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Definition: Pied |
PiedAdjective1. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert,"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Note: Pied \Pied\, adjective. [From Piethe party-colored bird.]. (references) |
Synonyms: PiedSynonyms: motley (adj), multicolor (adj), multicolored (adj), multicolour (adj), multicoloured (adj), painted (adj), particolored (adj), particoloured (adj), piebald (adj), varicolored (adj), varicoloured (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ornament | Wreath, festoon, garland, chaplet, flower, nosegay, bouquet, posy, "daisies pied and violets blue" |
Truth | Exactly; Adjective: ad amussim; verbatim, verbatim et literatim; word for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis; ad unguem; to an inch; to a nicety, to a hair, to a turn, to a T; au pied de la lettre; neither more nor less; in every respect, in all respects; sous tous les rapports; at any rate, at all events; strictly speaking. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pied |
| English words defined with "pied": Bontebok ♦ Dicrostonyx ♦ genus Dicrostonyx, Golden-eye ♦ Pied wagtail, Piedness ♦ Skunkhead ♦ Vanjas ♦ Waggie, Waterie, White wagtail. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "pied": Cavalerie a Pied, Corn ♦ Pie Poudre, Pied de la Lettre, Pied Piper of Hamelin ♦ Roland. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pied": Piedmont. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Pied" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (base, bottom, foot, leg, paw). |
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Lyrics | Best believe somebody's payin the pied piper (Lose Yourself; performing artist: EMINEM) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Pied! (1974) The Pied Piper (1972) Bon oeil À bon pied (1972) The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961) cheval et en sputnik À pied (1958) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Le pied de Nez de Milord Pit. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Follow the Pied Piper--Join the United States School Garden Army. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Pied" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 47.34% of the time. "Pied" is used about 169 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 47.34% | 80 | 37,112 |
| Noun (proper) | 39.05% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 8.28% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (common) | 3.55% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 1.78% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 169 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "pied": motley multicolor culticolour multicolored multicoloured painted particolored particoloured piebald pied varicolored varicoloured ♦ pied a terre ♦ pied antelope ♦ pied blackbird ♦ pied dishwasher ♦ pied duck ♦ pied finch ♦ pied flycatcher ♦ pied lemming ♦ pied pieper ♦ pied piper ♦ pied piper of hamelin ♦ pied wagtail ♦ pied widgeon ♦ the pied piper of hamelin. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "pied": pied-a-terre, pied-billed, Pied-billed grebe, pied-fly, pied-noir, pied-piper. | |
Ending with "pied": red-pied. | |
Containing "pied": Saint-jean-pied-de-port. | |
| 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 "pied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | veshur me ngjyra të ndryshme, me pikla, laraman (harlequin, motley, piebald, Pinto, spotty), laragan (motley, party-colored, party-coloured, spotted, variegated), i larmë (dappled, desultory, medley, mottled, punctate, spotted, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated). (various references) | |
Arabic | مختلف الألوان (chequered), مبقع (cloudy, speckled, splotchy, stained, streaked, streaky), مبرقش, أرقط (dappled, pinto, speckled, spotted, spotty). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разноцветен (motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), шарен (chequered, medley, motley, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, roan, variegated, versicolored, versicoloured), пъстър (chequered, dapple, fancy, freckled, medley, motley, mottled, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, roan, skewbald, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated). (various references) | |
Chinese | "色 (Pigmentation). (various references) | |
Czech | pestrý (bright, brightly colored, brightly coloured, chequered, colorful, colourful, fanciful, gaily coloured, gaudy, gay, motley, multifarious, varied, variegated), strakatý (brindled, motley, mottled, piebald, skewbald, speckled). (various references) | |
Danish | tyndnaebbet lappedykker (pied-billed grebe), tofarvet tamarin (Pied tamarin bare-faced tamarin), sortrygget vipstjert (pied wagtail). (various references) | |
Dutch | premiebasis (limit price at which the option is abandoned, option price less optionrate). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرنده رنگارنگ , گوناگون (Diverse, Miscellaneous, Multifarious, Multiple, Protean, Sundries, Variant, Varied, Various), ابلق (Piebald), رنگارنگ (Colorful, Kaleidoscopic, Medley, Motley, Multicolored, Piebald, Varied). (various references) | |
Finnish | preemiotaso (limit price at which the option is abandoned, option price less optionrate). (various references) | |
French | pied de la prime, pie (piebald, Pinto, Pius), panaché, bigarré, bariolé. (various references) | |
German | Prämienbasis (limit price at which the option is abandoned, option price less optionrate). (various references) | |
Greek | παρδαλόσ (brindled, dapple, dappled, motley, piebald, roan), ανάμικτοσ (amalgamate, miscellaneous, mixed, promiscuous). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעון ארעי (pied a terre). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pettyes (brindled, dappled, eyespotted, freckled, mottled, Pinto, polka-dotted, punctate, speckled, spotted, spotty, tabby), tarka (brindled, calico, chequered, colorful, colourful, dappled, fancy, freaked, gaudy, laced, medley, mottled, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, Pinto, polychromatic, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), fehér-fekete. (various references) | |
Indonesian | belang (band, blemished, skin blemish, spot, stripe). (various references) | |
Italian | prezzo base(per il calcolo del premio) (limit price at which the option is abandoned, option price less optionrate), pezzato (dappled, piebald, Pinto, spotted). (various references) | |
Manx | brigginagh (brindle, partly coloured, spotted), breck (brindle, brown trout, chequered, dapple-grey, dotty, mackerel, mottled, piebald, pocked, speckle; trout-coloured, speckled, spot, spotted, spotty, tartan, trout, variegated). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iedpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pintalgado (mottled, pepper-and-salt, spotted, spotty), valor de base para cálculo do prémio (limit price at which the option is abandoned, option price less optionrate), sarapintado (mottled, pepper-and-salt, piebald, spotted, spotty), manchado (blotchy, brindled, dapple, dappled, foxy, smudgy, splotchy, spotted, stained), malhado (brindled, freckled, piebald, pinto, tabby). (various references) | |
Romanian | pestriţ (dapple, gay, harlequin, many-colored, many-coloured, medley, motley, mottled, particolored, particoloured, speckled, spotted, variegated), vãrgat (brindled, rayed, streaked, streaky, striped, tabby), multicolor (fancy, many-colored, many-coloured, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, particolored, particoloured, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), bãlţat (harlequin, skewbald, spotted, streaked, streaky, striped, variegated). (various references) | |
Russian | пестрый (brindled, chequered, dappled, jazzy, medley, motley, parti-colored, particoloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, tabby, variegated). (various references) | |
Scottish | trìlleachan, trìleachan (the pied oyster-catcher), trìlleachan (pied oyster catcher). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šaren (gay, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multicoloured, painted, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, printed, skewbald, speckled, spotted, variegated). (various references) | |
Spanish | de varios colores (piebald). (various references) | |
Swedish | prisgräns vid vilken optionen inte längre utnyttjas (limit price at which the option is abandoned, option price less optionrate), fläckig (blotched, dapple, foxy, mealy, mottled, piebald, punctate, soiled, spotted, spotty), brokig (brindled, chequered, dappled, gaudy, kaleidoscopic, motley, particolored, particoloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, scratch, varied, variegated). (various references) | |
Turkish | iki renkli (dichromatic), benekli (brindled, dappled, dotted, Dotty, maculated, mottled, piebald, punctate, roan, speckled, splotchy, spotted, spotty), alaca. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | строкатий (brindled, gay, harlequin, jazz, jazzy, plural, varied), різнобарвний (motley, painted, particolored, particoloured, variegated). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lẫn m u (particoloured, party-coloured, variegated). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | pie. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pied": piedfort, piedforts, piedmont, piedmonts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "pied": canopied, copied, espied, miscopied, occupied, photocopied, poppied, preoccupied, recopied, reoccupied, spied, unoccupied. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pied": hippiedom, hippiedoms. (additional references) | |
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"Pied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apide, apied, ied, iped, Ipex, ipid, ipod, opied, paide, paied, Paud, ped, pede, Pedi, pedy, pedz, peedy, pei, peid, peig, peiz, phie, phied, piad, piced, pid, Pidd, pide, pided, pidy, piec, piede, Piedra, pief, pieg, pierd, piev, piew, piex, pifed, piked, pind, pio, piof, pited, pixed, pixet, pized, poad, poed, poid, pred, ptid, pude, puede, puie, Pyd, pyed, zied. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pied" (pronounced pī"d) |
| 3 | p ī" d | spied. |
| 2 | -ī" d | abide, allied, alongside, applied, aside, astride, belied, beside, betide, bide, bride, chide, coincide, collide, complied, confide, cried, decide, decried, defied, denied, deride, died, lied, divide, dried, dyed, Eide, eyed, flied, fried, glide, guide, hide, implied, inside, misapplied, misguide, nationwide, outside, oversupplied, plied, preside, pride, pried, provide, relied, replied, reside, retried, ride, shied, side, sighed, slide, snide, Stateside, stride, subdivide, subside, supplied, tide, tied, tried, untied, untried, upside, vide, vied, wide, worldwide. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-p" | |
-1 letter: die, dip, ped, pie. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, id, pe, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-p" | |
+1 letter: biped, imped, piked, piled, pined, piped, plied, pride, pried, redip, riped, siped, spied, tepid, wiped. | |
+2 letters: aliped, bipeds, copied, depict, diaper, dimple, diplex, diploe, dipnet, dipole, dipped, dipper, dispel, dopier, elapid, espied, gimped, gipped, griped, hipped, impede, impend, kipped, limped, lipide, lipped, lisped, nipped, opined, paiked, pained, paired, pardie, peined, peised, peptid, perdie, period, picked, piddle, pieced, pigged, pilled, pimped, pinder, pinged, pinked, pinned, pipped, piqued, pished, pissed, pithed, pitied, pitted, pleiad, podite, poised, ponied, priced, prided, prides, primed, prised, prized, redips, redipt, repaid, ripped, sipped, sliped, sniped, spiced, spider, spiked, spiled, spined, spired, spited, stiped, swiped, tipped, trepid, updive, upside, vespid, wisped, yipped, zipped. | |
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