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Definition: Afeard |
AfeardAdjective1. Regional and archaic. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "afeard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Synonyms: AfeardSynonyms: afeard(p) (adj), afeared(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fear | Adjective: fearing; Verb: frightened; Verb: in fear, in a fright; Noun: haunted with the fear of; Noun: afeard. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Afeard |
| Etymologies containing "afeard": Afraid. (references) |
| "Afeard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Afeard" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
afeard | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "afeard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | megrémült (aghast, dumbfounded, panic stricken, panic-stricken, panic-struck, scared). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | afearday speriat (afraid, fearful, haggard), înspãimântat (aghast, frightened, scared, terrified). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-f-r" | |
-1 letter: fader, farad, fared. | |
-2 letters: afar, area, dare, deaf, dear, fade, fard, fare, fear, frae, read. | |
-3 letters: are, arf, ear, era, fad, far, fed, fer, rad, red, ref. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, ae, ar, de, ed, ef, er, fa, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-f-r" | |
+1 letter: afeared. | |
+2 letters: affrayed, defrayal, fairlead, falderal, faradise, faradize, safaried. | |
+3 letters: aforesaid, afterward, barefaced, broadleaf, defrayals, draftable, fairleads, falderals, faradised, faradises, faradized, faradizes, farandole, farmstead, safeguard. | |
+4 letters: affordable, afterwards, defalcator, defamatory, deflagrate, defrayable, fabricated, fairleader, farandoles, farmsteads, fatherland, fatshedera, flatlander, fricandeau, paraffined, safeguards, tradecraft. | |
+5 letters: allografted, autografted, barefacedly, breakfasted, defalcators, deflagrated, deflagrates, fairleaders, fanfaronade, fatherlands, fatshederas, featherhead, flatlanders, fricandeaus, fricandeaux, grandfather, halfhearted, handcrafted, safeguarded, tradecrafts. | |
| 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 66 65 61 72 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ..-. . .- .-. -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100110 01100101 01100001 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A f e a r d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0066 0065 0061 0072 0064 |
| 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)357271678470 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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