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Nurturant

Definition: Nurturant

Nurturant

Adjective

1. Providing physical and emotional care and nourishment.

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


Usage Frequency: Nurturant

"Nurturant" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nurturant" 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%4175,879

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

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Expression: Nurturant

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "nurturant": non-nurturant.

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

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Anagrams: Nurturant

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-n-n-r-r-t-t-u-u"

-3 letters: nutant, truant.

-4 letters: taunt.

-5 letters: aunt, rant, runt, tarn, tart, taut, tuna, turn, tutu, unau.

 Words containing the letters "a-n-n-r-r-t-t-u-u"
 

+4 letters: nonstructural.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Nurturant


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

4E 75 72 74 75 72 61 6E 74

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)

01001110 01110101 01110010 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#117 &#114 &#116 &#117 &#114 &#97 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0075 0072 0074 0075 0072 0061 006E 0074

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

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

488784868784678086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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