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Definitions: Hideaway |
HideawayNoun1. A hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws. 2. A area where you can be alone. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: HideawaySynonyms: den (n), hideout (n), retreat (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hideaway |
| English words defined with "hideaway": distant ♦ remote, removed. (references) |
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Lyrics | Then I'll float on down the river to a Cajun hideaway ("Mountain Music"; performing artist: ALABAMA) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pancho's Hideaway (1964) Hideaway (1937) Hot Hideaway (1986) | |
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![]() | Outside its cave hideaway in a Japanese coastal hillside, 22 September 1945. The men alongside it are from USS Boston (CA-68), one of whose photographers took this photo.Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | H-Bomb hideaway.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Hideaway" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hideaway" is used about 60 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) | 100% | 60 | 43,597 |
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. |
| Language | Translations for "hideaway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vend i qetë, vend i izoluar (hideout), vend fshehjeje (stash), skutë (corner, dump, hide, hiding place, hole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منعزل (bleak, downcast, insulate, isolated, lone, lonely, lonesome, private, quiet, recluse, retired, secluded, separate, separated, shy, solitary, withdrawn), ملجأ (asylum, burrow, cover, harbor, harbour, haven, hideout, home, lair, poorhouse, recourse, refuge, resort, resource, retreat, sanctuary, sanctum, shelter), ملاذ (anchor, anchorage, asylum, harbor, harbour, haven, hermitage, recourse, refuge, resort, retreat, sanctuary, shelter), مخفى (hidden). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | скривалище (cache, concealment, cover, coverture, hide, hideout, hiding, hiding place, lair, lurking place, mew, shelter, stash), беглец (breakaway, escapee, fleer, fugitive, hideout, outlaw, runaway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 隐藏 (recessed, Recessing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | skrýš (hiding place), úkryt (cache, cover, covert, hiding, hiding place, lurking place, rest, sconce, shelter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مخفی گاه (Blind), نهانگاه (Background, Cache). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | refuge (hideout, hiding), planque, cachette (hideout, hiding place, hiding-place), abri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | versteck (ambush, blind, cache, covert, cranny, den, hide, hideout, hiding place, hiding-place). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מקום מסתור, מסתור (cache, hiding place, refuge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rejtekhely (ambush, cache, concealment, cover, hide out, hide-out, hiding, hiding place, lurking place, nest, place of concealment, recess, stowaway, subterfuge), búvóhely (corner, covert, cubbyhole, cubby-hole, grot, hangout, hide out, hide-out, hiding place, lair, mountain fastness, nest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nascondiglio (burrow, cache, concealment, den, hideout, hiding place, hole, lair). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ideawayhay refúgio (asylum, blind, burrow, Harbor, harbor dues, harbour, harbour dues, have not, hide, place of refuge, refuge, resort, rock, shelter), esconde-esconde (boo-peep). (various references) укрытие (cover, covering, coverture, hide, hideout, hide-out, shelter), убежище (asylum, bolt-hole, burrow, citadel, dugout, harborage, harbour, harbourage, haven, hideout, hide-out, hiding place, hiding-place, lurking-place, niche, nook, port, refuge, retreat, sancta, sanctuary, sanctum, shelter, subterfuge). (various references) skrivanje (hiding). (various references) escondrijo (blind, burrow, cache, drop, hide out, hiding place, lair, nook, recess), escondite (cache, concealment, hide, hide and seek, hide out, hide-and-seek, hide-out, hiding place, lurk, stash), de escondrijo (lair), de escondite. (various references) gömställe (cache, concealment, covert, hide, hideout, hiding place, hiding-place, hoard). (various references) ที่ซ่อนตัว. (various references) sayfiye evi (cottage, hideout, summer resort), saklanma yeri (hideout, hiding place), gizleme yeri (cache, hiding place). (various references) схованка (cache, den, hiding place, kennel, lurking place, niche, shades), утікач (fugitive, refugee, runaway), та"мний (arcane, back door, backstairs, clandestine, close, closet, colorable, colourable, covert, cryptic, esoteric, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hush hush, invisible, mystic, occult, occulted, offscreen, private, secret, sly, sneaking, stealthy, subterranean, surreptitious, undercover), прихований (arcane, blind, bosomed, close, closet, concealed, covert, cryptic, delitescent, furtive, glossy, latent, obscure, obumbrate, occulted, privy, secret, stealthy, ulterior, underneath, veiled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hideaway": hideaways. (additional references) | |
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"Hideaway" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Haddaway, Hidaka, Hidetada, hideway, hindawi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hideaway" (pronounced hī"duwā') |
| 3 | -u w ā' | breakaway, caraway, castaway, getaway, giveaway, rockaway, runaway, straightaway, throwaway. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-i-w-y" | |
-1 letter: headway. | |
-3 letters: aahed, ahead, hawed, hayed, heady, yawed. | |
-4 letters: aide, away, awed, ayah, dewy, hade, haed, head, hide, hied, idea, wade, wadi, wady, whey, whid, wide, yeah. | |
-5 letters: aah, aha, aid, awa, awe, aye, dah, daw, day, dew, dey, die, dye, edh, had, hae, haw, hay, hew, hey, hid, hie, wad, wae, way, wed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-h-i-w-y" | |
+1 letter: hideaways. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 64 65 61 77 61 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... .. -.. . .- .--. .- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01100100 01100101 01100001 01110111 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i d e a w a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 0064 0065 0061 0077 0061 0079 |
| 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)4275707167896791 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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