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Definition: Sorcerous |
SorcerousAdjective1. Possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; "charming incantations"; "magic signs that protect against adverse influence"; "a magical spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of night"- Shakespeare; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SorcerousSynonyms: charming (adj), magic (adj), magical (adj), witching(a) (adj), wizard(a) (adj), wizardly (adj). (additional references) |
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| "Sorcerous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sorcerous" is used about 7 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sorcerous stabber orphen | 27 |
orphen pic sorcerous stabber | 3 |
sorcerous stabber orphen mp3 | 3 |
sorcerous | 3 |
orphen revenge sorcerous stabber | 2 |
couple in orphen sorcerous stabber | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sorcerous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وابسته به جادوگری , سحرامیز (Magic, Magical), ساحر (Conjurer, Hex, Necromancer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | μαγικόσ (magic, magical, weird, witching, wizardly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orceroussay ซึ่งใช้เวทมนตร์คาถา. (various references) büyülü (eldritch, magical, occult). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | venefici, veneficis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "sorcerous" (pronounced 'Sor"cer*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-o-r-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: coursers, scourers. | |
-2 letters: courser, courses, crosser, cursers, cursors, recross, roosers, roscoes, rousers, scorers, scourer, sources, sucrose. | |
-3 letters: cerous, cooers, corers, corses, course, crores, crosse, crouse, cruors, cruses, curers, curser, curses, cursor, cusser, recurs, rooser, rooses, roscoe, rouser, rouses, scorer, scores, scours, scouse, serous, source, sourer, sucres. | |
-4 letters: ceros, cooer, corer, cores, corse, coses, cress. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-o-r-r-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: prosecutors. | |
+3 letters: cryosurgeons, foreclosures. | |
+4 letters: broncobusters, stercoraceous, urethroscopes. | |
+5 letters: counterstrokes, deconstructors, multiprocessor, oncornaviruses, overconstructs, overscrupulous, reconstructors. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6F 72 63 65 72 6F 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- .-. -.-. . .-. --- ..- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101111 01110010 01100011 01100101 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S o r c e r o u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006F 0072 0063 0065 0072 006F 0075 0073 |
| 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)538184697184818785 |
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