Mastiff

Definition: Mastiff

Mastiff

Noun

1. An old breed of powerful deep-chested smooth-coated dog used chiefly as a watchdog and guard dog.

Date "mastiff" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references)

Note: Mastiff \Mas"tiff\, noun; plural Mastiffs. Mastives is irregular and unusual.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: Mastiff

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Animal	Dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog, bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter, retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit; terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Mastiff

English words defined with "mastiff": Bandog, bull mastiff ♦ Eumops ♦ family Molossidae ♦ genus Eumops ♦ Limmer ♦ M/tin, mastiff bat, Mastiffs, Mastives, Molossidae ♦ Tibetan mastiff ♦ Wolf dog. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mastiff": Dogs ♦ HUNT'S DOG. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Mastiff" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (mastiff).

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Commercial Usage: Mastiff

Domain	Title
Books	Bull Mastiff 2003 Calendar (reference) Mastiff (reference) Mastiff 2003 Calendar (reference) Mastiff and Bullmastiff Handbook (reference) The Complete Mastiff (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Mastiff

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Usage Frequency: Mastiff

"Mastiff" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.24% of the time. "Mastiff" is used about 17 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)	88.24%	15	90,616
Lexical Verb (base form)	11.76%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	17	N/A

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

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Expression: Mastiff

Expressions using "mastiff": bull mastiff ♦ mastiff bat ♦ tibetan mastiff. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "mastiff": dane-mastiff.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mastiff

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
bull mastiff	1,539	english mastiff breeders	40
mastiff	1,274	mastiff breed	35
english mastiff	574	spanish mastiff	29
neopolitan mastiff	233	english bull mastiff	28
mastiff rescue	188	bull mastiff puppy for sale	27
neapolitan mastiff	181	cane corso mastiff	27
french mastiff	161	neo mastiff	26
bull mastiff puppy	148	english mastiff puppy	26
bull mastiff breeders	139	brazilian mastiff	25
mastiff dog	131	bull mastiff photo	24
tibetan mastiff	113	english mastiff rescue	24
mastiff puppy	106	english mastiff picture	23
bull mastiff rescue	101	mastiff puppy for sale	23
mastiff breeders	90	bull mastiff pic	22
bull mastiff dog	80	english mastiff dog	20
bull mastiff picture	75	pyrenean mastiff	19
american mastiff	71	dog mastiff picture	19
mastiff picture	59	america club mastiff	18
italian mastiff	57	bull mastiff sale	17
old english mastiff	47	neopolitan mastiff breeders	16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Mastiff

Language		Translations for "mastiff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mastif, qen roje (listening-dog, watchdog). (various references)

Arabic		‏الدرواس كلب ضخم. (various references)

Bulgarian		дог. (various references)

Chinese		�' . (various references)

Czech		taraè. (various references)

French		mastiff. (various references)

German		dogge. (various references)

Greek		μαντρόσκυλο, μανδρόσκυλο. (various references)

Hungarian		mészároskutya. (various references)

Italian		mastino. (various references)

Manx		moddey mooar, masteen. (various references)

Pig Latin		astiffmay

Portuguese		mastigatório (masticatory). (various references)

Romanian		dog englez, buldog (bulldog). (various references)

Russian		дог. (various references)

Scottish		todhlair. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mastif. (various references)

Spanish		mastín (male). (various references)

Swedish		stor hund. (various references)

Turkish		mastı, samsun. (various references)

Ukranian		мастиф. (various references)

Vietnamese		giống chó lớn tai cụp. (various references)

Welsh		costog (cur, surly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Mastiff

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	mansuetus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Mastiff

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mastiff": mastiffs. (additional references)
	Words ending with "mastiff": bullmastiff. (additional references)
	Words containing "mastiff": bullmastiffs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mastiff" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: masti, mastif, mistif, Neustift. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Mastiff"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mastiff" (pronounced ma"stuf)
3	-t u f	plaintiff, pontiff.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Mastiff

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-f-i-m-s-t"
	-2 letters: fiats, maist, miffs, staff, stiff, tamis, tiffs.
	-3 letters: aims, aits, amis, fast, fats, fiat, fist, fits, mast, mats, miff, mist, sati, sift, sima, smit, tams, tiff.
	-4 letters: aff, aft, aim, ais, ait, ami, fas, fat, fit, iff, ifs, ism, its, mas, mat, mis, sat, sim, sit, tam, tas, tis.
	-5 letters: ai, am, as, at.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-f-i-m-s-t"
	+1 letter: mastiffs.
	+3 letters: affixments, frameshift.
	+4 letters: bullmastiff, effeminates, frameshifts.
	+5 letters: affirmations, affirmatives, bullmastiffs.
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