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Unshorn

Definition: Unshorn

Unshorn

Adjective

1. Not sheared; "a grizzly unshorn beard"; "unshorn sheep".

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

Date "unshorn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)


Synonym: Unshorn

Synonym: unsheared (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: sheared (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unshorn

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Whole

Unbroken, intact, uncut, undivided, unsevered, unclipped, uncropped, unshorn; seamless; undiminished; undemolished, undissolved, undestroyed, unbruised.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unshorn

English words defined with "unshorn": unsheared. (references)

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Modern Translation: Unshorn

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

Albanian

  

i paqethur. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

с дълга коса, неподстриган (uncropped, uncut). (various references)

   

Czech

  

neostříhaný. (various references)

   

German

  

ungeschoren (scot free, spared). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nyíratlan (unmown). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ornunshay

   

Portuguese

  

não tosquiado, não cortado (uncut), não aparado (uncut). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

нестриженный. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

deat (an unshorn year-old sheep or wedder). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neostrižen. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

saçı kesilmemiş. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Unshorn

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

intonsa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Unshorn

Misspellings

"Unshorn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unscorn. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Unshorn

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-n-n-o-r-s-u"

-1 letter: onrush.

-2 letters: horns, hours, nouns, shorn.

-3 letters: hons, horn, hour, huns, nosh, noun, nous, nuns, onus, ours, rhos, rhus, runs, rush, shun, sorn, sour, sunn, urns.

-4 letters: hon, hun, noh, nor, nos, nun, nus, ohs, ons, ors, our, rho, run, son, sou, sun, uns, urn.

-5 letters: ho, no, nu, oh, on, or, os, sh, so.

 Words containing the letters "h-n-n-o-r-s-u"
 

+2 letters: nontruths, onrushing, unanchors, unhorsing, unthrones.

 

+3 letters: nonauthors, nonhunters, nourishing, shotgunner, truncheons.

 

+4 letters: anachronous, cornhusking, enshrouding, nourishment, shotgunners, synchronous.

 

+5 letters: asynchronous, cornhuskings, inharmonious, noncrushable, nonhazardous, nourishments, overhuntings, southernness, thunderstone, unnewsworthy, unnourishing, unworthiness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unshorn


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

55 6E 73 68 6F 72 6E

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 01110011 01101000 01101111 01110010 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#115 &#104 &#111 &#114 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0073 0068 006F 0072 006E

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

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

55808574818480

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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