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Date "lily-white" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Synonym: Lily-whiteSynonym: white (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lily-white |
| English words defined with "lily-white": white. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lily-white": Lucus a non Lucendo ♦ Ronald. (references) |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 сегрегированная школа (lily-white school). (various references) ขาวเหมือนดอกลิลลี่ (lily). (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 6C 79 2D 77 68 69 74 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101001 01101100 01111001 00101101 01110111 01101000 01101001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L i l y - w h i t e |
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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