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Definition: North-american |
North-americanAdjective1. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the continent or countries of North America and their peoples. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "north-american" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
| "North-american" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "North-american" is used about 3 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "north-american"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 北美洲. (various references) | ||||
Finnish | pohjoisamerikkalainen. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 북아"리카. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | orth-americannay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Mycteria americana, Trichechus manatus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-m-n-n-o-r-r-t" | |
-3 letters: catarrhine, contrarian, crematoria, enharmonic, maceration, machinator, marathoner. | |
-4 letters: anchorite, anchorman, anchormen, antechoir, anthemion, antimacho, carnation, chromatin, container, cornerman, cremation, crenation, emanation, harmonica, incarnate, macerator, machinate, manticore, matriarch, narration, nonmetric, tarriance. | |
-5 letters: achromat, aeration, anatomic, anchoret, animater, animator, anointer, anoretic, anorthic, anterior, anthemia, antihero, armchair, armonica, aromatic, atheroma, carinate, carrotin, chainman, chainmen, chairman, chairmen. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 72 74 68 2D 61 6D 65 72 69 63 61 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101000 00101101 01100001 01101101 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o r t h - a m e r i c a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 0072 0074 0068 002D 0061 006D 0065 0072 0069 0063 0061 006E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4881848674156779718475696780 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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