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TERRESTRE

Definition: TERRESTRE

TERRESTRE

Adjective

1. Terrestrial; earthly.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TERRESTRE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1864. (references)

Etymology: Terrestre \Ter*res"tre\, adjective. [Old English expression, from Old French French terrestre.]. (Websters 1913)

"TERRESTRE" is a common misspelling or typo for: Terrestrial.

 

Crosswords: TERRESTRE

Specialty definitions using "TERRESTRE": interferencia terrestre. (references)
Non-English Usage: "TERRESTRE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (earthen, earthly, mundane, terrestrial, worldly), Italian (earthen, earthly, ground, terrestrial), Portuguese (earthen, earthly, earthy, land, Munich, overland, planetary, sublunary, terraneous, terrene, terrestrial), Spanish (above ground, earthbound, earthen, earthly, ground, land, overland, terrestrial).

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Modern Usage: TERRESTRE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Le Paradis terrestre (1968)

Paradiso terrestre (1956)

Il Paradiso terrestre (1940)

Uno Sceriffo extraterrestre - poco extra e molto terrestre (1979)

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

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Commercial Usage: TERRESTRE

DomainTitle

Books

  • "Etude géologique et géophysique de la croûte terrestre et du manteau supérieur du Tibet et de l'Himalaya" (reference)

  • Prise De Defur and Le Voyage D'Alexandre Au Paradis Terrestre (Elliott Monographs, Volume 35) (reference)

  • Bernard Palissy et ses continuateurs : a la recherche du paradis terrestre (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: TERRESTRE

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Expressions Plastiques De La Folie: Adam Et Eve Chassés Du Paradis Terrestre.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

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Usage Frequency: TERRESTRE

"TERRESTRE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "TERRESTRE" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)66.67%2245,945
Noun (singular)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: TERRESTRE

Expression using "TERRESTRE": interferencia terrestre. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TERRESTRE

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

globo terrestre

57

ecosistema terrestre

28

transport terrestre

27

campo magnetico terrestre

26

corteza terrestre

22

magnetismo terrestre

21

globe terrestre

19

crosta terrestre

17

extra terrestre

15

terrestre

13

colombiano mapa relieve terrestre

10

atmosfera terrestre

10

transporte terrestre

9

relieve terrestre

7

campo magnético terrestre

7

terrestre transito

6

orbita terrestre

6

relevo terrestre

5

desenho globo terrestre

5

terrestre tortue

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "TERRESTRE"

Words rhyming with "TERRESTRE" (pronounced 'Ter*res"tre'): Antre, Aplustre, Arrastre, Aventre, Dioptre, Divinistre, Estre, goiter, goitre, Idolastre, Montre, Petre, Piastre, Quatre, Rencontre. (additional references)

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Anagrams: TERRESTRE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-r-r-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: resetter.

-2 letters: steerer, teeters, terrets.

-3 letters: rester, retest, settee, setter, street, teeter, terete, terret, terser, testee, tester.

-4 letters: ester, reest, resee, reset, serer, steer, stere, terse, trees, trets.

-5 letters: errs, erst, rees, rest, rete, rets, seer, sere, sett, stet, tees, test, tets, tree, tret.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-r-r-r-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: regretters, retreaters.

 

+3 letters: interpreters, reinterprets.

 

+4 letters: reorchestrate.

 

+5 letters: preretirements, refractometers, reorchestrated, reorchestrates.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TERRESTRE


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

54 45 52 52 45 53 54 52 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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)

01010100 01000101 01010010 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010100 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#69 &#82 &#82 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0045 0052 0052 0045 0053 0054 0052 0045

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

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

543952523953545239

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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