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Definition: Artilleryman |
ArtillerymanNoun1. 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: ArtillerymanSynonyms: cannoneer (n), gunner (n), machine gunner (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Artilleryman |
| English words defined with "artilleryman": Artillerist. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is he who killed the artilleryman. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 62.5% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 37.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "artilleryman": ex-artilleryman. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
artilleryman | 4 |
artilleryman magazine | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 artilerist (artillerist, gunner). (various references) артиллерист (artillerist, artillerymen, cannoneer, gunner). (various references) artiljerac (cannoneer, gunner), tobdžija (cannoneer, gunner). (various references) artillero (cannoneer, gunner). (various references) artillerist (artillerist, cannoneer, gunner). (various references) ทหารปืนใหญ่ (artillerist). (various references) topçu eri (artillerist), topçu (bombardier, gunner, layer). (various references) topзy. (various references) артилеріст. (various references) bộ đội pháo binh (artillerist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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) |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 72 74 69 6C 6C 65 72 79 6D 61 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-. - .. .-.. .-.. . .-. -.--. -- .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110010 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110010 01111001 01101101 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A r t i l l e r y m a n |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)358486757878718491796780 |
| 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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