King's Ransom

  

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King's Ransom

Definition: King's Ransom

King's Ransom

Noun

1. A very large treasure.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms within Context: King's Ransom

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Value

Phrase: worth the price; worth a king's ransom; accountants who know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: King's Ransom

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

King's Ransom (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: King's Ransom

DomainTitle

Books

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Expression: King's Ransom

Expression using "king's ransom": worth a king's ransom. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: King's Ransom

Language Translations for "king's ransom"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

огромная сумма, большой куш (scoop). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

món tiền lớn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: King's Ransom

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-g-i-k-m-n-n-o-r-s-s"

-3 letters: organisms, ransoming.

-4 letters: assignor, isograms, mansions, markings, maskings, masoning, mornings, onanisms, organism, rankings, signoras, soarings.

-5 letters: amnions, armings, askings, gaskins, grisons, isogram, kamsins, kinsman, makings, mansion, margins, marking, masking, massing, mignons, mikrons, moaning, morgans, morning, mossing, nanisms, narking, nasions, nosings, ogrisms, onanism, orgasms, origans, ramsons, ranking, ransoms, roaming, sarongs, signora, signors, smoking, snaking.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: King's Ransom


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 69 6E 67 27 73      52 61 6E 73 6F 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100111 01110011 00100000 01010010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01101111 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#39 &#115 &#32 &#82 &#97 &#110 &#115 &#111 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0069 006E 0067 0027 0073      0052 0061 006E 0073 006F 006D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

457580739852526780858179

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Non-English Dictionaries with "King's Ransom"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениерусский, người Nga tiếng Nga

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchвьетнамский, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationанглийский
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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