Croft

Definition: Croft

Croft

Noun

1. (Great Britain) a small farm worked by a crofter.

Date "croft" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Abode	Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Croft is the name of several places in the United Kingdom:

Croft, Lancashire, England
Croft, Leicestershire, England
Croft, Lincolnshire, England
Croft, Pembrokeshire Wales

A croft is also a farmhouse plus agricultural land in Scotland and most of its islands, especially the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland.

Croft, Lancashire

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Croft is a village in the historic County of Lancashire, in the north west of England near Newton-le-Willows. It is administratively in the unitary authority of Warrington.

For other uses of the word Croft see Croft.

Crosswords: Croft

English words defined with "croft": Garth ♦ Parrock, Pendicler ♦ Tigh. (references)

Specialty definitions using "croft": CORELLI ♦ Goodman's Croft. (references)

Etymologies containing "croft": Undercroft. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
Song Titles	Summer Breeze (performing artist: Seals and Croft)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Kings Croft [UNABRIDGED] (reference) Lara Croft Tomb Raider 2003 Calendar: The Angel of Darkness (reference) Lara's Book--Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenon (reference) Tomb Raider II: Starring Lara Croft (Secrets of the Games Series.) (reference) Wall of Glass: A Joshua Croft Mystery (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) / Dario Fo, Zedda, Larmore, Croft, Netherlands Opera (reference) Lara Croft - Lethal and Loaded (reference) Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Mozart - Requiem / Ziesak, Maultsby, R. Croft, D. Arnold, Boston Baroque, Pearlman (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Yeomen (F) Mabel N. Croft (left center) and Frances Gormley (right) with two of the hospital's patients, November 1918. Note beret-type hat worn by Mabel Croft. Credit: NAVY.		Ponca Indian sun dance, Ponca reservation, Indian Territory / Thomas Croft, photographer, Arkansas City, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Boys living in the Camp Croft area waiting for the truck to come and move their families out near Whitestone, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.		Relatives of the aged Harvey sisters who have come to help them move out of their home in the Camp Croft area. Near Whitestone, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Moving the belongings of the Harvey sisters, old residents of the Camp Croft area. Near Whitestone, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.		Mrs. Harvey and a neighbor watching her belongings being moved out of her house in the Camp Croft area near Whitestone, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Mrs. L. A. Anderson, helping a neighbor move out of Camp Croft area. Near Whitestone, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.		Landscape in Camp Croft showing trailer family moving out. Near Pacolet, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Abandoned farmhouse in the Camp Croft area. Near Whitestone, South Carolina region. Credit: Library of Congress.		Tenant farmer moving the last of his load out of his farmer home in Camp Croft area. Near Whitestone, South Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"Croft" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.54% of the time. "Croft" is used about 254 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 (proper)	66.54%	169	23,972
Noun (singular)	33.46%	85	35,870
Total	100.00%	254	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "croft" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Croft	Last name	6,000	2,230
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expression using "croft": La Croft. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "croft": Croft-cooke, Croft-murray.
	Ending with "croft": off-the-croft.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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.

Language		Translations for "croft"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Fermë E Vogël (small holding). (various references)

Arabic		‏حقل صغير مسور. (various references)

Bulgarian		Малък Земеделски Имот. (various references)

Czech		Políèko. (various references)

Danish		miniaturebedrift (mini-holding, small business), mindre landbrugsejendom (homestead, mini-holding, small business, smallholding), husmandslod (mini-holding, small business). (various references)

Dutch		kleine exploitatie (mini-holding, small business), dwergbedrijf (mini-holding, small business). (various references)

Finnish		pienyritys (mini-holding, small business), pientila (small-holding). (various references)

French		Petite Ferme, microfundium, micro-exploitation. (various references)

German		Zwergbetrieb (mini-holding, small business), Kate (cottage). (various references)

Greek		μικροφούντιο (mini-holding, small business), μικροεκμετάλλευση (mini-holding, small business). (various references)

Hebrew		ַו�" קט� �", �"�" קטן ֵס�'ור. (various references)

Hungarian		major (Barton, farm, farm-stead, grange), kisbérlet, háztáji telek, bekerített háztáji telek. (various references)

Italian		Piccolo Podere, parvifondo (mini-holding, small business), minifondo (mini-holding, small business), microfondo (mini-holding, small business), micro-azienda (mini-holding, small business), azienda minima (mini-holding, small business). (various references)

Manx		croit. (various references)

Pig Latin		oftcray

Portuguese		campo murado, sítio (flag-station, location, place, siege, site, spot, station), minifúndio (mini-holding, small business). (various references)

Romanian		Fermã Micã, Bucatã De Pãmânt. (various references)

Russian		Приусадебный Участок, Небольшая Ферма. (various references)

Scottish		croit (a croft, a hump, hump). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		okućnica (infield), malo poljsko dobro. (various references)

Spanish		minifundio (mini-holding, small business), microfundio (mini-holding, small business), Granja Pequeña (small holding), Finca Pequeña (fifty-fifty farm, small farm). (various references)

Swedish		Torp. (various references)

Turkish		Küçük Çiftlik, Eve Bitişik Tarla. (various references)

Ukrainian		Невелика Ферма, Нива (Lea), �"ород. (various references)

Vietnamese		mảnh đất nhỏ có r� o trại nhỏ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "croft": crofter, crofters, crofts. (additional references)
	Words ending with "croft": undercroft. (additional references)
	Words containing "croft": undercrofts. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Croft" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cloft, coft, corff, corfit, Creeft, cref, cront, croot, crost, crot, Crotty, Crout, cruf, cruft, Cruyft, groft, Kroff, Kropfl, troft. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "croft" (pronounced krô"ft)
3	-ô" f t	aloft, loft, oft, scoffed.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-f-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: coft, corf, fort, torc.
	-2 letters: cor, cot, for, fro, oft, orc, ort, roc, rot, tor.
	-3 letters: of, or, to.
	Words containing the letters "c-f-o-r-t"
	+1 letter: crofts, factor.
	+2 letters: coffret, comfort, crofter, factors, factory, functor, futhorc.
	+3 letters: cofactor, coffrets, comforts, confront, confuter, crofters, crowfeet, crowfoot, defector, effector, factored, ferocity, fibrotic, footrace, forecast, fraction, friction, fructose, functors, futhorcs, infector, offtrack, perfecto, trifocal.
	+4 letters: cafetoria, cofactors, cofeature, colorfast, comforted, comforter, confiteor, confiture, confronts, confuters, crowfoots, defectors, deflector, effectors, factorage, factorial, factories, factoring, factorize, floristic, flowchart, fluorotic, footraces, forcemeat, forecasts, forecourt, fornicate, fortalice, fractions, fractious, frictions, fructoses, fructuous, fruticose, furcation, infectors, inflictor, nonfactor, olfactory, perfectos, pitchfork, refection, refectory, reflector, refractor, rockshaft, softcover, trifocals, woodcraft.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
lara croft	2,841	croft and barrow	58
lara croft nude	860	lara croft nue	49
nicole van croft	822	angel croft darkness lara raider tomb	48
croft nichole van	764	lara croft gallery	46
laura croft	254	lora croft	44
lara croft naked	231	lara croft wallpaper	43
tomb raider lara croft	171	lara croft angel of darkness	43
lara croft pic	162	seal croft	40
lara croft porn	161	lara croft model	40
angelina croft	158	lara croft nude picture	33
croft	135	comic croft lara	31
lara croft picture	131	cradle croft lara life	30
lara croft nude pic	118	croft hot lara pic	29
lara croft xxx	118	croft nichole nude van	27
lara croft hentai	111	croft window	26
croft van	98	laura croft tomb raider	26
laura croft nude	92	croft times	25
lara croft sex	84	laura croft naked	25
cradle croft lara life raider tomb	74	croft lara photo	25
lara croft nude raider	58	free lara croft nude pic	25
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Croft

Definition: Croft

Croft

Noun

Synonyms within Context: Croft

Abode

Specialty Definition: Croft

Croft, Lancashire

Crosswords: Croft

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