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Artilleryman

Definition: Artilleryman

Artilleryman

Noun

1. A serviceman in the artillery.

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

Date "artilleryman" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)


Synonyms: Artilleryman

Synonyms: cannoneer (n), gunner (n), machine gunner (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Artilleryman

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

Combatant

Gunner, cannoneer, bombardier, artilleryman, matross; sapper, sapper and miner; engineer; light infantry, rifles,chasseur, zouave; military train, coolie.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Artilleryman

English words defined with "artilleryman": Artillerist. (references)

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Modern Usage: Artilleryman

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm an artilleryman - I'll bring my cannon. (Helden; writing credit: Eberhard Keindorff; George Bernard Shaw)

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

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Use in Literature: Artilleryman

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

It is he who killed the artilleryman.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Artilleryman

"Artilleryman" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.50% of the time. "Artilleryman" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)62.5%5157,705
Noun (proper)37.5%3202,518
                    Total100.00%8N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Artilleryman

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "artilleryman": ex-artilleryman.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Artilleryman

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

artilleryman

4

artilleryman magazine

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Artilleryman

Language Translations for "artilleryman"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

artilleris (gunner). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

artiljer (artillerist, cannoneer, gunner, lance-bombardier). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏المدفعي جندي فى سلاح المدفعية. (various references)

   

Czech

  

dìlostřelec (cannoneer, gunner). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

artillerist (gunner). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

artileriisto (gunner), artileriano (gunner). (various references)

   

French

  

artilleur. (various references)

   

German

  

artillerist (gunner). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תותחן (gunner). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tüzér (artillerist, bombardier, gunner). (various references)

   

Italian

  

artigliere (artillerist, gunner). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sidoor ny gunnaghyn, gunneyder (gunman, gunner). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

artillerymanay

   

Romanian

  

artilerist (artillerist, gunner). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

артиллерист (artillerist, artillerymen, cannoneer, gunner). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

artiljerac (cannoneer, gunner), tobdžija (cannoneer, gunner). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

artillero (cannoneer, gunner). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

artillerist (artillerist, cannoneer, gunner). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทหารปืนใหญ่ (artillerist). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

topçu eri (artillerist), topçu (bombardier, gunner, layer). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

topзy. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

артилеріст. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bộ đội pháo binh (artillerist). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Artilleryman"

Words rhyming with "artilleryman" (pronounced 'Ar*til"ler*y*man'): Ahriman, Airman, Alderman, Almsman, Alongshoreman, Ariman, Artsman, Assemblyman, Ataman, Atman, Axman, Backwoodsman, Bagman, Bargeman, batsman, Bayman, Bellman, Billman, Boatsman, Bombardman, Bondman, BONDSMAN, Bookman, Bordman, Bosjesman, Brachman, Brakeman, Breakman, Bridesman, Briefman, Burman, Bushelman, Bushman, Butterman, Cabman, Canoeman, Carman, Cartman, Cavalryman, Cayman, Chairman, Chapman, Chessman, Chinaman, Churchman, Clansman, Classman, Clergyman, Coachman, Coffeeman. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Artilleryman

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-l-m-n-r-r-t-y"

-2 letters: alimentary, arterially, materially, maternally, terminally.

-3 letters: animately, artillery, maritally, martially, millenary, reliantly, tillerman.

-4 letters: aerially, allanite, animally, animater, antimale, arillate, armillae, arrantly, arterial, errantly, interlay, laminary, laminate, linearly, literary, mantilla, marinate, material, maternal, menially, mentally, raillery, retrally, tallyman, tallymen, tarnally, terminal, tramline, trimaran, tyramine.

-5 letters: ailment, alertly, alienly, aliment, allayer, amenity, amentia, amirate, anality.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-l-m-n-r-r-t-y"
 

+1 letter: intradermally.

 

+4 letters: intramolecularly.

 

+5 letters: ferrimagnetically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Artilleryman


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

41 72 74 69 6C 6C 65 72 79 6D 61 6E

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-.    -    ..    .-..    .-..    .    .-.    -.--.    --    .-    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000001 01110010 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110010 01111001 01101101 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#114 &#116 &#105 &#108 &#108 &#101 &#114 &#121 &#109 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0072 0074 0069 006C 006C 0065 0072 0079 006D 0061 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

358486757878718491796780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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