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Toller

Definition: Toller

Toller

Noun

1. A person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation).

2. Someone employed to collect tolls.

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

Date "toller" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1892. (references)


Synonyms: Toller

Synonyms: bell ringer (n), ringer (n), toll agent (n), toll collector (n), tollgatherer (n), tollkeeper (n), tollman (n), tolltaker (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Toller

Non-English Usage: "Toller" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (groovier, jazzier).

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Modern Usage: Toller

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Frau Wirtin treibt es jetzt noch toller (1970)

Ein toller Onkel wird Papa Hurra (1970)

Toller Hecht auf krummer Tour (1961)

Ein Toller Tag (1945)

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

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Commercial Usage: Toller

DomainTitle

Books

  • Anarchism in the Dramas of Ernst Toller (reference)

  • Deutsches Expressionistisches Theater: Ernst Toller Und Georg Kaiser (Kanadische Studien Zur Deutschen Sprache Und Literatur, Vol 38) (reference)

  • Die verbrannten Dichter : Ernst Toller ... [et al.] Berichte, Texte, Bilder einer Zeit (reference)

  • Ernst Toller (Twayne's World Authors Series, No 509)/ (reference)

  • German expressionist drama : Ernst Toller and Georg Kaiser (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Usage Frequency: Toller

"Toller" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Toller" is used about 5 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 (proper)100%5157,705

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Toller

The following table summarizes the usage of "toller" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
TollerLast name1,00017,520
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Toller

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "toller": Bosworth-toller.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Toller

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

toller paula

20

duck nova scotia toller

16

toller

12

toller cranston

12

duck toller

8

ernst toller

6

fermentation toller

5

enzyme manufacturing toller

4

retriever toller

4

rescue toller

3

nova scotia toller

2

fotos paula toller

2

cibele maria toller

2

eva toller

2

family toller

2

dog toller

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Toller

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

Albanian

  

Mbledhës Taksëve (tollman), Kumbues (deep-mouthed, ding-dong, plangent, reverberant, ringing, sonorous, sounding, vibrant). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ίωδωνοκρούστησ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Vámos (toll-keeper). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ollertay

   

Portuguese

  

sineiro (ringer). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Колокол, Звонарь. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Toller

Derivations

Words beginning with "toller": tollers. (additional references)

Words ending with "toller": extoller. (additional references)

Words containing "toller": extollers. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Toller"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "toller" (pronounced tō"ler)
4t ō" l ertolar.
3-ō" l erbipolar, bolar, bowler, Comptroller, controller, polar, roller, solar, Stroller.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Toller

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-l-l-o-r-t"

-1 letter: troll.

-2 letters: lore, orle, role, roll, rote, rotl, tell, tole, toll, tore.

-3 letters: ell, let, lot, ole, ore, ort, ret, roe, rot, tel, toe, tor.

-4 letters: el, er, et, lo, oe, or, re, to.

 Words containing the letters "e-l-l-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: reallot, tollers, trolled, troller, trolley.

 

+2 letters: allotter, balloter, bellwort, collaret, drollest, extoller, fellator, foretell, martello, pollster, polluter, preallot, reallots, rostella, solleret, strolled, stroller, trollers, trolleys, trollied, trollies.

 

+3 letters: allometry, allostery, allotrope, allotters, balloters, bellworts, collarets, collector, corollate, electoral, extollers, fellators, forestall, foretells, hellbroth, hosteller, kiloliter, lordliest, martellos, mellotron, outrolled, patrolled, patroller, pellitory, pollsters, polluters, preallots, recollect, rostellar, rostellum, sollerets, steamroll, strollers, tolerable, tolerably, trolleyed, trowelled.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Toller


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

54 6F 6C 6C 65 72

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)

-    ---    .-..    .-..    .    .-.

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

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

01010100 01101111 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#108 &#108 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 006C 006C 0065 0072

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

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

548178787184

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INDEX

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


  

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