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VENTRILOQUOUS

Definition: VENTRILOQUOUS

VENTRILOQUOUS

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or ventriloquism.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Ventriloquous \Ven*tril"o*quous\, adjective. [Latin expression ventriloquus ventriloquist; venter the belly loqui, past participle locutus, to speak. See Ventral, and Loquacious.]. (Websters 1913)

 

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Crosswords: VENTRILOQUOUS

English words defined with "VENTRILOQUOUS": GastriloquousVentriloquial. (references)
Etymologies containing "VENTRILOQUOUS": Ventrilocution, Ventriloquism. (references)

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Modern Translations: VENTRILOQUOUS

Language Translations for "VENTRILOQUOUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Vietnamese 

  

nói tiếng bụng (ventriloquial). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "VENTRILOQUOUS"

Words rhyming with "VENTRILOQUOUS" (pronounced 'Ven*tril"o*quous'): Gastriloquous, Grandiloquous, Huron-Iroquous, Iniquous, Magniloquous, Multisiliquous, Pectoriloquous, Somniloquous. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VENTRILOQUOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-o-o-q-r-s-t-u-u-v"

-2 letters: revolutions.

-3 letters: evolutions, resolution, revolution.

-4 letters: evolution, involutes, outliners, outlivers, overtoils, revulsion, turquoise, unruliest, venturous, volutions, vulturine.

-5 letters: elutions, evulsion, insulter, investor, involute, liqueurs, looniest, novelist, oestriol, oilstone, outliers, outliner, outlines, outliver, outlives, outloves, outsnore, oversoul, overtoil, question, quilters, retinols, rivulets, rivulose, routines, sequitur, snootier, snoutier, solution, souvenir, squinter, turnsole, turquois, uniquest, unquiets, unquotes, venturis, venulous, violones, virtuose, virtuoso, virtuous, virulent, vitreous, volutins, volution, vultures.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VENTRILOQUOUS


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

56 45 4E 54 52 49 4C 4F 51 55 4F 55 53

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)

01010110 01000101 01001110 01010100 01010010 01001001 01001100 01001111 01010001 01010101 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#76 &#79 &#81 &#85 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0045 004E 0054 0052 0049 004C 004F 0051 0055 004F 0055 0053

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

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

56394854524346495155495553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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