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Definition: Grot |
GrotNoun1. A small cave (usually with attractive features). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "grot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: GrotSynonym: grotto (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concavity | Valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe, bottom, slade, strath, glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove; grot, grotto; alcove, cul-de-sac; gully; arch; (curve); bay; (of the sea). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Grot |
| Etymologies containing "grot": grotto. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Grot" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (cave, cavern, den, grotto), Dutch (cave, cavern, den, grotto), Welsh (fourpence, groat). |
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Movie/TV Titles | De Grot van Plato (1990) | |
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| "Grot" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Grot" is used about 7 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) | 85.71% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.29% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "grot": grot-pop. | |
| 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 |
grot | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "grot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | grotta (grotto, grottoes), barlang (cave, cavern, cove, delve, den, grotto, grottoes), búvóhely (corner, covert, cubbyhole, cubby-hole, hangout, hide out, hideaway, hide-out, hiding place, lair, mountain fastness, nest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otgray grotã (cave, cavern, den, grotto). (various references) động (moving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "grot": grotesque, grotesquely, grotesqueness, grotesquenesses, grotesquerie, grotesqueries, grotesquery, grotesques, grots, grottier, grottiest, grotto, grottoes, grottos, grotty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: gor, got, ort, rot, tog, tor. | |
-2 letters: go, or, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: argot, ergot, gator, griot, groat, grots, grout, trigo. | |
+2 letters: agorot, argots, ergots, forgat, forget, forgot, garote, gators, goiter, goitre, gorget, griots, groats, grotto, grotty, grouts, grouty, growth, orgeat, ragout, ragtop, righto, rotgut, strong, throng, tonger, trigon, trigos, trogon, trough, turgor, yogurt. | |
+3 letters: agoroth, argotic, bigotry, brought, burgout, cortege, dogcart, dogtrot, drought, ergotic, fagoter, figwort, foregut, forgets, garoted, garotes, garotte, garrote, genitor, gloater, goiters, goitres, gorgets, goriest, gosport, gourmet, goutier, grantor, grayout, grommet, grottos, grouted, grouter, growths, growthy, gyrator, ignitor, legator, mugwort, negator, orating, orgeats, outbrag, outdrag, outgrew, outgrin, outgrow, outrage, outrang, outring, outrung, portage, porting, protege, ragouts, ragtops, ragwort, rioting, rontgen, rootage, rooting, rotguts, rotting, routing, sorting, storage, storing, throngs, through, toggery, toggler, tongers, tougher, touring, trigons, trilogy, trogons, troking, troughs, trowing, turgors, vertigo, warthog, wrought, yoghurt, yogurts. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 72 6F 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-. --- - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110010 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G r o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0072 006F 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)41848186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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