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Definition: Osier |
OsierNoun1. Flexible twig of a willow tree. 2. Any of various willows having pliable twigs used in basketry and furniture. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "osier" was first used: 13th century. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | The long, pliable shoots or branches of certain varieties of the willow tree. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Osier |
| English words defined with "osier": basket willow ♦ Crail ♦ Kinnikinic, Kipe ♦ Osiery ♦ purple osier, purple willow ♦ red osier, red willow ♦ Salix purpurea. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "osier": Hipper-switches. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "osier": Withy. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Osier" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (osier, wicker). |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Osier peeling, Norfolk / P.H. Emerson. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Osier" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 33.33% of the time. "Osier" is used about 6 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 (proper) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "osier" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Osier | Last name | 400 | 21,347 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "osier": common osier ♦ osier basket ♦ osier bed ♦ osier cornel ♦ osier furniture ♦ osier holt ♦ purple osier ♦ red osier ♦ red osier dogwood ♦ velvet osier. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "osier": osier-ait. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
dogwood osier red | 25 |
osier red | 16 |
osier | 7 |
mike netflix osier | 4 |
osier willow | 3 |
osier red restaurant | 3 |
d les mannequin osier | 2 |
osier purple willow | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "osier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shelgu, shelg (sallow, willow). (various references) | |
Arabic | صفصاف السلال, أغصان السلال. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ракитов, кошничарска ракита, върбов, върба (pussy willow, willow). (various references) | |
Chinese | 笲 (osier basket of brides). (various references) | |
Czech | vrbový prut (with, withy), vrboví, vrba (sallow, willow). (various references) | |
Danish | vidjer, vidjepil, vidje. (various references) | |
Dutch | teenwilg, teenwerk, teen (toe), rijshout (wicker), Notex CCD, bindwilg, 84.47, 46.00. (various references) | |
Finnish | paju (willow). (various references) | |
French | osier. (various references) | |
German | Korbweide, weidenrute. (various references) | |
Greek | λυγαριά (wicker). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nemes fûz, fûzfavesszõ (withy), fûz (bind, lace, willow). (various references) | |
Italian | vimini, vimine (wicker). (various references) | |
Manx | slat hellee, shellagh ushtey (dwarf willow). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | osieray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vimeiro (willow), vime (rattan, wattle, with, withy). (various references) | |
Romanian | salcie (sallow, willow), rãchitã, mlajã, lozie. (various references) | |
Russian | ива (sallow, willow). (various references) | |
Scottish | caoillean (a twig or osier for wicker). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vrbov, vrba (willow), rakita, iva. (various references) | |
Spanish | mimbre (wicker, willow). (various references) | |
Swedish | vidja (switch, wicker, with), vide (sallow, willow). (various references) | |
Thai | ต้นหลิว. (various references) | |
Turkish | sepetçi söğüdü. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | верболіз (osier bed, sallow, wicker, willow), лоза (cane, skein, willow), лозина (spray, switch, wattle), пагін верби. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | osera. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | osier. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "osier": osiers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "osier": choosier, cosier, crosier, goosier, hosier, nosier, prosier, rosier. (additional references) | |
Words containing "osier": crosiers, hosieries, hosiers, hosiery. (additional references) | |
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"Osier" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fozier, Kosie, Kosyrev, oasie, obser, ocaer, ocier, ocuer, Odier, ofire, ogier, Oiec, oire, oise, Okie, onsire, opier, opire, Osberht, Osea, Oseberg, Osee, oser, Oseri, Oshige, osi, osiel, osii, osiler, osio, Osios, osir, osleri, Osmiro, osoe, osor, Ossia, ossies, oster, ostier, osyer, owie, oxier, ozie, ozite, ozure, ozyrev, ozzer, siier, ussier. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: eros, ires, ores, reis, rise, roes, rose, sire, sore, sori. | |
-2 letters: ers, ire, oes, ore, ors, ose, rei, res, roe, sei, ser, sir, sri. | |
-3 letters: er, es, is, oe, or, os, re, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: ariose, cosier, dories, hosier, irones, isomer, lories, moires, nosier, oilers, orgies, oriels, osiers, poiser, reoils, ribose, rimose, rosier, seisor, seizor, senior, soiree, sortie, tories, triose, vireos. | |
+2 letters: boilers, borides, boskier, bossier, ciceros, cirrose, coheirs, coilers, coiners, copiers, corbies, corries, cowries, cronies, crosier, devisor, devoirs, dineros, disrobe, dossier, dowries, editors, erasion, eringos, erosion, erosive, erotics, erotism, estriol, forties, glories, goiters, goitres, goosier, goriest, gorsier, heriots, heroics, heroins, heroism, hoister, horsier, hosiers, hosiery, ignores, imposer, indorse, inshore, irksome, ironers, ironies, isobare, isomers, ivories, joiners, loiters, lorises, lorries, lousier, memoirs, merinos, misdoer, moilers, moister, mortise, mossier, mousier, nerolis, noisier, norites, oestrin, ogreish, ogreism, orbiest, orceins, ordines, oreides, orients, orioles, oroides, orpines, orrices, orrises, ourebis, ovaries, periods, poisers, porgies, porkies, promise, prosier, prossie, prostie, proxies, reboils, recoils, recoins, regions, rejoins, renvois, reposit, revisor, riboses, rioters, riposte, rissole, roadies, roister, rookies, roomies, ropiest, rosiest, rosined, rowdies, scoriae, seisors, seizors, semipro, seniors, serious, serpigo, shortie, showier, signore, smokier, snowier, soapier, soggier, soilure, soirees, soldier, solider, sonsier, sootier, soppier, sordine, sorites, sorrier, sortied, sorties, soupier, spoiler, steroid, stonier, storied, stories, stourie, toilers, triodes, trioses, trisome, urinose, verismo, version, viroses, visored, voicers, voiders, weirdos, worries, xerosis. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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