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Sorbian

Definition: Sorbian

Sorbian

Noun

1. A speaker of Sorbian.

2. Aa slavonic language spoken in rural area of southeastern Germany.

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


Synonym: Sorbian

Synonym: Lusatian (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Sorbian

DomainTitle

Books

  • A historical phonology of the upper and lower Sorbian languages (reference)

  • Anthology of Sorbian Poetry: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day: A Rock Against These Alien Waves (UNESCO Collection of Representative W) (reference)

  • Null-subject properties of Slavic languages : with special reference to Russian, Czech, and Sorbian (reference)

  • Slavs in Germany: The Sorbian Minority and the German State Since 1945 (Studies in German Thought and History, V. 20) (reference)

  • Sorbian (Wendish)-English English-Sorbian (Wendish) Concise Dictionary (Concise Dictionaries) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sorbian

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Germany

Ethnic groups: Primarily German; Danish minority in the north, Sorbian (Slavic) minority in the east, 7.3 million foreign residents. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sorbian

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

sorbian

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Sorbian

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: arsino, bairns, barons, basion, bonsai, brains, isobar, norias, robins.

-2 letters: abris, airns, arson, bairn, barns, baron, basin, bison, boars, boras, brain, brans, brins, brios, irons, nabis, naris, noirs, noria, noris, obias, ornis, rains, ranis, roans, robin, rosin, sabin, sabir, sarin, sonar.

-3 letters: abos, abri, ains, airn, airs, anis, arbs, bani, bans, barn, bars.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-i-n-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: abrasion, baronies, corbinas, inboards, rabbonis, rainbows, searobin, taborins.

 

+2 letters: abortions, abrasions, absorbing, adsorbing, arabinose, baritones, bigaroons, boardings, braconids, carbinols, ironbarks, obtainers, panbroils, reobtains, searobins, signboard, taborines.

 

+3 letters: aborigines, abruptions, absorption, arabinoses, bandoliers, barbitones, binoculars, blazonries, boundaries, brainstorm, bromelains, brominates, carbanions, carbonizes, forebrains, incubators, jaborandis, librations, naboberies, probations, signboards, vibrations.

 

+4 letters: aberrations, abjurations, abominators, aboriginals, abortionist, abreactions, abrogations, absorbingly, absorptions, abstraction, ambiversion, antibaryons, arabinoside, baronetcies, brainpowers, brainstorms, broadsiding, buccinators, carabineros, chrysarobin, floribundas, hibernators, inobservant, laborsaving, liberations, linerboards, mislaboring, neoliberals, nimbostrati, nonabrasive, obscurantic, obscuration, observation, obturations, outbargains, reabsorbing, riboflavins, springboard, subordinate, subornation, subrational, subregional, subrogating, subrogation, subtraction, tambourines, trabeations, vibraphones.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Sorbian


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

53 6F 72 62 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)

...    ---    .-.    -...    ..    .-    -.

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

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

01010011 01101111 01110010 01100010 01101001 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#111 &#114 &#98 &#105 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006F 0072 0062 0069 0061 006E

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

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

53818468756780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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