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Definitions: Bailiwick |
BailiwickNoun1. The area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction. 2. A branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bailiwick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Note: Bailiwick \Bail"i*wick\, noun. [Bailie, bailiff wick village.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: BailiwickSynonyms: branch of knowledge (n), discipline (n), field (n), field of study (n), study (n), subject (n), subject area (n), subject field (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Government | Political district, electoral division, electoral district, bailiwick. |
County, parish; city, domain, tract, arrondissement, mofussil, commune; wappentake, hundred, riding, lathe, garth, soke, tithing; ward, precinct, bailiwick. | |
Jurisdiction | Judge; tribunal; municipality, corporation, bailiwick, shrievalty; lord lieutenant, sheriff, shire reeve, shrieve, constable; selectman; police, police force, the fuzz; constabulary, bumbledom, gendarmerie. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bailiwick |
| English words defined with "bailiwick": Bailiffwick ♦ Wich. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bailiwick": Non Est. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | We will entirely remove from their bailiwicks, the relations of Gerard of Athee (so that in future they shall have no bailiwick in England); namely, Engelard of Cigogne, Peter, Guy, and Andrew of Chanceaux, Guy of Cigogne, Geoffrey of Martigny with his brothers, Philip Mark with his brothers and his nephew Geoffrey, and the whole brood of the same. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Bailiwick" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Bailiwick" is used about 30 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) | 83.33% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
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 |
bailiwick | 26 |
bailiwick theater | 7 |
bailiwick bonnie clyde | 6 |
bailiwick golf | 5 |
bailiwick ranch | 2 |
bailiwick imports.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bailiwick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rreth i ndihmëssherifit, qark i ndihmëssherifit. (various references) | |
Arabic | منطقة نفوذ, حقل إختصاص (speciality). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | район на общински съветник, поле на действие (ambit). (various references) | |
Chinese | 管区. (various references) | |
French | bailliage. (various references) | |
German | Amtsbezirk (administrative district, district). (various references) | |
Greek | δικαιοδοσία κλητήροσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תחום סמכות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rettegésben tartott környék. (various references) | |
Indonesian | daerah kekuasaan (domain). (various references) | |
Manx | bayleeys, bayleeaght. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ailiwickbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bailiado, distrito. (various references) | |
Russian | сфера компетенции, округ (circuit, county, district, hundred, parish, presidency, region, sheading). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | struka (field, metier, profession, strand, vocation), oblast (area, corner, district, domain, field, plane, precincts, realm, region, section, submarine havens, territory, zone). (various references) | |
Spanish | bailía. (various references) | |
Swedish | åldermans ämbetsområde. (various references) | |
Turkish | bilgi alanı (field, Ken), yetki bölgesi, yetki alanı (jurisdiction, pale, scope of authority). (various references) | |
Ukranian | округ міського судді, знайома галузь. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bailiwick": bailiwicks. (additional references) | |
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"Bailiwick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bailewick, baileywick, bailiwack, bailiwicke, baillewick, bailliwick, baillywick, bailywick, Baldwick, baliwick, balliwick. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bailiwick" (pronounced bā"luwi'k) |
| 3 | -w i' k | Pickwick. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-i-i-k-l-w" | |
-4 letters: alibi, biali, black, cilia, iliac, kibla. | |
-5 letters: back, bail, balk, bawl, bilk, blaw, calk, claw, ilia, ilka, kail, kiwi, lack, laic, lick, wack, wail, walk, wick. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-i-i-k-l-w" | |
+1 letter: bailiwicks. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 69 6C 69 77 69 63 6B |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .. .-.. .. .--. .. -.-. -.- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110111 01101001 01100011 01101011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a i l i w i c k |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 0069 006C 0069 0077 0069 0063 006B |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)366775787589756977 |
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