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Definition: SOOTHSAY |
SOOTHSAYIntransitive verb1. To foretell; to predict. Noun1. Omen; portent. Having 2. A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy. |
Date "SOOTHSAY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Prediction | Verb: predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity; advise; forewarn. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SOOTHSAY |
| English words defined with "SOOTHSAY": Southsay. (references) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
soothsay | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SOOTHSAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | profetizoj (augur, divine, foretell, prophesy), parathem (augur, foretell, predict, prophesy, read, vaticinate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | гадая (divine, guess, read). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vìštit (divine, presage, prophesy, tell fortunes, vaticinate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oothsaysay предсказывать (augur, divine, forecast, foretell, predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate). (various references) proricati (augur, foreshadow, predict, presage, vaticinate). (various references) ทำนาย (read). (various references) kehanette bulunmak (augur, cast, denounce, divine, foretell, omen, oracle, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate), kâhinlik yapmak. (various references) передрікати (adumbrate, forecast, prophesy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SOOTHSAY": soothsayer, soothsayers, soothsaying, soothsayings, soothsays. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-o-o-s-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: hostas, shoats, shoots, sooths, yahoos. | |
-3 letters: hasty, hoots, hooty, hosta, hosts, hoyas, oasts, oaths, sayst, shays, shoat, shoos, shoot, shots, sooth, soots, sooty, soths, soyas, stash, stays, stoas, toyos, yahoo. | |
-4 letters: ahoy, ashy, hast, hats, hays, hoot, host, hots, hoya, hoys, oast, oath, oats, oohs, oots, ossa, sash, says, shat, shay, shoo, shot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-o-o-s-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: soothsays. | |
+2 letters: soothsayer. | |
+3 letters: soothsayers, soothsaying. | |
+4 letters: autohypnoses, autohypnosis, phagocytoses, phagocytosis, soothsayings. | |
+5 letters: chromatolyses, chromatolysis, lymphomatoses, lymphomatosis, psychosomatic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4F 4F 54 48 53 41 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- --- - .... ... .- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001111 01001111 01010100 01001000 01010011 01000001 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S O O T H S A Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004F 004F 0054 0048 0053 0041 0059 |
| 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)5349495442533559 |
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