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Fastnacht

Definition: Fastnacht

Fastnacht

Noun

1. Doughnut traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday.

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

Crosswords: Fastnacht

Non-English Usage: "Fastnacht" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (carnival, shrovetide).

Commercial Usage: Fastnacht

Domain	Title
Books	Alaaf Oche en wenn et versönk : die Fastnacht in Aachen im Lauf der Jahrhunderte, 1859-1984 (reference) Der Kampf des Fastens gegen die Fastnacht : zur Geschichte der Mässigung (reference) Des Teufels Werber : mittelalterliche Lasterdarstellung und Gestaltungsformen der Fastnacht (reference) Fünfundachtzig Mainzer Jahre : die Stadt, die Fastnacht, Jakob Wucher in Geschichte und Geschichten (reference) Geöffnetes Narren-Turney : Geschichte der Karlsruher Fastnacht im Spiegel gesellschaftlicher und politischer Entwicklungen (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fastnacht

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
fastnacht	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Fastnacht

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-f-h-n-s-t-t"
	-2 letters: caftans, fantast.
	-3 letters: ashcan, attach, caftan, chants, nachas, sancta, snatch, stanch.
	-4 letters: antas, canst, cants, chant, chats, facts, haafs, hafts, hansa, hants, natch, scant, scatt, shaft, snath, tachs, tacts.
	-5 letters: aahs, acta, acts, anas, ansa, anta, ants, cans, cant, casa, cash, cast, cats, chat, fact, fans, fash, fast, fats, haaf, haft, hant, hast, hats.
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Alternative Orthography: Fastnacht

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

46 61 73 74 6E 61 63 68 74

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)

01000110 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101110 01100001 01100011 01101000 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#110 &#97 &#99 &#104 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0073 0074 006E 0061 0063 0068 0074

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

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

406785868067697486

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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