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Definition: SIZAR |
SIZARNoun1. One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge (Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford. |
Date "SIZAR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
"SIZAR" is a common misspelling or typo for: sear, seizer, sisal, sitar, size, sized, soar. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Sizar A poor scholar whose assize of food is given him. Sizars used to have what was left at the fellows' table, because it was their duty at one time to wait on the fellows at dinner. Each fellow had his sizar. (Cambridge University.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | SIZAR (Cambridge). Formerly students who came to the University for purposes of study and emolument. But at present they are just as gay and dissipated as their fellow collegians. About fifty years ago they were on a footing with the servitors at Oxford,. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The sizar paid nothing for food and tuition, and very little for lodging. They were probably so called from being thus employed in distributing the size, or provisions.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sizar."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Servant | Serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot; bondsman, bondswoman; bondslave; ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe; villian, villein; beadsman, bedesman; sizar; pensioner, pensionary; client; dependant, dependent; hanger on, satellite; parasite; (servility); led captain; protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SIZAR |
| English words defined with "SIZAR": Famulist ♦ Servifor, Sizarship, Sizer, Subsizar. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SIZAR": SIZAR. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SIZAR": Subsizar. (references) |
| "SIZAR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SIZAR" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SIZAR" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sizar | Last name | 100 | 78,077 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "SIZAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | студент-стипендиант. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φοιτητήσ πληρώνων ευθηνά δίδακτρα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | izarsay becario (bursar, scholar, scholarship holder). (various references) okulda maaşlı çalışan öğrenci. (various references) стипендіат (bursar, scholar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SIZAR": sizars. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "SIZAR" (pronounced 'Si"zar'): Alcazar, Alkazar, lazar, Rizzar, Subsizar. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: izars. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-r-s-z" | |
-1 letter: airs, izar, rias, sari. | |
-2 letters: air, ais, ars, ras, ria, sir, sri. | |
-3 letters: ai, ar, as, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-r-s-z" | |
+1 letter: mirzas, sizars, zaires, zirams. | |
+2 letters: braizes, brazils, crazies, czarism, czarist, frazils, izzards, lizards, tzarism, tzarist, vizards, wizards, zaffirs, zaribas. | |
+3 letters: apprizes, arabizes, azurites, bizarres, braziers, britzkas, britzska, craziest, czarinas, czarisms, czarists, gizzards, glaziers, graziers, grazings, grazioso, realizes, satirize, sitzmark, sleazier, snazzier, solarize, suzerain, triazins, tristeza, tsaritza, tzarinas, tzarisms, tzarists, zastrugi, zikurats, zoariums, zorillas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 49 5A 41 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .. --.. .- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001001 01011010 01000001 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S I Z A R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0049 005A 0041 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5343603552 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, 'ούλγαρος, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, griego, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | испански език, испански, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | турски език, турски, τούρκικοσ, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | украинец, украински език, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ucranio, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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