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Definition: Durbar |
DurbarNoun1. The room in the palace of a native prince of India in which audiences and receptions occur. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "durbar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Durbar (Indian word). A levée. "Durbars which might rival in splendour of colour and jewelled bravery the glories of the court of Byzantium." - McCarthy: England under Gladstone, chap. iv. p. 60. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conversation | Hall of audience, durbar. |
Council | Assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house; quorum; council fire, powwow, primary. |
Tribunal | Court martial; drumhead court martial; durbar, divan; Areopagus; Irota. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Delhi Durbar (1956) The Durbar at Delhi (1912) Delhi Durbar (1903) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The great American Durbar. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Durbar" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Durbar" is used about 5 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) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
durbar | 3 |
delhi durbar medal | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "durbar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | торжественный прием. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "durbar": durbars. (additional references) | |
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"Durbar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: burbar, Derber, Dubrac, Dubrao, Dubrav, Durbah, durban, Durber, Durward. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "durbar" (pronounced 'Dur"bar'): Crossbar, Crowbar, lobar, Multilobar, Prelumbar, Sublumbar, Unilobar. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-r-r-u" | |
-1 letter: durra. | |
-2 letters: bard, baud, brad, bura, burd, burr, darb, daub, drab, drub, dura, durr. | |
-3 letters: arb, bad, bar, bra, brr, bud, bur, dab, dub, rad, rub, urb, urd. | |
-4 letters: ab, ad, ar, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-r-r-u" | |
+1 letter: durbars. | |
+2 letters: absurder, arboured, sandburr, unbarred. | |
+3 letters: barracuda, bordereau, burladero, harboured, sandburrs, surfboard, upbraider. | |
+4 letters: airbrushed, barracudas, barramunda, barramundi, bordereaux, breadcrumb, breadfruit, budgerigar, burladeros, carbureted, carburised, carburized, drumbeater, lumberyard, perdurable, perdurably, rubricated, superboard, surfboards, troubadour, unbarbered, upbraiders. | |
+5 letters: barramundas, barramundis, breadcrumbs, breadfruits, budgerigars, burglarized, carburetted, decarburize, drumbeaters, lumberyards, rhabdovirus, superboards, surfboarded, surfboarder, troubadours. | |
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