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Definition: Handbill |
HandbillNoun1. An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "handbill" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1780. (references) |
Synonyms: HandbillSynonyms: bill (n), broadsheet (n), broadside (n), circular (n), flier (n), flyer (n), throwaway (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Handbill |
| English words defined with "handbill": fly sheet. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Copy of handbill "Keep our white schools white!", distributed in Nashville, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Farmers talking and looking at tire sale handbill, Weatherford, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He took out his purse and from it took a folded orange handbill. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Handbill" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.12% of the time. "Handbill" is used about 17 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) | 94.12% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
handbill | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "handbill"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | reklamë e shtypur, njoftim i shtypur (dodger). (various references) | |
Arabic | منشور (extended, leaflet, pamphlet, publication, release, sawn, spread), الإعلان اليدوي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | рекламна листовка (dodger), хвърчащ лист (dodger), позив (appeal, call, leaflet). (various references) | |
Chinese | 手'报. (various references) | |
Czech | plakát (bill, placard, poster). (various references) | |
Danish | løbeseddel, flyveblad (leaflet, loose sheet, tract). (various references) | |
Dutch | strooibiljet (flier). (various references) | |
Farsi | اگهی دستی , اعلانی که بدست مردم میدهند. (various references) | |
French | tract (handout), prospectus (handout), affiche la main. (various references) | |
German | handzettel (handbills, handout, leaflet), flugblatt (broadsheet, flier, handout, leaflet, pamphlet). (various references) | |
Greek | έντυποσ αγγελία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | עלון פרסומת (flier, flyer, prospectus), כרוז (announcement, manifesto, proclamation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hirdetõcédula, röplap (handout, leaflet). (various references) | |
Italian | volantino (flier, folder, handout, leaflet). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "ヤ樽 (beautiful, beauty, beauty adviser, beauty contest, beauty corner, beauty cycle, beauty parlor, beauty salon, beauty spot, beer barrel, buffet, bureau, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, poster, view, viewer, viewpoint, Viewtron, villa). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "ラ (poster, villa). (various references) | |
Korean | 단 (leaflet). (various references) | |
Manx | duillag laue. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andbillhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prospecto (flysheet, literature, prospect, prospectus), folha volante (leaflet). (various references) | |
Romanian | reclamã (advert, advertisement, advertising, bill, circular, commercial, dodger, exploitation, publicity, sign), foaie volantã (fly sheet, flyer, leaflet, loose sheet, pamphlet), fiţuicã (crib, pony). (various references) | |
Russian | рекламный листок (dodger, throwaway). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | oglas (ad, advertisment, announcement, notice, spread), letak (flier, fly sheet, handout, leaflet, throwaway). (various references) | |
Spanish | hoja volante (flysheet, news sheet), volante (balance, balance wheel, bird, flier, flying, flywheel, handlebars, handout, helm, joystick, rudder, shuttle, shuttlecock, steering-wheel, volant, wheel), prospecto (flier, leaflet, prospectus), papel volante, folleto (booklet, brochure, flier, handout, leaflet, pamphlet, paperback, prospectus). (various references) | |
Swedish | affisch (notice, placard, play-bill, poster). (various references) | |
Thai | ใบปลิว (bill, flier, flyer, flysheet, leaflet). (various references) | |
Turkish | prospektüs (prospectus), el ilanı (dodger, flier, fly sheet, leaflet, pamphlet, throwaway). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рекламний листок, афіша (affiche, bill poster, placard, poster, program, programme). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thông cáo phát tay. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "handbill": handbills. (additional references) | |
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"Handbill" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hadrill, Hanadib, handmill, Handrill, Hunnybell. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "handbill" (pronounced ha"ndbi'l) |
| 3 | -b i' l | cranesbill, crossbill, hawkbill, hornbill, sheathbill. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-h-i-l-l-n" | |
-3 letters: binal, blain, bland, blind, halid, nidal. | |
-4 letters: anil, bail, bald, ball, band, bani, bill, bind, blah, blin, dahl, dhal, dial, dill, hail, hall, hand, hila, hill, hind, laid, lain, land, nail, nill. | |
-5 letters: aid, ail, ain, alb, all, and, ani, bad, bah, bal, ban, bid, bin, dab, dah, dal, dib, din, had, hid. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-h-i-l-l-n" | |
+1 letter: handbills. | |
+4 letters: ballhandling. | |
+5 letters: ballhandlings. | |
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