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Definition: Sword-shaped |
Sword-shapedAdjective1. Shaped like a sword blade; "the iris has an ensiform leaf". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sword-shaped" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
Synonyms: Sword-shapedSynonyms: bladelike (adj), ensiform (adj), swordlike (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sharpness | Acinaciform; apiculate, apiculated; aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate; lanceolate, lanciform; awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl-shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped; setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sword-shaped |
| English words defined with "sword-shaped": agave, American aloe, Ananas, Anigozanthus ♦ bowstring hemp ♦ cattail, century plant ♦ Ensate, ensiform leaf, Evening flower ♦ flag, fleur-de-lis ♦ genus Ananas, genus Anigozanthus, genus Dracaena, Gladen, Gladiate, gladiola, gladiolus ♦ iris ♦ New Zealand flax ♦ sansevieria, Spanish dagger, sword fern, sword grass, sword lily ♦ Xiphidium, Xiphophyllous ♦ Yucca carnerosana. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sword-shaped": Xiphoid. (references) |
| "Sword-shaped" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sword-shaped" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "sword-shaped"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | εε‘ι . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | ε£ηΆ . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | γγ"γγγ (humility, modesty, presenting to, strong fortress). (various references) | ||||
Korean | μΉΌ νμ±νλ". (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ord-shapedsway | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-h-o-p-r-s-s-w" | |
-2 letters: dropheads, headwords, rhapsodes, shadowers. | |
-3 letters: dewdrops, drophead, headword, password, pharoses, preshows, rhapsode, sawhorse, shadowed, shadower. | |
-4 letters: address, dashers, deodars, dewdrop, dowsers, drowsed, drowses, hawsers, hoarded, padders, phrased, phrases, powders, preshow, prewash, prowess, pshawed, redowas, reshows, sarodes, seraphs, shaders, shadows, shapers, sharped, sherpas, showers, soapers, spaders, spreads, swarded, swashed, swasher, wadders, washers. | |
-5 letters: adders, adored. | |
| 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. | |
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