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Definition: Sundowner |
SundownerNoun1. (Australia) a tramp who habitually arrives at sundown. 2. (Brit) a drink taken at sundown. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian, panhandler, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench, scrub, jade; gossoon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Sundowner (1911) | |
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| "Sundowner" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sundowner" 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 "sundowner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | socialist zyrtar që merret me punë private, përtac (dangler, dawdler, do nothing, do-naught, faineant, good for nothing, idle, Idler, indolent, lazy, moocher, ne'er do well, otiose, poke, slacker, slothful, sluggard, snail, swabber, truant, twiddler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чашка алкохол на залез слънце. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | estebéd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | undownersay рюмка спиртного, бродяга (bum, derelict, dosser, drifter, drummer, gadabout, gadder, hobo, landloper, landlouper, maverick, nomad, prowler, rambler, rogue, runabout, runagate, stroller, tramp, tramper, vagabond, vagrant). (various references) skitnica (bum, drifter, hobo, landloper, landlouper, larrikin, loafer, runagate, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), probisvet (humbug, landloper, landlouper, picaroon, shack, spiv, tramp). (various references) serseri (adrift, beat, bum, bummer, dawdler, dosser, down and out, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, larrikin, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, punk, rambler, rascal, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, swag man, tramp, vagabond, vagrant, varmint, wandering, yob), akşam içkisi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sundowner": sundowners. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sundowner" (pronounced 'Sun"down`er'): Acetifier, Acidifier, Aletaster, Almsgiver, Amplifier, Ant-eater, Anywhither, Armor-bearer, Backbiter, Backhander, Bagpiper, Ball-flower, Barkeeper, Barnburner, Barnstormer, Bartender, Base-burner, Basifier, Batfowler, Beaucatcher, Beautifier, Bedmaker, Bedswerver, Bee-eater, Beefeater, Bellwether, Benefiter, Birdcatcher, Blackmailer, Blacksalter, Bloodflower, Bloodsucker, Bogsucker, Bondholder, Bookbinder, Bookholder, Bookkeeper, Bookmaker, Bookseller, Bootmaker, Bottleholder, Boxkeeper, Boycotter, Breechloader, Brickfielder, Bricklayer, Brickmaker, Bull-roarer, Bushfighter, Bushwhacker. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-n-o-r-s-u-w" | |
-1 letter: rundowns. | |
-2 letters: downers, enduros, enwound, neurons, nonuser, renowns, resound, rewound, rundown, sounder, sundown, swouned, undoers, unowned, unsowed, unswore, unsworn, wonders, wonners. | |
-3 letters: douser, dowers, downer, dowser, drones, drowns, drowse, dunner, endows, enduro, neuron, nonuse, nursed, owners, redons, renown, resown, rouens, rounds, roused, rowens, snored, snowed, sonder, sorned, soured, sunder, sundew, sunned, swound, undoer. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-n-o-r-s-u-w" | |
+1 letter: sundowners. | |
+3 letters: untowardness, wondrousness. | |
+4 letters: unworldliness, wonderfulness. | |
+5 letters: untowardnesses, wondrousnesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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