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Definition: Joust |
JoustNoun1. A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances. Verb1. Joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "joust" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang | Noun or verb. Source: Comes from the medevil competition of Jousting. Definition: A competition above the net between the hitter and the blocker in which the ball is stuck between their hands over the net. Both players push the ball as hard as possible for as long as possible. Whosever side the ball lands on is the losing side. Context: It is used when players talk about a game . Social Source: Highsch. Volleyball, specifically Wilson H.S. 2000-01 varsity team. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Synonym: JoustSynonym: tilt (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contention | Conflict, skirmish; rencounter, encounter; rencontre, collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting; tournay, list; pitched battle. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Joust |
| English words defined with "joust": Guist ♦ tilt, tilter ♦ Volant piece. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "joust": Guarinos ♦ Lance of the Ladies. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Please tell me this isn't your first joust. (The Lost World; writing credit: Alison Lea Bingeman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Joust (1994) | |
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| "Joust" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Joust" is used about 21 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) | 66.67% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 19.05% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 9.52% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
joust | 351 | joust pole | 4 |
gladiator joust | 10 | joust online | 3 |
game joust | 9 | atari joust | 3 |
play joust | 7 | download free joust | 3 |
joust medieval | 7 | joust surely | 2 |
arcade game joust | 6 | 2 joust | 2 |
joust video game | 6 | joust marquee | 2 |
free game joust | 5 | joust online play | 2 |
joust download | 5 | joust tournament | 2 |
joust knight picture | 5 | joust rom | 2 |
joust shock wave | 5 | joust pinball | 2 |
joust arcade | 4 | ||
joust pinball | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "joust"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dyluftim kalorësisht, bëj dyluftim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ناظر (agitate, beholder, caretaker, headmaster, principal, superintend, supervise), قارع فارسا بالرماح, تنافس (compete, competition, contend, contention, contest, discord, jostle, play, rivalry, vie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | участвувам в турнир (tourney), турнир (carrousel, tilt, tournament, tourney), двубой в турнир. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spravedlivý (due, equitable, even-minded, fair, just, justiciable, righteous, rightful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مبارزه کردن (Combat, Conflict), نیزه بازی سواره . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | jouter, joute. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zweikampf im turnier, turnieren, im turnier kämpfen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μονομαχία ιππέων με κοντάρια, αγώνισμα ιπποαχίασ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lovagi torna (tournament, tourney). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | torneo (tilt, tournament, tourney), giostra (carousel, carrousel, merry go round, roundabout, tournament, tourney). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | joostey (jousting), joost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oustjay justar, viagens (traveling, travelling, travels), torneio (contest, tilt, tournament, tourney), peleja (action, combat, game, rencontre, rencounter, scuffle, struggle, tussle), competir (behoove, compete, contend, cope, race, rival, run, vie), combate (action, battle, brush, combat, engaging, fight, fighting, fray, rencontre, rencounter, scuffle, set to, struggle). (various references) turnir (lists, tournament), lua parte la un turnir. (various references) рыцарский турнир, биться на поединке. (various references) viteška borba, takmičiti se u viteškoj borbi. (various references) justar. (various references) tornera. (various references) การต่อสู้บนหลังม้าระหว่างอัศวิน 2 คนโ"ยใช้ทวนเป็นอาวุธ (ยุคกลาง). (various references) polemiğe girmek, gazetedeki yazıları ile atışmak, atlı mızrak dövüşü yapmak, atlı mızrak dövüşü. (various references) рицарський по"динок, битися на по"динку. (various references) cuộc cưỡi ngựa đấu thương. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | juxta. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "joust": jousted, jouster, jousters, jousting, jousts. (additional references) | |
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"Joust" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doust, goust, Houst, jeus, jeust, jist, joast, joats, jocus, joest, joism, jost, jou, jougs, joult, jount, jous, jouse, jouste, jout, joute, jouts, juste, ojos, woust. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "joust" (pronounced jou"st) |
| 3 | -ou" s t | doused, espoused, groused, oust. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "j-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: jots, just, juts, oust, outs. | |
-2 letters: jot, jus, jut, out, sot, sou, uts. | |
-3 letters: jo, os, so, to, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "j-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: jousts, juntos. | |
+2 letters: jousted, jouster, judoist, outjuts. | |
+3 letters: adjustor, jousters, jousting, judoists, outjumps, overjust, pulsojet, unjoints. | |
+4 letters: adjustors, conjuncts, jelutongs, jointures, jounciest, junctions, juxtapose, outjinxes, pulsojets, turbojets. | |
+5 letters: coadjutors, conjugants, conjugates, journalist, joyfullest, juniorates, juxtaposed, juxtaposes, nonsubject, objurgates, subjection, subjugator, subproject, surjection. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 6F 75 73 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01101111 01110101 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J o u s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 006F 0075 0073 0074 |
| 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)4481878586 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabský, arabština, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arab, arabo, Arabish, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumunský, rumunština, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | ukrainisht, ukrainas, أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, اهل اوکرانی درکشورشوروی , ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, ucraniano, ucrainean, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець, người U-kren tiếng U-kren |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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