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Definition: Sumpter |
SumpterNoun1. An animal such as a mule or burro or horse used to carry loads. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sumpter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonym: SumpterSynonym: pack animal (n). (additional references) |
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Sumpter is a town located in Sauk County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,021.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sumpter, Oregon."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Carrier | Ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro, cuddy, ladino; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama, elephant; carrier pigeon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sumpter |
| English words defined with "sumpter": Led horse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sumpter": Sumpter Horse. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Line engraving by H.B. Hall, Jr., New York, taken from a larger print of officers who had served in CSS Sumpter. Kell was Executive Officer of Sumter and of CSS Alabama. For the entire print, see Photo # NH 57264. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Engraved portrait, published during the later part of the 19th Century. He served as Chief Engineer of CSS Sumpter and CSS Alabama. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | The steamship Marion, on her way to New York with the wives and children of the soldiers in Fort Sumter - manning the ramparts and cheering of the men as the steamer passes the fort the parting salute from Fort Sumpter / from a sketch by our special arti. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The new batteries erected on Morris Island for the defence of Charleston Harbor and the reduction of Fort Sumpter / from a sketch by our special artist now in Charleston, S.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Fort Sumpter [i.e. Sumter] from the battery, Charleston, S.C. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Sumpter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sumpter" is used about 8 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) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "sumpter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sumpter | Last name | 3,000 | 3,608 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Sumpter, OR (city, FIPS 71000) |
Expression using "sumpter": sumpter horse. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sumpter": sumpter-horses. | |
| 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 "sumpter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | товарно животно (pack animal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Saumtier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φορτηγό ζώο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | teherhordó állat (pack animal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umptersay вьючное животное (beast of burden, pack animal, pack-animal). (various references) tovarni konj (pack-horse, sumpter horse). (various references) yük beygiri sürücüsü, yük beygiri (bathorse, cart horse, dray horse, packhorse, pack-horse, sumpter horse), yük (bulk, burden, cargo, charge, encumbrance, fardel, freight, goods, haul, impedimenta, imposition, impost, incident, lading, load, loading, onus, pile, plummet, shipload, shipment, stowage, strain, tax, weight). (various references) ngựa th" (bat-horse, pack-horse, sumpter-horse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | sagmat-. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sumpter": sumpters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sumpter" (pronounced su"mpter) |
| 3 | -p t er | adapter, adaptor, apter, captor, chapter, helicopter, interceptor, lithotripter, raptor, receptor, sceptre, sculptor, subchapter, velociraptor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stumper. | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: erupts, estrum, muster, purest, septum, trumps. | |
-2 letters: erupt, mures, muser, muter, mutes, perms, prest, purse, rumps, serum, setup, sperm, sprue, spume, spurt, strep, strum, stump, stupe, super, temps, terms, trues, trump, tumps, turps, upset. | |
-3 letters: emus, erst, mure, muse, must, mute, muts, perm, pert, pest, pets, pure, purs, puts, rems, reps, rest, rets. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: crumpets, dumpster, imputers, permutes, spectrum, strumpet, stumpers, stumpier, sumpters, tempuras, thumpers, trumpets, upstream. | |
+2 letters: computers, dumpsters, frumpiest, grumpiest, imposture, mousetrap, plectrums, presummit, rumpliest, septarium, spectrums, strumpets, supremest, uppermost. | |
+3 letters: crumpliest, importunes, impostures, impurities, metacarpus, mousetraps, outpromise, overtrumps, periosteum, petroleums, prematures, psalterium, pterygiums, pyrethrums, recomputes, resumption, spermatium, subprimate, supersmart, suppertime, trapeziums, trumperies, trumpeters. | |
+4 letters: champertous, circumspect, computerese, computerise, computerist, hemipterous, homopterous, importuners, intercampus, lepromatous, multipliers, outperforms, outpromised, outpromises, pentamerous, peritoneums, petrolatums, precomputes, presumption, presumptive, promethiums, promulgates, recoupments, resumptions, subprimates, supermarket, supersmooth, supersystem, suppertimes, supremacist, suprematism, suprematist, ultrasimple. | |
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