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Adulterine

Definition: Adulterine

Adulterine

Adjective

1. Conceived in adultery.

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

Date "adulterine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Adulterine

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

adulterine bastard

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

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Modern Translations: Adulterine

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

Bulgarian 

  

фалшифициран (adulterate, pinchbeck, sham, spurious), незаконороден (bastard, illegitimate, spurious, unfathered), подправен (adulterate, corrupt, counterfeit, feigned, forged, fraudulent, imitation, impure, pinchbeck, queer, seasoned, sham, spiced, spicy, supposititious), извънбрачен (adulterate, adulterous, extramarital, illegitimate, misbegotten, natural). (various references)

   

Manx

  

oainjeragh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

adulterineay

   

Romanian

  

adulterin, falsificat (adulterate, factitious, impure, sophisticated, spurious, strained). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

незаконный (illegal, illegitimate, illicit, outlaw, tortious, unconscionable, unlawful, unwarranted, wildcat). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

adulterino (adulterate), espurio (adulterated, spurious). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

незаконнонароджений (adulterate, base-born, bastard, illegitimate), зв'язаний з перелюбством, адюльтерний, позашлюбна дитина (bastard), позашлюбний (adulterate, bastard, extramarital, misbegotten, nameless, natural, spurious). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không hợp pháp (illegal, illegitimate, unlawful), giả bất chính, do ngoại tình m đẻ ra giả mạo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Adulterine

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-n-r-t-u"

-1 letter: interlude, retinulae, tailender, unaltered, unrelated.

-2 letters: antlered, auntlier, dateline, denature, dentural, detailer, detainer, elaterid, elaterin, entailed, entailer, indurate, lineated, renailed, retailed, retained, retinued, retinula, reunited, ruinated, tenurial, treenail, underate, undereat, underlet, underlie, underlit, urinated.

-3 letters: alerted, aliened, aliener, aliunde, altered, alunite, antired, arenite, atelier, audient, daunter, delaine, denture, detinue, detrain, dilater, diluent, diluter, diurnal, enteral, erudite, eternal, intrude, latened, latrine, launder, leadier, learned, lineate, lunated, lurdane, natured, neutral, ratline, redline, redtail, related, reliant, relined, retiled, retinae, retinal, retinue, retuned, reunite, ruinate, rundlet, taurine, teleran, tendril, tenured, trailed, trained, trainee, treadle, trenail, trindle, trundle, turdine, unaired, unideal, unitard, unrated, untired, untread, untried, uralite, uranide, uranite, uredial, urinate, uterine.

-4 letters: aedile, aedine, aeried, airted, aldrin, alined, aliner, aneled, anteed, antler, ardent, ariled, audile, aulder, auntie, darnel, dartle, dautie, dealer, dearie, delate, denari, denial, denier, dental, dentil, derail, derate, detail, detain, dialer, dieter, dilate, dilute, dueler, dunite, durian, earned, elated, elater, eluant, eluate, eluder, eluent, eluted, endear, endite, endure, entail, entera, entire, enured, ideate, indult, inured, laired, lander, larine, lateen, lauder, leaden, leader, leaned, leaner, learnt, lender, lieder, lierne, linear, linter, lunate, lunier, lunted, lurdan, lutein, nailed, nailer, nature, neared, neater, nereid, neural, neuter, nurled, nutria, railed, rained, ranted, ratine, ratlin, redate, rediae, redial, reedit, reined, relaid, relate, relend, relent, relied, reline, renail, rental, rented, retail, retain, retial, retied, retile, retina, retine, retune, rident, ritual, ruined, rundle, runlet, rutile, tailed, tailer, teared, teledu, tenail, tender, teniae, tenure, tiered, tinder, tineal, tirade, tirled, triene, trinal, trined, triune, tuladi, tundra, tureen, turned, united, uniter, unlade, unlaid, unlead, unread, unreal, unreel, untied, uredia, ureide, urinal.

-5 letters: adieu, adult, aerie, aider, ailed, aired, alder, alert, alien, aline, alter, anele, anile, anted, antre, arete, ariel, artel, audit, aurei, dater, daunt, deair, dealt, delta, denar, derat, deter, diene, dinar, diner, drail, drain, dulia, dural, eared, eaten, eater, edile, eider, elain, eland, elate, elder, elide, elint, elite, elude, elute, enate, ender, endue, enter, entia, enure, etude, ideal, idler, indue, inert, inlet, inter, inure, irade, irate, laden, lader, laird, laree, lated, laten, later, leant, learn, liane, liard, lidar, lined, liner, liter, litre, lunar, lunet, lured, lurid, lutea, luted, nadir, naled, nidal, niter, nitre, nuder, nudie, ranee, ranid, rated, ratel, redan, redia, relet, relit, renal, rente, retia, retie, riant, riled, ruled, rutin, taler, tared, teind, telae, telia, tenia, terai, terne, tidal, tilde, tiled, tiler, tinea, tined, tired, trade, trail, train, tread, treed, treen, trend, triad, trial, tried, trine, trued, tuned, tuner, ulnad, ulnae, ulnar, ultra, undee, under.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-l-n-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: neutralised, neutralized, unliberated.

 

+2 letters: denaturalize, deregulating, deregulation, reinoculated, ultrarefined.

 

+3 letters: countervailed, denaturalized, denaturalizes, deregulations, underinflated, unpredictable.

 

+4 letters: counterclaimed, counterrallied, denumerability, predevaluation, rediscountable, superinsulated, uncredentialed, undeterminable, unpredictables, unrestrainedly, valetudinaries.

 

+5 letters: deindustrialize, deuteranomalies, predevaluations, refundabilities, reindustrialize.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Adulterine


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

41 64 75 6C 74 65 72 69 6E 65

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)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100100 01110101 01101100 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#100 &#117 &#108 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0064 0075 006C 0074 0065 0072 0069 006E 0065

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

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

35708778867184758071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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