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Definitions: Pleasance |
PleasanceNoun1. A pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion. 2. A fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Pleasance" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be pleasant". |
Date "pleasance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Etymology: Pleasance \Pleas"ance\, noun. [French expression plaisance. See Please.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: PleasanceSynonym: pleasure (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: pain (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pleasance |
| English words defined with "pleasance": Plaisance, Plesance. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pleasance": Plesance. (references) |
| "Pleasance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 54.55% of the time. "Pleasance" is used about 11 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) | 54.55% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 45.45% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
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 |
pleasance | 9 |
donald pleasance | 6 |
donald movie pleasance | 5 |
donald film pleasance | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pleasance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | удоволствие (amusement, delectation, delight, enjoyment, gratification, gusto, joy, kick, luxury, pleasure, relish, satisfaction, sport), градина (garden, grounds, yard), наслада (complacence, delight, enjoyment, pleasure, relish, treat, unction), парк (fleet, gardens, grounds, pleasure ground, rolling stock, stock, yard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | lustgarten (amusement park, funfair, leisure park). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | taitnyssid (agreeability, amiableness, joyfulness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | easanceplay trädgård (garden, yard), glädje (cheer, delight, elation, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, jollity, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, mirth, satisfaction). (various references) sự vui thú. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "pleasance": pleasances. (additional references) | |
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"Pleasance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pesapane, plaisance, pleasan, pleasaunce, plesaunce. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "pleasance" (pronounced 'Pleas"ance'): Abearance, Abeyance, Abidance, Abodance, Acceptance, Accordance, Achievance, Acquaintance, Admirance, Affirmance, Aggrievance, Aidance, Allegeance, Allurance, Annoyance, Appearance, Appendance, Appliance, Approvance, Arrivance, Assistance, Attendance, Avengeance, Avoidance, Avowance, Boastance, Buoyance, Chievance, Clairvoyance, Clearance, Coinsurance, Compliance, Comportance, Concordance, Conductance, Confirmance, Conformance, Connivance, Contrivance, Conveyance, Defailance, Defiance, Durance, forbearance, grievance, guidance, impedance, INSURANCE, Manurance, misalliance. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-l-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: capelans, scalepan, seaplane, spelaean. | |
-2 letters: anlaces, canapes, capelan, cleanse, enclasp, enlaces, palaces, pencels, scalene, spancel, spelean. | |
-3 letters: aneles, anlace, apneal, apneas, asleep, calesa, canals, canape, cleans, clepes, elapse, encase, enlace, escape, lances, paeans, paesan, palace, paleae, panels, pascal, peaces, peasen, pecans, pencel, places, planes, please, salpae, seance, seneca, spence, spleen. | |
-4 letters: acnes, alane, alans. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-l-n-p-s" | |
+1 letter: pleasances. | |
+2 letters: antechapels, capableness, elecampanes, encapsulate, inescapable, relandscape, unescapable. | |
+3 letters: encapsulated, encapsulates, mesencephala, relandscaped, relandscapes. | |
+4 letters: anencephalies, capablenesses, incapableness, peaceableness, preclearances, prosencephala. | |
+5 letters: acceptableness, comparableness, convertaplanes, encephalograms, encyclopaedias. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6C 65 61 73 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-.. . .- ... .- -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P l e a s a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006C 0065 0061 0073 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507871678567806971 |
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