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Definition: Stowaway |
StowawayNoun1. A person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stowaway" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Immigration | An alien coming to the United States surreptitiously on an airplane or vessel without legal status of admission. Such an alien is subject to denial of formal admission and return to the point of embarkation by the transportation carrier. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sometimes the stowaway stays hidden during the whole journey, sometimes only until the vehicle can not return.
Sometimes a stowaway dies due to lack of food, water or oxygen, due to cold, or by falling out of a plane when the landing gear is engaged.
There are three films named Stowaway.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stowaway."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concealment | Latency; snake in the grass; secret; stowaway. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Go Away Stowaway (1967) The Stowaway Dog Ballad of Hector (1964) Stowaway Woody (1963) The Stowaway (1960) Stowaway Girl (1957) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Stowaway" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stowaway" is used about 18 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% | 18 | 82,615 |
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. |
| Language | Translations for "stowaway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | udhëtar që s'ka biletë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسافر مستخفي في الباخرة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пътник пътуващ тайно без билет. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | èerný pasažér. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | blind passager. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | verstekeling, blinde passagier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مسافرقاچاق , مسافرت قاچاقی کردن باکشتی وغیره . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jänis (hare). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | voyageur de fond de cale, passager clandestin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | versteckter Passagier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επιβάτησ πλοίου, λαθρεπιβάτησ, λαθρεπιβάτης, λαθραίοσ (clandestine, furtive, smuggled, stealthy, surreptitious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מצטפן, וסע סמוי (clandestine passanger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | potyautas (dead-head, free rider). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penumpang gelap. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | passeggero clandestino. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 密航者 (a stowaway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | みっ"うしゃ (a stowaway). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | troailtagh follit, follagher (concealer, hider). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | owawaystay passageiro clandestino. (various references) pasager clandestin. (various references) безбилетный пассажир (clandestine passenger). (various references) slepi putnik (deck-passenger), skriti (hide, stash), biti slepi putnik. (various references) polizón (deadhead), llovido. (various references) fripassagerare (deadhead). (various references) kaçak yolcu (clandestine passenger), gemiye kaçak binen yolcu. (various references) щось сховане, пасажир без квитка. (various references) người đi t u thuỷ lậu vé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stowaway": stowaways. (additional references) | |
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"Stowaway" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stoaway, Towawa, towaway. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: towaways. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-o-s-t-w-w-y" | |
-1 letter: towaway. | |
-3 letters: satay. | |
-4 letters: away, oast, oats, soya, staw, stay, stoa, stow, swat, sway, swot, taos, taws, tows, towy, toys, twas, twos, wast, wats, waws, ways, wost, wots, wows, yaws, yows. | |
-5 letters: aas, awa, ays, oat, sat, saw, say, sot, sow, soy, sty, tao, tas, taw, tow, toy, twa, two, was, wat, waw, way. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-o-s-t-w-w-y" | |
+1 letter: stowaways. | |
+2 letters: throwaways. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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