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Eye Opener

Definition: Eye Opener

Eye Opener

Noun

1. An alcoholic drink intended to wake one up early in the morning.

2. Something surprising and revealing.

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


Synonyms within Context: Eye Opener

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

Inexpectation

Surprise, sudden burst, thunderclap, blow, shock, start; bolt out of the blue; wonder; eye opener.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Eye Opener

DomainTitle

Books

  • An Eye Opener of Poems (reference)

  • Eye Opener (reference)

  • Fresh Ideas in Limited Budget Design: An Eye Opener (reference)

  • The Caledonia eye opener : wit, satire & parody in verse & prose (reference)

  • The Eye Opener (#1020A) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eye Opener

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

eye opener

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Eye Opener

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

Albanian

  

zbulim (detection, disclosure, discovery, divulge, exploration, exposure, finding, guess, intelligence, invention, outcrop, prospection, reconnaissance, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reveal, strike, uncovering), diçka që habit. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مفاجأة (surprise), ‏جرعة من شراب مسكر (dram). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

откровение (oracle, revelation, vision), изненада (surprise, wonderment). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zjevení (apocalypse, apparition, phantom, revelation, spectre, wraith). (various references)

   

French

  

surprise, petit verre pris au réveil. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

"פתע" 'מור" (a bolt from the blue). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szemnyitogató élmény (eye-opener), reveláció (eye-opener, revelation). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eyeay openeray

   

Romanian

  

eveniment senzaţional, pãhãrel (peg, wet), ştire senzaţionalã (floorer, front page news, scoop, stunt). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сенсационное сообщение, потрясающая новость. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

jutaranje piće, iznenađenje (bombshell, surprise). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

revelación (betrayal, disclosure, exposure, insight, revelation). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tankeställare (food for thought). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sabah içilen içki, şaşırtıcı haber (thunderbolt). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

agoriad llygad. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Eye Opener

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: eyeopener.

Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-n-o-p-r-y"

-3 letters: opener, pereon, pyrene, pyrone, reopen.

-4 letters: onery, peery, peony, porny, preen, prone, ropey.

-5 letters: eery, epee, erne, eyen, eyer, eyne, eyre, neep, nope, open, oyer, peen, peer, peon, pone, pony, pore, porn, pree, prey, pyre, repo, rope, ropy, yore.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-e-n-o-p-r-y"
 

+1 letter: eyeopeners.

 

+3 letters: honeycreeper.

 

+4 letters: honeycreepers.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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