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TRUE-BRED

Definition: TRUE-BRED

TRUE-BRED

Adjective

1. Being of real breeding or education; as, a true-bred gentleman.

2. Of a genuine or right breed; as, a true-bred beast.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TRUE-BRED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)


Modern Translation: TRUE-BRED

Language Translations for "TRUE-BRED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

race (well bred), i papërzier (clear, honest, pure, unadulterated, unalloyed, unmingled). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

расов (pedigree, race, racial), чистокръвен (full-blooded, hot-blooded, pedigree, pure, purebred, straight-bred, thoroughbred, well bred), добре възпитан (gentlemanlike, highbred, well educated). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

真实养殖. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fajtiszta (pedigree, pure-bred, thoroughbred). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

여실하 사육하". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ue-bredtray

   

Portuguese

  

de sangue puro (full-blooded, thoroughbred), de raça pura (full-blooded, pedigreed, racy, thoroughbred), com distinção (gentlemanly, thoroughbred), com brio (thoroughbred). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

хорошо воспитанный (highbred, thoroughbred, well-bred, well-brought-up), чистокровный (blooded, blue-blooded, full-blooded, purebred, thoroughbred, true born). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

punokrvan (full-blooded, plethoric, sanguine, sanguineous), čiste rase. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nòi (bred, breed, high-bred, pedigreed). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TRUE-BRED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: truebred.

Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-r-r-t-u"

-2 letters: bruted, burred, rebred, ureter.

-3 letters: beret, brede, breed, brute, buret, debut, deter, erred, etude, rebut, redub, ruder, treed, trued, truer, tubed, tuber.

-4 letters: bedu, beer, beet, bred, bree, brut, burd, burr, bute, debt, deer, deet, dere, dree, drub, duet, dure, durr, rede, reed, rete, rube, rude, rued, ruer, teed, tree, true, tube, turd.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-r-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: perturbed.

 

+2 letters: carbureted, drumbeater.

 

+3 letters: carburetted, drumbeaters, unperturbed.

 

+4 letters: mouthbreeder, reattributed, redistribute, relubricated, turbidimeter.

 

+5 letters: mouthbreeders, multibarreled, quarterbacked, redistributed, redistributes, turbidimeters.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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