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VILLAN

Definition: VILLAN

VILLAN

Noun

1. A villain.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "VILLAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

 

Crosswords: VILLAN

Non-English Usage: "VILLAN" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Hungarian (to flash, to glint).

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Commercial Usage: VILLAN

DomainTitle

Music

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VILLAN

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

villan

12

konig villan

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: VILLAN

Derivations

Words beginning with "VILLAN": villanella, villanelle, villanelles. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: VILLAN

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-l-l-n-v"

-1 letter: anvil, nival, villa, vinal.

-2 letters: anil, lain, nail, nill, vail, vain, vial, vill, vina.

-3 letters: ail, ain, all, ani, ill, lav, lin, nil, van, via.

-4 letters: ai, al, an, in, la, li, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-l-n-v"
 

+1 letter: vanilla, villain.

 

+2 letters: alluvion, anvilled, pavillon, vanillas, vanillic, vanillin, venially, vialling, villains, villainy.

 

+3 letters: alluvions, anvilling, cavilling, gallivant, gavelling, invalidly, pavillons, ravelling, rivalling, unlivable, vaginally, valiantly, vanillins, villenage.

 

+4 letters: gallivants, gravelling, insolvable, insolvably, invaluable, invaluably, inviolable, inviolably, involucral, marvelling, ravellings, travelling, univocally, unrivalled, vaultingly, vigilantly, villainess, villainies, villainous, villanella, villanelle, villenages, virginally, visionally, volitional, volplaning.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VILLAN


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

56 49 4C 4C 41 4E

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 01001001 01001100 01001100 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#65 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0049 004C 004C 0041 004E

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

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

564346463548

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INDEX

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


  

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