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Mateless

Definitions: Mateless

Mateless

Adjective

1. Not mated sexually.

2. Of someone who has no marriage partner.

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

Note: Mateless \Mate"less\, adjective. [Compare to Matchless.]. (Websters 1913)

"Mateless" is a common misspelling or typo for: dateless, gateless, meatless.

Crosswords: Mateless

Etymologies containing "mateless": matchless. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Mateless

"Mateless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mateless" 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translations: Mateless

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

Romanian

  

singur (a, alone, by, by oneself, herself, himself, isolated, itself, lone, lonely, lonesome, naked, only, single, sole, solely, solitary, solo, yourself, yourselves), fãrã tovarãş. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Mateless"

Words rhyming with "mateless" (pronounced 'Mate"less'): Actless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Approachless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beamless, Beardless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Boneless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Boundless, Bournless, Bowless, Bractless, Bragless, Brainless, Branchless, Breadless, Breadthless, Breathless, Breezeless, Bribeless, Bridgeless, Briefless, Brimless, Browless. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Mateless

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: meatless, tameless.

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

-1 letter: matless, measles, samlets, teasels.

-2 letters: easels, elates, lamest, leases, leasts, measle, metals, samlet, sesame, slates, sleets, smalts, smelts, stales, steals, steams, steels, stelae, steles, tassel, teasel, teases, teslas, tmeses.

-3 letters: almes, asset, easel, eases, easts, elate, lames, lases, lasts, lease, least, leets, males, malts, masse, masts, mates, meals, meats, meets, melts, mesas, metal.

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

+1 letter: measliest, metalises, semestral.

 

+2 letters: clematises, elastomers, enamelists, mesnalties, methylases, misrelates, salometers, semestrial, semimetals, stalemates, streamlets, timescales.

 

+3 letters: blastomeres, emasculates, esemplastic, lemniscates, metanalyses, semilethals, solacements, stablemates, steelmakers, streamlines, streetlamps, sympetalies.

 

+4 letters: basementless, disablements, enslavements, essentialism, externalisms, malapertness, masterliness, materialises, materialness, medievalists, misevaluates, restimulates, salinometers, semitrailers, slipstreamed, somersaulted, startlements, steamrollers, steelmakings, stepfamilies, streamliners, teetotalisms, timepleasers, ultimateness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Mateless


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

4D 61 74 65 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 01110100 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0074 0065 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)

4767867178718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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