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Definition: Socage |
SocageNoun1. Land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "socage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Etymology: Socage \Soc"age\, noun[From Soc; compare to late Latin socagium.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Possession | Noun: possession, seizin, seisin; ownership; occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality, dependency; villenage, villeinage; socage, chivalry, knight service. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Socage |
| English words defined with "socage": Bockland ♦ Charter land ♦ Socager, Socman, Socmanry, Soken. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "socage": Socman. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | If anyone holds of us by fee-farm, either by socage or by burage, or of any other land by knight's service, we will not (by reason of that fee-farm, socage, or burgage), have the wardship of the heir, or of such land of his as if of the fief of that other; nor shall we have wardship of that fee-farm, socage, or burgage, unless such fee-farm owes knight's service. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Socage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Socage" is used about 5 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) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "socage": Free socage ♦ villein socage. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "socage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tenure libre (common free socage), tenure en socage commun (common socage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | frondienst (compulsory labour, drudgery, serfdom, servitude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | robot (automaton, corvee, drudge, plodding, robot, sweat, swelter), jobbágytelek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ocagesay kuluk (corvee, moil), kmetsko imanje. (various references) ระบบการเช่าที่นาในยุคศัก"ินา. (various references) derebeylik arazi tasarruf hakkı (soccage). (various references) sự lĩnh canh trả tô. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "socage": socager, socagers, socages. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "socage" (pronounced 'Soc"age'): Abusage, Accourage, Adage, Adjustage, Alloyage, Amperage, Appendage, Arrearage, Berthage, Blindage, blockage, Boatage, Bondage, Borage, Bordage, Bossage, Breakage, Brewage, Buoyage, Burgage, Careenage, Cartage, Centage, Checkage, Chiefage, Clearage, Cloudage, Clownage, Coinage, Corage, Cordage, Corkage, Costage, Couage, Courage, Cranage, Crimpage, Cuinage, Encourage, Endamage, Escheatage, Floodage, Floorage, flowage, Foldage, Fraughtage, freightage, Frequentage, frontage, fruitage. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-o-s" | |
-1 letter: cages. | |
-2 letters: aces, ages, cage, case, cogs, egos, gaes, goas, goes, ocas, sage, sago, scag, sego. | |
-3 letters: ace, age, ago, cog, cos, ego, gae, gas, goa, gos, oca, oes, ose, sac, sae, sag, sea, sec, seg. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, as, es, go, oe, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-o-s" | |
+1 letter: boscage, cargoes, corsage, cowages, socager, socages, soccage. | |
+2 letters: acrogens, boscages, coagents, cognates, coinages, collages, congeals, cordages, corkages, corsages, cottages, courages, cowhages, decagons, decalogs, dockages, dogfaces, escargot, gouaches, lockages, socagers, soccages. | |
+3 letters: aglycones, blockages, brockages, cabotages, cheongsam, coagulase, cogitates, collagens, comanages, cottagers, cousinage, coverages, coxalgies, cozenages, crannoges, cyanogens, echograms, escargots, galactose, gamecocks, gasconade, gavelocks, octangles, scapegoat. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 63 61 67 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- -.-. .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01100011 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o c a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0063 0061 0067 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)538169677371 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Historic 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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