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Definitions: Heraldic |
HeraldicAdjective1. Indicative of or announcing something to come; "the Beetles were heraldic of a new style of music". 2. Of or relating to heraldry. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "heraldic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1386. (references) |
Synonym: HeraldicSynonym: heraldist (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Heraldic |
| English words defined with "heraldic": armiger, armorial ♦ blazon, botonee, botonnee ♦ charge, Cleche, Coat of arms, crested ♦ emblazon, Emblazoning, Emblazonry ♦ heraldic bearing, Heraldically ♦ Membered ♦ Nebuly ♦ Purflew ♦ ramp ♦ Subordinary. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "heraldic": Arms of England, Arundel ♦ Bolt in Tun ♦ Cloak and Sword Plays ♦ Heraldic Colours, Herald's College ♦ Public-house Signs ♦ Rolls, Rouge Croix ♦ Sword and Cloak Plays ♦ Ulster King of Arms. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Heraldic" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (armorial). |
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 | Underway with rails manned, circa 1936. Note the heraldic shield mounted on her bow and the large flag flying from her foremast peak.Credit: NAVY. |  | Anchored in San Diego harbor, California, 28 March 1934. Note the heraldic shield mounted on her bow. Photographed from USS Langley (CV-1).Credit: NAVY. |
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Economic History | Slovakia | Flag: Three horizontal bands of white (upper), blue (middle), and red (lower), with heraldic insignia near staff consisting of double white cross on red field above blue base. (references) |
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| "Heraldic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 89.01% of the time. "Heraldic" is used about 91 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 89.01% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Noun (proper) | 10.99% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 91 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "heraldic": heraldic bearing. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
heraldic | 272 |
heraldic tartan | 43 |
giftware heraldic | 31 |
heraldic pewter | 23 |
champagne heraldic | 21 |
heraldic mug thermal | 20 |
heraldic highballs | 16 |
dram glasses heraldic | 16 |
heraldic shirt t | 14 |
glassware heraldic | 14 |
heraldic symbol | 13 |
heraldic jacket | 13 |
clan clothing embroidered heraldic | 12 |
heraldic crest | 10 |
heraldic shield | 10 |
clipart heraldic | 9 |
heraldic lion | 5 |
heraldic research | 5 |
herald heraldic | 5 |
dragon heraldic | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "heraldic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që ka të bëjë me heraldikë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منذر (portentous, sullen, warned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хералдически (armorial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | heraldický. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vaakunatieteellinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | héraldique (heraldry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | heraldisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κηρυκείοσ, οικοσηματολογικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | címertani (armorial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | araldico (armorial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | heraldagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eraldichay proclamar (acclaim, announce, annunciate, blazon, declare, denounce, issue, preacher, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, publish, voice). (various references) eraldic. (various references) геральдический (armorial). (various references) heraldski. (various references) heráldico (armorial, armourial). (various references) heraldisk. (various references) hanedan armacılığına ait, hanedan (dynastic, dynasty). (various references) геральдичний (armorial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "heraldic": heraldically. (additional references) | |
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"Heraldic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Beraldi, eraldin, Haraldo, herakleid, heraklid, Heraldica, heraldics, heraldicum, heraldist, Heraldos, heraldric, heraldus, heraldy, Herwardi, Horelick. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "heraldic" (pronounced hera"ldik) |
| 3 | -d i k | acidic, Benedick, comedic, encyclopedic, episodic, medic, melodic, nomadic, nordic, orthopedic, paramedic, periodic, rhapsodic, sporadic, tornadic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-h-i-l-r" | |
-1 letter: chaired, charlie, decrial, eldrich, radicel, radicle. | |
-2 letters: achier, arched, archil, ariled, cahier, caried, chadri, chared, chider, chield, childe, chiral, clerid, cradle, credal, derail, dialer, dreich, echard, eclair, hailed, hailer, haired, halide, heliac, herald, herdic, lacier, laired, railed, reclad, redial, relaid. | |
-3 letters: ached, acred, acrid, aider, ailed, aired, alcid, alder, arced, areic, ariel, cadre, caird, cared, carle, cedar, ceria, chair, chard, chare, chela, chide, chiel, child, chile, cider, clade, clear, cried, daric, deair, decal, dicer, drail, erica, haled, haler, halid, hared, heard, hider, hilar, hired, ideal, idler, ileac, irade, laced, lacer, lader, laich, laird, larch, leach, liard, lidar, raced, reach, redia, relic, riced, riled. | |
-4 letters: aced, ache, acid, acre, aide, alec, arch, arid, aril, cade, cadi, caid, card, care, carl, cedi, ceil, chad, char, chia, chid, cire, clad, dace, dahl, dale, dare, deal, dear, deil, deli, dhal, dial, dice, diel, dire, dirl, each, earl, elhi, hade, haed, hail, hair, hale, hard, hare, harl, head, heal, hear, heil, heir, held, herd, herl, hide, hied, hila, hire, iced, idea, idle, ilea, ired, lace, lade, laic, laid, lair, lard, lari, lead, lear, lech, lehr, liar, lice, lich, lied, lier, lira, lire, race, raid, rail, rale, read, real, rhea, rial, rice, rich, ride, riel, rile. | |
-5 letters: ace, aid, ail, air, ale, arc, are, cad, car, cel, chi, dah, dal, del, die, ear, edh, eld, era, had, hae, her, hic, hid, hie, ice, ich, ire, lac, lad, lar, lea, led, lei, lid, lie, rad, rah, rec, red, rei, ria, rid. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-h-i-l-r" | |
+2 letters: chandelier, charladies, herbicidal. | |
+3 letters: chandeliers, chandleries, charbroiled, chlorinated, chrysalides, icosahedral. | |
+4 letters: chandeliered, cheerleading, childbearing, dechlorinate, decipherable, heraldically, herbicidally, perichondral, stickhandler. | |
+5 letters: brainchildren, candlelighter, cephaloridine, childbearings, dechlorinated, dechlorinates, demographical, dischargeable, grandchildren, hydrocephalic, multibranched, radiochemical, stickhandlers, straightlaced, tetrachloride, unchlorinated. | |
| 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)48 65 72 61 6C 64 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . .-. .- .-.. -.. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101100 01100100 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e r a l d i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0072 0061 006C 0064 0069 0063 |
| 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)4271846778707569 |
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