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Potman

Definition: Potman

Potman

Noun

1. (British) a worker in an inn or public house who serves customers and does various chores.

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

Date "potman" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references)


Synonym: Potman

Synonym: potboy (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Potman

English words defined with "potman": Potmen. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Potman

"Potman" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Potman" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%9117,287

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Potman

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

natalie potman

4

potman

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Potman

Language Translations for "potman"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

прислужник в бар. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csaposlegény (tapster). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otmanpay

   

Russian 

  

подручный в кабаке. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pomoćnik (adjunct, adjuvant, aid, aide, associate, auxiliary, call-boy, coadjutor, contributor, deputy, famulus, help, helper, helpmate, helpmeet, mate, subsidiary). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ölkypare. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người hầu ở quán rượu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Potman"

Words rhyming with "potman" (pronounced 'Pot"man'): Airman, Almsman, Artsman, Atman, Axman, Backwoodsman, Bagman, Bargeman, batsman, Bayman, Bellman, Billman, Boatsman, Bondman, BONDSMAN, Bookman, Bordman, Brachman, Brakeman, Breakman, Bridesman, Briefman, Burman, Bushman, Cabman, Canoeman, Carman, Cartman, Cayman, Chairman, Chapman, Chessman, Churchman, Clansman, Classman, Coachman, Cogman, Copeman, Cousin-german, Cracksman, Craftsman, Cragsman, Dalesman, Daysman, Deathsman, Dustman, Dutchman, fireman, Firman, Flagman. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Potman

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tampon.

Words within the letters "a-m-n-o-p-t"

-1 letter: panto, toman.

-2 letters: atom, atop, mano, moan, moat, noma, nota, pant, tamp.

-3 letters: amp, ant, apt, man, map, mat, moa, mon, mop, mot, nam, nap, nom, not, oat, opt, pam, pan, pat, pom, pot, tam, tan, tao, tap, tom, ton, top.

-4 letters: am, an, at, ma, mo, na, no, om, on, op, pa, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-m-n-o-p-t"
 

+1 letter: maintop, pantoum, phantom, postman, ptomain, tampion, tampons, timpano, tympano.

 

+2 letters: maintops, pantoums, phantoms, pivotman, pointman, protamin, ptomaine, ptomains, tampions, tamponed.

 

+3 letters: complaint, compliant, copayment, impaction, important, nonimpact, palmation, pantomime, paramount, patrimony, patrolman, patrolmen, protamine, protamins, protonema, ptomaines, pulmonate, sportsman, tamponing, taphonomy, treponema.

 

+4 letters: amputation, assumption, compacting, compaction, comparting, compensate, complacent, complaints, copayments, foretopman, homopteran, impactions, importance, importancy, imputation, miscaption, morphactin, nonoptimal, nonpayment, palmations, pantomimed, pantomimes, pantomimic, paramounts, patronymic, permeation, phonematic, pitchwoman, portamenti, portamento, postmating, poultryman, protamines, protohuman, protonemal, provitamin, pulmonates, taphonomic, temptation, trampoline, treponemal, treponemas, utopianism.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Potman


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

50 6F 74 6D 61 6E

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01110100 01101101 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#116 &#109 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0074 006D 0061 006E

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

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

508186796780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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