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Definition: Pretorian |
PretorianAdjective1. Of or relating to a Roman praetor; "praetorial powers". 2. Characteristic of Praetorian soldiers in respect to corruption or political venality; "a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble"- Arthur M.Schlesinger Jr. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pretorian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Synonyms: PretorianSynonyms: praetorial (adj), praetorian (adj), pretorial (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pretorian |
| Non-English Usage: "Pretorian" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (praetorian), Swedish (praetorian). |
Expressions using "pretorian": Pretorian bands ♦ Pretorian gate ♦ Pretorian guards. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
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pretorian | 6 |
guard pretorian | 3 |
allan line pretorian | 3 |
pretorian ss | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "pretorian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | praetorságot viselt férfi (praetorian), praetoriánus testőr, praetoriánus. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | etorianpray pretoriano (praetorian), pretorial (praetorian). (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words beginning with "pretorian": pretorians. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-o-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: anterior, atropine, pretrain, priorate, terrapin. | |
-2 letters: airport, atropin, operant, painter, partier, partner, pertain, pierrot, pointer, pornier, praetor, preriot, printer, pronate, prorate, protean, protein, repaint, reprint, retrain, terrain, trainer, tropine. | |
-3 letters: aroint, arpent, artier, atoner, enrapt, entrap, errant, irater, ironer, norite, opiate, orient, ornate, orpine, panier, pantie, parent, parrot, parton, patine, patron, perron, pineta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-o-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: perorating, peroration, praetorian, pretorians, reparation. | |
+2 letters: chiropteran, impregnator, incorporate, partitioner, perforating, perforation, perorations, praetorians, preparation, preromantic, probationer, procreating, procreation, proletarian, proteinuria, reapportion, reoperating, reoperation, reparations, repartition, reprobating, reprobation, respiration, trampoliner. | |
+3 letters: antipredator, arsenopyrite, chiropterans, copartnering, impersonator, impregnators, incorporated, incorporates, intercompare, interpolator, partitioners, perforations, perorational, perpetration, perspiration, perturbation, practitioner, precentorial, preformation, prehistorian, premigration, preparations, preservation, probationers, procreations, proletarians, proteinurias, reapportions, recuperation, reoperations, repartitions, repatriation, reprobations, respirations, trampoliners, trichopteran. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 74 6F 72 69 61 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . - --- .-. .. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01110100 01101111 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e t o r i a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0074 006F 0072 0069 0061 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508471868184756780 |
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