Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Clambake

Definition: Clambake

Clambake

Noun

1. A cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked--usually on heated stones covered with seaweed.

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


Synonyms within Context: Clambake

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     

Modern Usage: Clambake

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Clambake (1967)

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

Top     

Commercial Usage: Clambake

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

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

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Clambake

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

clambake

88

clambake cooking

3

operation clambake

28

clambake cult operation scientology

3

clambake recipe

19

clambake menu

3

new england clambake

17

clambake island rhode

2

hypnotic clambake

8

maine clambake

2

clambake scientology

6

lobster clambake

2

clambake invitation

6

clambake pot

2

cape clambake cod

6

beach clambake

2

cabbage clambake island

4

clambake connection

2

clambake fosters

4

backyard clambake

2

clambake celebration

4

clambake party

2

clambake in pot

3

b clambake m

2

massachusetts clambake

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translation: Clambake

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

Farsi 

  

پیک نیک (Picnic), اجتماعی درخارج . (various references)

   

German

  

Muschelessen Am Strand, Fete (party, rave). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kagylósütés. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ambakeclay

   

Thai

  

การปิคนิคริมทะเล (มักมีการปิ้งหรือย่างอาหารทะเล). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

plaj pikniği, kumsal partisi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Derivations & Misspellings: Clambake

Derivations

Words beginning with "clambake": clambakes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Clambake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Clabecq, cleobaea, Lembeke. (additional references)

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

Top     

Rhyming with "Clambake"

Words rhyming with "clambake" (pronounced 'Clam"bake'): hardbake. (additional references)

Top     

Anagrams: Clambake

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-k-l-m"

-1 letter: makable.

-2 letters: becalm, mackle.

-3 letters: aback, abeam, akela, alack, amble, ameba, black, blame, bleak, cabal, cable, camel, kalam, macle.

-4 letters: able, acme, alae, alba, alec, alma, alme, baal, back, bake, bale, balk, balm, beak, beam, beck, bema, blae, blam, cake, calk, calm, came, clam, kale, kame, lace, lack, lake, lama, lamb, lame, leak, mabe.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-k-l-m"
 

+1 letter: camelback, clambakes.

 

+2 letters: camelbacks.

 

+3 letters: blackmailed, blackmailer.

 

+4 letters: blackmailers.

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Clambake


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

43 6C 61 6D 62 61 6B 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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 01101100 01100001 01101101 01100010 01100001 01101011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#108 &#97 &#109 &#98 &#97 &#107 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006C 0061 006D 0062 0061 006B 0065

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

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

3778677968677771

Top     

Non-English Dictionaries with "Clambake"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionnémet, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításUngar, magyar, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar

Thai

พจนานุกรมthailändisch, Thailänder, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümetürkisch, török, türkçe, türk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch, angol, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

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


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.