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Lily-white

Date "lily-white" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)


Synonym: Lily-white

Synonym: white (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Lily-white

English words defined with "lily-white": white. (references)
Specialty definitions using "lily-white": Lucus a non LucendoRonald. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Lily-white

"Lily-white" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lily-white" is used about 12 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%12101,599

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

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Modern Translations: Lily-white

Language Translations for "lily-white"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

百合白色. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

雪膚 (lily-white skin, snow's surface), 雪肌 (lily-white skin, snow's surface). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ゆきはだ (lily-white skin, snow's surface). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

백합 백색. (various references)

   

Manx

  

lileeagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ily-whitelay

   

Russian 

  

сегрегированная школа (lily-white school). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ขาวเหมือนดอกลิลลี่ (lily). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

trắng như hoa huệ tây, trắng ngần thuộc phái loại người da đen ra ngoài đời sống chính trị, người thuộc phái loại người da đen ra ngoài đời sống chính trị. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Lily-white

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-i-l-l-t-w-y"

-2 letters: lithely, whitely.

-3 letters: illite, whitey, wilily, willet.

-4 letters: ethyl, hilly, lithe, telly, thewy, thill, twill, welly, wetly, while, white, whity, willy, withe, withy.

-5 letters: elhi, heil, hell, hili, hill, hilt, hyte, illy, lilt, lily, lite, lwei, tell, thew, they, tile, till, well, welt, whet, whey, whit, wile, will, wilt, wily, wite, with, wyle, wyte.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Lily-white


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

4C 69 6C 79 2D 77 68 69 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01001100 01101001 01101100 01111001 00101101 01110111 01101000 01101001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#105 &#108 &#121 &#45 &#119 &#104 &#105 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0069 006C 0079 002D 0077 0068 0069 0074 0065

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

46757891158974758671

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