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Definition: Suspender |
SuspenderNoun1. Elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "suspender" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Synonyms: SuspenderSynonyms: brace (n), gallus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Suspender |
| Non-English Usage: "Suspender" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (adjourn, cancel, dangle, discontinue, hang, inhibit, intermit, interrupt, lever, lift, paralyse, paralyze, put up, raise, remit, sling, suspend, swing), Serbo-Croatian (suspender), Spanish (abate, adjourn, ban, call off, catch, discontinue, fail, flunk, hang, hang up, hold up, knock off, lay aside, lay by, lay off, leave off, pip, pluck, reject, stay, stop, suspend). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The checked pattern of that suspender came continually before his mind. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Suspender" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Suspender" is used about 22 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) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "suspender": suspender beit ♦ suspender belt. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "suspender": suspender-belt. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "suspender"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | llastik çorapesh (garter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مطاط الجوارب, حمالة البنطالون, رباط الجورب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | жартиера (garter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 悬挂装置. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vìšák (clothes' peg, coat hook, peg, rack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stroempeholder, sokkeholder, hængestang (hanger, main operating rod). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | jarretelle, jarretel, hangstang (hanger, main operating rod), hangstaaf (hanger, main operating rod), hanger (ear-drop, earring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | معلق (Handstand, Headlong, Pendant, Somersault, Suspense, Turntable), بندجوراب (Gallus, Garter), بندشلوار (Brace, Gallus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sukkanauha (garter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | jarretelle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Strumpfhalter (garter, suspenders). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καλτσοδέτα (garter), αναρτητήσ, αναρτήρας (hanger, main operating rod, sling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ח'ורת 'רבים (suspender belt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | függesztõvas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tali selempang. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | giarrettiera (garter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | サイン曲線 (ca et la, commercial jingle, saccharin, sack, sack dress, sacrifice, sacrifice bunt, sacrifice fly, saddle, sadism, sadist, sadistic, sado, sadomasochism, Sahara, sanatorium, sanitary, sanitary napkin, sash, Saskatchewan, Satan, satellite, satellite computer, satellite office, satellite station, satellite studio, satin, satisfaction, Saturday night special, Saturn, Saudi, Saudi Arabia, sauna, sax, saxophone, sine curve, sinusoid, skirt with suspender, soccer, soccer coach, sound, sound box, sound business, sound effects, sound logo, sound man, soundinterface, soundtrack, South Carolina, South Dakota, Southern Cross, southpaw, success, success story, sudden death, suggest, suggestion, suspend, suspended game, suspenders, suspense, suspense drama, suspension, sustaining program, Thousand Island). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | サスペンダースカート (skirt with suspender). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 서스펜". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gallasyn (braces), croghag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uspendersay suspensórios (braces, suspenders), liga (alloy, bind, bond, coalition, combine, fusion, league, tie, union). (various references) suspensor, jartierã (garter). (various references) подвязка (garter). (various references) suspender, vešalica (hanger). (various references) liga (alloy, birdlime, garter, league, lime, pickup, table). (various references) strumpeband (garter), hängare (hook, peg). (various references) สายแขวน, สายเอี๊ยม"ึงกางเกง, หนังรั"ถุงเท้ายาว. (various references) askı (clothes hanger, hanger, rack, shoulder strap, suspensory). (various references) підвіска (pendant, pendicle, pod), підв'язка (garter). (various references) dây móc bít tất. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "suspender": suspendered, suspenders. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "suspender" (pronounced suspe"nder) |
| 6 | -s p e" n d er | Spender. |
| 4 | -e" n d er | bender, blender, contender, defender, Ender, engender, Fender, gender, lender, offender, pretender, render, sender, slender, splendor, surrender, tender, vendor. |
| 3 | -n d er | Alexander, asunder, attainder, auslander, Bander, bartender, binder, blander, blinder, blonder, blunder, bookbinder, bounder, brander, bystander, calamander, calendar, candor, cinder, cofounder, commander, Condor, coriander, cylinder, extender, finder, flounder, fonder, founder, gander, gerrymander, grander, grinder, highlander, hinder, islander, kinder, Lander, launder, lavender, mainlander, meander, minder, oleander, pander, pathfinder, Pinder, plunder, ponder, pounder, rejoinder, remainder, reminder, responder, rounder, salamander, sander, Sidewinder, slander, sounder, squander, Stander, sunder, thunder, tinder, transponder, under, viewfinder, wander, weekender, winder, wonder, yonder, Zander. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: unpressed. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-p-r-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: pureness, rudeness, spenders. | |
-2 letters: depress, dueness, endures, ensured, ensures, perdues, perused, peruses, pressed, redness, resends, senders, sendups, spender, spurned, sunders, supered, suspend, undress, upsends. | |
-3 letters: denser, drupes, druses, dupers, duress, enders, endues, endure, ensued, ensues, ensure, enured, enures, nursed, nurses, perdue, perdus, perses, peruse, preens, prudes, pruned, prunes, pseuds, pureed, purees, pursed, purses. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-p-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: suspenders. | |
+2 letters: superseding, suspendered, underpasses, unexpressed, unimpressed, unpressured, unprocessed, unprofessed, unrepressed. | |
+3 letters: pridefulness, superhardens, superinduces, superintends, underexposes, unsupervised, uprootedness, upwardnesses. | |
+4 letters: ponderousness, prudishnesses, serendipitous, splendiferous, underemphases, underemphasis, undersupplies, unpressurized. | |
+5 letters: depressurizing, disruptiveness, gelandesprungs, groundskeepers, jurisprudences, perfidiousness, predaceousness, pridefulnesses, productiveness, profoundnesses, purblindnesses, subdepartments, supercalenders, superinsulated, underexposures, understrappers, unpreparedness, uprootednesses, urediniospores. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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