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Jamboree

Definition: Jamboree

Jamboree

Noun

1. A gay festivity.

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

Date "jamboree" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)


Synonyms: Jamboree

Synonyms: blowout (n), gala (n), gala affair (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Jamboree

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

Amusement

Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Jamboree

Non-English Usage: "Jamboree" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (jamboree), German (jamboree), Manx (jamboree), Romanian (jamboree), Swedish (jamboree).

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Modern Usage: Jamboree

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Them country folks they had a jamboree (Rock'n'Roll Music; performing artist: Chuck Berry)

Movie/TV Titles

Jamboree `66 (1966)

Windy City Jamboree (1950)

That Texas Jamboree (1946)

Melody Master Bands: Dixieland Jamboree (1946)

Laff Jamboree (1945)

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

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Commercial Usage: Jamboree

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Jamboree

Computer Images:
Jamboree

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Photo Album: Jamboree

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Jazz Jamboree 71--International 14th Festival, Warsaw, October 28-30, 1971 / Tomasewski. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Jamboree

"Jamboree" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.35% of the time. "Jamboree" is used about 43 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)95.35%4153,521
Noun (proper)4.65%2245,945
                    Total100.00%43N/A

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

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Cities: Jamboree


1. Jamboree, KY
Zip Code(s): 41536
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Jamboree

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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312

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9

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122

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9

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112

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8

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94

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8

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66

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8

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48

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8

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36

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8

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31

truck jamboree

8

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22

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8

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21

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8

hoop jamboree nike

19

2003 hills in jamboree

7

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13

atv jamboree

7

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13

fiddlers jamboree smithville

7

elko jamboree motorcycle

13

hills in jamboree ticket

7

country havelock jamboree

12

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7

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12

2003 hoop jamboree nike

7

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12

columbia heights jamboree

7

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12

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7

bank dollar jamboree

10

world jamboree

6

canada jamboree jeep

10

2005 jamboree

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Jamboree

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

Albanian

  

orgjioj, gaz (cheer, cheerfulness, exhilaration, fluid, fume, gaiety, gas, glee, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, joy, liveliness, merriment, merriness, mirth, rattle, rollick, sunshine, tittup, waggery), festë (conviviality, do, feast day, festival, fete, fete day, fiesta, holiday, party, red letter day, soiree), argëtim (amusement, cabaret, dissipation, distraction, diversion, divertissement, entertainment, fun, merriment, merrymaking, pastime, ploy, razzle-dazzle, recreation, relaxation, revel, rollick, sport, sporting, spree, tittup). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏معسكر الكشاف, ‏الجمبوري مهرجان قومي دولي, ‏إحتفال صاخب مخمور (carousal, carouse). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

събор (congregation), гуляй (bat, bend, bender, binge, blowout, bout, bum, carouse, drinking bout, feed, junket, racket, randan, rant, rattle, razzle, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, rouse, soak, spree, tear, wassail), джамборе на скаути (camporee), джамборе. (various references)

   

Czech

  

veselice, veselá spoleènost, mezinárodní skautský sjezd. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مجمع پیشاهنگان , خوشی (Bliss, Cheer, Curvet, Delight, Felicity, Gala, Glee, Gust, Hilarity, Jollification, Jollity, Joviality, Joy, Joyance, Lark, Mirth, Paradise, Pleasure, Ploy, Splurge, Spree), جمبوری . (various references)

   

French

  

jamboree, réjouissances, grand rassemblement, festivités. (various references)

   

German

  

Gaudi (fun). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γλέντι (carousal, carouse, conviviality, festivity, jollification, junket, junketing, lark, merry making, reception, revelry, shindig, shindy, spree, wassail), ξεφάντωμα (carousal, partying, razzle, revelry), τζαμπορί. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

''מבורי. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

dzsembori, cserkésztáborozás (camporee), cserkészkongresszus. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

jambore. (various references)

   

Italian

  

festino (festival, party), festa (Bank holiday, binge, celebration, do, feast, festival, festivity, fete, gaudy, holiday, holifay, party), baldoria (bacchanal, binge, carouse, good time, jollification, merriment, merrymaking, razzle-dazzle, revel, reveling, revelling, revelry, spree). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ジャンプ競技 (deuce, dugong, genre, jewel, jewelry, joule, Juglar cycle, juice, juicer, juju music, juke-box, jumbo, jumbo-jet, jumbo-size, June bride, junior, junior welter, ski jumping, soft drink). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ジャンボリー . (various references)

   

Manx

  

jamboree. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amboreejay

   

Portuguese

  

reunião de escoteiros, diversão (dissipation, diversion, divertissement, entertainment, excursion, fun, gaiety, game, jollity, merriment, merry-making, pastime, play, recreation, revel, spoof, sport, spree), comemoração (commemoration, memory, solemnization). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

jamboree, veselie (animation, blitheness, blithesomeness, cheerfulness, conviviality, exultation, feast, festival, festivity, fiskiness, fling, gaiety, gale, geniality, gladness, great spirits, high spirits, hilarity, jauntiness, jocoseness, jocundity, jollification, jollity, joviality, joy, jubilation, merriment, merriness, merry making, mirth, rejoicing, rejoicings), petrecere (amusement, at home, bacchanalia, blow out, bout, carnival, carousal, conviviality, diversion, do, entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, fling, frolic, gaiety, game, garden party, jollity, junket, merry making, party, spree), concert de muzicã folk. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

слет бойскаутов (camporee), веселье (cheer, festivity, fun, gaiety, gladness, glee, hilarity, jinks, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, merry-making, mirth, revel, revelry, shindig, shindy, spree, sunshine, the bowl, tittup), празднество (festival, fete, fete day, gala, jollification, jubilee, merry-making), пирушка (carousal, kick up, merry-meeting, rant, revel, revelry, rout, spread, sprees, wassail, wingding). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zabava (amusement, distraction, divertissement, entertainment, fun, merrymaking, party, ride), slet (rally). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

francachela, congreso de niños exploradores, congreso de exploradores. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

jamboree, skiva (beano, cut, dial, disc, disk, Gill, party, planch, plate, record, round, scale, sheet, slab, slice, table, top, wheel), internationellt scoutläger, hippa (bean feast, bean-feast, party), hålligång. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kutlama (celebration, commemoration, congratulation, congratulatory, felicitation, gala, greeting, Jubilate), izci toplantısı, eğlence (amusement, bash, beano, blow out, carnival, conviviality, distraction, diversion, entertainment, festivity, fete, frolic, fun, gag, gaiety, high jinks, jollification, jolliness, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, play, plaything, racket, recreation, recreational, rejoicing, relaxation, revel, saturnalia, setout, sport), cümbüş (bash, bender, binge, blast, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, festivity, high jinks, jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, metal mandolin, racket, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, riot, saturnalia, spree). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

святкування (celebration, celebrity, commemoration, feast, festival, fete, gala, jubilee, solemnization, upshot, wake), збори (congregation, convocation, gathering, meeting, powwow). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

buổi liên hoan đại hội hướng đạo, buổi chè chén. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Jamboree

Derivations

Words beginning with "jamboree": jamborees. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Jamboree" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Damborenea, jamdoree, jamoree, Jmbarrie, Jomhori, Namoree. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Jamboree

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-j-m-o-r"

-2 letters: aerobe, ambeer, jerboa.

-3 letters: amber, ameer, berme, bream, brome, embar, ember, jambe, joram, major, morae, omber, ombre, ramee.

-4 letters: aero, ajee, ambo, bare, barm, beam, bear, beer, bema, berm, boar, bora, bore, brae, bree, jamb, jeer, mabe, mare, mere, mora, more, omer, ream, roam, robe.

-5 letters: abo, arb, are, arm, bam, bar, bee, boa.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-j-m-o-r"
 

+1 letter: jamborees.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Jamboree


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

4A 61 6D 62 6F 72 65 65

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)

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

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

01001010 01100001 01101101 01100010 01101111 01110010 01100101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#97 &#109 &#98 &#111 &#114 &#101 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 0061 006D 0062 006F 0072 0065 0065

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

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

4467796881847171

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Usage Frequency
9. Cities
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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