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Definitions: Beadle |
BeadleNoun1. A minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves order at services. 2. United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beadle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Beadle A person whose duty it is to bid or cite persons to appear to a summons; also a church servant, whose duty it is to bid the parishioners to attend the vestry, or to give notice of vestry meetings. (Anglo-Saxon, bædel, from beodan, to bid or summon.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BeadleSynonyms: George Beadle (n), George Wells Beadle (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Churchwarden, sidesman; clerk, precentor, choir; almoner, suisse, verger, beadle, sexton, sacristan; acolyth, acolothyst, acolyte, altar boy; chorister. |
Jurisdiction | Officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle; policeman, cop, police constable, police sergeant; sbirro, alguazil, gendarme, kavass, lictor, mace bearer, huissier, bedel; tithingman. |
Stopper | Janitor, doorkeeper, porter, warder, beadle, cerberus, ostiary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Beadle |
| English words defined with "beadle": Beadlery, Beadleship, Bedell, Bluecoat ♦ George Beadle, George Wells Beadle ♦ Subbeadle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "beadle": BECK ♦ Dog-whipper ♦ FLOGGING COVE ♦ HARMAN BECK. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Mr. Bumble the Beadle (1898) Banged Up with Beadle (2002) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
E. R. Beadle | Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The grim beadle now made a gesture with his staff. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | An old begging police spy, formerly a beadle, to whom this person had extended his charity, added some other details. |
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| "Beadle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 79.80% of the time. "Beadle" is used about 99 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) | 79.8% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Noun (proper) | 18.18% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.01% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.01% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 99 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "beadle" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Beadle | Last name | 1,000 | 9,059 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "beadle": beadle County ♦ George Beadle ♦ George Wells Beadle. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
beadle | 20 |
beadle michelle | 6 |
beadle tatum | 5 |
barbour beadle | 5 |
jeremy beadle | 4 |
beadle ford | 4 |
beadle county south dakota | 3 |
george beadle | 3 |
beadle florida michelle | 3 |
beadle raymond | 3 |
beadle hamar.com | 2 |
al beadle | 2 |
al architect beadle | 2 |
beadle george well | 2 |
gary beadle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "beadle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rojë në kishë (bedel, Bedell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | شماس الكنيسة (deacon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | глашатай (bedel, crier, fugleman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pedel (bedel, Bedell), kostelník (sacrist, sacristan, Sexton, verger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bedeau, huissier, appariteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kirchendiener (Sexton, sextons). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοσμήτωρ (sergeant at arms), ενοριακόσ αστυνόμοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sekrestyés (parish clerk, sacrist, sexton, verger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bidello (janitor), sagrestano (sacristan, Sexton, verger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | meoir colaashtey, meoir agglish (apparitor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadlebay bedel (apparitor, bedel, Mace, serjeant at arms, verger), funcionário paroquial. (various references) университетский педель (apparitor, bedel). (various references) crkveni službenik. (various references) bedel (bulldog, janitor), pertiguero, alguacil (alguazil, bailiff, constable, Marshal, sheriff). (various references) kyrkvaktmästare (Bedell, pew-opener, Sexton, verger). (various references) ผู้นำพิธีในโบสถ์ของยิว. (various references) tören asasını taşıyan kimse (bedel, Bedell), mübaşir (bailiff, tipstaff, usher), kilise görevlisi. (various references) університетський педель (apparitor), церковний сторож, кур'"р при суді. (various references) rhingyll (bailiff, sargeant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "beadle": beadles. (additional references) | |
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"Beadle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Badile, badle, baele, beable, beade, beaden, beadie, Beadlet, Beadlow, beadly, beald, Bealdred, beale, beatle, Beatley, bedae, Bedall, Beddelem, bedel, bedle, beeble, behale, Bekale, Bendle, Beraldi, Bevanlee, biade, Bodele, Bradlee, Breadle, Brelade, Budeler, Byedale, Ceadel, deadle, eedeelee, eedle, gedaleh, Yeandle, yendle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beadle" (pronounced bē"dul) |
| 4 | -ē" d u l | needle, Tweedle. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, Bedell, befuddle, bindle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, Brindle, bundle, caboodle, candle, caudal, caudle, Coddle, colloidal, cradle, cuddle, dawdle, Doodle, dwindle, feudal, fiddle, fondle, genocidal, girdle, handle, homicidal, huddle, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, intermodal, intertidal, kindle, ladle, manhandle, medal, meddle, middle, minoxidil, mishandle, modal, model, mollycoddle, muddle, noodle, paddle, panhandle, pedal, peddle, Piddle, poodle, puddle, pyramidal, rekindle, remodel, rhizoidal, riddle, Ruddle, Rundle, saddle, sandal, scandal, Seidel, sidle, spindle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, swindle, tidal, toddle, trundle, twaddle, twiddle, unbundle, vandal, Waddle, Wedel, widdle, Windle, yodel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-l" | |
-1 letter: abele, baled, bedel, blade, bleed. | |
-2 letters: abed, able, alee, bade, bald, bale, bead, blae, bled, dale, deal, dele, lade, lead. | |
-3 letters: alb, ale, bad, bal, bed, bee, bel, dab, dal, deb, dee, del, eel, eld, lab, lad, lea, led, lee. | |
-4 letters: ab, ad, ae, al, ba, be, de, ed, el, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-l" | |
+1 letter: beadles, belaced, belated, belayed, beldame, bleared, bleated, debacle, dyeable, enabled, labeled. | |
+2 letters: abseiled, albedoes, barreled, beadlike, becalmed, bedabble, bedazzle, beddable, bedplate, befleaed, begalled, beladied, beladies, belauded, beldames, beleaped, bendable, beslaved, bewailed, bleached, bluehead, dateable, debacles, deniable, deverbal, editable, educable, embalmed, emblazed, evadable, evadible, feedable, flambeed, gabelled, labelled, leeboard, lendable, mendable, readable, rideable, sendable, shedable, tableted, vendable, wadeable, weldable. | |
+3 letters: adobelike, amendable, assembled, balladeer, banderole, bandoleer, barrelled, beardless, bechalked, beclasped, becloaked, becrawled, bedabbled, bedabbles, bedazzled, bedazzles, bedlamite, bedplates, bedraggle, beflagged, begladded, belabored, belatedly, bemedaled, blabbered, blackened, bladelike, blanketed, blarneyed, blathered, blattered, bluebeard, blueheads, breadline, clabbered, clambered, danceable, debatable, decidable, definable, delegable, derivable, desirable, detonable, devisable, diablerie, drapeable, driveable, educables, embattled, emendable, endurable, eyeballed, kneadable, leeboards, liberated, medicable, orderable, pleadable, prebendal, relabeled, slabbered, speedball, spendable, subleased, tabletted, tradeable, unlabeled, vendables. | |
+4 letters: alphabeted, ascendable, ascendible, baldheaded, baldnesses, balladeers, banderoles, bandleader, bandoleers, barrelhead, beclamored, bedlamites, bedraggled, bedraggles, beglamored, belaboured, bellyached, bemedalled, berascaled, blasphemed, bluebeards, breadlines, bridgeable, bubblehead, bufflehead, bullheaded, celebrated, creditable, debilitate, deceivable, declarable, declinable, defeasible, defendable, deferrable, deformable, defrayable, degradable, delectable, delectably, deliberate, demandable, dependable, dependably, depletable, deplorable, deployable, deportable, descramble, deshabille, desirables, despicable, detachable, detectable, deterrable, detestable, detestably, diableries, elaborated, emblazoned, embrangled, endorsable, eradicable, excludable, expandable, expendable, extendable, extrudable, handleable, ineducable, marbleised, marbleized, mislabeled, outbleated, perdurable, ponderable, predicable, rebalanced, recordable, redeemable, refundable, relabelled, remediable, renderable, rewardable, saddlebred, speedballs, spreadable, umbrellaed, unbendable, unbleached, undeniable, uneducable, unreadable, verbalized. | |
+5 letters: addressable, backpedaled, bandleaders, barefacedly, barrelheads, battlefield, beglamoured, belatedness, beleaguered, bestialized, binucleated, bladderlike, blandnesses, bubbleheads, buffleheads, candleberry, commendable, condemnable, condensable, curveballed, debilitated, debilitates, deferrables, deflectable, delectables, deliberated, deliberates, deliverable, demountable, denumerable, denumerably, depreciable, descrambled, descrambler, descrambles, describable, deshabilles, destabilize, detonatable, detribalize, developable, disablement, disassemble, discernable, dislikeable, dispensable, doublespeak, durableness, elucubrated, established, expendables, immedicable, indefinable, lamebrained, leaderboard, liberalised, liberalized, medicinable, metabolized, mislabelled, obliterated, overlabored, persuadable, predicables, predictable, reassembled, redoubtable, rhabdocoele, saddlebreds, speedballed, tabernacled, unassembled, unbudgeable, undanceable, undebatable, undecidable, undefinable, undesirable, unendurable, unliberated, upgradeable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 61 64 6C 65 |
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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 01100101 01100001 01100100 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e a d l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0061 0064 006C 0065 |
| 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)367167707871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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