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Hejira

Definition: Hejira

Hejira

Noun

1. A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment.

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



Synonyms: Hejira

Synonyms: exodus (n), hegira (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Hejira

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Departure

Noun: departure, decession, decampment; embarkation; outset, start; removal; exit; (egress); exodus, hejira, flight.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Hejira

Etymologies containing "hejira": hegira. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Hejira

DomainTitle

Music

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hejira

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hejira

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hejira

Language Translations for "hejira"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

hégire (hegira). (various references)

   

Italian

  

egira (hegira). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ejirahay

   

Thai

  

การหลบหนีของโมฮัมหมั"จากเมืองเมกกะไปยังเม"ินา (Hegira). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hicret (emigration, hegira, migration, transmigration). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Hejira

Derivations

Words beginning with "hejira": hejiras. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Hejira

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-j-r"

-2 letters: hair, haji, hare, hear, heir, hire, rhea.

-3 letters: air, are, ear, era, hae, haj, her, hie, ire, jar, rah, raj, rei, ria.

-4 letters: ae, ah, ai, ar, eh, er, ha, he, hi, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-j-r"
 

+1 letter: hejiras.

 

+2 letters: hijacker.

 

+3 letters: hijackers.

 

+4 letters: jaggheries.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Hejira


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

48 65 6A 69 72 61

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)

....    .    .---    ..    .-.    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100101 01101010 01101001 01110010 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#106 &#105 &#114 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0065 006A 0069 0072 0061

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

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

427176758467

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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