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Definition: Sunbonnet |
SunbonnetNoun1. A large bonnet that shades the face; worn by girls and women. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sunbonnet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1897. (references) |
Synonym: SunbonnetSynonym: sunhat (n). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Sunbonnet Sue (1945) A Sunbonnet Blue (1937) The Lilac Sunbonnet (1922) | |
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 | Member of the congregation of Wheeley's church called "Queen." She wears the native old fashioned type of sunbonnet. Her dress and apron were made at home. Near Gordonton, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Native of North Carolina. Sunbonnet, and homemade old-fashioned knit gloves. This woman is a member of Wheeley Church congregation. Near Gordonton, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Sunbonnet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sunbonnet" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
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 "sunbonnet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قلنسوة نسوية للوقاية من الشمس. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unbonnetsay шляпа от солнца. (various references) solhatt (sunhat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sunbonnet": sunbonnets. (additional references) | |
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"Sunbonnet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aubonne, dubonnet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sunbonnet" (pronounced 'Sun"bon"net'): Abnet, Bennet, Burnet, Cornet, Cronet, Cygnet, gannet, Ginnet, Hornet, jennet, linnet, Lunet, magnet, Pinnet, Posnet, Punnet, Quannet, rennet, Sarcenet, signet, Sinnet, Spakenet, Unbonnet. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: unbonnets. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-n-n-n-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: unbonnet. | |
-2 letters: bonnets, neuston, subtone. | |
-3 letters: betons, bonnes, bonnet, buteos, nonets, nonuse, obtuse, sonnet, subnet, tenons, tonnes, unbent, unsent. | |
-4 letters: bents, besot, beton, bones, bonne, bonus, bosun, bouse, bouts, bunns, bunts, buteo, butes, ebons, neons, nones, nonet, notes, nouns, onset, seton, snout, steno, stone, tenon, tones, tonne, tonus, touse, tubes, tunes, unset. | |
-5 letters: bens, bent. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-n-n-n-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: sunbonnets. | |
+2 letters: unbeknownst. | |
+3 letters: subcontinent. | |
+4 letters: nonincumbents, subcontinents. | |
+5 letters: nonreturnables, subcontinental, unmentionables. | |
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