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Definition: Baldric |
BaldricNoun1. A wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Baldric" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be bold", "brave", "a power", "a rule". |
Date "baldric" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Baldric \Bal"dric\, noun. [from Old English expression baudric, bawdrik, through Old French (Compare to French baudrier and late Latin baldringus, baldrellus), from Old High German. balderich, compare to balz, palz, akin to English belt. See Belt, noun.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: BaldricSynonym: baldrick (n). (additional references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Baldric."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Circularity | Circle, circlet, ring, areola, hoop, roundlet, annulus, annulet, bracelet, armlet; ringlet; eye, loop, wheel; cycle, orb, orbit, rundle, zone, belt, cordon, band; contrate wheel, crown wheel; hub; nave; sash, girdle, cestus, cincture, baldric, fillet, fascia, wreath, garland; crown, corona, coronet, chaplet, snood, necklace, collar; noose, lasso, lassoo. |
Outline | Zone, belt, girth, band, baldric, zodiac, girdle, tyre, cingle, clasp, girt; cordon; (inclosure); circlet,. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Baldric |
| English words defined with "baldric": Baudrick, Bawdrick. (references) |
| "Baldric" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Baldric" 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 (proper) | 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 |
baldric | 8 |
baldric sword | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "baldric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | حمالة السيف (sling). (various references) | |
Farsi | حمایل , بندشمشیر. (various references) | |
Greek | "ιαγώνιοσ Ζώνη. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tali bahu. (various references) | |
Italian | Bandoliera (bandolier), Tracolla (shoulder belt). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aldricbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Zodíaco (zodiac), Cinturão (belt, body-belt, girdle, girth, sash, sword belt, sword-belt, waist belt). (various references) | |
Romanian | Diagonalã (diagonal), Cingãtoare (belt, girdle). (various references) | |
Swedish | Axelgehäng (shoulder belt). (various references) | |
Ukranian | Портупея, Перев'яз. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | dây gươm chéo qua vai. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | balteis, balteo, balteos, balteum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "baldric": baldrick, baldricks, baldrics. (additional references) | |
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"Baldric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Badri, Baldr, Baldrey, Baldrik, Balri, baudroie, Waldric. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "baldric" (pronounced ba"ldrik) |
| 3 | -r i k | alphanumeric, anthropocentric, atmospheric, barbaric, barometric, boric, caloric, choric, citric, cleric, concentric, Derrick, dissymmetric, eccentric, econometric, egocentric, electric, esoteric, ethnocentric, euphoric, fabric, gastric, generic, geocentric, geometric, geriatric, gravimetric, hemispheric, historic, hydroelectric, hyperbaric, hysteric, ionospheric, lyric, mercuric, mesenteric, meteoric, metric, nitric, numeric, obstetric, optometric, parametric, pediatric, photoelectric, pinprick, prehistoric, psychiatric, pyrrhic, rubric, satiric, sophomoric, stearic, stratospheric, sulfuric, tantric, vampiric, vitric. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-i-l-r" | |
-1 letter: bardic, bridal, ribald. | |
-2 letters: acrid, alcid, baric, braid, brail, caird, daric, drail, laird, liard, libra, lidar, rabic, rabid. | |
-3 letters: abri, acid, arid, aril, bail, bald, bard, bird, birl, brad, cadi, caid, carb, card, carl, clad, crab, crib, darb, dial, dirl, drab, drib, laic, laid, lair, lard, lari, liar, lira, raid, rail, rial. | |
-4 letters: aid, ail, air, alb, arb, arc, bad, bal, bar, bid, bra, cab, cad, car, dab, dal, dib, lab, lac, lad, lar, lib, lid, rad, ria, rib, rid. | |
-5 letters: ab, ad, ai, al, ar, ba, bi, id, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-i-l-r" | |
+1 letter: baldrick, baldrics, birdcall, calibred. | |
+2 letters: baldricks, birdcalls, blackbird, clipboard. | |
+3 letters: backslider, blackbirds, brainchild, calibrated, clipboards, creditable, creditably, eradicable, herbicidal, lubricated, predicable. | |
+4 letters: backsliders, blackbirded, blackbirder, charbroiled, depreciable, describable, discardable, discernable, irradicable, irradicably, predicables, predictable, predictably. | |
+5 letters: accreditable, bactericidal, blackbirders, blackbirding, childbearing, clapboarding, considerable, considerably, decipherable, descrambling, dicarboxylic, discoverable, distractable, distractible, herbicidally, ineradicable, ineradicably, recalibrated, relubricated, roadblocking, uncalibrated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6C 64 72 69 63 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .- .-.. -.. .-. .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101100 01100100 01110010 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a l d r i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006C 0064 0072 0069 0063 |
| 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)36677870847569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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