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Definition: Bearskin |
BearskinNoun1. The pelt of a bear (sometimes used as a rug). 2. Tall hat; worn by some British soldiers on ceremonial occasions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bearskin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
Synonyms: BearskinSynonyms: busby (n), shako (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Headdress, headgear; chapeau, crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh; sombrero, jam, tam-o-shanter, tarboosh, topi, sola topi, pagri, puggaree; cap, hat, beaver hat, coonskin cap; castor, bonnet, tile, wideawake, wimple; nightcap, mobcap, skullcap; hood, coif; capote, calash; kerchief, snood, babushka; head, coiffure; crown; (circle); chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke, periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako, busby; kepi, forage cap, bearskin; baseball cap; fishing hat; helmet; mask, domino. |
Defense | Bearskin; panoply; truncheon; (weapon). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bearskin |
| English words defined with "bearskin": Kalmuck. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The light of the torch only lighted up their bayonets, their bearskin caps, and the upper part of their anxious and angry faces |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Bearskin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Bearskin" is used about 16 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) | 93.75% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (common) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | 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 |
bearskin airline | 145 |
bearskin lodge | 41 |
bearskin | 41 |
bearskin rug | 17 |
bearskin air | 13 |
bearskin lodge gatlinburg | 10 |
bearskin lodge river | 10 |
airway bearskin | 7 |
bearskin gatlinburg lodge tn | 6 |
bearskin neck | 5 |
bearskin meadow | 3 |
bearskin lodge motor neck | 2 |
bearskin trail | 2 |
bearskin camp meadow | 2 |
bearskin lake | 2 |
bearskin lake ontario | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bearskin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | beremus (bearskin cap). (various references) | |
Albanian | lëkurë e ariut. (various references) | |
Arabic | فرو الدب, قبعة من جلد الدب, جلد الدب. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | меча кожа. (various references) | |
Chinese | 熊皮. (various references) | |
Czech | medvìdí kùže. (various references) | |
Dutch | beremuts (bearskin cap), kolbak (bearskin cap). (various references) | |
Esperanto | peltoĉapo (bearskin cap), kalpako (bearskin cap). (various references) | |
Finnish | karhuntalja. (various references) | |
French | bonnet poil, peau d'ours. (various references) | |
German | Bärenfell. (various references) | |
Hungarian | testőrkucsma, medvebõr, medvebőr sapka, medvebőr süveg, medvebőr. (various references) | |
Italian | colbacco (Busby). (various references) | |
Manx | sheh vaghouin, edd gheayshteenagh, crackan maghouin. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earskinbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pele de urso. (various references) | |
Romanian | piele de urs. (various references) | |
Russian | медвежья шкура, медвежий шкура (bearskin rug). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | medveđa koža. (various references) | |
Spanish | piel de oso. (various references) | |
Swedish | björnskinnsmössa (Busby), björnskinn. (various references) | |
Turkish | kürk başlık (Busby), ayı postu. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хутряний ківер, тканина з довгим ворсом, килим з ведмежої шкури, ведмежа шкура. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | da gấu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bearskin": bearskins. (additional references) | |
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"Bearskin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: barmkin, beasain, Benatsky, Beresina, Breanski, Lekarski. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-k-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: bankers, snakier. | |
-2 letters: arisen, arsine, bairns, bakers, banker, bikers, brains, braise, brakes, branks, breaks, brines, brinks, inkers, kaiser, kebars, kinase, rabies, reinks, sabine, sinker. | |
-3 letters: abris, airns, anise, arise, asker, bairn, baker, bakes, banes, banks, bares, barks, barns, baser, basin, beaks, beans, bears, biers, biker, bikes, bines, birks, birse, braes, brain, brake, brank. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-k-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: bearskins, breakings, ninebarks, snakebird. | |
+2 letters: drinkables, karabiners, riverbanks, shrinkable, snakebirds, windbreaks. | |
+3 letters: barkentines, linebackers. | |
+4 letters: bankruptcies, brackishness, breakfasting, cabinetworks, debarkations, disembarking, embarkations, greenbackism, lawbreakings, windbreakers. | |
+5 letters: backcountries, benchmarkings, cabinetmakers, greenbackisms, housebreaking, nonshrinkable, skateboarding, thrombokinase. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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