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Definition: Masterless |
MasterlessAdjective1. 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: MasterlessSynonym: lordless (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Masterless |
| English words defined with "masterless": lordless. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "masterless": Black-guards. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the masterless man | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 magistral (magisterial, magistral, masterly), desgovernado (adrift, afloat). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old English | 450-1100 | hlafordless. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| 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) |
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. 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)4D 61 73 74 65 72 6C 65 73 73 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- ... - . .-. .-.. . ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a s t e r l e s s |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47678586718478718585 |
| 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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