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Highflyer

Definition: Highflyer

Highflyer

Noun

1. A person of great ability and ambition.

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

"Highflyer" is a common misspelling or typo for: Highflier.

Synonym: Highflyer

Synonym: highflier (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Highflyer

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

Albanian

  

Njeri I Fryrë (highflier, swelled head), Ambicioz (ambitious, aspiring, go ahead, greedy for, highflier). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Амбициозен човек. (various references)

   

Italian

  

Persona Ambiziosa. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ighflyerhay

   

Russian 

  

честолюбец (highflier). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

koji leti visoko (highflier). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

streber (careerist, climber, highflier), fantast (aficionado, devotee, faddist, fan, fantast, fiend, highflier, romancer). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người nhiều tham vọng người viển vông (high-flier). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Highflyer

Derivations

Words beginning with "highflyer": highflyers. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Highflyer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-g-h-h-i-l-r-y"

-3 letters: higher, highly, rifely.

-4 letters: ferly, fiery, filer, flier, flyer, girly, grief, heigh, lifer, liger, refly, reify, rifle, riley.

-5 letters: elhi, file, fire, fley, frig, girl, gley, grey, gyre, gyri, heil, heir, herl, high, hire, lehr, lief, lier, life, lire, lyre, reif, rely, riel, rife, rile.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-g-h-h-i-l-r-y"
 

+1 letter: highflyers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Highflyer


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

48 69 67 68 66 6C 79 65 72

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 01101001 01100111 01101000 01100110 01101100 01111001 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#105 &#103 &#104 &#102 &#108 &#121 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0069 0067 0068 0066 006C 0079 0065 0072

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

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

427573747278917184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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