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Kempt

Definition: Kempt

Kempt

Adjective

1. (used of hair) neat and tidy; "a nicely kempt beard".

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

Date "kempt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)


Synonyms: Kempt

Synonyms: tidy (adj), trim (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Kempt

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

Cleanness

Neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in pattens; cleaned; Verb: kempt.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Kempt

English words defined with "kempt": tidy, trim. (references)
Etymologies containing "kempt": unkempt. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Kempt

DomainTitle

Books

  • Situation du grand corâegone (Coregonus clupeaformis) et du dorâe jaune (Stizostedion vitreum) des râeservoirs Chãateauvert, Kempt et Manouane (reference)

  • Situation du touladi (Salvelinus namaycush) des râeservoirs Chãateauvert, Kempt, Manouane et Mondonac (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Use in Literature: Kempt

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Kempt, on the left wing, called for reinforcements.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Name Usage Frequency: Kempt

The following table summarizes the usage of "kempt" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
KemptLast name20033,524
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Kempt

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "kempt": ill-kempt.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Kempt

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

kempt

4

kempt lac

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Kempt

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

Turkish

  

taraklanmış. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Kempt

Derivations

Words ending with "kempt": unkempt. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Kempt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: empt, hempt, kamp, kempi, kempit, kempo, Kemppi, kentt, khemp, Khempo, kumpt. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Kempt

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-k-m-p-t"

-1 letter: kemp, kept, temp.

-2 letters: kep, met, pet.

-3 letters: em, et, me, pe.

 Words containing the letters "e-k-m-p-t"
 

+2 letters: miskept, unkempt.

 

+3 letters: smokepot, upmarket.

 

+4 letters: premarket, skimpiest, smokepots.

 

+5 letters: platemaker, postmarked, printmaker, skepticism, timekeeper.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Kempt


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

4B 65 6D 70 74

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)

01001011 01100101 01101101 01110000 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#101 &#109 &#112 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0065 006D 0070 0074

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

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

4571798286

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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