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Definition: Yearling |
YearlingNoun1. A young child. 2. A racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth. 3. An animal in its second year. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "yearling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A one-year-old seedling. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: YearlingSynonyms: bambino (n), toddler (n), tot (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Infant | Noun: infant, babe, baby, babe in arms; nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling; papoose, bambino; kid; vagitus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Yearling |
| English words defined with "yearling": Hornotine ♦ stirk. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "yearling": Chimera. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Yearling" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (yearling), Portuguese (yearling). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Yearling (1946) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Yearling Cows on summer Range. Credit: Merv Coleman. |  | Cowboy life--riding a yearling / from a photo. by C.D. Kirkland, Cheyenne. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Yearling, Cruzen Ranch, Valley County, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Yearling steer. Cruzen Ranch, Valley County, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Yearling bulls being displayed at 4-H club fair. Sublette, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | County agent from adjoining county. Judging yearling bull at 4-H fair. Sublette, Kansas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Yearling" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Yearling" is used about 30 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% | 30 | 63,341 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "yearling" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Yearling | Last name | 300 | 28,091 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "yearling". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Parmashta | N/A | Biblical | A yearling bull |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| 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 |
yearling | 87 |
book yearling | 12 |
whitehall yearling high school | 11 |
training yearling | 6 |
horse yearling | 5 |
the yearling the movie | 5 |
palomino yearling | 4 |
restaurant yearling | 4 |
horse training yearling | 3 |
whitehall yearling | 3 |
cliff note yearling | 3 |
arabian grey yearling | 2 |
dell yearling | 2 |
show yearling halter | 2 |
dvd yearling | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "yearling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kafshë një vjeçe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حولي عمره سنة, رضيع أبن سنة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | навършил една година, едногодишен, издаден за една година. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 一岁. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | jednoroèek, jednoleté zvíře. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vædderlam (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb, wedder lamb), etåring, bukkelam (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb, wedder lamb), årsplante. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ramlam (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb, wedder lamb), jaarling (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb, wedder lamb), één jaar oude zaailing. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | گیاه یک ساله , ادم یکساله . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pässikaritsa (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb, wedder lamb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | yearling. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Jährling (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb, wedder lamb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πουλάρι ενός έτους, ενόσ έτουσ, αρσενικό αρνί (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb, wedder lamb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egyéves állat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | yearling, semenzale dell'anno, pecora di un anno (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb, wedder lamb), animale di un anno, agnello maschio (male lamb, ram lamb, tup lamb, wedder lamb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "歳' (one year-old colt), "歳馬 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | とうさいば, とうさい"ま (one year-old colt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | eayneen (baa-lamb, lambkin), baagh bleeaney. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yearlingay yearling, planta de um ano, cordeiro (lamb, twister). (various references) noaten, cârlan, animal de un an. (various references) годовалый (year-old), годовалое животное. (various references) jednogodišnji (age long, age-old, annual), jednogodišnjak, jednogodac, akademac drugog razreda. (various references) yearling, planta del año, de añojo, cordero (baa lamb, lamb), añojo. (various references) ettåring, årsgammalt djur. (various references) bir yaşındaki taylar yarışı, bir yaşındaki, bir yaşında hayvan, bir yıllık bitki, bir yıllık (yearlong). (various references) юнак (adolescent, adult, juvenile, lad, shaveling, sprig, stripling, youngling, youngster, younker, youth), саджанець (rooter, transplant), річняк, однорічний (one-year), одноліток (coeval). (various references) thú vật một tuổi. (various references) dyniawed (stirk), blwyddiad (annual). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | anniculam, anniculi, anniculos, anniculum, anniculus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "yearling": yearlings. (additional references) | |
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"Yearling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: earling, yealing, yearla, yearline. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "yearling" (pronounced yi"ling) |
| 4 | -i" l i ng | billing, chilling, distilling, drilling, filling, fulfilling, grilling, hilling, instilling, killing, milling, Pilling, quilling, rilling, Schilling, shilling, skilling, spilling, swilling, thrilling, Tilling, trilling, unwilling, willing. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ailing, ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, throttling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: layering, relaying. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-r-y" | |
-1 letter: aligner, angerly, angrily, engrail, inlayer, nargile, realign, reginal, relying, yealing. | |
-2 letters: aerily, aliner, anergy, angler, argyle, earing, gainer, gainly, genial, glaire, glairy, gnarly, grainy, larine, laying, linage, linear, linger, nailer, nearly, raying, reagin, regain, regina, regnal, renail. | |
-3 letters: agile, agley, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, anger, angle, angry, anile, argil, argle, ariel, early. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-r-y" | |
+1 letter: lawyering, layerings, legionary, pargyline, parleying, replaying, searingly, wearingly, yearlings. | |
+2 letters: blarneying, gallerying, generality, germinally, integrally, ladyfinger, lawyerings, mineralogy, overlaying, pargylines, reapplying, regionally, waveringly, yearningly. | |
+3 letters: arrestingly, banteringly, caressingly, degradingly, embracingly, endearingly, falteringly, generically, glycerinate, grandiosely, impregnably, ingrainedly, integrality, interlaying, ladyfingers, legendarily, overplaying, panegyrical, preachingly, quaveringly, reanalyzing, revealingly, rewardingly, screamingly, searchingly, underlaying. | |
+4 letters: astringently, clatteringly, decreasingly, despairingly, entreatingly, flatteringly, glycerinated, glycerinates, hearteningly, increasingly, interplaying, laryngitides, managerially, pregnability, reassuringly, recognizably, redisplaying, requalifying, scatteringly, shatteringly, staggeringly, swaggeringly, synergically, underplaying, unwaveringly. | |
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