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Canorous

Definition: Canorous

Canorous

Adjective

1. Richly melodious.

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

Etymology: Canorous \Ca*no"rous\, adjective. [Latin expression canorus, from nor melody, from canere to sing.]. (Websters 1913)



Synonym: Canorous

Synonym: songful (adj). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Canorous

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

canorous quintet

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

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Modern Translations: Canorous

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

Albanian

  

melodik (fluted, fluty, musical, songful, tuny). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

мелодичен (dulcet, euphonious, harmonious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodic, melodious, musical, orphean, songful, sonorous, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny). (various references)

   

Czech

  

melodický (cantabile, harmonious, melodic, melodious, tuneful). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

dallamos (euphonious, melodic, melodious, musical, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anorouscay

   

Portuguese

  

canoro (songful), melodioso (arioso, harmonious, melodious, music, musical, songful, sonorous, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny), harmonioso (accordant, concordant, conformable, consonant, euphonious, flowing, harmonic, harmonious, melodist, numerous, orpin, regular, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny, United). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sonor (deep-toned, echoing, loud, orotund, resonant, resounding, ringing, rotund, round, soft, sonorous, sonorously, sound, vocal, voiced, voiceful), rezonant (resonant), melodios (harmonious, melodious, melodiously, musical, soft, sweet, tuneful, tunefully). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

мелодичный (fluted, harmonious, melodic, melodious, musical, songful, tunable, tuneful). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

melodisk (melodic, melodious, tuneful). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uyumlu (accommodating, coherent, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentient, consequent, consonant, deferent, deferential, elastic, eurhythmic, harmonic, harmonious, melodious, responsive, rhythmic, supple, symphonious, tuneful, unisonous, well-matched), ahenkli (cadenced, coherent, concordant, congruent, congruous, consonant, euphonic, euphonious, harmonic, harmonious, homophonic, in accord, in order, melodic, melodious, symphonious, tuneful). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

du dương (melodious, melody, tuneful), êm tai (euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, musical). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Canorous

Derivations

Words beginning with "canorous": canorously, canorousness, canorousnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Canorous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: canarous, canarvons, canorus, Centropus, cinerous, coronopus, Cunoarus, Cunomorus. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Canorous"

Words rhyming with "canorous" (pronounced 'Ca*no"rous'): Anomaloflorous, Anurous, Aurous, Chlorous, Cirrous, Decorous, Durous, Eurhipidurous, ferrous, Garous, Gastrurous, Geminiflorous, Hypochlorous, indecorous, Insonorous, Irous, leprous, Liguliflorous, Macrurous, mercurous, Multiflorous, Pellagrous, Radiciflorous, Ramiflorous, Sclerous, serous, Serrous, sonorous, Squarrous, Subserous, susurrous, Thysanurous, Uniflorous. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Canorous

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-n-o-o-r-s-u"

-1 letter: coronas, racoons.

-2 letters: acorns, cornua, cornus, corona, croons, narcos, racons, racoon, soucar.

-3 letters: acorn, arcus, arson, canso, carns, conus, coons, corns, cornu, croon, curns, narco, narcs, orcas, racon, roans, scaur, scorn, scour, sonar, uncos.

-4 letters: anus, arco, arcs, cans, carn, cars, cons, coon, coos, corn, cors, crus, curn, curs, naos, narc, nous, oars, ocas, onus, orca, orcs, osar, ours, roan, rocs, runs, scan, scar, soar, soon, sora, sorn, sour, sura, unco, urns, ursa.

-5 letters: arc, ars, can, car, con, coo, cor, cos, cur, noo, nor, nos, nus, oar, oca, ons, ora, orc, ors, our, ran, ras, roc, run, sac, sau, son, sou, sun, uns, urn.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-n-o-o-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: courantos, rancorous.

 

+2 letters: canorously, clangorous, courantoes, monoculars.

 

+3 letters: acrimonious, anachronous, arenicolous, carnivorous, consummator, contrarious, cornucopias, coruscation, inoculators, obscuration, proconsular, rancorously.

 

+4 letters: asynchronous, canorousness, carbonaceous, clangorously, conjurations, conquistador, consummators, consummatory, continuators, conurbations, corrugations, coruscations, mononuclears, necrophagous, noncancerous, obscurations, oncornavirus, overcautions, porcelaneous, proconsulate, procurations, uncourageous.

 

+5 letters: acrimoniously, anachronously, atrociousness, carboniferous, carcinomatous, carnivorously, cavernicolous, clamorousness, communicators, compurgations, conclusionary, confabulators, conquistadors, convulsionary, fluorocarbons, pococurantism, porcellaneous, proconsulates, proteinaceous, quattrocentos, reoccupations, subcontractor, voraciousness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Canorous


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

43 61 6E 6F 72 6F 75 73

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)

01000011 01100001 01101110 01101111 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#97 &#110 &#111 &#114 &#111 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0061 006E 006F 0072 006F 0075 0073

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

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

3767808184818785

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INDEX

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


  

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