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Rara Avis

Definition: Rara Avis

Rara Avis

Noun

1. A rare or unique person.

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


Specialty Definition: Rara Avis

DomainDefinition

Health

A ridge in the posterior horn of the lateral ventricle of the brain formed by the anterior indentation of the calcarine fissure. (references)

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

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Synonym: Rara Avis

Synonym: rare bird (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Rara Avis

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Inexpedience

Tidbit; gem, gem of the first water; bijou, precious stone, jewel, pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure; good thing; rara avis, one in a thousand.

Repute

Hero, man of mark, great card, celebrity, worthy, lion, rara avis, notability, somebody; classman; man of rank; (nobleman); pillar of the state, pillar of the church, pillar of the community.

Unconformity

Nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid, hermaphrodite.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: Rara Avis

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Rara Avis (1996)

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Commercial Usage: Rara Avis

DomainTitle

Books

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rara Avis

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

rara avis

24
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Modern Translation: Rara Avis

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

Albanian

  

raritet (rarity), gjë e rrallë (curiosity, rarity). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

рядка птица. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ritkaság (curio, curiosity, rareness, rarity, scarcity, sleaziness, tenuity, tenuousness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

araray avisay

   

Portuguese

  

raridade (curio, fewness, phenomenon, rarefaction, rareness, rarity, treasure). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

редкость (curio, curiosity, rareness, rarity, scarcity, sparseness, sparsity, sparsness, white crow), редкое явление (rarity). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

retka ptica. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rara ave. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

enastående (eminent, exceptionally, exquisite, extremely, incomparable, matchless, outstanding, phenomenal, rare, singular, sovereign, top flight, transcendent, unbeatable, unequalled, unexampled, unique, unparallelled). (various references)

   

Thai

  

คนหรือสิ่งที่หายาก (เป็น าษาละติน). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Rara Avis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-r-r-s-v"

-3 letters: arias, arras, arris, raias, sirra, vairs, varas, varia.

-4 letters: airs, aria, raia, rias, sari, vair, vara, vars, vasa, visa.

-5 letters: aas, air, ais, ars, ava, ras, ria, sir, sri, var, vas, via, vis.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-r-r-s-v"
 

+3 letters: adversarial.

 

+4 letters: caravanserai, margraviates.

 

+5 letters: caravansaries, caravanserais, intravascular.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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