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Downmarket

Definition: Downmarket

Downmarket

Adjective

1. Designed for low-income consumers.

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


Antonym: upmarket (adj). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Downmarket

"Downmarket" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Downmarket" is used about 21 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
Adjective (general or positive)71.43%1590,616
Adverb (general)23.81%5157,705
Noun (singular)4.76%1339,140
                    Total100.00%21N/A

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

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Modern Translation: Downmarket

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

German

  

anspruchslos (homely, low brow, lowbrow, modest, plain, simple, unambitious, unassuming, unassumingly, undemanding, undiscerning, undiscriminating, unpretending, unpretendingly, unpretentious). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ownmarketday

   

Russian 

  

нижний предел рынка, дешевый и низкого качества. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Downmarket

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-k-m-n-o-r-t-w"

-2 letters: damewort, danewort, markdown, takedown, teamwork, teardown, workmate.

-3 letters: dormant, madrone, madwort, mordant, mordent, network, tonearm, troaked, womaned, workman, workmen.

-4 letters: ardent, atoned, atoner, awoken, daemon, damner, danker, darken, demark, deworm, donate, downer, dreamt, enamor, knower, marked, market, marted, marten, matron, meadow, mentor, moaned, moaner, moated, modern, narked, normed, omenta, onward, orated, ornate, radome.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Downmarket


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

44 6F 77 6E 6D 61 72 6B 65 74

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110 01101101 01100001 01110010 01101011 01100101 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#119 &#110 &#109 &#97 &#114 &#107 &#101 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 0077 006E 006D 0061 0072 006B 0065 0074

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

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

38818980796784777186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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