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Definition: Toller |
TollerNoun1. 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: TollerSynonyms: bell ringer (n), ringer (n), toll agent (n), toll collector (n), tollgatherer (n), tollkeeper (n), tollman (n), tolltaker (n). (additional references) |
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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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) | |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Toller | Last name | 1,000 | 17,520 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "toller": Bosworth-toller. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 sineiro (ringer). (various references) Колокол, Звонарь. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "toller" (pronounced tō"ler) |
| 4 | t ō" l er | tolar. |
| 3 | -ō" l er | bipolar, bolar, bowler, Comptroller, controller, polar, roller, solar, Stroller. |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 6C 6C 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- .-.. .-.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o l l e r |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548178787184 |
| 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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