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Definition: Nautch |
NautchNoun1. An intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nautch" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references) |
Synonyms: NautchSynonyms: nauch (n), nautch dance (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Queen of the Nautch Girls Helen (1973) The Love of a Nautch Girl (1909) | |
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| "Nautch" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nautch" is used about 5 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "nautch": nautch dance ♦ nautch girl. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "nautch"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | танцовщица;выступление танцовщиц (natch). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "nautch": nautches. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chaunt. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: chant, haunt, natch, nucha, unhat. | |
-2 letters: aunt, cant, chat, hant, haut, hunt, tach, than, tuna. | |
-3 letters: act, ant, can, cat, cut, hat, hun, hut, nah, nth, nut, tan, tau, tun, uta. | |
-4 letters: ah, an, at, ha, na, nu, ta, uh, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: canthus, chaunts, staunch, unlatch, unteach. | |
+2 letters: acanthus, chaunted, chaunter, couchant, dutchman, nautches, nuthatch, uncatchy, uncaught, unchaste. | |
+3 letters: authentic, ceanothus, chanteuse, chaunters, chaunting, headcount, humectant, lunchmeat, staunched, stauncher, staunches, staunchly, uncharted, unethical, unhatched, unlatched, unlatches, unmatched, unscathed, unteaches, wauchting. | |
+4 letters: acanthuses, anacolutha, antichurch, autochthon, avouchment, catechumen, chanteuses, chauvinist, claughting, euthanasic, headcounts, humanistic, humectants, lunchmeats, multichain, nuthatches, paunchiest, postlaunch, raunchiest, staunchest, staunching, trauchling, unactorish, unathletic, unattached, unchastely, unchastity, unemphatic, unlatching, unteaching. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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