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Definition: Eglantine |
EglantineNoun1. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eglantine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: EglantineSynonyms: briar (n), brier (n), sweetbriar (n), sweetbrier (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Eglantine |
| English words defined with "eglantine": Bedegar ♦ Eglatere. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "eglantine": Eglatere. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Eglantine" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eglantine" is used about 15 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) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
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 |
eglantine emey nue | 10 |
eglantine | 8 |
eglantine emeyé nue | 5 |
eglantine emeye | 4 |
eglantine 1883 print | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eglantine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Trëndafil I Egër (briar, canker-rose, dog rose), Lloj Trëndafilli. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Шипка. (various references) | |
Czech | ípková Rùže. (various references) | |
German | Weinrose. (various references) | |
Greek | αγριοτριαντάφυλλο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vadrózsa (briar, briar-rose, brier). (various references) | |
Italian | Eglantina. (various references) | |
Manx | dress villish (sweet briar). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eglantineay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Proteção (aegis, backing, blindage, care, convoy, cover, defence, defense, Favor, favour, fostering, guard, guardianship, household troops, maintenance, palladium, patroness, protection, protectorship, safekeeping, safety, saving, security, shield, shroud, tower, umbrella, ward), Madressilva (bine, honeysuckle, hong kong, woodbine). (various references) | |
Romanian | Trandafir Sãlbatic (brier, dog rose, dogberry), Mãceş (brier, dog rose). (various references) | |
Russian | Шиповник, оза Эглантерия. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šipak (briar, dog rose, hip, sweet-briar, sweetbrier). (various references) | |
Spanish | Eglantina (sweetbrier). (various references) | |
Thai | กุหลาบชนิ"หนึ่ง ("อกสีชมพู). (various references) | |
Turkish | Yaban Gülü (briar, brier, brier rose, dog rose). (various references) | |
Ukranian | Шипшина. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eglantine": eglantines. (additional references) | |
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"Eglantine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elatine, Segantini, Ugljanin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eglantine" (pronounced e"gluntī'n) |
| 6 | -l u n t ī' n | Valentine. |
| 5 | -u n t ī' n | byzantine, serpentine, turpentine. |
| 3 | -t ī' n | Palatine. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: inelegant. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-n-n-t" | |
-1 letter: antigene, entangle, galenite, gantline, gelatine, latening, legatine. | |
-2 letters: aneling, anteing, antigen, atingle, eanling, egalite, elating, elegant, gelatin, genital, gentian, gentile, leaning, lenient, lineage, lineate. | |
-3 letters: aiglet, anting, eaglet, eating, elegit, engine, entail, gannet, gelant, gelate, gelati, genial, gentil, gentle, ingate, innate, lateen, legate, lenten, ligate, linage, linnet, neaten, negate, tangle, teeing, telega, tenail, teniae, tineal, tingle. | |
-4 letters: agene, agent, agile, aglee, aglet, algin, alien, align, aline, anele, anent, angel, angle, anile, eagle, eaten, elain, elate, elint, elite, enate, entia, genet, genie, giant, glean, gleet, glint, inane, ingle, inlet, laten, leant, legit, liane, liang, liege, ligan, linen, linga, telae, telia, tenge, tenia, tinea, tinge. | |
-5 letters: agee, agin, alee, alit, anil, ante, anti, egal, elan, etna, gaen, gain, gait, gale, gane, gate, gelt, gene, gent, geta, gien, gilt, glee, glen, glia, gnat, ilea, lain, lane, lang, late, lati, lean, leet, lent, lien, line, ling, linn, lint, lite, nail, neat, nene, nine, nite, tael, tail, tain, tale, tali, tang, teal, teel, teen, tela, tele, tile, tine, ting. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-l-n-n-t" | |
+1 letter: eglantines. | |
+2 letters: delineating, disentangle, enucleating, geanticline, inelegantly, langbeinite, realignment. | |
+3 letters: disentangled, disentangles, entreatingly, eternalizing, geanticlines, generational, hearteningly, interleaving, langbeinites, palingenetic, realignments, tangibleness, unnegotiable. | |
+4 letters: cantilevering, credentialing, demyelinating, externalising, externalizing, gentlemanlike, interlayering, interpleading, interregional, interrelating, lastingnesses, neonatologies, noncollegiate, nonnegotiable, outgeneraling, penetratingly, threateningly. | |
+5 letters: antiallergenic, concelebrating, congenialities, credentialling, decentralizing, encephalitogen, entertainingly, essentializing, evangelization, gelatinousness, generalisation, generalization, generationally, heartrendingly, intangibleness, intelligential, intelligentsia, interpellating, intersegmental, nongeometrical, tangiblenesses. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 67 6C 61 6E 74 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). --. .-.. .- -. - .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100111 01101100 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E g l a n t i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0067 006C 0061 006E 0074 0069 006E 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)397378678086758071 |
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