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Definition: Bustard |
BustardNoun1. Large heavy-bodied chiefly terrestrial game bird capable of powerful swift flight; classified with wading birds but frequents grassy steppes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bustard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Crosswords: Bustard |
| English words defined with "bustard": bearded bustard, Bustard quail ♦ Choriotis ♦ Field duck, Floriken ♦ genus Choriotis, genus Otis, great bustard, Gustard ♦ Native turkey ♦ Otis. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bustard": Pascal Plus ♦ Sporting Seasons in England. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bustard": Otis. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Bustard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.67% of the time. "Bustard" is used about 30 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) | 76.67% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (proper) | 23.33% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bustard" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bustard | Last name | 130 | 58,184 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "bustard": bearded bustard ♦ Bustard quail ♦ great bustard ♦ little bustard. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bustard": bustard-like. | |
| 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 |
bustard | 24 |
bustard lloyd | 15 |
great bustard | 5 |
bustard kori | 4 |
bird bustard | 4 |
bustard great otis tarda | 4 |
australian bustard | 3 |
bustard morton | 3 |
bustard lloyd ministry | 2 |
bustard chrysler | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bustard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الحباري دجاجة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | дропла. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 鴇 (Chinese bustard, procuress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bastard (bastard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stortrappe (great bustard), kravetrappe (houbara bustard, Macqueen's bustard), indisk trappe (great Indian bustard), dvaergtrappe (little bustard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | kraagtrap (houbara bustard, Macqueen's bustard), kleine trap (little bustard), Indische trap (great Indian bustard), grote trap (great bustard), grote Indische trap (great Indian bustard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | outarde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | trappe (great bustard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ωτίσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | túzok. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ubara (houbara bustard, Macqueen's bustard), otarda ventrenero (black-bellied bustard, lissotis melanogaster), otarda kori (ardeotis kori, kori bustard), otarda del Senegal (lissotis africanus, white-bellied bustard), otarda d'Arabia (Arabian bustard), otarda (Bengal Florican, great bustard), lissotis melanogaster (black-bellied bustard, lissotis melanogaster), lissotis africanus (lissotis africanus, white-bellied bustard), gallina prataiola (little bustard), ardeotis kori (ardeotis kori, kori bustard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | turkee feie, eean roie (ostrich). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ustardbay abetarda. (various references) dropie. (various references) дрофа. (various references) droplja. (various references) gaudya. (various references) avutarda (great bustard). (various references) trapp. (various references) toy kuşu. (various references) дрохва. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ardeotis nigriceps, Chlamydotis undulata, Otididae, Otis tarda, Otis tetrax, RM:droppa dal culier, RM:droppa gronda, RM:droppa pitschna, Tetrax tetrax. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bustard": bustards. (additional references) | |
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"Bustard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baltard, basterd, bathtard, Besard, bestari, bolstadr, busbar, busfare, buskaid, bustarp, bustor, Buttaud, buxtorf, Quistgard. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bustard" (pronounced bu"sterd) |
| 5 | -u" s t er d | clustered, custard, flustered, mustard, mustered. |
| 4 | -s t er d | administered, bastard, blistered, bolstered, cloistered, festered, filibustered, fostered, mastered, pestered, plastered, registered, sequestered, unregistered, upholstered. |
| 3 | -t er d | altered, bantered, bartered, battered, bettered, buttered, catered, centered, chartered, cluttered, countered, cratered, doctored, embittered, encountered, entered, factored, faltered, fettered, filtered, flattered, fluttered, frittered, glittered, guttered, headquartered, lettered, littered, martyred, mattered, mentored, metered, monitored, muttered, neutered, pattered, petard, petered, reentered, scattered, shattered, sheltered, shuttered, slaughtered, spattered, splattered, splintered, sputtered, tattered, teetered, tutored, unaltered, unchartered, uncluttered, unfettered, unfiltered, uttered, watered, wintered. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-r-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: absurd. | |
-2 letters: abuts, adust, bards, bauds, brads, brats, buras, burds, bursa, burst, darbs, darts, daubs, dauts, drabs, drats, drubs, duras, durst, sutra, tabus, tsuba, tubas, turds. | |
-3 letters: abut, arbs, arts, bads, bard, bars, bast, bats, baud, brad, bras, brat, brut, buds, bura, burd, burs, bust, buts, dabs, darb, dart, daub, daut, drab, drat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-r-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: bustards. | |
+2 letters: abductors, absurdest, absurdist, absurdity, breadnuts, drawtubes, drumbeats, outboards. | |
+3 letters: abductores, absurdists, adumbrates, balustrade, breadstuff, brutalised, grubstaked, subcordate, subrogated, subtracted, subtrahend. | |
+4 letters: absurdities, balustraded, balustrades, bladdernuts, breadfruits, breadstuffs, disturbance, drumbeaters, dumbwaiters, masturbated, roundabouts, roundtables, subordinate, substandard, subtrahends, troubadours. | |
+5 letters: adumbrations, ambidextrous, beardtongues, biquadratics, boatbuilders, disreputable, disreputably, distributary, disturbances, drumbeatings, durabilities, obdurateness, readjustable, subeditorial, subirrigated, subordinated, subordinates, subordinator, subsaturated, subsidiarity. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 75 73 74 61 72 64 |
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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)01000010 01110101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B u s t a r d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0075 0073 0074 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)36878586678470 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, arab, arabo, Arabish, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | الصينية, لغة الصين, صيني, الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, cinese, Sheenish, Sheenagh, chinês, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | لغة الدانمركية, نوع كعك, دانماركي, датски език, датски, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, dán, danese, Danvargish, Danvargagh, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | هولندي, اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holland, olandese, Ollanish, Germaanish, holandês, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, holländsk, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzský, francouzština, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, francese, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , nìmec, nìmecký, tysker, Duitse, allemand, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, 希腊语, 希臘語 , řek, řecký, řeètina, græker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , maïarský, maïarština, maïar, ungarer, Hongaarse, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italský, italština, ital, italiener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalský, portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | румънски език, румънски, румънец, 罗马尼亚语, rumunský, rumunština, rumæner, Roemeens, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, ruština, ruský, russer, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, 瑞典語 , 瑞典语, švédský, švédština, Zweeds, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, шведська мова, шведський |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turecký, tureètina, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, 乌克兰, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, Oekraïens, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, ucraniano, ucrainean, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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