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Definition: Ill Fame |
Ill FameNoun1. The state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Ill FameSynonym: notoriety (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impurity | Seraglio, harem; brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ill Fame |
| English words defined with "ill fame": House of ill fame. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ill fame": Cats. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This is a house of ill fame. And I'm a fallen flower. (Little Big Man; writing credit: Thomas Berger; Calder Willingham) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "ill fame": house of ill fame ♦ of ill fame. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "ill fame"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | huis van plezier (bawdy, brothel, house of ill fame, whorehouse), hoerenkast (bawdy, brothel, house of ill fame, whorehouse), bordeel (bawdy, brothel, house of ill fame, whorehouse). (various references) | |
Esperanto | prostituejo (bawdy, brothel, house of ill fame, whorehouse). (various references) | |
French | bordel (house of ill fame). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 私娼窟 (brothel, house of ill fame). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ししょうくつ (brothel, house of ill fame). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illay amefay.(various references) | |
Romanian | reputaţie proastã (disrepute). (various references) | |
Russian | дурная слава (bad repute, disreputation, disrepute, notoriety). (various references) | |
Turkish | kötü şöhret (bad name, bad title, disrepute, evil repute, infamy, notoriety). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-l-m" | |
-1 letter: faille, mallei. | |
-2 letters: email, fella, fille, flail, flame, fleam, ileal, maile, maill, mille. | |
-3 letters: alef, alif, alme, amie, fail, fall, fame, feal, fell, fila, file, fill, film, flam, flea, ilea, lame, leaf, leal, lief, life, lima, lime, mail, male, mall, meal, mell, mile, mill. | |
-4 letters: ail, aim, ale, all, ami, elf, ell, elm, emf, fem, fie, fil, ill, lam, lea, lei, lie, mae, mel, mil. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, al, am, ef, el, em, fa, if, la, li, ma, me, mi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-l-l-m" | |
+1 letter: filmable. | |
+4 letters: damselflies, flimflammed, flimflammer, inflammable, lamelliform, patelliform. | |
+5 letters: emulsifiable, flabelliform, flimflammers, flimflammery, formalizable, inflammables, meaningfully, ultraleftism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6C 6C 46 61 6D 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01000110 01100001 01101101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I l l   F a m e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006C 006C 0046 0061 006D 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437878240677971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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