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Definition: Beholder |
BeholderNoun1. A person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "beholder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
Synonyms: BeholderSynonyms: observer (n), perceiver (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Beholder |
| English words defined with "beholder": dazzlingly ♦ Gorgon ♦ Spectatrix. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "beholder": Jephunneh. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Beholder" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Danish (barrel, box, container, jug, vase, vessel). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Sir Percy. (The Scarlet Pimpernel; writing credit: William Bast; Baroness Emmuska Orczy) | |
Lyrics | In the eyes of the beholder ("Don'T Look Too Far"; performing artist: Them) The mind of the beholder. ("Smut"; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Clever | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I'm not one to judge. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The 'I' of the Beholder (1952) Eyes of the Beholder (1992) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Zimmermann | Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder. |
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| "Beholder" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Beholder" is used about 46 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) | 100% | 46 | 50,285 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "beholder". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Shephi | N/A | Biblical | Beholder |
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Expression using "beholder": beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "beholder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | spektator (bystander, cinema-goer, looker on, onlooker, spectator), shikues (looker, looker on, onlooker, public, spectator, viewer, watcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ناظر (agitate, caretaker, headmaster, joust, principal, superintend, supervise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | очевидец (eyewitness, witness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | regardant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | betrachter (observer, viewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szemlélõ (bystander, inspector, looker on, spectator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | spettatore (audience, bystander, onlooker, spectator, spectators, viewer, witness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eholderbay espectador (bystander, eyewitness, kibitzer, looker on, onlooker, spectator, viewer, witness). (various references) spectator (bystander, looker, onlooker, outsider, patron, spectator, stander-by). (various references) зритель (bystander, looker on, onlooker, spectator, viewer). (various references) posmatrač (bystander, looker, looker on, observer, spectator, viewer, watcher), očevidac (eyewitness, eye-witness, looker on, witness), gledalac (onlooker, spectator, watcher). (various references) espectador (audience, bystander, looker on, onlooker, spectator, spectators, viewer, witness). (various references) åskådare (audience, beholders, bystander, gallery, looker on, observer, observers, onlooker, spectator, viewer). (various references) ผู้มองเห็น. (various references) bakan kimse (provider, tender), seyreden, seyirci (audience, bystander, looker on, onlooker, public, spectator, televiewer, televisor, viewer). (various references) спостерігач (gazer, inspector, observer, onlooker, outlook, visualizer, watchdog, watcher), глядач (gazer, looker on, onlooker, spectator, viewer), очевидець (bystander, eyewitness, spectator, witness, witnesser). (various references) người xem (audience, onlooker, spectator), người ngắm (contemplator), người được mục kích, khán giả người chứng kiến. (various references) edrychwr (looker, spectator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "beholder": beholders. (additional references) | |
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"Beholder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Benouda, Demolder. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "beholder" (pronounced bēhō"lder) |
| 5 | -h ō" l d er | Holder. |
| 4 | -ō" l d er | bolder, boulder, colder, folder, Golder, molder, moulder, older, polder, shoulder, smolder. |
| 3 | -l d er | Alder, balder, bewilder, bondholder, builder, cardholder, elder, fielder, freeholder, Gelder, Gilder, guilder, householder, infielder, landholder, melder, milder, officeholder, outfielder, policyholder, shareholder, shipbuilder, stakeholder, stockholder, titleholder, welder, wilder. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-h-l-o-r" | |
-2 letters: beheld, behold, bolder, bordel, herbed, holder. | |
-3 letters: bedel, bleed, bored, brede, breed, dhole, elder, erode, heder, holed, horde, lobed, older, orbed, rebel, robed, roble. | |
-4 letters: beer, bled, bode, bold, bole, bore, bred, bree, deer, dele, dere, doer, dole, dore, dree, hebe, heed, heel, held, helo, herb, herd, here, herl, hero, hoed, hoer, hold. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-h-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: beholders. | |
+2 letters: hornblende. | |
+3 letters: hornblendes, rhabdocoele. | |
+4 letters: breechloader, doubleheader, hyperbolized, overbleached, rhabdocoeles. | |
+5 letters: breechloaders, doubleheaders, wheelbarrowed. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 68 6F 6C 64 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 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e h o l d e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0068 006F 006C 0064 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)3671748178707184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Derived from | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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