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Unheralded

Definition: Unheralded

Unheralded

Adjective

1. Without warning or announcement; "they arrived unannounced"; "a totally unheralded telegram that his daughter...died last night"- M.A.D.Howe.

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

Date "unheralded" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)


Synonyms: Unheralded

Synonyms: unannounced (adj), unpredicted (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Unheralded

English words defined with "unheralded": unannounced, unpredicted. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Unheralded

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hippocrene U.S.A. Guide to Uncommon and Unheralded Museums (reference)

  • Noble Daughters: Unheralded Women in Western Christianity, 13th to 18th Centuries (Study of Religion, 60) (reference)

  • The Unheralded Majority: Contemporary Women As Mothers (reference)

  • The Unheralded Triumph (reference)

  • Unheralded Victory: The Defeat of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, 1961-1973 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Unheralded

"Unheralded" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unheralded" is used about 26 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%2668,323

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unheralded

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

1961 1973 army cong defeat north unheralded victory viet vietnamese

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

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Modern Translation: Unheralded

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

Bulgarian 

  

невъзвестен, непредсказан. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

előre nem jelzett, be nem jelentett (unannounced, undeclared). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eraldedunhay

   

Vietnamese 

  

không báo trước (sky, unannounced). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unheralded

Misspellings

"Unheralded" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anhedralled, ungerade. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Unheralded"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unheralded" (pronounced unhe"ruldud)
8-h e" r u l d u dheralded.
4-l d u dblindfolded, fielded, folded, gilded, melded, molded, remolded, scalded, scolded, shielded, unfolded, welded, wielded, yielded.
3-d u dabided, abounded, acceded, accorded, added, afforded, aided, alluded, amended, appended, applauded, apprehended, ascended, astounded, attended, avoided, awarded, backhanded, banded, barricaded, beaded, bearded, bedded, befriended, beheaded, bended, bladed, blended, blinded, blindsided, blockaded, blooded, boarded, bombarded, bonded, bounded, braided, branded, breaded, broadsided, brooded, candid, carded, cascaded, ceded, chided, clouded, coded, coincided, collided, colluded, commanded, commended, compounded, comprehended, conceded, concluded, confided, confounded, contended, corded, corresponded, corroded, crowded, decided, deeded, defended, defrauded, degraded, deluded, demanded, denuded, depended, derided, descended, disbanded, discarded, disregarded, dissuaded, distended, divided, downgraded, downloaded, dreaded, dumbfounded, eluded, embedded, encoded, ended, enshrouded, eroded, evaded, evenhanded, exceeded, excluded, expanded, expended, exploded, expounded, extended, extruded, exuded, faded, fended, feuded, flooded, forwarded, founded, funded, glided, goaded, graded, grounded, guarded, guided, handed, hardheaded, headed, heeded, herded, hoarded, homesteaded, hooded, hounded, imbedded, impeded, imploded, impounded, included, intended, interceded, intruded, invaded, jaded, kidded, landed, larded, lauded, leaded, lightheaded, loaded, lopsided, masterminded, mended, minded, misguided, muddleheaded, needed, nodded, offended, outmoded, overcrowded, overextended, overfunded, overloaded, padded, paraded, persuaded, pervaded, pleaded, plodded, pounded, preceded, precluded, prerecorded, presided, pretended, prided, proceeded, prodded, propounded, provided, raided, railroaded, rebounded, receded, recommended, recorded, redheaded, refunded, regarded, reloaded, remanded, reminded, reprimanded, rescinded, resided, responded, retarded, rewarded, rounded, safeguarded, sanded, seceded, secluded, seconded, seeded, serenaded, shaded, shepherded, shredded, shrouded, sided, skidded, sordid, sounded, spearheaded, speeded, splendid, stampeded, stranded, studded, subdivided, subsided, succeeded, superseded, surrounded, suspended, tended, threaded, traded, transcended, trended, unaided, unamended, unattended, unbounded, unbranded, undecided, underfunded, underhanded, undivided, unexploded, unfounded, unfunded, unguarded, unheeded, unimpeded, unintended, unleaded, unloaded, unneeded, unrecorded, upbraided, upgraded, voided, wadded, waded, warded, wedded, weeded, winded, wooded, worded, wounded, wrongheaded.

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

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Anagrams: Unheralded

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-h-l-n-r-u"

-1 letter: laundered, rehandled.

-2 letters: adherend, hardened, heralded, rehandle, unhealed, unleaded.

-3 letters: adhered, dandler, daunder, deluder, denuder, endured, handled, handler, huddler, hundred, hurdled, ladened, launder, learned, lurdane, redhead, unheard, unladed.

-4 letters: adhere, aneled, aulder, daledh, dander, dandle, darned, darnel, deaden, deader, dealer, deaned, delead, delude, denude, dhurna, dudeen, dueled, dueler, duende, durned, earned, eluded, eluder, endear.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-h-l-n-r-u"
 

+3 letters: underhandedly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unheralded


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

55 6E 68 65 72 61 6C 64 65 64

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)

01010101 01101110 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101100 01100100 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#104 &#101 &#114 &#97 &#108 &#100 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0068 0065 0072 0061 006C 0064 0065 0064

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

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

55807471846778707170

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INDEX

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


  

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