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Definition: Poniard |
PoniardNoun1. A dagger with a slender blade. Verb1. Stab with a poniard. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "poniard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonym: PoniardSynonym: bodkin (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arms | Sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand, whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck, claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger, dirk, banger, poniard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet, sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax; gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife; ataghan, attaghan, yataghan; yatacban; assagai, assegai; good sword, trusty sword, naked sword; cold steel. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Poniard |
| English words defined with "poniard": Poniarded, Poniarding, Poynado. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "poniard": Poynado. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Without his poniard. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Poniard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Poniard" 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "poniard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vras (assassinate, bag, bruise, bump off, damage, despatch, dispatch, do away with, drop, finish, finish off, get, hurt, injure, kill, Lynch, make away with oneself, murder, put the sword, puzzle, shoot, slay, stab, stone to death, waste, zap), shish (Spike), kamë (dagger, Dirk, Spike, whinger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خنجر (dagger, dirk, machete, spike, stiletto). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | кама (dagger, skewer), кинжал (bodkin, whinger), набождам с кама, мушкам с кама. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dolch (bodkin, dagger, dirk, knife). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εγχειρίδιο (dagger, handbook, manual, stiletto, text book, vade mecum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פ'יון (bayonet, cold steel, dagger, stiletto). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tõr (dagger, Dirk, knife, snare, stylet, trap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pugnale (dagger, Dirk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | skynn attey (dagger, dirk, stiletto), seiy lesh skynn attey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oniardpay punhal (bodkin, dagger, Dirk, knife, steel), ponjé. (various references) pumnal (Creese, dagger, Dirk, stiletto), înjunghia (let daylight into, pink, stab, thrust). (various references) кинжал (bodkin, dagger, snickersnee, whinger). (various references) kama (dagger, dirk), bodež (dagger, dirk). (various references) puñal (dagger, Dirk, skean, skene, snickersnee), apuñalar (stab). (various references) dolk (dagger, Dirk). (various references) hançerlemek (stab), hançer (dagger). (various references) кинджал (baselard, dagger, knife, snickersnee, stiletto, whinger), заколоти кинджалом (dagger). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pungus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | poing. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "poniard": poniarded, poniarding, poniards. (additional references) | |
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"Poniard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pennard, phnaarg, Pienaaar, Poinar, poinard, Poincare, ponaird, ponar, poniare, poniared, Ponnary, Ponsardin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: padroni. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-n-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: inroad, ordain, pardon. | |
-2 letters: adorn, apron, aroid, danio, dinar, drain, nadir, noria, orpin, padri, pardi, piano, podia, poind, prion, radio, radon, ranid, rapid. | |
-3 letters: airn, apod, arid, darn, dona, dopa, dorp, drip, drop, inro, iron, naoi, nard, nipa, nodi, noir, nori, orad, padi, paid, pain, pair, pard, pian, pina, pion, pirn, pond, porn. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-n-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: paranoid, poniards, pyranoid, raindrop. | |
+2 letters: paranoids, pardoning, parodying, pinafored, poniarded, predation, preordain, raindrops. | |
+3 letters: adsorption, anthropoid, iproniazid, jeoparding, palindrome, panbroiled, paranoidal, patronised, patronized, picarooned, pollarding, poniarding, predations, preordains, pyranoside, radiophone, readopting, scorpaenid, uphoarding. | |
+4 letters: adsorptions, airdropping, anthropoids, apportioned, branchiopod, caparisoned, copyreading, deportation, depravation, deprecation, depredation, deprivation, desperation, iproniazids, madreporian, palindromes, palindromic, partitioned, periodontal, philodendra, polyandries, preadopting, predication, predominant, predominate, preordained, promenading, pyranosides, radiophones, reappointed, repudiation, ropedancing, scorpaenids, springboard, trepidation, unpolarized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 6E 69 61 72 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- -. .. .- .-. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100001 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o n i a r d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 006E 0069 0061 0072 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50818075678470 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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