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Definition: Tollhouse |
TollhouseNoun1. A booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: TollhouseSynonyms: tolbooth (n), tollbooth (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tollhouse |
| English words defined with "tollhouse": Toll bar, Tollhouses. (references) |
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 | Skis outside of Tollhouse at foot of Mount Mansfield, Smugglers Notch. Near Stowe, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Skiers eating lunch in tollhouse at foot of Mount Mansfield. Smugglers Notch. Near Stowe, Vermont. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Tollhouse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tollhouse" 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.
1. Tollhouse, CA |
| 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 "tollhouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مكتب الرسوم. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bureau de péage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollhousetay где взимается дорожный сбор, будка (barn, booth, cab, cabin, cope, shed, stand, tollbooth), пост у заставы. (various references) paralı yol gişesi, köprü gişesi. (various references) phòng thuế. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | teloneion. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | telonium. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tollhouse": tollhouses. (additional references) | |
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"Tollhouse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Tolhurst, tolouse. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-l-l-o-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: toluoles. | |
-2 letters: holloes, hulloes, outsell, outsole, sellout, toluole, toluols. | |
-3 letters: hellos, helots, hollos, hostel, hotels, housel, hullos, hustle, sleuth, solute, soothe, tholes, tholos, toluol, tousle, tulles. | |
-4 letters: ethos, hello, hells, helos, helot, holes, hollo, holts, hoots, hosel, hotel, house, hullo, hulls, loose, loots, losel, lotos, lotus, louse, louts, lutes, oleos, ousel, shell, sheol, shool. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-l-l-o-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: tollhouses. | |
+3 letters: heliolatrous. | |
+5 letters: heterologously, heterophyllous, holometabolous. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 6C 6C 68 6F 75 73 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01101100 01101100 01101000 01101111 01110101 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o l l h o u s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 006C 006C 0068 006F 0075 0073 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548178787481878571 |
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