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Definitions: BESTRODE |
BESTRODE1. Imp. & p. p. of Bestride. Imperative1. Of Bestride |
Date "BESTRODE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Crosswords: BESTRODE |
| Specialty definitions using "BESTRODE": Aulay ♦ Out. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "BESTRODE": Bestride. (references) |
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Screenplays | If a vampire should bestrode, close to the grave of a dead toad. (Kronos; writing credit: Brian Clemens) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | OUT-:OF:-:DOORS:, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets. I climbed to the top of a mountain one day To see the sun setting in glory, And I thought, as I looked at his vanishing ray, Of a perfectly splendid story. 'Twas about an old man and the ass he bestrode Till the strength of the beast was o'ertested; Then the man would carry him miles on the road Till Neddy was pretty well rested. The moon rising solemnly over the crest Of the hills to the east of my station Displayed her broad disk to the darkening west Like a visible new creation. And I thought of a joke (and I laughed till I cried) Of an idle young woman who tarried About a church-door for a look at the bride, Although 'twas herself that was married. To poets all Nature is pregnant with grand Ideas -- with thought and emotion. I pity the dunces who don't understand The speech of earth, heaven and ocean. Stromboli Smith |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BESTRODE" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BESTRODE" is used about 11 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 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BESTRODE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | geritten (ridden). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | estrodebay pret de bestride. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"BESTRODE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Belstrode, Besgrove, bestoed, bestro, Bisgrove, cestode, Lestrade, oestrone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BESTRODE" (pronounced bustrō"d) |
| 5 | -s t r ō" d | strode. |
| 3 | -r ō" d | crowed, erode, overrode, road, rode, rowed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: bedsore, debtors, oersted, sobered, teredos. | |
-2 letters: berets, bested, bredes, breeds, debtor, desert, desorb, deters, doters, erodes, redoes, rested, sorbed, sorbet, sorted, stereo, stored, strobe, strode, teredo. | |
-3 letters: beers, beets, beret, beset, besot, bodes, bored, bores, borts, brede, breed, brees, brose, debts, deers, deets, deter, doers, doest, doser, doter, dotes, drees, drest, erode, erose. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: bestrowed, bolstered, lobstered, outbreeds. | |
+2 letters: betrotheds, broadsheet. | |
+3 letters: broadsheets, tinderboxes. | |
+4 letters: beardtongues, centerboards, decarbonates, demonstrable, obdurateness, outbreedings, skateboarder, stockbreeder, teeterboards, tenebrionids. | |
+5 letters: bestsellerdom, deliberations, erodibilities, mouthbreeders, skateboarders, stockbreeders, timberdoodles, weatherboards. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 53 54 52 4F 44 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . ... - .-. --- -.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01010011 01010100 01010010 01001111 01000100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E S T R O D E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 0053 0054 0052 004F 0044 0045 |
| 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)3639535452493839 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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