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Definition: STRATHSPEY |
STRATHSPEYNoun1. A lively Scottish dance, resembling the reel, but slower; also, the tune. |
Date "STRATHSPEY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Note: Strathspey \Strath"spey`\, noun. [So called from the district of Strath Spey in Scotland.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "STRATHSPEY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "STRATHSPEY" is used about 11 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 (proper) | 81.82% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
strathspey | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STRATHSPEY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Vallëzim I Shpejtë Skocez. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Жив Шотландски Танц. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | Skotský Tanec. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Élénk Skót Párostánc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | athspeystray Шотландский Танец. (various references) živa škotska igra. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "STRATHSPEY": strathspeys. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-p-r-s-s-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: sharpest, shatters, spatters, tapestry, tapsters. | |
-3 letters: estrays, hatters, pasters, patters, pessary, phrases, rashest, repasts, seraphs, shapers, shatter, sherpas, shyster, sparest, spathes, spatter, spryest, starets, startsy, staters, stayers, straths, syphers, tapster, tasters, tephras, therapy, threaps, threats, thyrses, trashes, trystes, yatters. | |
-4 letters: aptest, aspers, assert, asters, earths, earthy, estray, hastes, haters, hatter, hayers, hearts, hearty. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-p-r-s-s-t-t-y" | |
+1 letter: strathspeys. | |
+3 letters: attorneyships. | |
+4 letters: spermatophytes. | |
+5 letters: hyperstimulates, hypnotherapists, physiotherapist, psychotherapist. | |
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