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All-rounder

Definition: All-rounder

All-rounder

Noun

1. A versatile person who is expert at many things; "she's the best all-rounder they've seen in years".

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

Synonym: All-rounder

Synonym: all arounder (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: All-rounder

English words defined with "all-rounder": all arounder. (references)

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Commercial Usage: All-rounder

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ian Botham, the great all-rounder (reference)

  • Summer of the all-rounder : test and championship cricket in England 1982 (reference)

  • The all-rounder (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: All-rounder

"All-rounder" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 68.49% of the time. "All-rounder" is used about 73 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)68.49%5048,117
Noun (singular)31.51%2372,767
                    Total100.00%73N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: All-rounder

Language Translations for "all-rounder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

absolut (absolute, complete, direct, irrelative, perfect, plenary, sheer, total, utter), i gjithanshëm (all round, encyclopaedic, encyclopaedical, encyclopedic, encyclopedical, general, universal, versatile). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

всестранно развит човек, многостранно развит човек, десетобоец. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

"较所有圆. (various references)

   

Czech

  

všestranný èlovìk. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sokoldalú egyén. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

덛웅근. (various references)

   

Manx

  

yl-cheirdagh (all-round, Jack of all trades, polytechnic). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

all-rounderay

   

Portuguese

  

atleta completo. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

persoanã multilateralã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

разносторонний человек, десятиборец. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

svestrana osoba. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

jugador versátil, jugador polifacético. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

allround idrottsman. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

on parmağında on marifet olan kimse (jack of all trades), çok yönlü kimse. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

комір (band-collar, collar, neck), нашийник (collar, dog collar), десятиборець. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người to n năng, người to n diện. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: All-rounder

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: unloader, unrolled.

-3 letters: adorner, aleuron, allured, allurer, droller, ladrone, landler, launder, lurdane, nodular, readorn, rondeau, rondure, roulade, roundel, rounder, ruderal.

-4 letters: adorer, allude, allure, aludel, ardour, around, aulder, darnel, darner, dollar, dourer, droner, duello, duller, enduro, enroll, errand, ladler, ladron, lander, larder, lardon, lauder, laurel, loader, loaned, loaner, loreal, louden, louder, loured, lurdan.

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

+4 letters: counterrallied.

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

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Alternative Orthography: All-rounder


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

41 6C 6C 2D 72 6F 75 6E 64 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01000001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01110010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#108 &#45 &#114 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 006C 002D 0072 006F 0075 006E 0064 0065 0072

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

3578781584818780707184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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