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Definition: Unshorn |
UnshornAdjective1. 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: UnshornSynonym: unsheared (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: sheared (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Unshorn |
| English words defined with "unshorn": unsheared. (references) |
| 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 não tosquiado, não cortado (uncut), não aparado (uncut). (various references) нестриженный. (various references) deat (an unshorn year-old sheep or wedder). (various references) neostrižen. (various references) saçı kesilmemiş. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | intonsa. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Unshorn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unscorn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 73 68 6F 72 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ... .... --- .-. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110011 01101000 01101111 01110010 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n s h o r n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0073 0068 006F 0072 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55808574818480 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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