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Bedsit

Definition: Bedsit

Bedsit

Noun

1. A furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonyms: Bedsit

Synonyms: bedsitter (n), bedsitting room (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Bedsit

DomainUsage

Screenplays

And that is why I sleep in the arms of a beautiful woman and you spend your evenings alone in your bedsit. With cheap porn. (Spaced; writing credit: Simon Pegg; Jessica Stevenson)

Lyrics

Bright lights and trains and bedsit stains ("Legend In My Living Room"; performing artist: Len)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Bedsit

"Bedsit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bedsit" is used about 65 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%6541,645

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Bedsit

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "bedsit": bedsit-land, bedsit-type.

Ending with "bedsit": three-bedsit.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bedsit

Language Translations for "bedsit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

studio. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σαλόνι - υπνοδωμάτιο, γκαρσονιέρα (bed-sit, flatlet). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nappali és hálószoba (bedsitter, bedsitting room). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

edsitbay

   

Russian 

  

снимаемая на двоих, комната (apartment, chamber, gun-room, lodgings, room). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ห้องที่ให้เช่าและพักอาศัย (bedsitter). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Bedsit

Derivations

Words beginning with "bedsit": bedsits. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Bedsit

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bidets, debits.

Words within the letters "b-d-e-i-s-t"

-1 letter: bides, bidet, bites, debit, debts, deist, diets, dites, edits, sited, stied, tides.

-2 letters: beds, best, bets, bide, bids, bise, bite, bits, debs, debt, dibs, dies, diet, dite, dits, edit, ides, side, site, teds, tide, tied, ties.

-3 letters: bed, bet, bid, bis, bit, deb, dib, die, dis, dit, eds, ids, its, sei, set, sib, sit, ted, tie, tis.

-4 letters: be, bi, de, ed, es, et, id, is, it, si, ti.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-e-i-s-t"
 

+1 letter: bedsits, bestrid, betides, bilsted, bistred, subedit.

 

+2 letters: baptised, bawdiest, beadiest, bedights, bedticks, bedtimes, bemisted, bestride, bilsteds, bisected, bistered, blindest, bristled, daubiest, deorbits, diabetes, driblets, redbaits, subedits, tribades.

 

+3 letters: abdicates, abstained, bastinade, bastioned, bedirties, bedquilts, benedicts, bestirred, bestrides, blistered, bloodiest, botanised, broodiest, diabetics, diatribes, disturbed, disturber, dribblets, dubieties, habitudes, interbeds, sibilated, subedited, subeditor, submitted, subsisted, subtitled.

 

+4 letters: abstricted, antibodies, backlisted, bacteroids, banditries, banistered, bastardies, bastardise, bastardize, bastinades, beatitudes, bedlamites, besteading, bestridden, bestriding, bestudding, bifidities, birthdates, breadstick, brutalised, butadienes, debilities, digestible, disbarment, disbenefit, disputable, distribute, disturbers, misdoubted, quodlibets, rabidities, stabilized, stablished, subdialect, subediting, subeditors, sublimated, submediant, subtending, subtilized, turbidites, turbidness, vestibuled, waterbirds, wildebeest.

 

+5 letters: abridgments, absolutized, absurdities, bastardised, bastardises, bastardized, bastardizes, bastinadoed, bastinadoes, bestialized, bitterweeds, blacklisted, blueshifted, breadfruits, breadsticks, breadthwise, bullshitted, counterbids, debilitates, deductibles, deliberates, destabilize, disablement, disbandment, disbarments, disbenefits, disobedient, distensible, distributed, distributee, distributes, disturbance, dumbwaiters, edibilities, embodiments, established, footbridges, hybridities, interbreeds, keyboardist, lobotomised, misbuttoned, morbidities, phlebitides, prediabetes, resubmitted, strikebound, subdialects, subdirector, submediants, subordinate, substituted, switchblade, timberheads, timberlands, tinderboxes, transcribed, turbidities, undisturbed, wattlebirds, whitebeards, whiteboards, wildebeests.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bedsit


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 64 73 69 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    -..    ...    ..    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01100100 01110011 01101001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#100 &#115 &#105 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0064 0073 0069 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

367170857586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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