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BEAR-LEADER

Date "BEAR-LEADER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1877. (references)


Specialty Definition: BEAR-LEADER

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Literature

Bear-leader One who undertakes the charge of a young man of rank on his travels. It was once customary to lead muzzled bears about the streets, and to make them show off in order to attract notice and gain money.
"Bear! [said Dr. Pangloss to his pupil]. Under favour, young gentleman, I am the bear-leader, being appointed your tutor."- G. Colman: Heirat-Law. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Usage Frequency: BEAR-LEADER

"BEAR-LEADER" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BEAR-LEADER" is used about 7 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)100%7133,076

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

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Anagrams: BEAR-LEADER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-e-l-r-r"

-2 letters: barreled, readable.

-3 letters: abrader, bleared, bleeder, breeder, rebreed.

-4 letters: abrade, arable, balder, barred, barrel, beadle, bearer, blared, dealer, dearer, larder, leader, leered, reader, realer, reared, rebred, redear, reeled, reeler, reread.

-5 letters: abele, abler, alder, ardeb, areae, areal, baaed, baled, baler, barde, bared, barer, barre, beard, bedel, blade, blare, blear, bleed, bread, brede, breed, darer.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-e-l-r-r"
 

+4 letters: overelaborated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BEAR-LEADER


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

42 45 41 52 2D 4C 45 41 44 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000101 01000001 01010010 00101101 01001100 01000101 01000001 01000100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#45 &#76 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0041 0052 002D 004C 0045 0041 0044 0045 0052

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

3639355215463935383952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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