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Hide-and-seek

Definition: Hide-and-seek

Hide-and-seek

Noun

1. A child covers his eyes while the other players hide then tries to find them.

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

 

Synonym: Hide-and-seek

Synonym: hide and go seek (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Hide-and-seek

Specialty definitions using "hide-and-seek": Lord Lovel. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Hide-and-seek

DomainTitle

Books

  • Peekaboo Bugs: A Hide-And-Seek Book (reference)

  • Thomas and the Hide-And-Seek Animals (A Thomas the Tank Engine Flap Book) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Hide-and-seek

"Hide-and-seek" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hide-and-seek" is used about 23 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2372,767

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hide-and-seek

Language Translations for "hide-and-seek"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

schovávaná. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

verstoppertje. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kaŝludo. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

olla piilosilla (play hide-and-seek). (various references)

   

French

  

jouer cache-cache (play hide-and-seek). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bújócska (hide and seek, peek-a-boo, whoop). (various references)

   

Manx

  

follaghyn as feddyn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ide-and-seekhay

   

Russian 

  

прятки (hide and seek). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

escondite (cache, concealment, hide, hide and seek, hide out, hideaway, hide-out, hiding place, lurk, stash). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kurragömma (hide and seek). (various references)

   

Thai

  

การเล่นซ่อนหา. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

saklambaç oynamak (play hide-and-seek). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

gizlenpeзek. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hide-and-seek

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-h-i-k-n-s"

-3 letters: skinhead.

-4 letters: aniseed, dandies, dasheen, deadens, deashed, enskied, hankies, kaddish, keddahs, kneaded, shanked, sheened, sheenie, skeined, sneaked.

-5 letters: aedine, akenes, danish, dashed, deaden, deaned, dedans, denied, denies, desand, dienes, dinked, dished, disked, eddies, handed, hanked, hankie, headed, heeded, hidden, indeed, keddah, keened, khadis, khedas, kinase, kneads, needed, sadden, sained, sanded, sandhi, seeded, seined.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-h-i-k-n-s"
 

+4 letters: kindheartedness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Hide-and-seek


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

48 69 64 65 2D 61 6E 64 2D 73 65 65 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01001000 01101001 01100100 01100101 00101101 01100001 01101110 01100100 00101101 01110011 01100101 01100101 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#105 &#100 &#101 &#45 &#97 &#110 &#100 &#45 &#115 &#101 &#101 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 0064 0065 002D 0061 006E 0064 002D 0073 0065 0065 006B

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

42757071156780701585717177

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INDEX

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


  

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