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Definition: Pageant |
PageantNoun1. An elaborate representation of scenes from history etc; usually involves a parade with rich costumes. 2. A rich and spectacular ceremony. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pageant" was first used: 1386. (references) |
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A beauty contest, or beauty pageant, is a competition between people, based largely, though not always entirely, on the beauty of their physical appearance. Almost invariably, competitions for men and women are separate events, and those for men are not referred to as beauty contests except derogatorily. Those for women are more common; for an example of a male beauty contest, see Mr. Universe. There are also beauty contests for children; they are controversial, in particular if the term "sexy" is used and/or the children are dressed in no more than a swimsuit. [1]The modern beauty pageant can trace its origin to the Miss America pageant, first held in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1921, under the title "Inter-City Beauty" contest. The following year, the title was renamed as Miss America. Other contests include the yearly Miss World competition (founded by Eric Morley in 1951) and Miss Universe (founded in 1952), which are the two largest and most famous international beauty contests. Women from around the world participate each year in the competitions for these titles. The organisers of the major beauty contests represent their contests as being events of world importance. Many other people consider beauty contests to be titillating entertainment events of no great importance.
Beauty contests and politics
Many feminists regard beauty contests for women as degrading to females in general, as well as to the women who compete in them. A common comparison made by feminists is that beauty contests are like a cattle market for women. They have particularly objected to swimsuit rounds in competitions, where the contestants parade dressed only in swimsuits and high heeled shoes. Partly because of this, beauty contests have declined in popularity since their peak in the 1960s. These criticisms were presented in high-profile complaints against the Miss America contest in the late 1960s.
The contests are highly controversial and regularly attract demonstrators. An extreme example is the 2002 Miss World contest, which was held in Nigeria, the country of the 2001 winner, until mass riots which killed 200 and a fatwa against a female journalist caused the organizers to move it to London.
Beauty contests and "sexual purity"
Beauty contests for women often have rules regarding the sexual "purity" of the contestants: for example, they must not be married, must not become pregnant, must agree to remain celibate during their "reign", and must agree to refrain from other acts that the contest organizers regard as "moral turpitude". Breaking any of those rules disqualifies the contestant, and such disqualifications occur with some frequency: resignations have been forced by the threat to release extant nude photographs of contestants.
Beauty contests and race
Sonia Rolland was the first black Miss France in 2000.
- to be written
Beauty contests, body shape and anthropology
- to be written
Selecting a Beauty Queen
Beauty pageants are generally multi-tiered, with local competitions feeding into the larger competitions. The worldwide pageants thus require hundreds or thousands of local competitions.
See also:
- Vestal virgin
External links
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Beauty contest."
Synonym: PageantSynonym: pageantry (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ostentation | Demonstration, flying colors; tomfoolery; flourish of trumpets; (celebration); pageant, pageantry; spectacle, exhibition, exposition, procession; turn out, set out; grand function; f_te, gala, field day, review, march past, promenade, insubstantial pageant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pageant |
| Specialty definitions using "pageant": Funeral ♦ Marching Watch ♦ Ovation ♦ story. (references) |
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Screenplays | You a little late for the Christmas pageant! (Coming to America; writing credit: David Sheffield) New Jersey, as you know, there are people who consider the Miss United States Pageant outdated and anti-feminist (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford) Help them to take this pageant by the balls and rip 'em off. They're smart, and beautiful, andwell, if those judges can't see that then I hope that on Judgment Day you put their asses through a meat grinder (Happy, Texas; writing credit: Ed Stone; Mark Illsley) There was to be a pageant representing our county's agricultural products (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote) Yes! They put them wieners on the glass at the Alano Club, while the ladies were rehearsing the Christmas pageant. (Varsity Blues; writing credit: W. Peter Iliff) | |
Clever | The Miss Universe pageant is fixed. All the winners are from Earth. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Miss America Pageant (1954) National Red Cross Pageant (1917) The Pageant of San Francisco (1915) A Holiday Pageant at Home (1901) | |
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![]() | Capital's prettiest debs appear in Pageant of Nations. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Pageant of Peterborough, New Hamphshire. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The Rex pageant, Mardi Gras Day, New Orleans, La. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | New Orleans, La., Mardi Gras Day, the "Red" Pageant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Pageant participants costumed as Pilgrims and Natives, posed beneath a banner "En Avant!". Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | At the May Day pageant in Siloam, Greene County, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Indian pageant. Lake Itasca, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Florence F. Noyes as "Liberty" in suffrage pageant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | World's fair, Railroad Building. Pageant, driving the golden spike. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Personnel of The Tercentenary Pageant, "The Pilgrim Spirit," Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1921. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "MoKgatla" by Kevin Walsh Commentary: "Contestant in a village beauty pageant, Saulspoort, South Africa." |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Pageant" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.07% of the time. "Pageant" is used about 116 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) | 87.07% | 101 | 32,488 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.48% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.45% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 116 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "pageant": air pageant ♦ fairy pageant ♦ insubstantial pageant. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pageant": pageant-masters. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
miss universe pageant | 1,358 | nudist pageant | 68 |
pageant | 989 | girl pageant dress | 67 |
pageant dress | 949 | carolina miss north pageant | 67 |
beauty pageant | 767 | america junior miss pageant | 67 |
pageant of the master | 456 | pageant clothes | 64 |
2003 miss pageant universe | 268 | teen pageant | 63 |
pageant gown | 170 | child pageant | 63 |
miss mississippi pageant | 134 | florida miss pageant | 63 |
baby pageant | 106 | miss america pageant | 62 |
georgia miss pageant | 105 | miss pageant virginia | 60 |
arkansas miss pageant | 102 | beauty miss pageant universe | 60 |
child beauty pageant | 94 | junior miss pageant | 59 |
mabuhay pageant | 84 | miss pageant tennessee | 59 |
nude pageant | 81 | alabama miss pageant | 54 |
pageant wear | 76 | pageant swim wear | 54 |
manti pageant | 76 | american miss pageant | 54 |
kid pageant | 72 | miss pageant usa | 53 |
pageant crown | 71 | ms pageant universe | 51 |
louis pageant st | 70 | louisiana miss pageant | 50 |
american pageant | 70 | pageant shoes | 50 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pageant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | procesion (procession), paradë (parade, review), shfaqje përkujtimore, maskaradë (costume ball, Masquerade), kortezh (cortege, procession). (various references) | |
Arabic | موكب (caravan, cortege, escort, parade, procession), عرض (array, bid, breadth, broaden, demo, display, evince, exhibit, expose, exposition, exposure, feature, hang, hang out, hold out, imply, indication, introduction, lineup, mount, offer, offering, overture, parade, predispose, present, presentation, presenting, produce, proffer, propound, recital, retrace, review, set, set out, setting, show, state, statement, subject, submit, surrey, symptom, trot out, widen, width), أبهة فارغة (pagehood). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | карнавално шествие, грандиозно шествие, живи картини, празна показност, пищност (flamboyance, glitter, luxuriance, pageantry, pomp, pomposity, profusion, splendor, splendour, theatricality). (various references) | |
Chinese | 盛會 (distinguished meeting), 壮丽的场面. (various references) | |
Czech | skvìlá podívaná, jevištní scéna, divadlo (board, Playhouse, show, stage, theatre, theatricals), živý obraz (tableau). (various references) | |
Farsi | مراسم مجلل , نمایش مجلل وتاریخی , صفحه نمایش , رژه (Array, Parade, Review). (various references) | |
French | pompe (pageantry, parade), parade (parade, Parry), spectacle pompeux, spectacle historique, reconstitution historique. (various references) | |
German | Pomp (grandeur, ostentation, pageantry, pomp, splendour, state, vainglory). (various references) | |
Greek | σκηνική παρέλαση, μεγαλοπρεπήσ παρέλαση, πομπή (cortege, pageantry, pomp, procession), αναπαράσταση ιστορικού γεγονότος. (various references) | |
Hungarian | nagy felvonulás, látványosság (pageantry, shew, show, show-place, spectacle), üres pompa. (various references) | |
Italian | parata storica, corteo in costumi. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 野外劇 , ページに及ぶ (page boy, page girl, page in, page one, page out, pager, paging). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ページェント , やがいげき. (various references) | |
Manx | tostyl. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ageantpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quadro vivo, fausto (luxury, ostentation, pageantry, pomp), espetáculo público (cortege), cortejo suntuoso, aparato (display, ostentation, pageantry, pomp, swank, trappings). (various references) | |
Romanian | procesiune mãreaţã, pompã falsã, piesã cu scene din istoria unui oraş (pageantry), tablou viu, strãlucire goalã (pomp), spectacol public grandios (pageantry), scenã ambulantã, mister (arcanum, enigma, mystery, secret), mascaradã (farce, Masquerade, Mummery), film (celluloid, film, motion picture, movie, moving picture, moving pictures, picture, picture show), ceremonie fastuoasã, carnaval (carnival), aparenţã (appearance, name, show, surface), alai mãreţ. (various references) | |
Russian | карнавальное шествие, маскарад (fancy dress ball, fancy-ball, fancy-dress ball), зрелище (bloodcurdling sight, show, sight, spectacle), подвижная сцена, парад (parade), инсценировка (dramatization, staging). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pompezna svečanost, svečana povorka. (various references) | |
Spanish | pompa (array, bubble, display, gaudiness, ostentation, pageantry, pomp, procession, pump, state), espectáculo histórico, desfile histórico, cabalgata (cavalcade, ride). (various references) | |
Swedish | festtåg. (various references) | |
Turkish | tantanalı ama önemsiz gösteri (pageantry), geçit alayı (pageantry), gösteri alayı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | інсценівка, карнавальний похід, пишне видовище. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cảnh phô trương rỗng tuếch (pageantry). (various references) | |
Welsh | pasiant. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pagina. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pageant": pageantries, pageantry, pageants. (additional references) | |
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"Pageant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bougeant, paegan, paegant, paegeant, paegent, pagaent, pagant, pagean, pagent, pajent, Pegeen, Piegan, Pigeat, pigent, piguant, praguian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pageant" (pronounced pa"junt) |
| 4 | -j u n t | agent, argent, astringent, cogent, contingent, convergent, detergent, diligent, divergent, emergent, exigent, indigent, indulgent, insurgent, intelligent, intransigent, negligent, pungent, reagent, Regent, resurgent, sergeant, stringent, tangent, urgent. |
| 3 | -u n t | aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, convalescent, convenient, convent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indifferent, indignant, indolent, inducement, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, integument, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-n-p-t" | |
-1 letter: agnate. | |
-2 letters: agape, agate, agent, antae, apnea, paean, pagan, panga, paten. | |
-3 letters: anga, anta, ante, atap, etna, gaen, gane, gape, gate, gent, geta, gnat, nape, neap, neat, page, pane, pang, pant, pate, peag, pean, peat, pent, tang, tapa, tape, tepa. | |
-4 letters: aga, age, ana, ane, ant, ape, apt, ate, eat, eng, eta, gae, gan. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-n-p-t" | |
+1 letter: pageants, paginate. | |
+2 letters: pageantry, paginated, paginates, parentage, patronage, pentagram. | |
+3 letters: antiplague, asperating, heptagonal, paramagnet, parentages, patronages, pentagonal, pentagrams, plateauing, readapting, separating. | |
+4 letters: alphabeting, antiplagues, evaporating, expatiating, grandparent, greasepaint, meatpacking, pageantries, paragenetic, paramagnets, pentagonals, plantigrade, platemaking, pomegranate, preadapting, straphanger. | |
+5 letters: agapanthuses, appertaining, appreciating, arpeggiating, decapitating, emancipating, exasperating, expatriating, grandparents, greasepaints, magnetograph, magnetopause, meatpackings, paramagnetic, pathbreaking, pentagonally, permanganate, plantigrades, platemakings, pomegranates, premalignant, repatriating, scapegoating, straphangers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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