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Definition: Beefeater |
BeefeaterNoun1. Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BeefeaterSynonyms: yeoman (n), yeoman of the guard (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth, the army, standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry, volunteers, trainband, fencible; auxiliary, bersagliere, brave; garde-nationale, garde-royale; minuteman; auxiliary forces, reserve forces; reserves, posse comitatus, national guard, gendarme, beefeater; guards, guardsman; yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Beefeater |
| English words defined with "beefeater": Locust hunter ♦ Oxpecker ♦ Rhinoceros bird. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "beefeater": Andrew Macs. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Beefeater" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (beefeater). |
| "Beefeater" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.46% of the time. "Beefeater" is used about 26 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) | 88.46% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.54% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | 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 |
beefeater | 106 |
beefeater grill | 18 |
barbecue beefeater | 16 |
beefeater restaurant | 14 |
beefeater gin | 13 |
beefeater costume | 5 |
beefeater menu | 4 |
beefeater london | 4 |
beefeater wet | 3 |
beefeater gas grill | 3 |
beefeater london tower | 3 |
beefeater by wet | 3 |
beefeater simulation | 2 |
beefeater england | 2 |
beefeater bulldogs | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "beefeater"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beefeater, engländer (adjustable spanner, adjustable wrench, brit, britishers, coach wrench, crescent wrench, english, Englishman, King Dick wrench, limey, monkey wrench, Sassenach, screw wrench with one adjustable jaw, shift spanner, shifting spanner, universal spanner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eefeaterbay alabardero de la torre de londres. (various references) vaktare i towern. (various references) londra kulesi muhafızı. (various references) лейбгвардіÑ"ць. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "beefeater": beefeaters. (additional references) | |
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"Beefeater" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bedeuten, biofilter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beefeater" (pronounced bē"fē'ter) |
| 3 | -ē' t er | ammeter, anteater, centimeter, deciliter, gravimeter, milliliter, millimeter, seedeater. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-e-e-f-r-t" | |
-2 letters: freebee. | |
-3 letters: afreet, beater, befret, berate, bereft, feater, rebate. | |
-4 letters: after, arete, beret, eater, taber. | |
-5 letters: abet, bare, barf, bate, bear, beat, beef, beer, beet, beta, brae, brat, bree, fare, fart, fate, fear, feat, feet, fere, feta, fete, frae, frat, free, fret, raft, rate, reef, reft, rete, tare, tear, tree, tref. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-e-e-f-r-t" | |
+1 letter: beefeaters. | |
+4 letters: featherbedded. | |
+5 letters: benefactresses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 65 66 65 61 74 65 72 |
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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 01100101 01100110 01100101 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e e f e a t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0065 0066 0065 0061 0074 0065 0072 |
| 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)367171727167867184 |
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