senarius, senators, senhoras, sensoria, seringas, serranos, servants, sharpens, slanders, smartens, snappers, snarlers, sneakers, spankers, spanners, spawners, stainers, standers, starnose, stearins, surnames, tartness, treasons, unswears, versants, wariness, warmness.

 

+3 letters: absenters, acridness, alertness, anacruses, analysers, ancestors, anchoress, ancresses, anestrous, aneurisms, aneurysms, angerless, angriness, anserines, answerers, antipress, apartness, arginases, arsenates, arsenides, arsenious, arsenites, ascenders, aspersing, aspersion, assenters, assentors, asserting, assertion, assigners, assurance, assurgent, astringes, aversions, awareness, banishers, banisters, bearskins, brainless, brashness, brisances, broadness, canisters, canvasers, canvasser, caressing, cesareans, cesarians, chariness, cleansers, clearness, crassness, craziness, darndests, dwarfness, eagerness, earliness, earstones, enchasers, endosarcs, enslavers, ensnarers, estragons, estranges, farnesols, farnesses, fasteners, frailness, frankness, furanoses, gangsters, ganisters, garnishes, grandness, grapiness, graveness, greatness, hairiness, handpress, hardiness, hardnoses, harnessed, harnesses, harshness, hasteners, hoariness, increases, insnarers, irateness, islanders, kaiserins, largeness, larkiness, laundress, masonries, mislearns, monsteras, naysayers, nearsides, necessary, organises, pantdress, passenger, passerine, patroness, personals, pinasters, preassign, preseason, pristanes, psoralens, purslanes, pyranoses, rabidness, ranginess, ransomers, rapidness, ratsbanes, rawnesses, readiness, reascends, reascents, reasoners, reassigns, recusants, redshanks, refastens, repassing, reseasons, resinates, resistant, resonants, resonates, restrains, rhamnoses, rhamnuses, romanises, sangarees, sanserifs, sarcenets, sarsenets, sauternes, scenarios, scenarist, scrannels, seafronts, searobins, seasoners, seastrand, seatrains, senoritas, sensorial, serenades, serenatas, sergeants, serjeants, serranids, shagreens, sharpness, shearings, signalers, sirenians, slatterns, smartness, snarkiest, snarliest, snatchers, solanders, spandrels, spareness, spearguns, squanders, stanchers, starkness, starnoses, stearines, steersman, sternways, strainers, straitens, stranders, strangers, strangest, strangles, superfans, surnamers, sustainer, suzerains, swanherds, swartness, synergias, tardiness, tarnishes, transects, transepts, transfers, transfuse, transpose, transudes, trapnests, tsarevnas, underpass, underseas, unharness, unmaskers, unreasons, urbanises, vanishers, varnishes, weariness.

 

+4 letters: abruptness, absconders, absorbents, abstainers, absurdness, addressing, adroitness, adsorbents, aggressing, aggression, airinesses, ampersands, ancestress, ancestries, anchorless, anestruses, antecessor, antiserums, antistress, arabinoses, arccosines, archnesses, aridnesses, arrestants, arsenicals, artfulness, artinesses, ascertains, aspersions, assertions, assortment, assurances, auslanders, averseness, bannisters, barenesses, baronesses, barrenness, baseliners, baudronses, bleariness, braincases, braininess, branchless, brandishes, brassiness, brattiness, brawniness, brazenness, bystanders, caesareans, caesarians, cannisters, canvassers, carbonless, chasteners, coarseness, courtesans, craftiness, cragginess, crankcases, crankiness, cravenness, creakiness, creaminess, crevassing, dapperness, daringness, darknesses, dearnesses, depressant, dispensary, dispersant, drabnesses, draftiness, dreaminess, dreariness, earthiness, earwitness, easterners, enravishes, esperances, estrangers, expressman, eyestrains, fairnesses, fashioners, foreshanks, formalness, franchises, freakiness, gainsayers, gannisters, garishness, garnishees, gesneriads, goosanders, graininess, grandsires, granuloses, graynesses, greasiness, greensands, harassment, hardnesses, harmonises, harnessing, heartiness, hoarseness, horsebeans, husbanders, increasers, installers, insurances, interclass, intradoses, invertases, inwardness, janisaries, larcenists, laypersons, lemongrass, linearises, manageress, mannerisms, mannerists, mannerless, manslayers, markedness, marlstones, marshiness, meagerness, mergansers, mestranols, misandries, miscreants, mishanters, muscarines, narrowness, nearnesses, newsbreaks, newscaster, newsmakers, newspapers, nonanswers, nonskaters, normalises, northeasts, noseguards, nursemaids, nutgrasses, observants, organisers, ornateness, ostensoria, paltriness, pancreases, paperiness, parentless, parsonages, passengers, passerines, patronises, personages, personates, persuasion, pervasions, pingrasses, pistareens, planishers, ponderosas, pranksters, preassigns, precisians, preseasons, pursuances, racinesses, raffinoses, raggedness, rainwashes, rakishness, rancidness, randomness, ranknesses, ransackers, raptnesses, rarenesses, rashnesses, realnesses, reanalyses, reanalysis, reasonings, reasonless, reassigned, reassuming, reassuring, refashions, reinstalls, reinstates, reseasoned, resistance, resistants, resonances, resonators, restraints, resultants, ringhalses, sacraments, sacredness, safranines, sandgrouse, sandpapers, sandpipers, sanitaries, sarabandes, sardonyxes, saunterers, savoriness, scarceness, scavengers, scenarists, schnauzers, scrawniest, screwbeans, seafarings, seastrands, sectarians, segregants, seminaries, seminarist, senhoritas, serenaders, serrations, severances, sharpeners, shearlings, shrinkages, signallers, signatures, slanderers, slanderous, sloganeers, smarminess, snakebirds, snakeroots, snowmakers, sovranties, sparseness, sparteines, spearmints, spikenards, spinnakers, squareness, stannaries, stationers, sterilants, sternwards, stingarees, stonewares, straitness, stramonies, stranglers, streakings, streamings, subalterns, submarines, sugarcanes, sunbathers, superbanks, supernovas, surceasing, sustainers, swanneries, synaereses, synaeresis, syncarpies, tanistries, tarantases, tartnesses, tawdriness, tearstains, transaxles, transcends, transduces, transfects, transfixes, transfused, transfuses, transgress, transients, translates, transmutes, transpires, transposed, transposes, transshape, transverse, trashiness, treasonous, tyrannises, tyrosinase, underclass, unfairness, universals, unwariness, upwardness, urinalyses, urokinases, varnishers, vernissage, warinesses, warmnesses, wateriness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SARSEN


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

53 41 52 53 45 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 01010010 01010011 01000101 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#65 &#82 &#83 &#69 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0041 0052 0053 0045 004E

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

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

533552533948

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INDEX

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


  

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