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SERBONIAN

Definition: SERBONIAN

SERBONIAN

Adjective

1. Relating to the lake of Serbonis in Egypt, which by reason of the sand blowing into it had a deceptive appearance of being solid land, but was a bog.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SERBONIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)


Crosswords: SERBONIAN

English words defined with "SERBONIAN": Sirbonian. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SERBONIAN": Serbonian Bog. (references)

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Modern Translations: SERBONIAN

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

Russian 

  

безвыходное положение (blind alley, dead end, deadlock, impasse, labyrinth, no go, rat-trap, stalemate, stymie). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tình trạng khó khăn không lối thoát (serbonian bog). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SERBONIAN"

Words rhyming with "SERBONIAN" (pronounced 'Ser*bo"ni*an'): Abderian, Absinthian, Academian, Academician, Acadian, Acanthopterygian, Acaridan, Achean, Achillean, Acoustician, Acritan, Acroceraunian, Acropolitan, Adamantean, Adessenarian, Adonean, Adrian, AEgean, AEolian, AEonian, AEsculapian, AEsthetican, Ahriman, Airman, Airwoman, Alabastrian, Alan, Alban, Albanian, Albigensian, Aldebaran, Alderman, Alexandrian, Algerian, Algonkian, Algonquian, Alkoran, Alloxan, Almsman, Alogian, Alongshoreman, Alphabetarian, Altitudinarian, Amatorian, Amazonian, Amebean, Ametabolian, Amoebean, Amoebian, Amphigean. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SERBONIAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-n-n-o-r-s"

-1 letter: baronies, baronnes, raisonne, searobin.

-2 letters: banners, baronne, benison, bonnier, boranes, erasion, insaner, insnare, isobare.

-3 letters: anions, ariose, arisen, arseno, arsine, arsino, bairns, banner, barons, basion, beanos, bennis, boners, bonier, bonnes, bonnie, bonsai, borane, brains, braise, brines, eonian, inaner, inanes, inborn, inners, insane, irones, isobar, narine, nasion, norias, nosier, rabies, reason, renins, ribose, robins.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-n-n-o-r-s"
 

+2 letters: inobservant, nonabrasive.

 

+3 letters: cybernations, debonairness, hibernations, inebriations, inobservance, interrobangs, nonlibraries, recombinants.

 

+4 letters: dibenzofurans, inobservances, insubordinate, nonabsorptive, nonperishable, nonshrinkable, subgeneration, subventionary.

 

+5 letters: antisubversion, bildungsromane, debonairnesses, decarbonations, defibrinations, inconsiderable, inconsiderably, indemonstrable, indemonstrably, inexorableness, insubordinates, insurmountable, nonperishables, recombinations, subgenerations, superabounding.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SERBONIAN


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

53 45 52 42 4F 4E 49 41 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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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