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Maidenlike

Definition: Maidenlike

Maidenlike

Adjective

1. Befitting or characteristic of a maiden; "a maidenly blush".

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

Synonym: Maidenlike

Synonym: maidenly (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Maidenlike

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

Albanian

  

vajzëror (girlish, maiden, maidenish), vajzërisht (maidenly). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مثل البتول, ‏عذراء (maiden, virgin), ‏بكر (first born, get up, intact, live from hand to mouth, maiden, rise early, virgin), ‏بعذرية مطلقة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

скромен (abstemious, chaste, conservative, decent, decorous, demure, frugal, humble, maidenly, mean, modest, obscure, quakerish, quiet, retiring, shamefaced, simple, small, unambitious, unassuming, unobtrusive, unpresuming, unpretending, unpretentious), свенлив (bashful, blushing, maidenly, shamefaced, shy), момински (maiden, maidenish, maidenly, virgin, virginal), по момински. (various references)

   

Czech

  

panenský (unspoiled, virgin, virginal). (various references)

   

French

  

vierge (maid, maiden), d'une façon virginale, comme une vierge. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szûziesen (maidenly), szûzies (chaste, maidenly, pure, vestal). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aidenlikemay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

modesta, virginal (maiden, maidservant, virgin, virginal), timidamente (maidenly), situação de solteira, recatadamente (maidenly), recatada, com pudor, com modéstia. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sfios (backward, bashful, coy, demure, faint-hearted, maiden, maidenly, meek, milky, mousy, retiring, self conscious, sheepish, shy, timid, timorous), ruşinos (bashful, discreditable, disgraceful, disgracefully, ignoble, infamous, infamously, inglorious, milky, nefarious, opprobrious, outrageous, scandalous, shameful, sheepish, shy, sky), feciorelnic (bashful, bashfully, coy, immaculate, virginal, virginally), fecioreşte, de fatã (girlish, maiden), cum îi stã bine unei fete, ca o fecioarã, ca o fatã (maidenly). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

как подобает девушке (maidenly), девичий (maidenish, maidenly). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

devojačko (maidenly), devojački (girlish, girls', maidenish). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

flickaktig (girlish). (various references)

   

Thai

  

แบบหญิงสาว (maidenly). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

скромно (coyly, decently, humbly, lowly, simply), скромний (bashful, blushing, chaste, coy, decent, demure, discreet, humble, lowly, maidenly, modest, nice, quiet, retiring, sedate, simple, spare, unobtrusive), по-дівочому, дівочий (girlish, maiden, maidenly, virgin, virginal). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

như một cô gái; như một trinh nữ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Maidenlike

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-i-k-l-m-n"

-2 letters: endemial.

-3 letters: aliened, amidine, delaine, diamine, emailed, leadmen, likened, limeade, manlike, midline.

-4 letters: aedile, aedine, aidmen, alined, alkene, alkine, amidin, aneled, ankled, daimen, delime, demean, denial, diamin, enamel, inlaid, kilned, kindle, kinema, leaden, leaked, leaned, limina, limned, linked, maiden, mailed, maline, malkin, mealie, meanie, mediae, medial, median, medina, meikle, meinie, menial, miladi, milden, milked, nailed.

-5 letters: adeem, admen, ailed, aimed, akene, alien, alike, aline, amend, amide, amine, anele, anile, anime, animi, ankle, denim, diene, edema, edile, elain, eland, elemi, elide, email, emend, enema, ideal, iliad, imide, imine, indie, inked, inkle, kelim, kilim, knead, kneed, kneel, laden, laked, lamed, leman, liane, liked, liken, liman, limed, limen, lined, maile, maned, medal, media, medii, menad, miked, milia, minae, mined, minke, naked, naled, named, nidal.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Maidenlike


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

4D 61 69 64 65 6E 6C 69 6B 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)

01001101 01100001 01101001 01100100 01100101 01101110 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#105 &#100 &#101 &#110 &#108 &#105 &#107 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0069 0064 0065 006E 006C 0069 006B 0065

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

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

47677570718078757771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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