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Torchbearer

Definition: Torchbearer

Torchbearer

Noun

1. A leader in a campaign or movement.

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

Date "torchbearer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)


Commercial Usage: Torchbearer

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Torchbearer

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

torchbearer

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Torchbearer

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

Farsi 

  

مشعل دار. (various references)

   

German

  

Fackelträger (torch bearer). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

orchbearertay

   

Russian 

  

факельщик. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fackelbärare. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

meşale tutan kimse, ışık tutan kimse. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Torchbearer

Derivations

Words beginning with "torchbearer": torchbearers. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Torchbearer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: trochlear. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Torchbearer"

Words rhyming with "torchbearer" (pronounced 'Torch"bear`er'): Acetifier, Acidifier, Aletaster, Almsgiver, Amplifier, Ant-eater, Anywhither, Armor-bearer, Backbiter, Backhander, Bagpiper, Ball-flower, Barkeeper, Barnburner, Barnstormer, Bartender, Base-burner, Basifier, Batfowler, Beaucatcher, Beautifier, Bedmaker, Bedswerver, Bee-eater, Beefeater, Bellwether, Benefiter, Birdcatcher, Blackmailer, Blacksalter, Bloodflower, Bloodsucker, Bogsucker, Bondholder, Bookbinder, Bookholder, Bookkeeper, Bookmaker, Bookseller, Bootmaker, Bottleholder, Boxkeeper, Boycotter, Breechloader, Brickfielder, Bricklayer, Brickmaker, Bull-roarer, Bushfighter, Bushwhacker. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Torchbearer

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-h-o-r-r-r-t"

-2 letters: charterer, recharter.

-3 letters: abhorrer, barretor, barterer, breacher, breather, broacher, harborer, torchere.

-4 letters: aborter, acerber, batcher, botcher, bracero, brachet, breathe, brother, caterer, cerebra, charter, cheater, coherer, creator, erector, hectare, ochreae, ocreate, reacher, reactor, rebater, rechart, recheat, recrate, reteach, retrace, taborer, teacher, terrace, trochar, trochee.

-5 letters: aerobe, aether, archer, barret, barter, bather, bearer, beater, berate, bertha.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-h-o-r-r-r-t"
 

+1 letter: torchbearers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Torchbearer


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

54 6F 72 63 68 62 65 61 72 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 01110010 01100011 01101000 01100010 01100101 01100001 01110010 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#114 &#99 &#104 &#98 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0072 0063 0068 0062 0065 0061 0072 0065 0072

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

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

5481846974687167847184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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