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TROTTOIR

Definition: TROTTOIR

TROTTOIR

Noun

1. Footpath; pavement; sidewalk.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Trottoir \Trot"toir\, noun. [French expression, from trotter to trot. See Trot.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: TROTTOIR

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Method

Roadway, pathway, stairway; express; thoroughfare; highway; turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road; broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway; beaten track, beaten path; horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path; walk, trottoir, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk; crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway; cut; short cut; (mid-course); carrefour; private road, occupation road; highways and byways; railroad, railway, tram road, tramway; towpath; causeway; canal; (conduit); street; (abode); speedway.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: TROTTOIR

English words defined with "TROTTOIR": Foot pavement. (references)
Non-English Usage: "TROTTOIR" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (pavement, sidewalk), Dutch (pavement, sidewalk), French (footpath, path, pavement, side walk, sidewalk, walk), German (pavement, sidewalk).

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Modern Usage: TROTTOIR

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Les Visiteurs sur le trottoir roulant (1900)

Panorama pris du trottoir roulant Champ de Mars (1900)

Dessin sur un trottoir (1979)

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

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Commercial Usage: TROTTOIR

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TROTTOIR

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

trottoir vente

3

trottoir

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: TROTTOIR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-o-o-r-r-t-t-t"

-3 letters: rotor, torot.

-4 letters: otto, riot, root, roti, roto, tiro, toit, toot, tori, toro, torr, tort, trio, trot.

-5 letters: oot, ort, rot, tit, too, tor, tot.

 Words containing the letters "i-o-o-r-r-t-t-t"
 

+2 letters: bitterroot.

 

+3 letters: bitterroots, prostitutor.

 

+4 letters: lithotriptor, orthopterist, prostitutors.

 

+5 letters: lithotriptors, orthopterists.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TROTTOIR


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

54 52 4F 54 54 4F 49 52

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)

01010100 01010010 01001111 01010100 01010100 01001111 01001001 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#82 &#79 &#84 &#84 &#79 &#73 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0052 004F 0054 0054 004F 0049 0052

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

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

5452495454494352

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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