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ESPADON

Definition: ESPADON

ESPADON

Noun

1. A long, heavy, two-handed and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Espadon \Es"pa*don\, noun. [French expression espadon, from Spanish espadon, from espada sword; or from Italian spadone an espadon, spada sword.]. (Websters 1913)

"ESPADON" is a common misspelling or typo for: Epsilon, Season, Spade, Spaded, Spading, Spoon.

 

Crosswords: ESPADON

Etymologies containing "ESPADON": Spadroon. (references)
Non-English Usage: "ESPADON" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (swordfish).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ESPADON

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

espadon

13

espadon operation

3

espadon recette

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "ESPADON"

Words rhyming with "ESPADON" (pronounced 'Es"pa*don'): Abaddon, Acotyledon, Anodon, Bandon, boustrophedon, Burdon, Calcedon, Celadon, Chelidon, Clarendon, Cordon, Corindon, Coryphodon, Cotyledon, Croydon, Dicotyledon, Diprotodon, Euroclydon, Fondon, Formedon, Gardon, Glyptodon, Guidon, Hagdon, Hecatompedon, iguanodon, Jurdon, Labyrinthodon, Leontodon, London, Lycoperdon, mastodon, monocotyledon, Mylodon, Myrmidon, Oreodon, Parallelopipedon, Polycotyledon, Pteranodon, Reguerdon, Sindon, Siredon, Skaddon, Smilodon, Solenodon, Squalodon, tendon, Toxodon, Xiphodon, Zeuglodon. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ESPADON

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dapsone.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-o-p-s"

-1 letter: anodes, paeons, soaped.

-2 letters: aeons, anode, apods, aspen, deans, donas, dopas, dopes, napes, neaps, nodes, nosed, opens, paeon, paned, panes, paseo, peans, pends, peons, ponds, pones, posed, psoae, saned, sedan, sneap, sonde, spade, spado, spaed, spean, spend, spode.

-3 letters: ados, aeon, ands, anes, aped, apes, apod, apse, daps, dean, dens, does, dona, done.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-o-p-s"
 

+1 letter: dapsones, dyspnoea, notepads, operands, padrones, pandores, spadones.

 

+2 letters: anglepods, antipodes, diaphones, dognapers, dopamines, dyspnoeas, endocarps, endoplasm, expandors, palinodes, pardoners, pastedown, peponidas, phasedown, pintadoes, pomanders, ponderosa, poundages.

 

+3 letters: aneuploids, davenports, decapodans, diaphonies, dognappers, endoplasms, godparents, headphones, outspanned, pandowdies, pastedowns, patronised, personated, phasedowns, planeloads, planetoids, ponderosas, predations, preordains, promenades, pyranoside, saponified, scorpaenid, snowcapped, sphenoidal, subpoenaed, syncopated, transposed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ESPADON


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

45 53 50 41 44 4F 4E

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)

01000101 01010011 01010000 01000001 01000100 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#83 &#80 &#65 &#68 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0053 0050 0041 0044 004F 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

39535035384948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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