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Definitions: Farrow |
FarrowNoun1. The production of a litter of pigs. Verb1. Birth; of sows. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "farrow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1606. (references) |
Synonyms: FarrowSynonyms: farrowing (n), pig (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Multitude | Noun: multitude; numerous; Adjective: numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion; (plenty); legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd; (assemblage); lots; all in the world and his wife. |
Posterity | Noun: posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild. |
Production | Flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle; bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Farrow |
| English words defined with "farrow": Farrow weed, Farry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "farrow": VIF. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "farrow": Farry. (references) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Farrow" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.38% of the time. "Farrow" is used about 58 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) | 91.38% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.62% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 58 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "farrow" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Farrow | Last name | 4,000 | 2,830 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "farrow": Farrow weed. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "farrow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tufë gicash, pjellë e dosës, pjell (bring forth, calve, fawn, foal, gender, give birth, increase, litter, pig, procreate, produce, whelp). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تخنص الخنزير, بطن من الخنانيص. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | опрасвам се, нестелна, прасило (litter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | porodit (give birth, give birth to, have). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fare (soeer), pattegris (piglet, pigling, sucking pig), kuld (breed, brood, hatch, litter, litter brood, rabbit litter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | worp (blow, litter, throw), toom (bridle, check, litter, restraints), dracht (costume, cyesis, gestation, litter, outfit, pregnancy, suit), biggen, big (piglet, pigling, sucking pig, young of a wild boar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | porsas (pig, piglet, pigling), pahnue (litter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | portée, porcelet, mettre bas, goret, cochonnée. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ferkeln (litter, make a mess, young pigs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γέννα (birth, childbirth, delivery, litter, parturition), γενώ χοιρίδια, χοιρίδια, χοιρίδιο (pig, piglet, pigling, shoat, shote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | malac (pig, squealer), ellik (threw, thrown, to drop, to farrow, to foal, to kid, to throw, to yean). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | figliata (litter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ark vuickey (young pig), aalagh (hatch, incubation of birds, young of animals). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arrowfay ninhada (breed, brood, clutch, hatch, litter, nest, sitting). (various references) fãta (calve, cast, fawn, foal, litter, pup, whelp, yean). (various references) опорос. (various references) seasg (barren, dry, not giving milk, unprolific). (various references) prasiti se, prasići, prašenje. (various references) parir cerdos, parir (bear, bring forth, calve, cause, foal, give birth, give birth to, have, lamb, litter, live through, mother, pig, produce, pup, whelp), lechigada de puercos, gorrinillo (piglet, pigling), cochinillo (pig, piggy, piglet, pigling, shoat, shote, sucking pig), cerdito (piggy, piglet, pigling), camada (bedding, litter). (various references) smågris (piglet, pigling), kull (batch, brood, hatch, litter, tag), griskulting (piggy, piglet, pigling, sucking pig), griskull, grisa (pig). (various references) yavrulamak (breed, calve, cub, drop, fawn, foal, have kitten, kid, kitten, litter, pig, propagate, pup, spawn, teem, throw, whelp, yean), doğurmak (bear, breed, cause, engender, fawn, foal, freshen, generate, give birth, have a baby, procreate, pup), bir batında doğan domuz yavruları. (various references) jojuklamak. (various references) опорос, пороситися (litter, pig). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "farrow": farrowed, farrowing, farrows. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-o-r-r-w" | |
-1 letter: arrow. | |
-2 letters: faro, fora, frow, orra, roar. | |
-3 letters: arf, far, for, fro, oaf, oar, ora, raw, row, war. | |
-4 letters: ar, aw, fa, of, or, ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-o-r-r-w" | |
+1 letter: farrows, forward, froward. | |
+2 letters: farmwork, farrowed, forewarn, forswear, forwards, workfare. | |
+3 letters: afterword, farmworks, farrowing, foreswear, forewarns, forswears, forwarded, forwarder, forwardly, framework, frontward, frowardly, marrowfat, workfares. | |
+4 letters: afterwords, afterworld, farmworker, foreswears, forewarned, formalwear, forwarders, forwardest, forwarding, frameworks, frontwards, marrowfats, starflower, waterfront, waterproof. | |
+5 letters: afterworlds, farmworkers, floorwalker, forewarning, forswearing, forwardness, frowardness, starflowers, strawflower, waterfowler, waterfronts, waterproofs. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 72 72 6F 77 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- .-. .-. --- .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01110010 01110010 01101111 01110111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a r r o w |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0072 0072 006F 0077 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)406784848189 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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