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Definition: Alienist |
AlienistNoun1. A psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "alienist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
Crosswords: Alienist |
| Non-English Usage: "Alienist" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (alienist). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Alienist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Alienist" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
alienist | 20 |
alienist caleb carr | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "alienist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | psikiatër (psychiatrist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | طبيب نفساني (psychiatrist), طبيب الأمراض النفسية, طبيب الأمراض العقلية (psychiatrist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | психиатър (psychiatrist, shrink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | aliéniste. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Irrenarzt (mad-doctor, shrink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φρενολόγοσ (psychiatrist), ψυχίατροσ (psychiatrist, psychotherapist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פסיכיאטור (psychiatrist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elmeorvos (psychiater, psychiatrist, psychopathist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | alienista, psichiatra (psychiatrist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fer lhee aigney (psychiatrist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alienistay alienista, médico psiquiatra. (various references) alienist, medic alienist. (various references) психиатр (alienator, mental specialist, psychiatrist). (various references) psihijatar (psychiatrist, shrink). (various references) alienista, psiquiatra (psychiatrist, shrink). (various references) rättspsykiater. (various references) akıl hastalıkları uzmanı (psychiatrist), ruhbilimci (psychologist), psikiyatrist (headshrinker, psychiatrist, shrink). (various references) психіатр (psychiatrist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "alienist": alienists. (additional references) | |
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"Alienist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alienees, alienst, Amienois, clientist. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "alienist" (pronounced 'Al"ien*ist'): Abacist, Abaist, Abiogenist, Abolitionist, Abortionist, Absist, Abstractionist, Academist, Accompanist, Accordionist, Acephalist, Acolothist, Acolythist, Acosmist, Acquist, Actualist, Adeptist, Adiaphorist, Adonist, Adoptionist, Adventist, Aerologist, Aeroplanist, Affectationist, Agamist, Agist, Agonist, Agrammatist, Agricolist, Agriculturalist, Agriculturist, Agriologist, Agronomist, Agrostologist, Aladinist, Alarmist, Alchemist, Alcoranist, Algebraist, Algologist, Alkoranist, Allegorist, Allodialist, Allopathist, Alopecist, Alpinist, Altarist, Altruist, Ambitionist, Amethodist. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: litanies. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: elastin, entails, isatine, laities, liniest, nailset, salient, saltine, slainte, tenails. | |
-2 letters: aliens, alines, elains, elints, enlist, entail, inlets, instal, instil, isatin, latens, liaise, lianes, listen, saline, saltie, seniti, silane, sileni, silent, stelai, tenail, tenias, tineal, tineas, tinsel, tisane. | |
-3 letters: aisle, alien, aline, alist, anile, anils, anise, antes, antis, elain, elans, elint, entia, etnas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-i-l-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: alienists, analities, anilities, disentail, gainliest, inelastic, latinizes, saintlier, saintlike, sciential, waistline. | |
+2 letters: anticlines, antielites, antilogies, bairnliest, banalities, disentails, eliminates, epilations, finalities, insatiable, intestinal, italianise, kaolinites, lanosities, latinities, lineations, melanistic, metalising, militances, nasalities, natalities, nodalities, penalities, plasticine, platinizes, reptilians, retailings, saintliest, salinities, tonalities, triennials, venalities, vigilantes, waistlines. | |
+3 letters: acetanilids, actinolites, alienations, animalities, annihilates, antielitism, antielitist, antimissile, antirealism, antirealist, atonalities, bisectional, calisthenic, carnalities, cartelising, clarinetist, conciliates, depilations, dilatancies, disentailed, disrelation, eliminators, eluviations, etiolations, existential, gadolinites, gelatinizes, genialities, gleizations, habiliments, illuminates, inabilities, incidentals, inessential, inestimable, inestimably, infibulates, infiltrates, initializes, initialness, insatiately, insertional, intangibles, intensional, interisland, internalise, invalidates, invigilates, italianates, italianised, italianises, italianizes, laminitises, lecithinase, legislating, legislation, levigations, levitations, liberations, licentiates, linealities, linearities, linecasting, literations, malignities, mediastinal, mentalistic, mentalities, militancies, ministerial, misaltering, misrelating, nationalise, normalities, orientalism, orientalist, palletising, plaistering, planarities, plasticines, pleinairist, rationalise, regionalist, residential, saintliness, scintillate, sillimanite, testimonial, trailerings, trigeminals, unclarities, ungainliest, unrealistic, unrealities, vinblastine. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 69 65 6E 69 73 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .. . -. .. ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101001 01100101 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l i e n i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 0069 0065 006E 0069 0073 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3578757180758586 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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