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Ensconce

Definition: Ensconce

Ensconce

Verb

1. Fix firmly; "He ensconced himself in the chair".

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

Date "ensconce" was first used: 1590. (references)

Note: Ensconce \En*sconce"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Ensconced; Imperative present participle Ensconcing.]. (Websters 1913)



Synonym: Ensconce

Synonym: settle (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ensconce

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Concealment

Cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; cover up one's tracks; screen from sight, screen from observation; drawing the veil; draw the curtain, close the curtain; curtain, shade, eclipse, throw a view over; be cloud, be mask; mask, disguise; ensconce, muffle, smother; befog; whisper.

Safety

Make safe, render safe; Adjective:; protect; take care of; (care); preserve; cover, screen, shelter, shroud, flank, ward; guard; (defend); secure; (restrain); entrench, intrench, fence round; (circumscribe); house, nestle, ensconce; take charge of.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ensconce

English words defined with "ensconce": Ensconced, EnsconcingInsconce. (references)

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Expression: Ensconce

Expression using "ensconce": ensconce oneself. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: Ensconce

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

Albanian

  

strehohem (ensconce oneself, Harbor, harbour, nestle), rehatohem (be appeased, curl up, nestle, sit back). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏إستكان (ensconce oneself, nuzzle, refresh), ‏إستراح (breathe, ensconce oneself, hit the hay, lighten, recuperate, refresh, repose, rest, set at rest, stand at ease, subside). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

закътвам (shelter, tuck), поставям на сигурно място. (various references)

   

Czech

  

uložit (bestow, collocate, deposit, house, impose, inflict, input, keep, land with, pack off, place, put to bed, save, seat, Stow). (various references)

   

French

  

bien se caler. (various references)

   

German

  

sich niederlassen (alight, establish oneself, establishing, lie down, light, perch, roost, set up in business, set up shop, settle, settle down, sit down), sich häuslich niederlassen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θέτω σε ασφάλεια. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

elrejt (conceal, disguise, hid, hidden, hide, hide away, obscure, secrete, smother, to cache, to conceal, to disguise, to eloign, to enshroud, to hide, to recess, to screen, to secrete, to shelter, to smother up, to squirrel away, to stash, vail). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menyembunyikan (conceal, dissemble, hide, withhold). (various references)

   

Italian

  

nascondersi (abscond, burrow, hide, hide oneself, lurk, skulk). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ensconceay

   

Portuguese

  

esconder (bescreen, cache, conceal, dissemble, dodge, ensign, hide, hold back, hugger mugger, occult, pocket, screen, secrete, stash, suppress, tuck), ensanguentado (bloody, gory), meter-se (go). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ascunde (cloak, conceal, Cork, cover, curtain, cushion, disguise, dissemble, enwrap, hide, hood, hugger mugger, keep away, keep back, mask, put away, put by, screen, secrete, shroud, smooth, tuck, tuck away, veil, wrap), aşeza într-un loc sigur. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

укрываться, укрывать (embower, harbour, mantle, screen, secrete, sheltered, sheltering). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

smestiti udobno. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

instalarse en (induct, pitch), hallarse (be, be found, be located, find oneself, lie, locate). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sätta i säkerhet, gömma (cache, conceal, hide, hiding, hiding place, secrete, shelter, stash), förskansa (entrench). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เพื่อความปลอ" ัย (คำโบรา"), ทำตัวตามสบาย. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yerleştirmek (accommodate, deposit, domicil, domicile, draw out, embed, emplace, enchase, engraft, entrench, establish, fix, indwell, ingraft, inject, install, lay, locate, nestle, perch, pitch, place, posit, position, post, put, put in, quarter, reset, seat, set, set up, settle, shake down, sink, site, situate, slot, spot, Square, station, Stow). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сховатися (decamp, elope, refuge). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Ensconce

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Dutch700-Modern

schans. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ensconce

Derivations

Words beginning with "ensconce": ensconced, ensconces. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Ensconce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enconce, Enesco, enscone, ensconse, enscounce, ensonce, escence, esconce, mensonge, unscenic. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Ensconce"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ensconce" (pronounced unskÄ"ns)
5-s k Ä" n ssconce.
3-Ä" n snonchalance, ponce, renaissance, response.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Ensconce

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: nonces, sconce.

-3 letters: cense, cones, conns, cosec, nenes, neons, nonce, nones, onces, scene, scone, secco.

-4 letters: cees, cone, conn, cons, eons, nene, neon, noes, none, nose, once, ones, seen, sene, sone.

-5 letters: cee, con, cos, ens, eon, nee, nos, oes, one, ons, ose, sec, see, sen, son.

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

+1 letter: ensconced, ensconces.

 

+2 letters: concenters, condescend, connecters, conscience, innocences, nonscience, reconnects.

 

+3 letters: cognoscente, conciseness, concrescent, condescends, condolences, conferences, confidences, confluences, congruences, connectives, consciences, consequence, consistence, continences, conversance, conveyances, innocencies, nonsciences, omniscience, reconvinces.

 

+4 letters: cinquecentos, coincidences, concatenates, concealments, concentrates, concernments, concessioner, concrescence, concreteness, concurrences, condescended, conferrences, congruencies, consequences, consistences, contingences, convalescent, conveniences, conventicles, convergences, conversances, conveyancers, countenances, crescendoing, disconnected, ethnoscience, incoherences, misconnected, necromancers, necromancies, neuroscience, nonelectrics, nonsuccesses, omnisciences, overconcerns.

 

+5 letters: codependences, commencements, conceitedness, concelebrants, concertedness, concessioners, concisenesses, concrescences, concupiscence, concurrencies, condescending, condescension, conduciveness, confectioners, conferencings, connectedness, conservancies, consistencies, contingencies, convalescence, convalescents, conveniencies, conventiclers, convergencies, conversancies, countenancers, encroachments, ethnosciences, incompetences, incongruences, inconsecutive, inconsequence, inconsistence, incontinences, incorrectness, inflorescence, interconnects, neurosciences, recognizances, reconceptions, reconnections, reconveyances, selenocentric, unconsecrated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ensconce


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

45 6E 73 63 6F 6E 63 65

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)

.    -.    ...    -.-.    ---    -.    -.-.    .

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

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

01000101 01101110 01110011 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#115 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0073 0063 006F 006E 0063 0065

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

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

3980856981806971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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