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Aboveboard

Definitions: Aboveboard

Aboveboard

Adjective

1. Without concealment or deception; honest; "their business was open and aboveboard"; "straightforward in all his business affairs".

Adverb

1. In an honest manner; "in he can't get it honestly, he is willing to steal it"; "was known for dealing aboveboard in everything".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "aboveboard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Synonyms: Aboveboard

Synonyms: straightforward (adj), honestly (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: dishonestly (adv). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Aboveboard

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

Artlessness

Adjective: artless, natural, pure, native, confiding, simple, lain, inartificial, untutored, unsophisticated, ingenu, unaffected, naive; sincere, frank; open, open as day; candid, ingenuous, guileless; unsuspicious, honest; innocent; Arcadian; undesigning, straightforward, unreserved, aboveboard; simple-minded, single-minded; frank-hearted, open-hearted, single-hearted, simple-hearted.

Probity

Adjective: upright; honest, honest as daylight; veracious; virtuous; honorable; fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded, square; fair and aboveboard, open and aboveboard; white.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Aboveboard

English words defined with "aboveboard": AbovedeckhonestlyUnderboard. (references)

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Expression: Aboveboard

Expression using "aboveboard": open and aboveboard. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aboveboard

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

aboveboard manufacturing

5

aboveboard

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Aboveboard

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

Arabic 

  

‏علانية (overtly, overtness, publicity, publicly). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

高尚 (HONORABLE, honourable, Noble). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پوست کنده (Picked), علنی , اشکارا (Outright). (various references)

   

French

  

avec franchise, sans ambiguïté, régulier, honnête (above-board), correct, claire. (various references)

   

German

  

ehrlich (above-board, candid, candidly, downright, fairly, faithfully, frankly, honest, honestly, really, sincere, squarely, straightforward, transparent, truly, upright). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καθαρός (authentic, clean, clear, genuine, limpid, sheer, utter), νόμιμος (lawful, legal, legitimate, licit), ανοικτός (exposed, open), ανοιχτός (open, unzipped). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tisztességesen (above board, bona fide, decorously, fair and square, square), tisztességes (bona fide, decent, decorous, fair and square, fair dealing, plaited, presentable, reputable, respectable, righteous, snug, there are no flies on him, trustworthy), korrektül (above board, fair, fair and square, fairly, to play fair, to play sy fair, to play the game), korrekt (above board, clean, correct, fair, fair and square, plain dealing, square, there are no flies on him, to feel cheap, white). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tulus hati (disinterested, sincere, wholehearted), ikhlas (prepared, ready, sincere, sincerity, with full surrender). (various references)

   

Italian

  

aperto (exposed, forthcoming, Frank, obvious, open, out of doors, outright, overblown, overt, raw, semi-intensive, semi-intensive eggs, splay), leale (devout, fair, faithful, honest, loyal, single, staunch, straightforward, true). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

公明正大 (fairness, just and upright), ガラス張り (glass-sided, open to scrutiny). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"うめいせい い (fairness, just and upright), ガラスばり (glass-sided, open to scrutiny). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aboveboarday.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

честно (above board, above-board, fairly, honestly, in good faith, on the level, Square, uprightly). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

leal (devoted, faithful, fast, frank, honest, loyal, single minded, single-hearted, stalwart, staunch, true, trusty), abiertamente (openly, outright, overtly). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

öppet (be open, frankly, freely, open, opened, openly, roundly), ärligt (fair, fairly, honestly, on the level, sincerely). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Aboveboard"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "aboveboard" (pronounced ubu"vbô'rd)
4-b ô' r dbaseboard, billboard, blackboard, cardboard, checkerboard, chessboard, chipboard, clapboard, clipboard, containerboard, dartboard, dashboard, fiberboard, fibreboard, fingerboard, floorboard, hardboard, headboard, inboard, keyboard, linerboard, mopboard, onboard, outboard, overboard, paperboard, pegboard, plasterboard, pressboard, scoreboard, seaboard, shipboard, skateboard, smorgasbord, snowboard, springboard, storyboard, surfboard, switchboard, wallboard, washboard.
3-ô' r dbroadsword, clavichord, concord, harpsichord, landlord, notochord, overlord, underinsured, warlord.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Aboveboard

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-d-e-o-o-r-v"

-3 letters: bravado, bravoed.

-4 letters: aboard, abrade, abroad, adverb, barbed, boobed, braved, dabber, dobber, overdo, roadeo, robbed.

-5 letters: abode, above, adobe, adobo, adore, ardeb, baaed, baboo, barbe, barde, bared, beard, bevor, board, booed, bored, brava, brave, bravo, bread, broad, brood, debar, dobra, dobro, drave, drove, oared, orbed, oread, raved, robed, rodeo, roved.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Aboveboard


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

41 62 6F 76 65 62 6F 61 72 64

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)

01000001 01100010 01101111 01110110 01100101 01100010 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#98 &#111 &#118 &#101 &#98 &#111 &#97 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0062 006F 0076 0065 0062 006F 0061 0072 0064

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

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

35688188716881678470

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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