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Tobacconist

Definition: Tobacconist

Tobacconist

Noun

1. A retail dealer in tobacco and tobacco-related articles.

2. A shop that sells pipes and pipe tobacco and cigars and cigarettes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tobacconist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)


Specialty Definition: Tobacconist

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

A dealer in tobacco esp. in retail. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Tobacconist

Synonyms: tobacco shop (n), tobacconist shop (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tobacconist

English words defined with "tobacconist": Tobacco man, tobacconist shop. (references)
Specialty definitions using "tobacconist": Quid RidesSMOKER. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Tobacconist" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (tobacconist's).

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Commercial Usage: Tobacconist

DomainTitle

Books

  • The tobacconist (reference)

  • The Unfortunate Tobacconist and the Paradol Chamber (The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/Audio Cassette) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Tobacconist

"Tobacconist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tobacconist" is used about 57 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5744,859

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Tobacconist

Expression using "tobacconist": tobacconist shop. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tobacconist

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

tobacconist

24

cheap cigar cigarette cuban delicatessen hand rolling shop tobacco tobacco tobacconist wine

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Tobacconist

Language Translations for "tobacconist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏بائع التبغ. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

търговец на тютюневи изделия, продавач на тютюневи изделия. (various references)

   

Czech

  

trafikant. (various references)

   

Danish

  

tobaks(detail)handler. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

tabakkleinhandelaar. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tupakkakauppias. (various references)

   

French

  

marchand de tabac. (various references)

   

German

  

tabakhändler (tobacco merchant, tobacco shop, tobacconists). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καπνοπώλησ, καπνοπωλητής, λιανοπωλητής. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מוכר טבק. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

trafikos-dohányárus. (various references)

   

Italian

  

tabaccaio. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

煙草屋 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たば"や. (various references)

   

Manx

  

tombageyder. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

obacconisttay

   

Portuguese

  

vendedor de fumo, retalhista de tabaco, negociante de fumo. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tutungiu, debitant (dealer, retailer, seller), chioşcar. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

торговец табаком. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

duvandžija. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estanquero. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tobakshandlare. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tütüncü, sigara satıcısı. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

торговець тютюновими виробами, курець тютюну. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người bán thuốc lá người buôn thuốc lá. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Tobacconist

Derivations

Words beginning with "tobacconist": tobacconists. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Tobacconist"

Words rhyming with "tobacconist" (pronounced 'To*bac"co*nist'): Abiogenist, Accompanist, Adonist, Agonist, Antivaccinist, Biogenist, Botanist, Colonist, Communist, Cornist, Cosmogonist, Galvanist, Libidinist, lutanist, lutenist, Mangonist, Millennist, Miscellanist, misogynist, Monogenist, Monotonist, Montanist, Neoplatonist, Paleobotanist, Phenomenist, Philanthropinist, Philogynist, Platanist, Platonist, Plenist, Plotinist, Plutonist, Polygenist, Polygynist, Polyphonist, Protagonist, Pyrotechnist, Pyrrhonist, Pythonist, Ripienist, Saturnist, Seminist, Simonist, Sopranist, Stercoranist, Symphonist, tympanist, Ultramontanist, Vaccinist. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Tobacconist

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-i-n-o-o-s-t-t"

-2 letters: coactions.

-3 letters: botanist, coaction, contacts, occasion, oscitant, ostinato, tactions, tobaccos.

-4 letters: actions, atonics, bastion, boccias, bonacis, bonitas, bonitos, botanic, cations, cocains, contact, cottons, obconic, obtains, octants, station, tactics, taction, tictacs, tictocs, tobacco.

-5 letters: accost, actins, action, antics, atonic, attics, bacons, bancos, basion, batons, binocs, bionts, biotas, boccia, boccis, bonaci, bonita, bonito, bonsai, boston, cabins.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-c-i-n-o-o-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: tobacconists.

 

+5 letters: objectifications.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tobacconist


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 62 61 63 63 6F 6E 69 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01100010 01100001 01100011 01100011 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#98 &#97 &#99 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0062 0061 0063 0063 006F 006E 0069 0073 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5481686769698180758586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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