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Definition: Stamboul |
StamboulNoun1. The largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Stamboul" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
"Stamboul" is a common misspelling or typo for: Istanbul, Stabile, Steamboat, Tambour. |
Synonyms: StamboulSynonyms: Constantinople (n), Istanbul (n), Stambul (n). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Stamboul Train (1962) Flame of Stamboul (1951) Secret of Stamboul (1936) Stamboul Quest (1934) O Zitianos tis Stamboul (1931) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-l-m-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: subatom. | |
-2 letters: albums, almost, bloats, moults, oblast, smalto, stomal, sublot, tombal. | |
-3 letters: about, abuts, album, altos, alums, ambos, atoms, autos, balms, blams, blast, blats, bloat, blots, boast, boats, bolas, bolts, bolus, botas, bouts, lambs, loams, lotas, lotus, louts, malts, mauls, mauts, moats, molas, molts, moult, sabot, sambo, sault, smalt, smolt, solum, stoma, tabus. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-l-m-o-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: absolutism, suboptimal. | |
+3 letters: absolutisms, ambitiously, ambulations, automobiles, ethambutols, sublimation. | |
+4 letters: abstemiously, ambulatories, automobilist, noctambulist, rambouillets, somnambulant, somnambulate, somnambulist, sublimations, subnormality, surmountable, tolbutamides. | |
+5 letters: automobilists, blabbermouths, neuroblastoma, noctambulists, perambulators, somnambulated, somnambulates, somnambulists, troublemakers, umbilications. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 74 61 6D 62 6F 75 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... - .- -- -... --- ..- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01110100 01100001 01101101 01100010 01101111 01110101 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S t a m b o u l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0074 0061 006D 0062 006F 0075 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5386677968818778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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