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Definitions: Vagrant |
VagrantAdjective1. Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties". Noun1. A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vagrant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are a vagrant, portends poverty and misery. To see vagrants is a sign of contagion invading your community. To give to a vagrant, denotes that your generosity will be applauded. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonyms: VagrantSynonyms: aimless (adj), drifting (adj), floating (adj), vagabond (adj), drifter (n), floater (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Changeableness | Unstaid, inconstant; unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled; fluctuating; Verb: restless; agitated; erratic, fickle; irresolute; capricious; touch and go; inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic; vibratory; vagrant, wayward; desultory; afloat; alternating; alterable, plastic, mobile; transient; wavering. |
Deviation | Adjective: deviating; Verb: aberrant, errant; excursive, discursive; devious, desultory, loose; rambling; stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag; crab-like. |
Journey | Adjective: traveling; Verb: ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic; circumforanean, circumforaneous; noctivagrant, mundivagrant; locomotive. |
Traveler | Tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vagrant |
| English words defined with "vagrant": beachcomber, bum ♦ Epithite ♦ Gangrel ♦ hobo ♦ Landlouper, Landlouping ♦ Prog ♦ reform school ♦ Sarabaite, Skelder ♦ tramp ♦ Vagrantly, Vagrantness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vagrant": Bess o' Bedlam ♦ Land-loupers ♦ Mouch ♦ Prejudice. (references) |
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Screenplays | Yes, probably a vagrant slept in the car. Or maybe just used it as a toilet and moved on. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Vagrant (1921) Vagrant Story (2000) The Vagrant (1992) | |
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Ambrou Bierce | A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support. |
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Human Rights | Bangladesh | Eventually all of the women were released from the vagrant home, and most returned to work in other locations. (references) |
Bangladesh | According to two human rights organization, fewer than a dozen prostitutes remained in the vagrant homes at year's end. (references) | |
Morocco | While Ain Atiq's status as a detention or social center is not defined clearly, it often receives homeless, vagrant, and persons with mental disabilities, in addition to juvenile delinquents. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | The Government operated camps for vagrant children. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support. |
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| "Vagrant" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 74.67% of the time. "Vagrant" is used about 75 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) | 74.67% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 24% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 75 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "vagrant": lead a vagrant life ♦ vagrant imagination ♦ vagrant musician. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "vagrant": vagrant-strewn. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
vagrant story | 476 |
vagrant record | 168 |
the vagrant | 98 |
vagrant story walk through | 38 |
vagrant story cheat | 19 |
vagrant story 2 | 7 |
vagrant story cheat code | 6 |
vagrant story pic | 6 |
vagrant story art | 6 |
vagrant story soundtrack | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "vagrant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrugaç (Barker, guttersnipe, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, rough, thug, whelp, yob, yobbo), endacak (bum, errant, gadabout, gadder, gipsy, goer, gypsy, hobo, landloper, nomad, prowler, Ranger, rangy, rover, runabout, runagate, sansculotte, staggerer, stroller, tramp, vagabond, wanderer, wandering). (various references) | |
Arabic | متشرد (bum, rogue, tramp, vagabond), تائه (devious, errant, stray, wandering), زائغ (digressing, variable), المتشرد (canter, hobo, rogue, straggler, tramp, truant, vagabond, wanderer, wastrel), الطواف, الجوال (prowler, ranger, tourist, traveler, traveller, wanderer, wayfarer). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | странствуващ (ambulatory, errant, itinerant, peripatetic, planetary, runabout, strolling, traveling, travelling, wandering), скитнически (migratory, nomadic, roving, vagabond, vagabondish), скитник (bum, casual, derelict, drifter, erratic, floater, hobo, itinerant, knockabout, land-loper, land-louper, nomad, on the wallaby, roadster, roamer, rover, runabout, straggler, swagman, tramp, vagabond, wanderer), чудат (comic, comical, crackpot, eccentric, extravagant, faddish, faddy, odd, peculiar, pixilated, quaint, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwy, singular, viewy), капризен (capricious, erratic, faddish, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fastidious, fickle, fractious, freakish, freaky, fretful, ill, inconstant, maggoty, particular, petulant, skittish, tricksy, vagarious, wayward, whimsical), вагабонтин (rascal), необуздан (bacchanal, hot, intractable, lawless, mad, obstreperous, orgiastic, phrenetic, rambunctious, rampageous, rampant, riotous, tearaway, unbounded, unbridled, unchecked, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, unruled, wanton, wild, zizzi), блуждаещ (errant, erratic, excursive, faraway, planetary, vacant), пътуващ (itinerant, wayfaring), празноскитащ (loafer, saunterer, time killer). (various references) | |
Chinese | 瘪三, 流浪者 (rover, vagabond, wanderer), " (people, ruffian). (various references) | |
Czech | tulák (beachcomber, dosser, drifter, gadabout, hobo, itinerant, landloper, landraker, prowler, rambler, Ranger, rogue, rover, stroller, tramp, vagabond, wanderer, wayfarer), potulný (itinerant, rambling, strolling, vagabond, wandering), pobuda (bum, dosser, rogue, straggler, vagabond), bludný (errant, excursive, wandering). (various references) | |
Farsi | اوباش (Gangster, Hood, Hoodlum, Picaroonp), دم واره وولگرد, دربدر (Gadabout, Outcast, Vagabond). (various references) | |
Finnish | maankiertäjä (bum, tramp, vagabond), kulkuri (tramp, vagabond), irtolainen (layabout, vagabond). (various references) | |
French | vagabond (vagabond), clochard (vagabond), chemineau (vagabond). (various references) | |
German | unstet (changeable, choppy, dodgy, erratic, fickle, inconstant, migrant, restless, unsettled, unsteady, vagabond, vagrantly), Landstreicher (bum, hobo, tramp, vagabond, vagabonds, vagrants, yegg). (various references) | |
Greek | περιπλανώμενοσ (astray, rambler, roamer, stray, vagabond, wanderer), πλάνησ (roamer, rover, straggler), αλήτησ (bum, hobo, hoodlum, lout, rapscallion, rascallion, scamp, tramp, vagabond). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משוטט (gadabout, globetrotter, hiker, prowler, rambler, rambling, stroller, vagabond, wanderer), תוע" (errant, stray, vagabond, wanderer, wandering), שוטט (loiterer, whip), ע ו " (fugitive, maverick, migrant, nomad, rover, tramp, vagabond, wanderer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kóborló (itinerant, migrant, rambling, roaming, rover). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tunawisma (homeless), pengembara (carpetbagger, errant, gadabout, nomad, ramble, vagabond, voyager, wanderer), gelandangan (bum, vagabond). (various references) | |
Italian | vagante (rambling, stray), vagabondo - ambulante - randagio - nomade , vagabondo (gadabout, hobo, Idler, loafer, rambler, rolling stone, rover, scouring, tramp, vagabond, wanderer, wandering), girovago (itinerant, rambling, rover, tramp), ambulante (ambulant, itinerant). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 浮浪者 , "浪者 , 一所不住 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふろうしゃ, ほうろうしゃ, いっしょふじゅう. (various references) | |
Korean | 방랑자 (swagman). (various references) | |
Manx | wagaantagh (ramble, rambling, stroll, stroller, vagabond), trudlym (sloven), shooyllagh (peripatetic, roaming, stroller, walking), shooyl (ambulatory, gait, itinerant, pace, perambulate, perambulation, promenade, traverse, traversing, tread, treading, walk, walking), shaghraneagh (muzzy, truant, vagabond), shaghrane (delusion, itinerant, tramp, vagabond), cartage (botfly, gadabout, maze, warblefly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agrantvay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vagabundo (bum, cornerman, downcast, gadabout, gad-fly, hobo, landlord, landlubber, Lea, maverick, planetoid, prowler, rambling, Ranger, rover, rowdy, runabout, stroller, strolling, tramp, vagabond, waif, wanderer, wandering, wastrel, Woodward), vadio (apache, bohemian, bummer, cadger, gadder, highboy, hood, hoodoo, hooligan, landloper, landlouper, lazy guy, loafer, loon, lour, peddlar, Ranger, rowdy, ruffian, runabout, scourer, slothful, sluggard, stroller, vagabond, Woodward), mendigo (beggar, cadger, mumper, panhandler, peddlar, tramp). (various references) | |
Romanian | vagabond (bum, gadabout, gypsy, hobo, landloper, mudlark, range, rogue, rover, runabout, scalawag, stray, tramp, vagabond), rãtãcitor (errant, ranging, runabout, wanderer, wandering), pribeag (fugitive, solitary, wanderer, wandering), hoinar (dilly dally, gadabout, rambler, rambling, rover, roving, saunterer, strolling, tramp, vagabond, wanderer, wandering), cãlãtor (excursionist, fare, fleeting, goer, itinerant, passenger, peregrine, peripatetic, pilgrim, rider, roaming, short lived, tourist, transitory, traveller, travelling, visitor, voyager, wayfarer, wayfaring man), ambulant (ambulatory, itinerant, strolling, walking). (various references) | |
Russian | бродяга (bum, derelict, dosser, drifter, drummer, gadabout, gadder, hobo, landloper, landlouper, maverick, nomad, prowler, rambler, rogue, runabout, runagate, stroller, sundowner, tramp, tramper, vagabond), изменчивый (changeable, fast and loose, fickle, inequable, mobile, mutable, protean, streaky, variable, wayward). (various references) | |
Scottish | sgimilear (a vagrant parasite, intruder, parasite). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skitnica (bum, drifter, hobo, landloper, landlouper, larrikin, loafer, runagate, sundowner, tramp, vagabond, wanderer), skitnički, skitničarski (runabout). (various references) | |
Spanish | vagante (bone-idle, hazy, lazy, strolling, vagabond), vagabundo (down and out, drifter, erring, gipsy, gypsy, outcast, piker, Ranger, rover, runagate, tramp, vagabond, wanderer), pasador (bar, barrette, bobby pin, brooch, catch, closing latch, cotter pin, dispatcher, dowel, dowel pin, facilitator, hasp, intransigent, joining pin, key, latch, lock, marlinespike, pin bolt, slide, slotted pin, smuggler, spike, stud, vagabond). (various references) | |
Swedish | luffare (bum, hobo, swagger, swagman, tramp, vagabond). (various references) | |
Turkish | serseri (adrift, beat, bum, bummer, dawdler, dosser, down and out, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, larrikin, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, punk, rambler, rascal, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, sundowner, swag man, tramp, vagabond, varmint, wandering, yob), göçebe (immigrant, migratory, nomad, roving, wanderer, wandering), derbeder kimse, derbeder (down and out, frumpish, roguish, tramp, untidy, vagabond), başıboş (adrift, footloose, idle, idled, rambling, roving, straggling, straggly, stray, strayed, vagabond), aylak (bum, bummer, dawdler, idle, Idler, layabout, loafer, loiterer, otiose, runabout, unemployed, vagabond), avare (dawdler, dosser, drifter, good-for-nothing, idle, idled, rover, straggler, straggling, straggly, strayed, stroller, vagabond, wanderer, wandering, yob). (various references) | |
Ukranian | волоцюга (bo), мінливий (capricious, changeable, changeful, chatoyant, chequered, choppy, floating, inconsistent, interchangeable, mutable, non-permanent, skittish, stayless, uncertain, variable, varied, wanton, wavy, wayward), мандрівник (explorer, nomad, peripatetic, pilgrim, traveller, voyager, wanderer, wayfarer), бродячий (knockabout, nomad, nomadic, rambling, rangy, roving, runagate, strolling), бродяга (abraham-man, bush-whacker, drummer, gadabout, hobo, loafer, needy, nomad, prowler, rambler, runabout, runagate, stroller, tourist, tramp, vagabond, waif). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | kẻ lang thang nay đây mai đó. (various references) | |
Welsh | crwydryn (tramp, vagabond). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | erroneus, vagus, vulgivagus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vagrant": vagrantly, vagrants. (additional references) | |
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"Vagrant" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agranu, fagrant, Kagrant, vagran, vagrand, vargant, verant, verrant, vigrant, vivrant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vagrant" (pronounced vā"grunt) |
| 6 | -ā" g r u n t | flagrant, fragrant. |
| 5 | -g r u n t | emigrant, immigrant, migrant. |
| 4 | -r u n t | aberrant, abhorrent, adherent, apparent, arrant, celebrant, coherent, Courant, declarant, deterrent, entrant, errant, grandparent, hydrant, incoherent, indifferent, inherent, parent, quadrant, recalcitrant, registrant, seafront, torrent, transparent, tyrant, vibrant, warrant. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antecedent, antidepressant, antigovernment, antioxidant, apartment, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, ardent, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrogant, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, attendant, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coincident, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confident, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decadent, decedent, decent, decongestant, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, dependent, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, descendant, descendent, despondent, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discordant, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, evident, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, harassment, hesitant, ignorant, immanent, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incident, incipient, incitement, inclement, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, independent, indictment, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, mordant, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonresident, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overconfident, overpayment, overstatement, oxidant, pageant, parchment, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, redundant, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, restatement, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rodent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, tournament, transcendent, transient, translucent, treatment, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, valiant, variant, vehement, verdant, vigilant, violent, virulent, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-n-r-t-v" | |
-2 letters: antra, avant, grana, grant, navar, ratan, varna. | |
-3 letters: agar, anga, anta, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, raga, rang, rant, tang, tarn, vang, vara. | |
-4 letters: aga, ana, ant, art, ava, gan, gar, gat, nag, rag, ran, rat, tag, tan, tar, tav, van, var, vat. | |
-5 letters: aa, ag, an, ar, at, na, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-n-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: vagrants. | |
+2 letters: navigator, vagrantly, variating. | |
+3 letters: navigators, ravagement, stravaging, travailing, vegetarian. | |
+4 letters: aggravating, aggravation, antigravity, evaporating, extravagant, gravitating, gravitation, ravagements, revaluating, stravaiging, vanguardist, variegating, variegation, vegetarians. | |
+5 letters: abbreviating, aggravations, asseverating, divaricating, extravagance, extravagancy, extravaganza, galvanometer, gravitations, reactivating, reevaluating, revalidating, transvaluing, vanguardists, variegations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 67 72 61 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- --. .-. .- -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01100111 01110010 01100001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a g r a n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 0067 0072 0061 006E 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56677384678086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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