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Definition: Bleat |
BleatNoun1. The sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this). Verb1. Talk whiningly. 2. Cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bleat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: BleatSynonyms: baa (v), blat (v), blate (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bleat |
| English words defined with "bleat": Bleated, Bleating. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bleat": Blatant. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bleat" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Frisian (bare, naked, nude). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Short bleat from a lamb. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | Thus, with a grating and uncertain sound, They bleat, and bleat, and bleat |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | From outside and across the yard came an ancient creaking bleat. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Bleat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 46.67% of the time. "Bleat" is used about 30 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) | 46.67% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 36.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 13.33% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | 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 |
bleat | 14 |
bleat lileks | 4 |
bleat cote | 2 |
bleat daily | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bleat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | blegërimë (Baa), blegërij (Baa). (various references) | |
Arabic | تكلم (mouth, say, speak, spoke, tongue), ثغاء (bleating), ثغا ثغاء. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | раздрънквам (chatter, peddle, retail, spill the beans), хленчене (whimper, whine), говоря глупости (blah blah, blather, blether, footle), глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, cod, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery), блея, блеене. (various references) | |
Chinese | "诉 (Bleated, Bleating). (various references) | |
Czech | meèet. (various references) | |
Dutch | grommen (bellow, neigh), brullen (bellow, howl, neigh, roar, yell), blaten (bellow, neigh), balken (bellow, bray, neigh). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bleki (bellow, neigh), ŝafbleki. (various references) | |
Farsi | ناله کردن (Groan, Hone, Wail, Whimper, Whine), صدای بزغاله کردن , بع بع کردن , بع بع . (various references) | |
Finnish | määkiä, ammua (bellow, low, moo, neigh). (various references) | |
French | crier, bêler. (various references) | |
Frisian | brinzgje (bellow, neigh), balte (bellow, neigh), âlje (bellow, neigh). (various references) | |
German | blöken (bellow, low, neigh), meckern (beef, bitch, gripe, grouse, moan, nag, nagging, niggling, to bitch, to grouse), geblöck. (various references) | |
Greek | βελάζω (bellow). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לפעות, ל'עות (low, moo, wail, weep), פעי" (scream, shriek), פעי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | bégetés (Baa, baaing, blat, bleating). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengembik (baa), embikan. (various references) | |
Italian | belare (Baa). (various references) | |
Manx | maaley (baa, bleating). (various references) | |
Norwegian | breke. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eatblay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | balir (baa), balido, balar (baa). (various references) | |
Romanian | behãit (Baa, bleating), behãi (Baa), vorbi cu voce slabã. (various references) | |
Russian | блеять блеяние, блеять, блеяние. (various references) | |
Scottish | mèil (a bleat, as of sheep : mèilich, continued). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | blejati (baa), blejanje (baa), mečanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | balido (Baa). (various references) | |
Swedish | bräka (Baa, bellow, Bray, neigh). (various references) | |
Thai | เสียงพู"หรือบ่นเบาๆ, พู"หรือบ่นเบาๆ. (various references) | |
Turkish | melemek (Baa), meleme (Baa, bleating), cılız bir sesle konuşmak, <anirmak> (bellow, neigh). (various references) | |
Turkmen | mдlemek, зekremek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | говорити дурниці, мекання, бекати, бекання. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bê (fatling, white meat). (various references) | |
Welsh | brefu (bray, low), bref (bray, lowing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abela, bala, balantis, balare, bebet, bela, beltemus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bleat": bleated, bleater, bleaters, bleating, bleats. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "bleat": outbleat. (additional references) | |
Words containing "bleat": outbleated, outbleating, outbleats. (additional references) | |
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"Bleat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aleat, Balawat, balet, bealt, Beatt, belah, Belet, belit, blaaa, blaat, Blaeu, blait, blato, blatt, bleaf, bleah, blean, bleap, bleath, bleau, bleeg, Bleet, bleev, bleibt, blerte, blete, bleuet, blewt, bliaut, Blitar, bloaf, bloaty, Bluemaq, bluot, Blyxa, Boleat, bolete, breat, bulagat, Bulat, Buleita, gleat, kleat, Oleta, Ubolrat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: blate, table. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-t" | |
-1 letter: abet, able, bale, bate, beat, belt, beta, blae, blat, blet, late, tael, tale, teal, tela. | |
-2 letters: alb, ale, alt, ate, bal, bat, bel, bet, eat, eta, lab, lat, lea, let, tab, tae, tea, tel. | |
-3 letters: ab, ae, al, at, ba, be, el, et, la, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-t" | |
+1 letter: ablate, ablest, albeit, albite, ballet, battle, bleats, boatel, cablet, labret, lobate, oblate, stable, tabled, tables, tablet. | |
+2 letters: abettal, ablated, ablates, abluent, abluted, actable, albites, astilbe, baldest, ballets, ballute, bastile, batlike, battled, battler, battles, beastly, belated, beleapt, beltway, benthal, bestial, bimetal, bitable, blanket, blasted, blaster, blastie, blather, blatted, blatter, bleated, bleater, bloated, bloater, boatels, brattle, bullate, cablets, citable, datable, eatable, flatbed, getable, globate, halbert, hatable, labiate, labrets, lambent, lambert, librate, limbate, lobated, mutable, notable, oblates, potable, ratable, retable, stabile, stabled, stabler, stables, sublate, tableau, tablets, takable, tamable, taxable, teabowl, tenable, tenably, timbale, totable, triable, tunable, typable, votable. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Sounds 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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