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Definition: Straw Hat |
Straw HatNoun1. A stiff straw hat with a flat crown. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Straw HatSynonyms: boater (n), leghorn (n), panama (n), sailor (n), skimmer (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Straw Hat |
| English words defined with "straw hat": boater ♦ leghorn ♦ Panama ♦ sailor, skimmer, Sombrero. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "straw hat": brim buster, brim plater, BRIM PRESSER I. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yes, with the straw hat! (The Smiling Lieutenant; writing credit: Henri Bataille; Felix Dormann) You see, George, you're sort of like a ragged straw hat with a very soft lining (Design for Living; writing credit: Noel Coward; Ben Hecht) | |
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![]() | Badly Wounded Spanish Prisoners, at Brigade Hospital in rear of the lines. : Man in straw hat fired nearly all day at one battalion and stood off Capt. Frederick and his men. This hospital was in a grove of huge mango trees. (July 3, 98). Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Ship's officers and crewmen pose on deck, while she was serving on the James River, Virginia, August 1864. Commander Alexander C. Rhind, ship's Commanding Officer, is at the extreme right with his foot on the ladder. Standing next to him is Assistant Surgeon Herman P. Babcock. Lieutenant George Dewey is in the right center, wearing a straw hat, directly below the end of the davit. The pivot gun is one of the ship's two 100-pounder Parrot rifles. Note Marine in the left foreground. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Straw hat makers in Javanese Village seated before Javanese house, Paris Exposition, 1889. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Young man, wearing straw hat, reading to two men, Harper's Ferry. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Man in straw hat standing on Buddhist idol at ruins of Borobudur. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He wore white shoes and a flat straw hat. |
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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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
straw hat | 1,340 | boater straw hat | 9 |
man straw hat | 51 | chinese straw hat | 9 |
straw hat pizza | 38 | hawaiian straw hat | 7 |
western straw hat | 31 | straw hat craft | 7 |
straw hat wholesale | 23 | woman straw hat | 6 |
womens straw hat | 18 | gambler straw hat | 6 |
panama straw hat | 15 | man dress straw hat | 5 |
lady straw hat | 11 | black straw hat | 5 |
stetson straw hat | 10 | mexican straw hat | 4 |
child straw hat | 10 | raffia straw hat | 2 |
man panama straw hat | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "straw hat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | olkihattu. (various references) | |
German | Strohhut. (various references) | |
Greek | ψάθινο καπέλο. (various references) | |
Italian | paglietta (boater, scourer, sequin, Spangle). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 麦藁帽子 , 麦稈帽子 , 夏帽子 (summer hat), ストレプトマイシン難聴 (bird of paradise flower, strangeness, stranger, straw, Strelitzia reginae, streptomycin deafness, strobe, stroke, stroke play). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なつぼうし (summer hat), ストローハット , むぎわらぼうし. (various references) | |
Manx | feegan coonlee (table mat). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | awstray athay.(various references) | |
Spanish | sombrero de paja (sailor hat). (various references) | |
Swedish | halmhatt (boater). (various references) | |
Turkish | hasır şapka (boater, chip hat, straw). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: strawhat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-h-r-s-t-t-w" | |
-1 letter: athwart, thwarts. | |
-2 letters: arhats, attars, strata, strath, swarth, tatars, thraws, thwart, wraths. | |
-3 letters: arhat, attar, awash, haars, harts, start, straw, swart, swath, tahrs, tarts, tatar, thaws, thraw, trash, warts, watts, whats, wrath. | |
-4 letters: aahs, arts, haar, hart, hast, hats, haws, rash, rath, rats, raws, shaw, star, stat, staw, swat, tahr, tars, tart, tats, taws. | |
-5 letters: aah. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-h-r-s-t-t-w" | |
+2 letters: bathwaters. | |
+3 letters: athwartship, straightway, weathercast. | |
+4 letters: athwartships, straightaway, weathercasts. | |
+5 letters: northeastward, southeastward, straightaways, weathercaster. | |
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