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MANEATER

Date "MANEATER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)

"MANEATER" is a common misspelling or typo for: man-eater.


Modern Usage: MANEATER

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It's an anteater, not a maneater! (Fierce Creatures; writing credit: John Cleese and Iain Johnstone.)

Movie/TV Titles

Maneater (1973)

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

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Usage Frequency: MANEATER

"MANEATER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MANEATER" is used about 2 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
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MANEATER

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

maneater

62

lyrics maneater

11

hall lyrics maneater oates

10

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3

adult education kiss list maneater

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MANEATER

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

Danish

  

menneskehaj (great white shark, maneater shark, white pointer, white shark), store hvide haj (great white shark, maneater shark, white pointer, white shark). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

witte haai (great white shark, maneater shark, white pointer, white shark). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

valkohai (great white shark, maneater shark, white pointer, white shark). (various references)

   

French

  

requin mangeur d'homme (maneater shark), requin blanc (maneater shark), requin (maneater shark), grand requin blanc (maneater shark), carcharodonte (maneater shark), \WSH (maneater shark). (various references)

   

German

  

Menschenhai (man eater, man-eating shark), Weißhai (great white shark, maneater shark, white pointer, white shark). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καρχαρίας (shark), σκυλόψαρο (dog fish, sea dog), σμπρίλλιας (great white shark, maneater shark, white pointer, white shark), σμπρίλλιος (great white shark, maneater shark, white pointer, white shark). (various references)

   

Italian

  

pescecane (shark). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aneatermay

   

Portuguese

  

tubarao de Sao Tomé (great white shark, maneater shark, white pointer, white shark), tubarão de São Tomé (great white shark, maneater shark, white pointer, white shark). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tiburón blanco (great white shark, maneater shark, white pointer, white shark), jaquetón blanco (great white shark, maneater shark, white pointer, white shark), jaquetón (great white shark, maneater shark, white pointer, white shark). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vithaj (great white shark, maneater shark, white pointer, white shark). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: MANEATER

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Carcharodon carcharias, Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus), Carcharodon rondeletti. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: MANEATER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-m-n-r-t"

-1 letter: amreeta, emanate, enemata, manatee, ramenta.

-2 letters: aerate, entera, mantra, marten, meaner, neater, ramate, remate, rename, reteam.

-3 letters: ameer, ament, anear, antae, antra, antre, areae, arena, arete, armet, atman, eaten, eater, enate, enema, enter, manat, manta, mater, meant, menta, meter, metre, namer, ramee, ramen, ramet, ranee, ratan, reata, reman, remet, rente, retem, tamer, terne.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-m-n-r-t"
 

+1 letter: reanimate.

 

+2 letters: emarginate, ravagement, reanimated, reanimates, rearmament, weatherman.

 

+3 letters: antechamber, arrangement, fragmentate, pomegranate, ravagements, rearmaments, tetrahymena, treponemata.

 

+4 letters: aerenchymata, aeromagnetic, animadverted, antechambers, appraisement, arrangements, cabinetmaker, departmental, extramundane, fragmentated, fragmentates, galvanometer, katzenjammer, mainstreamed, malapertness, maltreatment, materialness, merchantable, permanganate, pomegranates, reattachment, testamentary, tetrahymenas, unmarketable.

 

+5 letters: admeasurement, adrenalectomy, appraisements, argumentative, ascertainment, cabinetmakers, determinantal, deuteranomaly, disparagement, embarrassment, galvanometers, intermarriage, katzenjammers, maltreatments, mediterranean, permanganates, rearrangement, reattachments, recontaminate, reexamination, remanufacture, temperamental, transmembrane, vegetarianism.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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