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Bustard

Definition: Bustard

Bustard

Noun

1. 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 quailChoriotisField duck, Florikengenus Choriotis, genus Otis, great bustard, GustardNative turkeyOtis. (references)
Specialty definitions using "bustard": Pascal PlusSporting Seasons in England. (references)
Etymologies containing "bustard": Otis. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Bustard

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  • Propagation of the Houbara Bustard (reference)

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

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Image Slideshow: Bustard

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Usage Frequency: Bustard

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)76.67%2372,767
Noun (proper)23.33%7133,076
                    Total100.00%30N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Bustard

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BustardLast name13058,184
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Bustard

Expressions using "bustard": bearded bustard Bustard quail great bustard little bustard. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "bustard": bustard-like.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bustard

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

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
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Modern Translation: Bustard

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

Arabic 

  

‏الحباري دجاجة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

дропла. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(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

   

Portuguese

  

abetarda. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

dropie. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

дрофа. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

droplja. (various references)

   

Shona

  

gaudya. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

avutarda (great bustard). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

trapp. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

toy kuşu. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

дрохва. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Bustard

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bustard

Derivations

Words beginning with "bustard": bustards. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Bustard"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "bustard" (pronounced bu"sterd)
5-u" s t er dclustered, custard, flustered, mustard, mustered.
4-s t er dadministered, bastard, blistered, bolstered, cloistered, festered, filibustered, fostered, mastered, pestered, plastered, registered, sequestered, unregistered, upholstered.
3-t er daltered, 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.

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Anagrams: Bustard

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bustard


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

42 75 73 74 61 72 64

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)

01000010 01110101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#115 &#116 &#97 &#114 &#100

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)

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

36878586678470

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Bustard"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Arabic

‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتان‏العربية, ‏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, превод‏البلغارية, ‏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, překlad‏تشيكي, ‏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, oversættelse‏لغة 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, translatie‏هولندي, ‏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, traduction‏اللغة 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, Definition‏ضرب 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, μετάφραση‏يوناني, ‏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, fordítás‏مجري, ‏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, traduzione‏الإيطالي, ‏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, baghtmanština, 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, tradução‏اللغة 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, tãlmãcireрумънски 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, перемещение‏روسي, ‏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, traducción‏اللغة 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, översättning‏اللغة 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, tercüme‏تركي 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, переміщення‏أوكراني 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, Translation‏الإنجليزية, ‏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
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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