Marshal

  

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Marshal

Definitions: Marshal

Marshal

Noun

1. A law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law.

2. (in some countries) a military officer of highest rank.

Verb

1. Place in proper rank; of military troops.

2. Arrange in logical order; "marshal facts or arguments".

3. Make ready for action or use; "marshal resources".

4. Lead ceremoniously, as in a procession.

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

"Marshal" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a horse", "a servant".

Date "marshal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Marshal

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Marshal means an ostler or groom. His original duty was to feed, groom, shoe, and physic his master's horse. (British, marc, a mare; scalc, a servant.)
Marshal Forward. Blucher; so called for his dash and readiness in the campaign of 1813.
Marshal of the Army of God, and of Holy Church. The Baron Robert Fitzwalter, appointed by his brother barons to lead their forces in 1215 to obtain from King John redress of grievances. Magna Charta was the result. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Occupations

Rides saddle horse to lead parade of horserace entrants onto track to mobile-starting-gate assembly area. Mounts quarter horse and chases and restrains runaways to prevent injury to horses and thrown riders and disruption of race. (references)

Transportation

Person on apron or flight-line who gives visual signals to aircraft as an aid for parking. Source: European Union. (references)
 The person on an apron or flight-line who gives visual signals to aircraft as an aid for parking. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Marshal

Synonyms: marshall (n), mobilise (v), mobilize (v), summon (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Marshal

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

Arrangement

Verb: reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally. arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order; set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out, allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of, assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights, put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion.

Auxiliary

Aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal; right-hand, right-hand man, Friday, girl Friday, man Friday, gopher, gofer; candle-holder, bottle-holder; handmaid; servant; puppet, cat's-paw, jackal.

Master

Marshal, field marshal, marechal; general, generalissimo; commander in chief, seraskier, hetman; lieutenant general, major general; colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, centurion, skipper, lieutenant, first lieutenant, second lieutenant, sublieutenant, officer, staff officer, aide-de-camp, brigadier, brigade major, adjutant, jemidar, ensign, cornet, cadet, subaltern, noncommissioned officer, warrant officer; sergeant, sergeant major; color sergeant; corporal, corporal major; lance corporal, acting corporal; drum major; captain general, dizdar, knight marshal, naik, pendragon.

Messenger

Marshal, flag bearer, herald, crier, trumpeter, bellman, pursuivant, parlementaire, apparitor.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Marshal

English words defined with "marshal": Archibald Percival Wavell, ArchmarshalBaron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, battle of Fontenoy, Bomber Harriscomte de Saxe, Court marshal, Court of chivalry, Court of MarshalseaDesert Fox, Dowding, dowdy, Duc d'ElchingenEarl Marshal, Earl marshal of England, Earl marshal of Scotland, Erwin Rommelfield marshal, fire marshal, First Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, First Earl Wavell, FontenoyHarris, Heralds' College, Herbert Kitchener, Heretog, Hermann Maurice Saxe, Hickock, Hindenburg, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Hugh DowdingJames Butler Hickock, Joffre, Joseph Jacques Cesaire JoffreKarl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, Kitchener, Knight marshal, KutuzovMareschal, Marshal of the King's house, Marshal of the Queen's Bench, Marshal Tito, Marshaled, Marshaling, Marshalled, Marshalling, Marshalsea, Michel Ney, Mikhail Ilarionovich KutuzovNey, NoisettePaul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, Paul von Hindenburg, Prince of Smolensk, Provost marshalRommel, rundown, RundstedtSaxe, Sir Arthur Travers Harris, Submarshalvon RundstedtWavell, Wild Bill Hickock. (references)
Specialty definitions using "marshal": Bravest of the BraveChalksDEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHALFifteen decisive Battles, FIRE INSPECTOR, FIRE-EQUIPMENT INSPECTORHerald's CollegeMagnifique ... GuerreOld Foxsaint, Smec. (references)
Etymologies containing "marshal": seneschal. (references)

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Modern Usage: Marshal

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Wyatt, you're still a marshal around here, aren't you? (Wyatt Earp; writing credit: Dan Gordon; Lawrence Kasdan)

Ah, so you're the Marshal. What do you expect to find in Pearl City, Marshal? (Hannah Lee; writing credit: MacKinlay Kantor; Alford Van Ronkel)

Movie/TV Titles

Air Marshal (2003)

Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973)

The Marshal of Windy Hollow (1972)

Western Marshal Steve Donovan (1955)

Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe (1953)

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

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Commercial Usage: Marshal

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  • Hopalong Cassidy:Santa Fe Marshal (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Marshal

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Marshal

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Log house, Marshal Zhukov Street #95 (around 1900),foreground, and in the background is a typical modern apartment building of the post Soviet period (late 1990s), Omsk, Russia.Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

Air Marshal Arthur Tedder walking in front of Lt. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, and Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce.Credit: Library of Congress.

Field Marshal Count Yamagata, the von Moltke of Japan.Credit: Library of Congress.

Culpeper, Va. Provost Marshal General Marsena R. Patrick and staff.Credit: Library of Congress.

Brandy Station, Va. Provost marshal clerks at Army of the Potomac headquarters.Credit: Library of Congress.

Top-ranking Anglo-American army officials meet in New Delhi, India. Left to right: Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell; Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell, commanding all U.S. Army troops in China, Burma, and India; Lieutenant General H.H. "Hap" Arnold,.Credit: Library of Congress.

Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyard. Standing among the piles of reclaimable materials at the Colmar Manor, Maryland auto graveyard of the Lenox Motor Company, a U.S. Marshal requisitions all scrap metal on hand. Donovan, the owner, had refused to sell.Credit: Library of Congress.

Lord Raglan's Head Quarters, with Lord Raglan, Marshal Pélissier, Lord Burghersh, Spahi & Aide-de-camp of Marshal Pélissier.Credit: Library of Congress.

The Provost Marshal of the Division of General Bosquet.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Historic Usage: Marshal

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

Know that, having regard to God and for the salvation of our soul, and those of all our ancestors and heirs, and unto the honor of God and the advancement of his holy Church and for the rectifying of our realm, we have granted as underwritten by advice of our venerable fathers, Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and cardinal of the holy Roman Church, Henry, archbishop of Dublin, William of London, Peter of Winchester, Jocelyn of Bath and Glastonbury, Hugh of Lincoln, Walter of Worcester, William of Coventry, Benedict of Rochester, bishops; of Master Pandulf, subdeacon and member of the household of our lord the Pope, of brother Aymeric (master of the Knights of the Temple in England), and of the illustrious men William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, William, earl of Salisbury, William, earl of Warenne, William, earl of Arundel, Alan of Galloway (constable of Scotland), Waren Fitz Gerold, Peter Fitz Herbert, Hubert De Burgh (seneschal of Poitou), Hugh de Neville, Matthew Fitz Herbert, Thomas Basset, Alan Basset, Philip d'Aubigny, Robert of Roppesley, John Marshal, John Fitz Hugh, and others, our liegemen. (reference)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

I have a strong admiration and regard for the valiant Russian people and for my wartime comrade, Marshal Stalin. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Marshal

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Probably there was a little of Marshal Brown in him, he having been a porter at Avignon in 1815.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

And it was there that the old servants had seen the ghost in the white cloak of a marshal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Marshal

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Armenia

The U.S. embassy in Yerevan, Armenia is at 18 Marshal Bagramyan; tel: 3741-54-3900 or 3741-52-4661; fax: 3741-52-0800. (references)

Italy

Following the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943, the King dismissed Mussolini and appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio as Premier. (references)

Greece

Yugoslavia closed its borders to the insurgent forces in 1949, after Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia broke with Stalin and the Soviet Union. (references)

Political Economy

Poland

PO is a center-right grouping established in January 2001 by three influential politicians: Maciej Plazynski, Marshal of the Sejm, Donald Tusk, Vice Marshal of the Senate, and Andrzej Olechowski, former Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs (in last year's presidential elections he ran second). (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. The Duchess of Orleans relates that the irreverent old calumniator, Marshal Villeroi, who in his youth had known St. Francis de Sales, said, on hearing him called saint: "I am delighted to hear that Monsieur de Sales is a saint. He was fond of saying indelicate things, and used to cheat at cards. In other respects he was a perfect gentleman, though a fool."

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Marshal

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797Legal process was therefore delivered to the marshal against the rioters and delinquent distillers.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Those of us who govern can sometimes inspire, and we can identify needs and marshal resources, but we simply cannot be the managers of everything and everybody.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Marshal

"Marshal" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 68.22% of the time. "Marshal" is used about 556 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
Noun (proper)68.22%38014,447
Noun (singular)24.6%13727,138
Lexical Verb (infinitive)6.1%3459,261
Lexical Verb (base form)1.08%6143,867
                    Total100.00%556N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Marshal

The following table summarizes the usage of "marshal" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
MarshalLast name1,00010,460
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Marshal

"Marshal" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a horse", "a servant".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Marshal."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
MarshalMaleEnglishMarshall
MarshallMaleEnglishN/A
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: Marshal

Expressions using "marshal": air chief marshal air marshal air vice marshal Court marshal Earl marshal Earl marshal of England Earl marshal of Scotland field marshal fire marshal Knight marshal Marechal or Marshal Niel Marshal Niel marshal of the court Marshal of the King's house Marshal of the Queen's Bench marshal of the royal air force Marshal Tito provost marshal. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "marshal": Marshal-unit.

Ending with "marshal": Field-marshal, Vice-marshal.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Marshal

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
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  us marshal

580

  u s marshal

24

  marshal

422

  federal marshal

23

  marshal field

352

  us marshal auction

20

  air marshal

196

  marshal amps

20

  marshal u.s

132

  marshal mathers lp

20

  air federal marshal

132

  high marshal noon

19

  united state marshal

93

  state fire marshal

19

  us marshal service

90

  fire louisiana marshal state

18

  lindsey marshal

83

  marshal tucker band

18

  united state marshal service

63

  marshal usdoj.gov

17

  marshal mathers

63

  department marshal store

16

  marshal service u.s

45

  fire illinois marshal state

15

  fire marshal

44

  fire florida marshal state

13

  california fire marshal state

41

  marshal plan

13

  sky marshal

34

  afge marshal

13

  dillon marshal

29

  bill fire marshal

13

  william marshal

28

  amanda marshal

13

  air marshal us

25

  fields.com marshal

13

  marshal arts

25

  fire marshal ontario

13

  marshal store

24

  marshal law

12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Marshal

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

Albanian

  

Mjeshtër Cerimonish, Marshall, Ruajtës I Rendit, Rreshtoj Në Formacion Luftimi, Rendit (calendar, collocate, compose, dispose, enumerate, line, rank, sort out), Rendis (calendar, collocate, compose, dispose, enumerate, line, rank, sort out), Punonjës Policie. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مارشال, ‏مشير, ‏مدير مراسم, ‏مدير شرطة المدينة, ‏نقيب في قوات المطافي, ‏نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, codify, collocate, compose, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulate, regulation, right, seed, settle, shape, shuffle, sort, spruce up, stage, streamline, systematize, verse), ‏قاد (carry, command, conduct, direct, drive, drove, govern, guide, handle, head, helm, induct, introduce, lead, lead in, lead up to, mastermind, navigate, officer, orientate, pilot, preside, run, see out, shepherd, show, show out, steer, take the lead, usher), ‏قائد كبير, ‏جمع (accumulate, add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collect, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compile, compose, congregate, connecting, corral, embody, fund, gather, gathering, glean, go berrying, grouping, herd, ingathering, joining up, lump, muster, pickup, piece together, pile, pile up, pool, put together, raise, rake, rally, reap, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), ‏أرشد (brief, direct, guide, instruct, lead, lead about, officer, pilot, streamline, tutor), ‏رتب (arrange, clean, collocate, construct, corral, dispose, do, form, hierarchy, lash up, line, ordain, order, pack, pigeonhole, plume, put in order, put things straight, range, rate, set, shape, sort, spruce up, stow, straighten, tidy, trim). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Фелдмаршал (Field marshal), Съдия-изпълнител, Съставям, Церемониал-майстор, Шериф, Излагам Системно, Излагам ясно, Строявам (Aline), 'ъвеждам Тържествено, Построявам, Заемам Си Мястото, Началник На Затвор, Началник На Полиция, Началник На Пожарна Команда, Нареждам, Подреждам (Aline), 'одя Тържествено. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

法警 (Bailiff). (various references)

   

Czech

  

Maršál. (various references)

   

Danish

  

flagmand (marshaler, marshaller). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

plaatser (marshaler, marshaller). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مارشال , مرتب کردن (Address, Arrange, Concert, Range, Redd, Regularize, Serialize, Straighten, Tidy), کلانتر (Reeve, Sheriff), سردسته (Chieftain, Drillmaster, Leader, Protagonist, Ringleader), ارتشبد (General), به ترتیب نشان دادن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

merkinantaja (marshaler, marshaller). (various references)

   

French

  

Membre Du Service D'ordre, Maréchal (field marshal), Trier, Rassembler, placeur (marshaler, marshaller), Organiser (mastermind), Chef Du Protocole, Capitaine Gendarmerie, Canaliser. (various references)

   

German

  

Marschall. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σηματωρός αεροσκάφους (marshaler, marshaller), Τελετάρχησ, "ικαστικόσ ίλητήρασ, "ιευθετώ, Αστυνόμοσ, αρατάσσω. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

־רשל, ־צביא, ּערוך, ּטכס, ּס"ר, ריף. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Tábornagy (field marshal), Marsall. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

marsekal. (various references)

   

Italian

  

Maresciallo (warrant officer), smistatore (dispatcher, marshaler, marshaller, multiplexer), segnalatore di parcheggio (marshaler, marshaller), Schierare (array, deploy, draw up, line up, range, side, troop), Introdurre (broach, get in, insert, insinuate, introduce, show in, slot, usher), Cerimoniere. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

元帥 (admiral, general of the army). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

'"すい (admiral, attenuation, damping, decay, general of the army, subsiding of water). (various references)

   

Manx

  

stiurt (factor, steward), marshyl, cur cooidjagh (join, mate, reunite), cur ayns oardagh (conform, digest, order, set out). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arshalmay

   

Portuguese

  

Mestre De Cerimônias (master of the horse), Marechal, manobrador (effector, hostler, marshaler, marshaller, shunter, switchman), Ordenar (appoint, arranging, as instructed, assign, assort, bid, charge, class, command, decree, dictate, dispose, enacting, enjoin, fix up, frog, impose, ordain, order, pigeonhole, post, prescribe, put in order, range, settle, sort, tell, tidy), Guiar (beacon, conduct, drive, guide, handle, head, lead, manage, pilot, prevent, steer), Dispor Por Ordem, Dirigir (conduct, control, direct, dominate, drive, give over, govern, guide, head, helm, lead, manage, oversee, pilot, preside, refer, restrain, rule, steer, superintend, supervise, throw), Combinar (agree, ally, assort, bespeak, blend, coincide, combine, compound, conjoin, conjugate, connect, go aboard, join forces with, make up, match, mix, put to, settle, unite), Chefe De Protocolo, Calta (mayflower), Acompanhar (accompany, accompanying, carry, chaperon, coddle, companion, consort, escort fighters, follow, go along, go along with, keep up with, Mark, pilot, see, squire, take, walk one up). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

Mareşal Al Curţii, Mareşal (Field marshal), Maestru De Ceremonii (master of ceremonies), Rândui (arrange, array, order, regulate, Stow, systematize), Duce În Mod Solemn, Dispune (arrange, array, collocate, decide, dispose, enjoin, order, place, set), Compune (compact, compose, compound, constitute, create, draw, form, frame, indite, set, write), şerif (bailiff, shereef, sherif, sheriff), şef De Poliţie, Aranja (adjust, arrange, clench, compose, compound, concert, conclude, contrive, dispose, do, do out, engineer, fiddle, fix, fix up, impose, juggle, order, organize, pose, posture, put in order, put to rights, put up, set, set out, set to rights, settle, size, stage, Stow, straighten, suit, tidy, tidy up, trim), Ajutor De Inspector. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Обер-церемониймейстер, Маршал, Навести Порядок, "лавный Надзиратель, Судебный Исполнитель, асполагать По Порядку. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

maršal, prikupiti (brace, collect, gather in, rally, reach, summon, whip up), organizovati (mount, organize), dovesti u red (arrange things, brush up, put in order, rally, trim). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Mariscal. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Ställa Upp (array, draw up, field, parade, range), Marskalk (best man). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Mareşal, Sıralamak (align, Aline, arrange, array, collate, collocate, compile, concatenate, juxtapose, line up, put in order, range, string), Polis Müdürü, Dizmek (align, Aline, arrange in a row, draw up, juxtapose, range, rank, set, set in type, set out, set up in type, string). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

чиновник Суду, Приводити ' Порядок (Square), Маршал, 'ишиковувати (Aline). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thống chế vị quan phụ trách nghi lễ, quận trưởng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Marshal

Derivations

Words beginning with "marshal": marshalcies, marshalcy, marshaled, marshaling, marshall, marshalled, marshalling, marshalls, marshals, marshalship, marshalships. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Marshal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arshat, Darshan, Mansholt, Marasali, Marchak, Marchal, Marchall, Marchell, Marisha, Marnhull, marsall, Marschalk, Marschall, Marscham, marshale, marshall, marshalli, marshell, Martshall, Maruschka, masha, mashal, Mashtaq, maslah, Merchel, Mersault, Mersha, Minshall, Mirdha, Mirsal, Misrahi, Moshal, murashu, Mushala, Varsha. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Marshal"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "marshal" (pronounced mÄ"rshul)
6m Ä" r sh u lMarshall, martial.
5-Ä" r sh u limpartial, partial.
3-sh u lantisocial, artificial, beneficial, biracial, bushel, commercial, confidential, controversial, crucial, essential, experiential, facial, financial, glacial, inertial, infomercial, initial, interprovincial, interracial, judicial, jurisprudential, multiracial, noncommercial, noncontroversial, nonfinancial, nonracial, nonresidential, official, palatial, Paschal, potential, prejudicial, prenuptial, provincial, quintessential, racial, sacrificial, social, spatial, special, superficial, uncontroversial, unofficial.

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

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Anagrams: Marshal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-h-l-m-r-s"

-1 letter: alarms, almahs, ashlar, ashram, halmas, hamals, lahars, malars.

-2 letters: alarm, almah, almas, amahs, haars, halma, halms, hamal, harls, harms, lahar, lamas, maars, malar, marls, marsh.

-3 letters: aahs, aals, alar, alas, alma, alms, amah, amas, arms, haar, halm, hams, harl, harm, lama, lams, lars, lash, maar, marl, mars, mash, rams, rash, sham, slam.

-4 letters: aah.

-5 letters: aa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-h-l-m-r-s"
 

+1 letter: marshall, marshals.

 

+2 letters: hallmarks, marshalcy, marshaled, marshalls, marshland.

 

+3 letters: marshaling, marshalled, marshlands, ramshackle.

 

+4 letters: marshalcies, marshalling, marshalship, marshmallow.

 

+5 letters: amateurishly, chamberlains, charlatanism, chaulmoogras, elasmobranch, lachrymators, manslaughter, marshalships, marshmallows, marshmallowy, morphallaxes, morphallaxis, parochialism, phragmoplast.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Marshal


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

4D 61 72 73 68 61 6C

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)

01001101 01100001 01110010 01110011 01101000 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#114 &#115 &#104 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0072 0073 0068 0061 006C

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

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

47678485746778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Historic
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Usage Frequency
13. Names: Frequency
14. Names: Derived from
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Orthography
22. Bibliography


  

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