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Masterless

Definition: Masterless

Masterless

Adjective

1. Having no lord or master; "harsh punishments for sturdy vagabonds and masterless men".

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

Date "masterless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonym: Masterless

Synonym: lordless (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Masterless

English words defined with "masterless": lordless. (references)
Specialty definitions using "masterless": Black-guards. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Masterless

DomainTitle

Books

  • Masterless Men: The Vagrancy Problem in England, 1560-1640 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Masterless

"Masterless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Masterless" is used about 7 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%7133,076

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Masterless

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

  the masterless man

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Masterless

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

Greek 

  

αδέσποτοσ (ownerless). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

浪人 (poor or lowly masterless samurai). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すろうに" (poor or lowly masterless samurai). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asterlessmay

   

Portuguese

  

magistral (magisterial, magistral, masterly), desgovernado (adrift, afloat). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Masterless

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Old English450-1100

hlafordless. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Rhyming with "Masterless"

Words rhyming with "masterless" (pronounced 'Mas"ter*less'): Accentless, Actionless, Actless, Afflictionless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Ambitionless, Anchorless, Answerless, Approachless, Apronless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Authorless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beaconless, Beamless, Beardless, Beautiless, Beneficeless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blemishless, Bless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blossomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Bodiless, Boneless, Bonnetless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Masterless

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-m-r-s-s-s-t"

-1 letter: masseters, seamsters, semestral.

-2 letters: lamsters, masseter, mastless, mateless, meatless, reslates, resmelts, restless, seamless, seamster, seatless, smelters, starless, stealers, steamers, stemless, tameless, tearless, termless, tramless, tressels.

-3 letters: armless, armlets, artless, asserts, earless, easters, elaters, lamster, lasters, leasers, masters, matless, measles, melters, rassles, realest, relates, remates, remelts, resales, reseals, reseats, reslate, resmelt, reteams, salters, samlets.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-m-r-s-s-s-t"
 

+2 letters: masterliness.

 

+3 letters: masterfulness.

 

+4 letters: malapertnesses, masterlinesses, materialnesses.

 

+5 letters: maladroitnesses, masterfulnesses, superstimulates, symmetricalness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Masterless


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

4D 61 73 74 65 72 6C 65 73 73

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)

01001101 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#108 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0073 0074 0065 0072 006C 0065 0073 0073

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

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

47678586718478718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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