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Enthralled

Definitions: Enthralled

Enthralled

Adjective

1. Held in slavery; "born of enslaved parents".

2. Filled with wonder and delight.

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

Date "enthralled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

 

Synonyms: Enthralled

Synonyms: beguiled (adj), bond (adj), captivated (adj), charmed (adj), delighted (adj), enslaved (adj), entranced (adj), in bondage (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Enthralled

English words defined with "enthralled": amazed, astonied, astonished, astoundedstage-struck, stunned. (references)
Specialty definitions using "enthralled": Peas. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Enthralled

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Image Slideshow: Enthralled

Computer Images:
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Usage Frequency: Enthralled

"Enthralled" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 64.38% of the time. "Enthralled" is used about 73 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
Lexical Verb (past participle)64.38%4749,740
Lexical Verb (past tense)28.77%2176,261
Adjective (general or positive)6.85%5157,705
                    Total100.00%73N/A

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

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Expression: Enthralled

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "enthralled": drug-enthralled.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Enthralled

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

enthralled

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Enthralled

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

Arabic 

  

‏مستعبد (enslaved, slave, thrall). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

吸引 (Attract, Attracted, Attracting, enthrall, enthralling, Intrigued, intriguing). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megigézett (enchanted, enraptured), lenyűgözött (spellbound). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

enthralleday

   

Russian 

  

захватывать захваченный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zanesen (delirious, rapturous). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Enthralled

Derivations

Words ending with "enthralled": disenthralled. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Enthralled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enthalled, enthraled, entralled, erthralled. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Enthralled"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "enthralled" (pronounced enthrô"ld)
4-r ô" l dcrawled, drawled, scrawled, sprawled.
3-ô" l dappalled, auld, bald, balled, bawled, called, hauled, installed, mauled, recalled, scald, stalled, uncalled, walled.

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Anagrams: Enthralled

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-l-l-n-r-t"

-2 letters: adherent, antlered, enthrall, haltered, lathered, leathern, neatherd, rehandle, thralled.

-3 letters: alerted, altered, earthed, earthen, enteral, enthral, eternal, haltere, handler, hearted, hearten, landler, latened, learned, leather, lethean, related, teleran, treadle.

-4 letters: adhere, aether, aneled, anteed, anther, antler, ardent, daleth, darnel, dartle, dealer, dearth, delate, dental, derate, earned, elated, elater, endear, entera, ethane, halted, halter.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-l-l-n-r-t"
 

+3 letters: candlelighter, disenthralled.

 

+4 letters: candlelighters.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Enthralled


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

45 6E 74 68 72 61 6C 6C 65 64

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)

01000101 01101110 01110100 01101000 01110010 01100001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#110 &#116 &#104 &#114 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 006E 0074 0068 0072 0061 006C 006C 0065 0064

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

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

39808674846778787170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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