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WAVESON

Definition: WAVESON

WAVESON

Noun

1. Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Waveson \Wave"son\, noun. [From Wave; compare to Jetsam.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: WAVESON

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

Nonassemblage Dispersion

Noun: {opp. } dispersion; disjunction; divergence; aspersion; scattering; Verb: dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment; spread, respersion, circumfusion, interspersion, spargefaction; affusion. waifs and estrays, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra; waveson.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Rhyming with "WAVESON"

Words rhyming with "WAVESON" (pronounced 'Wave"son'): Advowson, Antimason, Arson, Bason, Bison, Bisson, Boson, Caisson, Chanson, Encrimson, Foison, Foyson, Geason, godson, grandson, grison, hyson, keelson, Nupson, Outreason, Overseason, Parson, Plasson, Pocoson, Ramson, reason, Samson, Semidiapason, Sponson, Stemson, stepson, Sternson, treason, Unpoison, Unseason, Urson, Whitson, Whoreson. (additional references)

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Anagrams: WAVESON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-n-o-s-v-w"

-1 letter: weason, wovens.

-2 letters: aeons, avens, avows, enows, naves, novae, novas, oaves, ovens, owsen, sewan, soave, vanes, wanes, waves, weans, woven.

-3 letters: aeon, anes, anew, aves, avos, avow, awes, awns, enow, eons, naos, nave, news, noes, nose, nova, nows, ones, oven, owes, owns, owse, sane, save, sawn, sewn, snaw, snow, sone, sown, swan, vane.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-n-o-s-v-w"
 

+2 letters: ovenwares.

 

+5 letters: servicewoman.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WAVESON


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

57 41 56 45 53 4F 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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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