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Definition: Heavenwards |
HeavenwardsAdverb1. Toward heaven; "he pointed heavenward". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "heavenwards" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Synonyms: HeavenwardsSynonyms: heavenward (adv), heavenwardly (adv). (additional references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Doris Lessing | A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Heavenwards" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Heavenwards" is used about 31 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 |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 31 | 62,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "heavenwards"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | zum himmel, gen himmel. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | ég felé (heavenward, skyward). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | verso il cielo. (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | seose, lesh niau. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eavenwardshay cennete doğru (heavenward). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-h-n-r-s-v-w" | |
-1 letter: heavenward. | |
-2 letters: drawshave, verandahs. | |
-3 letters: answered, awardees, reshaved, reshaven, rewashed, swanherd, verandah, verandas, warheads. | |
-4 letters: adheres, adverse, aneared, awardee, darshan, dasheen, deewans, dharnas, drawees, dwarves, endears, evaders, handsaw, hardens, havened, havered, headers, hearsed, heavens, heavers, ravened, resawed, reshave, seaward, seaware, sheared, sheaved, shrewed, swerved, vanward, vawards, venders, veranda, wanders, wardens, warhead, wavered, weaners, weasand, weavers, wharves, whereas, wherves. | |
-5 letters: adhere, anears, answer, arenas, averse, awards, dasher, davens, deaves, deewan, denars, denser, dewans, dewars, dharna, drawee, earned, endear, enders, erased, evader, evades, haeres, harden, havens, havers, hawser, header, hearse, heaved, heaven, heaver, heaves, heders, hewers, navars, neared, nerved, nerves, ranees, ravens, reaved, reaves, redans, renews, resawn, reseda, resend, resewn, rewash, reweds, sander, seared, seawan, sender, served, shader, shared, shaved, shaven, shaver, shawed, sheave, shewed, shewer, shrewd, snared, snawed, sradha, swerve, sweven, vandas, varnas, vaward, veenas, vender, versed, waders, wander, warden, warned, washed, washer, wavers, weaned, weaner, weaved, weaver, weaves, wharve, wheens, whenas, wheres, wherve. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 61 76 65 6E 77 61 72 64 73 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .- ...- . -. .--. .- .-. -.. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01110110 01100101 01101110 01110111 01100001 01110010 01100100 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a v e n w a r d s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0061 0076 0065 006E 0077 0061 0072 0064 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4271678871808967847085 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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