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Definitions: Fire-eater |
Fire-eaterNoun1. A member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires. 2. A belligerent grouch. 3. A performer who pretends to swallow fire. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fire-eater" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Synonyms: Fire-eaterSynonyms: fire fighter (n), firefighter (n), fireman (n), fire-swallower (n), hothead (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: fire eater (fine arts, sports & leisure). |
Crosswords: Fire-eater |
| Specialty definitions using "fire-eater": Fire-eaters. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fire-Eater (2000) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Fire-eater" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Fire-eater" is used about 5 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 (singular) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "fire-eater"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | tűznyelő, tűzevő, szájhős (roister-doister, roisterer, swaggerer, swashbuckler, talker), soviniszta uszító, izgága ember (rooster), demagóg (demagog, demagogic, demagogue, rabble-rouser, tub thumper). (various references) | ||||||||||
Indonesian | jagoan (champion, fighter). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | sluggeyder aile. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ire-eaterfay kẻ hung hăng (swashbuckler, swasher). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-f-i-r-r-t" | |
-2 letters: ferrate, ferrite, reefier, retiree, tearier. | |
-3 letters: aerier, afreet, artier, eerier, faerie, fairer, fearer, feater, feriae, ferret, frater, irater, rafter, reefer, refire, retear, retire, tearer, terrae. | |
-4 letters: aerie, afire, afrit, after, airer, arete, eater, eerie, farer, feria, firer, freer, frere, friar, frier, irate, rater, refer, refit, retia, retie, rifer, tarre, terai, terra, trier. | |
-5 letters: airt. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-f-i-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: featherier. | |
+2 letters: hereinafter, referential, refrigerate. | |
+3 letters: preferential, refrigerated, refrigerates, thereinafter. | |
+4 letters: referentially. | |
+5 letters: featherbrained, interferential, preferentially, referentiality, refractiveness, unrefrigerated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 72 65 2D 65 61 74 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01110010 01100101 00101101 01100101 01100001 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i r e - e a t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0072 0065 002D 0065 0061 0074 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40758471157167867184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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