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Come-on

Definition: Come-on

Come-on

Noun

1. Anything that serves as an enticement.

2. Qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward.

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


Synonyms: Come-on

Synonyms: bait (n), enticement (n), hook (n), lure (n), sweetener (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Come-on

DomainUsage

Screenplays

What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape or form - is that men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way. (When Harry Met Sally...; writing credit: Nora Ephron)

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Usage Frequency: Come-on

"Come-on" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Come-on" is used about 17 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1785,106

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Come-on

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "come-on": come-on-fred-we-give-you-all-this-advertising-how-about-an-in-depth-profile.

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Modern Translation: Come-on

Language Translations for "come-on"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

来在. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

오 에. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ome-oncay

   

Thai

  

สิ่งจูงใจ, ท่าทางเชื้อเชิญ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Come-on

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

lactatio. (various references)

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Misspellings: Come-on

Misspellings

"Come-on" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cwmavon, omenoni. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Come-on

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-m-n-o-o"

-2 letters: come, cone, coon, meno, mono, moon, nome, omen, once.

-3 letters: con, coo, eon, men, moc, mon, moo, nom, noo, one.

-4 letters: em, en, me, mo, ne, no, oe, om, on.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-m-n-o-o"
 

+1 letter: compone, economy, monocle, monoecy.

 

+2 letters: coenamor, cognomen, colormen, comedown, commoner, consomme, downcome, economic, monocled, monocles, monocyte.

 

+3 letters: aeronomic, cacodemon, chromogen, coenamors, cognomens, comedones, comedowns, commonage, commoners, commonest, comonomer, component, condemnor, conformed, conformer, conominee, consommes, contemnor, downcomes, economics, economies, economise, economist, economize, ergonomic, honeycomb, incommode, microtone, monecious, monocline, monocoque, monocytes, monoecies, monoecism, monogenic, monomeric, moonfaced, moonscape, schoolmen, semicolon.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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