Avoirdupois

Definition: Avoirdupois

Avoirdupois

Noun

1. A system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains).

2. Excess bodily weight; "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others".

Date "avoirdupois" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Avoirdupois French, avoir, aver or avier, goods in general, and poise = poids (weight). Not the verb, but the noun avoir. Properly avoir de poids (goods having weight), goods sold by weight. We have the word aver, meaning goods in general, hence also cattle; whence such compounds as aver-corn, aver-penny, aver-silver, aver-land, and so on. We have also the noun "having, havings" = possessions. There is a common French phrase avoir du poids (to be weight), with which our word avoir dupois has been muddled up. "Pared my present havings [property] to bestow My bounties upon you." Shakespeare: Henry VIII, iii. 2. "One of your having, and yet cark and care." Muses' Looking Glass. Even medicines, as wholesale goods, are bought and sold by avoirdupois weight. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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The avoirdupois system is a system of weights defining terms such as pound and ounce. It is the everyday system of weight used in the United States, and was used in the United Kingdom and elsewhere until metrication. It is considered more modern and standardised than the alternative troy or "apothecary" system.

See also: Imperial unit and US customary units.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
dr avdp	English	Avoirdupois dram	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Avoirdupois

Synonyms: avoirdupois weight (n), fat (n), fatness (n). (additional references)

Antonym: leanness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Gravity	Weighing, ponderation, trutination; weights; avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb, arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Avoirdupois

English words defined with "avoirdupois": avoirdupois unit, Avoirdupois weight ♦ Decagramme, Decigramme ♦ Foot pound ♦ grain ♦ Kilogramme ♦ Milligramme, Myriagramme ♦ stone ♦ Trone weight, troy weight ♦ Unit of measure. (references)

Specialty definitions using "avoirdupois": INSPECTOR, PACKAGING MATERIALS ♦ packaging inspector. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Avoirdupois" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (avoirdupois).

Domain	Title
Books	Avoirdupois (Ironclaw Gaming System Supplement) (reference) (more book examples)
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"Avoirdupois" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Avoirdupois" 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

Expressions using "avoirdupois": avoirdupois unit ♦ Avoirdupois weight. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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.

Language		Translations for "avoirdupois"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sistem anglez i peshave. (various references)

Arabic		‏وزن (authority, counterweight, metering, scale, weigh, weighing, weight, weightiness), ‏ثقل افواردوبوا المادة التالية, ‏ثقل (baggage, ballast, gravity, heaviness, importance, luggage, ponderosity, significance, weight, weightiness). (various references)

Bulgarian		тегло (gravity, ponderability, weight), английска система на теглене, американска система на теглене, дебелина (corpulence, fat, fatness, girth, obesity, thickness, width). (various references)

Chinese		重量 (av, heft, Weight, Weights). (various references)

Czech		soustava vah. (various references)

Farsi		مقیاس وزن اجناس سنگین , وزن (Burden, Cadence, Charge, Rhythm, Scale), سنگینی (Ballast, Gravity, Lethargy, Weight), اشیاواجناس که باتوزین فروخته میشود. (various references)

German		Handelsgewicht. (various references)

Greek		σύστημα βάρων με 16 ουγγίασ κατά λίβραν. (various references)

Hungarian		brit súlymértékrendszer. (various references)

Indonesian		kelas berat. (various references)

Korean		상형 (av). (various references)

Manx		meihaghyn mooarey. (various references)

Pig Latin		avoirdupoisay

Romanian		masã (block, board, body, bulk, clump, congeries, cooking, crop, crowd, cuisine, dinner, dusty treat, feast, gross, lump, mass, meal, meat, multitude, people, repast, shoal, table, throng, tuck in), greutate (arduousness, authority, bother, burden, charge, cumber, difficulty, embarrassment, encumbrance, hardness, hardship, heaviness, heft, load, poise, ponderosity, shot, trouble, weight). (various references)

Russian		тучность (adiposity, corpulence, fat, obesity, portliness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		užasno debeo. (various references)

Spanish		sistema de pesas en países de habla inglesa. (various references)

Swedish		avoirdupois. (various references)

Turkish		ağırlık (arduousness, dullness, force of gravity, gravity, heaviness, heft, massiveness, plummet, ponderosity, richness, severity, slowness, weight, weightiness), ingiliz tartı sistemi (avoirdupois weight). (various references)

Ukrainian		гладкість (adiposity, obeseness, obesity, portliness, volubility), вага (amount, authority, burden, heft, load, ponderosity, weight). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự to béo đ�" sộ, kim cương. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Old French	900-1400	avoir de pois. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "avoirdupois": avoirdupoises. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Avoirdupois" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: avoirdupoids. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-i-i-o-o-p-r-s-u-v"
	-2 letters: oviparous.
	-3 letters: paviours, sauropod, vaporous.
	-4 letters: adipous, advisor, apodous, diapirs, divisor, opioids, parodoi, parodos, paviors, paviour, proviso, saviour, sparoid, spiroid, sporoid, uropods, vapours, various, viroids.
	-5 letters: ariosi, arioso, aroids, audios, avoids, diapir, douras, droops, iodous, isopod, odious, odours, opioid, ovoids, parous, parvis, parvos, pavior, pooris, porous, purdas, radios, radius, rapids, sapour, savior, savour, souari.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-i-i-o-o-p-r-s-u-v"
	+2 letters: avoirdupoises.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
avoirdupois	11
avoirdupois ounce	2
avoirdupois pound	2
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Avoirdupois

Definition: Avoirdupois

Avoirdupois

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