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Definition: Agincourt |
AgincourtNoun1. A battle in northern France in which English longbowmen under Henry V decisively defeated a much larger French army in 1415. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Agincourt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Agincourt."
Crosswords: Agincourt |
| English words defined with "Agincourt": Henry V ♦ sidereal day. (references) |
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Screenplays | Then call we this the field of Agincourt, fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus (Henry V; writing credit: Kenneth Branagh; William Shakespeare) They call it Agincourt. (Henry V; writing credit: Kenneth Branagh; William Shakespeare) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with his Battell at Agincourt in France (1944) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | British warships anchored off Portsmouth during the naval review held in honor of Queen Victoria's 50th year on the throne. Identifiable ships, all dressed with flags) include (from left to right): HMS Minotaur (with five masts), HMS Agincourt (with five masts), HMS Glatton (right center, in middle distance), HMS Black Prince (behind Glatton), and HMS Prince Albert (to the right of Glatton). A small yacht is steaming by in the right foreground. Credit: NAVY. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The man of Marengo was wiping out Agincourt. |
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| "Agincourt" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 40.00% of the time. "Agincourt" is used about 10 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 (proper) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
agincourt | 64 | agincourt nissan | 3 |
battle of agincourt | 48 | agincourt hyundai | 3 |
agincourt mall | 9 | agincourt font free | 3 |
agincourt autohaus | 6 | agincourt center community | 3 |
agincourt collegiate institute | 5 | 1415 agincourt battle | 2 |
agincourt chrysler | 5 | agincourt hms | 2 |
agincourt font | 5 | agincourt library | 2 |
agincourt finger middle | 5 | agincourt battle pic | 2 |
agincourt church pentecostal | 4 | agincourt c.i | 2 |
agincourt collegiate | 4 | agincourt ci | 2 |
agincourt seroux | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: outracing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-n-o-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: courting, curating. | |
-2 letters: argotic, auction, autoing, carotin, carting, caution, coating, courant, crating, curtain, orating, organic, outgain, outgrin, outrang, outring, rainout, routing, ruction, touring, tracing, trucing. | |
-3 letters: acting, action, agonic, agouti, anuric, aortic, arcing, aroint, atonic, cantor, caring, carton, cation, citron, contra, coring, cornua, cortin, coting, cougar, craton, curing, garcon, giaour, gitano, gratin, guitar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-n-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: accoutring. | |
+2 letters: accoutering, coauthoring, cofeaturing, corrugating, corrugation, coruscating, outcapering, outcharging, outcharming, outcrawling, outmarching, outreaching. | |
+3 letters: compurgation, corrugations, counterimage, edulcorating, granulocytic, outpreaching, roughcasting, sugarcoating, undercoating. | |
+4 letters: cartilaginous, compurgations, configuration, configurative, cotransducing, counteracting, counterimages, gastrocnemius, overeducating, precautioning, reinoculating, undercoatings. | |
+5 letters: centrifugation, configurations, congratulating, congratulation, counterarguing, countermanding, counterraiding, countershading, counterstating, countervailing, discouragement, noncirculating, overcautioning, subcontracting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 67 69 6E 63 6F 75 72 74 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- --. .. -. -.-. --- ..- .-. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100011 01101111 01110101 01110010 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A g i n c o u r t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0067 0069 006E 0063 006F 0075 0072 0074 |
| 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)357375806981878486 |
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