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Definition: Sumerian |
SumerianAdjective1. Of or relating to ancient Sumer or its inhabitants. Noun1. A member of a people who inhabited ancient Sumer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Sumerian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Crosswords: Sumerian |
| English words defined with "Sumerian": Anshar, Aruru ♦ contemporaneously ♦ Dumuzi ♦ Ea, Enlil ♦ Gilgamesh, Gilgamish ♦ Kishar ♦ sin, Sumer ♦ Tammuz ♦ Utu, Utug. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sumerian" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (sumerian). |
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Economic History | Iraq | Once known as Mesopotamia, Iraq was the site of flourishing ancient civilizations, including the Sumerian, Babylonian, and Parthian cultures. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sumerian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sumerian" is used about 24 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% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Sumerian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 苏美"人. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szumér, sumir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | umeriansay sumerian. (various references) ชาวซูมาเรียนของ"ินแ"น Sumer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Sumerian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fumaria, Guderian, numerian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aneurism. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-n-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: manures, marines, mureins, murines, remains, seminar, surname, uranism, uremias. | |
-2 letters: aimers, airmen, amines, amuser, animes, animus, arisen, armies, arsine, inarms, inseam, insure, inures, manure, marine, mesian, miners, murein, murine, namers, ramens, ramies, remain, remans, rumens, rumina, rusine, semina, unarms, unseam, uremia, urines, ursine. | |
-3 letters: aimer, airns, amens, amies, amine, amins, amirs, amuse, anime. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-n-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: aneurisms, antiserum, geraniums, manicures, measuring, muraenids, muscarine, nursemaid, ramequins, ruminates, semilunar, submarine, urinemias. | |
+2 letters: antiserums, germaniums, gramineous, humanizers, luminaires, luminaries, miniatures, muscarines, neutralism, numeracies, nursemaids, reassuming, submarined, submariner, submarines, unmarrieds. | |
+3 letters: admeasuring, adventurism, aquamarines, gourmandise, ignoramuses, innumerates, intercampus, lambrequins, lawrenciums, mensuration, minaudieres, neurilemmas, neutralisms, numerations, oceanariums, praemunires, rehumanizes, remeasuring, semidiurnal, seminatural, submariners, subterminal, tambourines, tourmalines. | |
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