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Aquavit

Definition: Aquavit

Aquavit

Noun

1. Scandinavian liquor usually flavored with caraway seeds.

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


Synonym: Aquavit

Synonym: akvavit (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Aquavit

English words defined with "aquavit": glogg. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Aquavit" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Norwegian (gin).

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Modern Usage: Aquavit

DomainUsage

Screenplays

What I'm drinking is called Aquavit. (The Long Goodbye; writing credit: Leigh Brackett)

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

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Usage Frequency: Aquavit

"Aquavit" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aquavit" is used about 14 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)100%1493,893

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aquavit

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

aquavit

88

aquavit restaurant

20

aquavit new york

6

aquavit minneapolis

6

aquavit new restaurant york

4

aquavit nyc

3

linie aquavit

3

aquavit minneapolis restaurant

2

aquavit bommerlunder

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Aquavit

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

Danish

  

akvavit (spirit). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

aquavit, aquaviet. (various references)

   

French

  

aquavit. (various references)

   

German

  

Aquavit. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

aquavit. (various references)

   

Italian

  

aquavit. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aquavitay

   

Portuguese

  

aquavit, aguardente escandinava. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

acuavita. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Aquavit

Derivations

Words beginning with "aquavit": aquavits. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Aquavit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abquaiq, aqait, aquafit, aquai, Aquavac, aquavita, Macavity. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Aquavit

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-i-q-t-u-v"

-3 letters: aqua, quai, quit, vatu, vita.

-4 letters: ait, ava, qat, qua, tau, tav, tui, uta, vat, vau, via.

-5 letters: aa, ai, at, it, ta, ti, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-i-q-t-u-v"
 

+1 letter: aquavits.

 

+4 letters: qualitative.

 

+5 letters: quadrivalent, quantitative.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Aquavit


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

41 71 75 61 76 69 74

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 01110001 01110101 01100001 01110110 01101001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#113 &#117 &#97 &#118 &#105 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0071 0075 0061 0076 0069 0074

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

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

35838767887586

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Aquavit"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsedanois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatiehollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holandés

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiontysker, Duitse, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgræker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitaliener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónSpaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés
 


INDEX

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


  

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