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WEANLING

Definitions: WEANLING

WEANLING

1. A. & n. from Wean, v.

Adjective

1. Recently weaned.

Noun

1. A child or animal newly weaned; a wean.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WEANLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)


Synonyms within Context: WEANLING

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

Infant

Noun: infant, babe, baby, babe in arms; nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling; papoose, bambino; kid; vagitus.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: WEANLING

English words defined with "WEANLING": Weanel. (references)
Etymologies containing "WEANLING": Weanel. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WEANLING

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

  halter show weanling

2

  clydesdale weanling

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

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Modern Translations: WEANLING

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

Bulgarian 

  

наскоро отбито кърмаче. (various references)

   

Danish

  

fravaennet dyr. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

graskalf (veal), gespeend dier. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vieroitettu eläin. (various references)

   

French

  

broutard (lamb fattened after weaning), animal sevré. (various references)

   

German

  

Fresser (devourer, devourers, eater, glutton, greedy guts, overeater), Einsteller (adjuster, adjustment device), abgesetztes Tier. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νήπιο ζώο απογαλακτισθέν, απογαλακτισμένο ζώο. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ינוקא (child), גמול (bereft, earnings, offset, payment, recompense, repayment, requital, retaliation, retribution, reward, wage). (various references)

   

Italian

  

animale svezzato. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eanlingway

   

Portuguese

  

animal desmamado. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ребенок (baby, bairn, brat, child, infant, kid, kiddy, moppet, papoose, tad, toddler), недавно отнятый от груди. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

aisearan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ternero recría, ternero para cebo, animal destetado. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

avvant djur, avvant barn, avvand lamm. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thú nhỏ mới thôi bú, đứa bé mới cai sữa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: WEANLING

Derivations

Words beginning with "WEANLING": weanlings. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: WEANLING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-n-w"

-1 letter: aneling, eanling, leaning, weaning.

-2 letters: aweing, awning, genial, lawine, lawing, linage, waling, wangle, waning.

-3 letters: agile, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, angle, anile, awing, elain, glean, gnawn, inane, ingle, liane, liang, ligan, linen, linga, wigan.

-4 letters: agin, anew, anil, egal, elan, gaen, gain, gale, gane, gien, glen, glia, gnaw, ilea, lain, lane, lang, lawn.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-n-w"
 

+1 letter: weanlings.

 

+4 letters: stonewalling, unwaveringly.

 

+5 letters: acknowledging.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WEANLING


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

57 45 41 4E 4C 49 4E 47

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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Bibliographic Items: "WEANLING"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "WEANLING"

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