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Monosyllabically

Definition: Monosyllabically

Monosyllabically

Adverb

1. In a monosyllabic manner.

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

Date "monosyllabically" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)


Modern Usage: Monosyllabically

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Yeah! About a million things, but I can't express myself monosyllabically enough for you to understand it all. (Mallrats; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

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

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Usage Frequency: Monosyllabically

"Monosyllabically" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Monosyllabically" is used about 4 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
Adverb (general)100%4175,879

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

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Modern Translation: Monosyllabically

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

German

  

einsilbige. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μονοσύλλαβα. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onosyllabicallymay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Monosyllabically

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-i-l-l-l-l-m-n-o-o-s-y-y"

-4 letters: monosyllabic, syllabically, symbolically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Monosyllabically


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

4D 6F 6E 6F 73 79 6C 6C 61 62 69 63 61 6C 6C 79

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 01101111 01101110 01101111 01110011 01111001 01101100 01101100 01100001 01100010 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#110 &#111 &#115 &#121 &#108 &#108 &#97 &#98 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 006E 006F 0073 0079 006C 006C 0061 0062 0069 0063 0061 006C 006C 0079

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

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

47818081859178786768756967787891

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INDEX

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


  

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