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Definition: Passerby |
PasserbyNoun1. A person who passes by casually or by chance. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: PasserbySynonyms: passer (n), passer-by (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Passerby |
| English words defined with "passerby": trample. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Passerby (1913) | |
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| "Flea Market Fountain" by Paige Foster Commentary: "This is the fountain from my Bohemian Coffee Shop series. As I was taking pictures of it, a passerby told me that the owner had found this fountain at a flea market in Paris, and had it shipped to Seattle for his coffee shop." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Economic History | Taiwan | Anti-mainlander violence flared on February 28, 1947, prompted by an incident in which a cigarette seller was injured and a passerby was shot to death by Nationalist authorities. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Passerby" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Passerby" is used about 9 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% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
the passerby | 16 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "passerby"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kalimtar (ephemeral, evanescent, goer, momentary, passing, pedestrian, temporal, temporary, transitional, transitive, transitory, unabiding). (various references) | |
Arabic | عابر سبيل, المار. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | случайно срещнат човек, минувач. (various references) | |
Czech | kolemjdoucí. (various references) | |
Greek | περαστικός (passer by, passing). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עובר אורח (traveller, wayfarer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | járókelő (by-passer, jaywalker). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 辻斬り (killing a passerby in order to test a new sword). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | つじぎり (killing a passerby in order to test a new sword). (various references) | |
Manx | troailtagh (carpet-bagger; travelling, commuter, itinerant, itinerate, passenger, rep, representative, traveller, travelling salesman, traverse, trekker, wayfarer). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asserbypay.(various references) | |
Russian | прохожий (passer-by, passers, passersby, passing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prolaznik (habitue), namernik. (various references) | |
Swedish | förbipasserande (passer by, passer-by, passing by). (various references) | |
Turkmen | цtegзi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Passerby" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: passerbys, pesebre. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-p-r-s-s-y" | |
-1 letter: pessary. | |
-2 letters: aspers, baryes, brassy, bypass, parses, passer, payers, prases, repass, repays, resays, sabers, sabres, sayers, spares, sparse, spears, sprays, yerbas. | |
-3 letters: abyes, abyss, apers, apery, apres, apses, arses, asper, bares, barye, baser, bases, bassy, bears, braes, brass, brays, byres, essay, eyras, pares, parse, pases, passe, payer, pears, prase, prays, presa, press, preys. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-p-r-s-s-y" | |
+1 letter: passersby. | |
+3 letters: cyberspaces, presbyopias. | |
+4 letters: bathyspheres, polysorbates. | |
+5 letters: presbyterates, presbyterials. | |
| 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. | |
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