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Definition: Rara Avis |
Rara AvisNoun1. A rare or unique person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A ridge in the posterior horn of the lateral ventricle of the brain formed by the anterior indentation of the calcarine fissure. (references) |
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Synonym: Rara AvisSynonym: rare bird (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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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Movie/TV Titles | Rara Avis (1996) | |
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| 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 |
rara avis | 24 |
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| 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 raridade (curio, fewness, phenomenon, rarefaction, rareness, rarity, treasure). (various references) редкость (curio, curiosity, rareness, rarity, scarcity, sparseness, sparsity, sparsness, white crow), редкое явление (rarity). (various references) retka ptica. (various references) rara ave. (various references) enastående (eminent, exceptionally, exquisite, extremely, incomparable, matchless, outstanding, phenomenal, rare, singular, sovereign, top flight, transcendent, unbeatable, unequalled, unexampled, unique, unparallelled). (various references) คนหรือสิ่งที่หายาก (เป็น าษาละติน). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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