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Stamboul

Definition: Stamboul

Stamboul

Noun

1. 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: Stamboul

Synonyms: Constantinople (n), Istanbul (n), Stambul (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Stamboul

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Stamboul Train (1962)

Flame of Stamboul (1951)

Secret of Stamboul (1936)

Stamboul Quest (1934)

O Zitianos tis Stamboul (1931)

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

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Commercial Usage: Stamboul

DomainTitle

Books

  • The heart of the matter ; Stamboul train ; A burnt-out case ; The third man ; The quiet American ; Loser takes all ; The power and the glory (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Anagrams: Stamboul

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Stamboul


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

53 74 61 6D 62 6F 75 6C

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 01110100 01100001 01101101 01100010 01101111 01110101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#116 &#97 &#109 &#98 &#111 &#117 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0074 0061 006D 0062 006F 0075 006C

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

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

5386677968818778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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