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Definition: STRATH |
STRATHNoun1. A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river; as, Strath Spey, Strathdon, Strathmore. |
Date "STRATH" was first used: 1540. (references) |
Note: Strath \Strath\, noun. [from Gaelic expression srath.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Broad valley with a planated floor always filled with glacial and fluvioglacial deposits. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concavity | Valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe, bottom, slade, strath, glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove; grot, grotto; alcove, cul-de-sac; gully; arch; (curve); bay; (of the sea). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: STRATH |
| Etymologies containing "STRATH": Strathspey. (references) |
| "STRATH" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "STRATH" is used about 42 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) | 66.67% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "STRATH": strath terrace. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "STRATH": Equi-strath. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
strath haven high school | 13 |
bio strath | 9 |
strath haven | 9 |
strath | 5 |
football haven strath | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STRATH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | широка речна долина. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | subglacial smeltevandsdal, tunneldal (entrenched valley). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | trogdal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vuorilaakso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vallée en berceau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Satteltal, Trogtal (cirque, trough valley). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ποτάμια κοιλάδα σχήματος λίκνου. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fondovalle (valley bottom). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | strah (level valley, plain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | athstray vale de fundo plano (flat-floored valley). (various references) широкая горная долина с протекающей по ней рекой. (various references) srath (a valey, low lying land by a riverside). (various references) valle en artesa. (various references) tunneldal (entrenched valley), trågdal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old Irish | 300-1000 | srath. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "STRATH": straths, strathspey, strathspeys. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "ath": math, Nath, swath. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: harts, start, tahrs, tarts, trash. | |
-2 letters: arts, hart, hast, hats, rash, rath, rats, shat, star, stat, tahr, tars, tart, tats, that, tsar. | |
-3 letters: ars, art, ash, att, has, hat, rah, ras, rat, sat, sha, tar, tas, tat. | |
-4 letters: ah, ar, as, at, ha, sh, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: athirst, hatters, rattish, shatter, straths, tartish, threats, throats, thwarts. | |
+2 letters: brattish, chartist, chatters, earthset, farthest, ratchets, rheostat, shatters, straight, strawhat, theaters, theatres. | |
+3 letters: arthritis, attachers, catheters, chartists, earthiest, earthnuts, earthsets, earthstar, hatterias, heartiest, hesitater, northeast, rheostats, shattered, shirttail, stalworth, starlight, straights, tetrarchs, thatchers, theatrics, theocrats, therapist, threatens, thwarters, trachytes, trashiest, watthours, wrathiest. | |
+4 letters: aftermaths, anorthites, architects, arthritics, athrocytes, autotrophs, bathwaters, betrothals, birthdates, birthrates, breathiest, cathartics, charlottes, chatterers, clathrates, cutthroats, deathtraps, distraught, earthliest, earthstars, entrechats, gastrolith, harmattans, hartebeest, heartbeats, heatstroke, hesitaters, larghettos, mouthparts, northeasts, reattaches, rheostatic, shattering, shirttails, shirtwaist, stalworths, starchiest, starlights, stealthier, stepfather, straighted, straighten, straighter, straightly, strathspey, stringhalt, swarthiest, sweatshirt, sweetheart, therapists, thermostat, threadiest, throatiest, thwartwise, thyratrons, tracheitis, triathlons, turboshaft, ultraheats, ultrashort, wristwatch. | |
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