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Aver

Definition: Aver

Aver

Verb

1. Report or maintain; "He alleged that he was the victim of a crime"; "He said it was too late to intervene in the war"; "The registrar says that I owe the school money".

2. To declare or affirm as true: "Before God I swear I am innocent.".

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

Date "aver" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)


Synonyms: Aver

Synonyms: affirm (v), allege (v), assert (v), avow (v), say (v), swan (v), swear (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Aver

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

Affirmation

Depose, depone, aver, avow, avouch, asseverate, swear; make oath, take one's oath; make an affidavit, swear an affidavit, put in an affidavit; take one's Bible oath, kiss the book, vow, vitam impendere vero; swear till one is black in the face, swear till one is blue in the face, swear till all's blue; be sworn, call Heaven to witness; vouch, warrant, certify, assure, swear by bell book and candle.

Wealth

Amour fait beaucoup mais argent fait tout; aurea rumpunt tecta quietem; magna servitus ist magna fortuna; "mammon, the least erected spirit that fell from Heaven"; opum furiata cupido; vera prosperita e non aver necessita; wie gewonnen so zerronnen.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Aver

English words defined with "aver": Averred, AverringrailTo assert one's self. (references)
Specialty definitions using "aver": Bird in the handINFALAPSARIANKaterfeltoRosamond. (references)
Etymologies containing "aver": AvermentHavior. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Aver" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (having), Occitan (have), Provencal (to have).

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Modern Usage: Aver

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Non aver paura della zia Marta (1989)

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

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Commercial Usage: Aver

DomainTitle

Books

  • Aver cura dell'uomo : [convegni interdisciplinari della Aspes e dell'Accademia della Crescia : Offagna (AN) 1994-95] (reference)

  • Benito Mussolini : assolto per non aver commesso il fatto? : storia e documenti del primo grande mistero italiano (reference)

  • Critical Memory: Public Spheres, African American Writing, and Black Fathers and Sons in America (Georgia Southern University Jack N. & Addie D. aver (reference)

  • Motores Diesel - Localizacion y Reparacion de Aver (reference)

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Music

  

High Tech

  • Aver Dv 1394 Firewire 3port Pciw/ Ulead Videostudio 4.0 with Ligos (reference)

  • Aver Fotoplay with Remote Controlsupprt Cf & Sm Viewing Pic On Tv (reference)

  • Aver Kit 1394 Firewire Ext Enclfor 2.5in Ide Hard Drive/cable/case (reference)

    (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Aver

SubjectTopicQuote

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to -- in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning. Infralapsarians are sometimes called Sublapsarians without material effect upon the importance and lucidity of their views about Adam. Two theologues once, as they wended their way To chapel, engaged in colloquial fray -- An earnest logomachy, bitter as gall, Concerning poor Adam and what made him fall. "'Twas Predestination," cried one -- "for the Lord Decreed he should fall of his own accord." "Not so -- 'twas Free will," the other maintained, "Which led him to choose what the Lord had ordained." So fierce and so fiery grew the debate That nothing but bloodshed their dudgeon could sate; So off flew their cassocks and caps to the ground And, moved by the spirit, their hands went round. Ere either had proved his theology right By winning, or even beginning, the fight, A gray old professor of Latin came by, A staff in his hand and a scowl in his eye, And learning the cause of their quarrel (for still As they clumsily sparred they disputed with skill Of foreordination freedom of will) Cried: "Sirrahs! this reasonless warfare compose: Atwixt ye's no difference worthy of blows. The sects ye belong to -- I'm ready to swear Ye wrongly interpret the names that they bear. You -- Infralapsarian son of a clown! -- Should only contend that Adam slipped down; While you -- you Supralapsarian pup! -- Should nothing aver but that Adam slipped up. It's all the same whether up or down You slip on a peel of banana brown. Even Adam analyzed not his blunder, But thought he had slipped on a peal of thunder! G.J.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Aver

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797In this conflict of emotions all I dare aver is that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Aver

"Aver" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 45.45% of the time. "Aver" is used about 11 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)45.45%5157,705
Lexical Verb (infinitive)36.36%4175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)9.09%1339,140
Noun (proper)9.09%1339,140
                    Total100.00%11N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Aver

The following table summarizes the usage of "aver" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
AverLast name20032,449
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Aver

Expression using "aver": vera prosperita e non aver necessita. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aver

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

aver

73

aver tv

32

aver media

29

aver dvd ez maker

8

aver studio tv

7

aver driver media

5

aver media tv

4

aver tv tuner

3

aver tv usb

3

aver key

3

aver phone tv

2

aver studio

2

aver divx

2

aver driver tv

2

aver remote studio tuner tv tv

2

aver mybenefitplan.com sharp

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

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Modern Translation: Aver

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

Albanian

  

pohoj (admit, affirm, allege, assert, avouch, avow, bear out, claim, confirm, have, maintain, predicate, protest, reassert). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏جزم (affirm, assert, assertion, assertiveness, asseverate, avouch, dogmatize, vouch), ‏أكد (accentuate, affirm, assert, asseverate, assure, avouch, bear out, check up on, confirm, contend, corroborate, declare, double check, emphasize, predicate, proclaim, profess, protest, punctuate, show, substantiate, swear, underline, underscore, vouch, warrant), ‏ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

твърдя (affirm, allege, argue, assert, avouch, charge, claim, maintain, predicate, profess), кранта (crock, hack, jade, nag, plug, rip, scalawag, scallywag, screw, skate), настоявам (insist, persist, press, represent, require, solicit), заявявам (affirm, allege, assert, avow, declare, enounce, maintain, predicate, proclaim, profess, protest, set out, state), дръглив кон (jade, moke), доказвам (argue, demonstrate, establish, evidence, evince, manifest, proclaim, prove, reason, show, substantiate, vindicate, witness). (various references)

   

Czech

  

tvrdit (allege, allow, argue, assert, claim, predicate, represent, submit, sustain, urge). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

تصدیق کردن (Acknowledge, Admit, Affirm, Authenticate, Certify, Concede, Confirm, Establish, Grant, Justify, Recognize, Rubberstamp, Testify), ازروی یقین گفتن , اثبات کردن (Affirm, Assert, Corroborate, Prover), بحق دانستن , بطورقطع اظهارداشتن . (various references)

   

French

  

affirmer (avouch), déclarer. (various references)

   

German

  

beteuern (affirm, assert, asseverate, assure, declare, protest, reaffirm, reassure, to assure), behaupten (affirm, allege, argue, assert, assure, claim, contend, declare, defend, maintain, make out, predicate, pretend, pronounce, purport, state, to affirm, to argue, to assent, to claim, to claim kindred with someone, to suggest). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βεβαιώ (assert, assure, avouch, predicate, vow), διαβεβαιώ, δηλώ (avouch, betoken, declare, denote, predicate, pronounce, signify). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"עי" (affirm, attest, bear witness, give evidence, testify, vouch, warn, witness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

igavonó ló, bizonyít (attest, demonstrate, evidence, evince, prove, testify, to argufy, to attest, to aver, to confirm, to demonstrate, to evidence, to evince, to infer, to make good, to prove, to purport, to set out, to substantiate), állít (affirm, allege, assert, claim, contend, declare, posit, represent, state, submit, to affirm, to allege, to assert, to asseverate, to aver, to claim, to contend, to corral, to line up, to parallel, to pillory, to predicate, to purport, to put in, to put up, to slant, to state, to submit, to suggest, to vow). (various references)

   

Italian

  

asserire (affirm, allege, assert, contend, declare, insist, maintain, predicate, state), affermare (affirm, assent, assert, claim, impose oneself, maintain, make a name for oneself, say, say yes, state, to claim), dichiarare (adjudge, affirm, allege, avouch, bid, certify, declare, declare oneself, explain, profess, pronounce, protest, rule, state, to declare). (various references)

   

Manx

  

breearey (maintain, pledge). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

averay

   

Portuguese

  

afirmar (affirm, allege, assert, assure, avouch, claim, contend, declare, guarantee, have, lay down, pose, predicate, profess, pronounce, say, undertake, vie), declarar (adjudicate, allege, announce, annunciate, assert, certify, converse, declare, demonstrate, denounce, enounce, enunciate, intimate, invalidate, manifest, profess, pronounce, say, show, speak, state), comprovar (prove, testify, verify). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

afirma (affirm, allege, assert, avouch, claim, declare, hold, maintain, predicate, purport, remark, say, speak to, state, submit, undertake), sublinia (accent, accentuate, emphasize, italicize, punctuate, represent, score, stress, underline, underscore), dovedi (accomplish, argue, attest, authenticate, confirm, demonstrate, educe, establish, evidence, evince, furnish evidence of, make good, make out, manifest, overbear, prove, show, substantiate, verify, witness). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

утверждать (affirm, allege, approve, assert, asserting, asserts, asseverate, avouch, clench, clinch, confirm, contend that, endorsed by, insist, maintain, ratify). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

tvrdnja (assertion, averment, claim, contention, say so), tvrditi (allow, assert, asseverate, avouch, claim, contend, purport, submit, vouch), izjaviti (allege, assert, declare, outspeak, profess, utter), izjava (averment, declaration, pronouncement, statement, testimony, utterance). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

afirmar (affirm, assert, asseverate, attach, avouch, clamp, contend, declare, fasten, fortify, insure, lay down, predicate, say, tack down, tamp, tamp down, tamp in), verificarse (come off, happen, prove), establecer la prueba de, declarar de (allege, bid, profess). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

försäkra (affirm, assure, avouch, avow, ensure, indemnify, insure, re-assure, secure, underwrite), bestyrka (attest, bear out, confirm, corroborate, evidence, justify, prove), bestämt förklara. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ยืนยันอย่างมั่นใจ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

söylemek (affirm, air, apprise, assert, bade, bid, break, call, confess, couch, deliver, drop, enunciate, give voice to, hazard, impart, name, observe, order, pass, pronounce, remark, report, say, sing, sound, speak, speak of, spill, spit, spit out, state, tell, throw out, utter, voice, word), kanıtlamak (attest, attest to, be contented with, certify, demonstrate, document, establish, evidence, make smth. stick, prove, shore, show, stamp, stand, substantiate, support, verify), iddia etmek (affirm, allege, argue, argue for smth., assert, asseverate, attest, claim, contend, declare oneself, enunciate, press home, profess, protest, purport, put forth, put forward). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

стверджувати (affirm, allow), старий кінь, робочий кінь, твердити (affirm, allege, argue, assert, avouch, claim, depose, predicate, say), доводити (approve, argue, avouch, demonstrate, evidence, evince, make out, manifest, prove), домашня худоба (livestock). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

haeru (affirm, allege, assert, avouch), gwirio (affirm, attest, avouch, verify). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Aver

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

ad-. (various references)

Old French900-1400

averer. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Aver

Derivations

Words beginning with "aver": average, averaged, averagely, averageness, averagenesses, averages, averaging, averment, averments, averred, averring, avers, averse, aversely, averseness, aversenesses, aversion, aversions, aversive, aversively, aversiveness, aversivenesses, avert, averted, averting, averts. (additional references)

Words ending with "aver": beaver, behaver, bereaver, braver, cadaver, caver, claver, cleaver, craver, demisemiquaver, depraver, engraver, enslaver, graver, haver, heaver, hemidemisemiquaver, laver, leaver, lifesaver, misaver, misbehaver, palaver, paver, photoengraver, preaver, quaver, raver, reaver, saver, semiquaver, shaver, slaver, suaver, timesaver, upheaver, waver, weaver. (additional references)

Words containing "aver": antislaveries, antislavery, beaverboard, beaverboards, beavered, beavering, beavers, behavers, bereavers, braveries, bravers, bravery, cadaveric, cadaverine, cadaverines, cadaverous, cadaverously, cadavers, cavern, caverned, cavernicolous, caverning, cavernous, cavernously, caverns, cavers, clavered, clavering, clavers, cleavers, cravers, demisemiquavers, depravers, engravers, enslavers, extraversion, extraversions, extravert, extraverted, extraverts, gravers, havered, haverel, haverels, havering, havers, haversack, haversacks, heavers, hemidemisemiquavers, klavern. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Aver" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abeer, aber, abverb, aceer, ader, adve, adver, aer, aev, aevi, Aevs, afr, aher, aiver, aker, aler, alver, amer, amver, aner, anva, Anvar, anvir, aover, aqer, aqva, areer, arer, arev, aser, ater, auva, auve, avar, avare, Avarua, avary, avat, avay, avea, aveb, aved, avee, aveed, Aveen, aveer, aveir, Aveiro, avem, aven, aveo, averch, avere, averi, averr, avet, avex, avey, avhrr, avi, avib, avic, avier, avir, aviry, avix, Avneh, Avner, avoe, avoir, avor, avora, avox, avr, Avra, Avrel, avro, awer, axer, azer, davar, daver, dver, faver, faveur, fver, ivar, iver, i'ver, Ivere, ivre, ivver, Jarver, sver, taver, uve, vaer, vaor, varr, vayer, ver, verr. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Aver"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "aver" (pronounced ā"ver)
3ā" v erbraver, caver, craver, disfavor, engraver, Favor, Flavor, graver, Laver, paver, raver, saver, savor, shaver, waiver, waver.
2-v erachiever, antitakeover, beaver, believer, Bolivar, cabdriver, cadaver, caregiver, carryover, Carver, changeover, cleaver, clever, clover, cover, crossover, Culver, deliver, discover, dissolver, diver, downriver, driver, drover, endeavor, endeavour, ever, fervor, fever, forever, giver, Glover, griever, groover, handover, hangover, hardcover, haver, holdover, hover, however, layover, leaver, leftover, lever, lifesaver, liver, lover, makeover, maneuver, moreover, mover, never, nonbeliever, observer, outmaneuver, over, passover, preserver, pushover, quicksilver, quiver, Reaver, receiver, recover, rediscover, reliever, remover, retriever, revolver, river, rollover, screwdriver, server, sever, shiver, Shover, Shriver, silver, siver, skiver, sliver, solver, spillover, stiver, stopover, stover, survivor, takeover, turnover, uncover, underachiever, undercover, upriver, voiceover, weaver, whatever, whatsoever, whenever, wherever, whichever, whoever, whomever, whomsoever, whosoever, woodcarver.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Aver

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rave, vera.

Words within the letters "a-e-r-v"

-1 letter: are, ave, ear, era, rev, var.

-2 letters: ae, ar, er, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-r-v"
 

+1 letter: aiver, avers, avert, brave, carve, caver, crave, drave, grave, haver, laver, parve, paver, raved, ravel, raven, raver, raves, reave, saver, trave, varve, velar, waver.

 

+2 letters: adverb, advert, aivers, arrive, averse, averts, avower, beaver, braved, braver, braves, carved, carvel, carven, carver, carves, cavern, cavers, claver, craved, craven, craver, craves, evader, garvey, graved, gravel, graven, graver, graves, greave, havers, heaver, jarvey, larvae, laveer, lavers, leaver, lekvar, marvel, naiver, pareve, pavers, quaver, ravage, ravels, ravens, ravers, ravine, reaved, reaver, reaves, reavow, regave, repave, revamp, reveal, rivage, salver, savers, serval, shaver, slaver, starve, suaver, tavern, thrave, travel, traves, vaguer, vainer, valuer, vamper, vanner, varied, varier, varies, varlet, varved, varves, vaster, vealer, velars, verbal, vernal, versal, waiver, wavers, wavery, wavier, weaver, wharve.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Quotations: Speeches
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Bibliography


  

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