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TANIST

Definition: TANIST

TANIST

Noun

1. In Ireland, a lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a family, under the system of tanistry.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "TANIST" was first used: 1538. (references)

Note: Tanist \Tan"ist\, noun. [Ir. tanaiste, tanaise, second, the second person in rank, the presumptive or apparent heir to prince.]. (Websters 1913)

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Crosswords: TANIST

Etymologies containing "TANIST": Tanistry. (references)

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Modern Translations: TANIST

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

Manx

  

tanishtey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anisttay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: TANIST

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Old Irish300-1000

tanaise. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: TANIST

Derivations

Words beginning with "TANIST": tanistries, tanistry, tanists. (additional references)

Words ending with "TANIST": botanist, ethnobotanist, geobotanist, lutanist, nonbotanist, paleobotanist, satanist. (additional references)

Words containing "TANIST": botanists, ethnobotanists, geobotanists, lutanists, nonbotanists, paleobotanists, satanists. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "TANIST"

Words rhyming with "TANIST" (pronounced 'Tan"ist'): Adeptist, Alarmist, Alcoranist, Alkoranist, Antitheist, Artist, Balloonist, Bassoonist, Boodhist, Bronzist, Bullist, Canoeist, Cartoonist, Chartist, Chemist, Concordist, Conformist, Copist, Deist, Dietetist, Drollist, Extremist, Feudist, flutist, Glossist, harpist, Herbist, Hylozoist, Iatrochemist, Kantist, Legerdemainist, lutist, Lyrist, machinist, Magazinist, Maurist, Modist, Monist, Nonconformist, Occultist, Odist, Opportunist, Panslavist, Paulist, Pianist, Psalmist, Purist, Red-tapist, reformist, reservist, Rhymist, Rodomontadist, Romist, Routinist, Schemist, Sectist, Selfist, Sensist, sophist, Spermist, stylist, Suist, theist, Timist, tourist, Tropist, typist, unconformist, Violinist, Volapukist, Votist. (additional references)

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Anagrams: TANIST

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: taints, titans.

Words within the letters "a-i-n-s-t-t"

-1 letter: antis, saint, satin, stain, stint, tains, taint, tints, titan.

-2 letters: ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, nits, sain, sati, snit, stat, tain, tans, tats, tins, tint, tits.

-3 letters: ain, ais, ait, ani, ant, att, ins, its, nit, sat, sin, sit, tan, tas, tat, tin, tis, tit.

-4 letters: ai, an, as, at, in, is, it, na, si, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-n-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: attains, distant, instant, instate, lattins, mattins, satinet, stating, station, tanists, tasting, titians, transit.

 

+2 letters: anisette, antirust, antismut, antistat, antsiest, astatine, attaints, battings, botanist, catmints, entastic, estating, faintest, hesitant, instants, instated, instates, intrants, intreats, lutanist, mattings, nastiest, nativist, nattiest, naturist, nictates, nitrates, nystatin, oscitant, ostinati, ostinato, pantsuit, patients, sanctity, sanitate, satanist, satinets, scatting, slatting, spatting, stannite, starting, stations, stotinka, straiten, strontia, swatting, tactions, tangiest, tanistry, tattings, tawniest, tertians, tetanics, tetanies, tetanise, titaness, titanias, titanism, titanous, titrants, toasting, transits, transmit, visitant.

 

+3 letters: abstinent, anatomist, anisettes, antiatoms, antidotes, antipasti, antipasto, antirusts, antistate, antistick, antistory, antitrust, antitypes, aquatints, assistant, astatines, atonalist, attainers, attesting, auntliest, austenite, autunites, battiness, botanists, cattiness, citations, daintiest, dilatants, disputant, distantly, distraint, dittanies, dotations, estaminet, excitants, fantasist, fantastic, fattiness, festinate, fetations, gestating, gestation, gnathites, gnattiest, gustation, habitants, incitants, infestant, initiates, insatiate, instanter, instantly, instating, instigate, interacts, intestacy, intestate, intimates, intonates, intranets, intubates, irritants, jauntiest, litigants, lutanists, martinets, mentalist, militants, ministate, mutations, natations, nativists, nattiness, naturists, nitrators, nonartist, notations, nutations, nystatins, obstinate, ostinatos, outpaints, paintiest, pantheist, pantsuits, patinates, pittances, potations, protistan, quaintest, rattlings, reattains, reinstate, resistant, restating, restraint, retasting, retirants, rotations, saltation, sanitated, sanitates, satanists, satiating, satiation, scantiest, sententia, siltation, situating, situation, slattings, splatting, squatting, staminate, stannites, startling, stational, stationed, stationer, sterilant, stimulant, straitens, striating, striation, strontias, syntactic, tacitness, taconites, taintless, tangliest, tantalise, tantivies, tarantism, tastiness, tattiness, taxations, tearstain, tetanised, tetanises, tetanizes, thionates, timpanist, tinplates, titanates, titanisms, titanites, titaniums, tithonias, toxicants, tractions, transfixt, transient, transited, transmits, triptanes, tunicates, twangiest, tympanist, uintaites, unstating, urticants, visitants, withstand.

 

+4 letters: abstention, actuations, agitations, anastigmat, anatomists, ancientest, anecdotist, anesthetic, annuitants, anorthites, antagonist, antiasthma, antielites, antipastos, antiquates, antiracist, antiseptic, antisexist, antistatic, antistress, antistrike, antitheses, antithesis, antitoxins, antitrades, argentites, assistants, astricting, astringent, atonalists, attainders, attentions, attritions, austenites, austenitic, autonomist, bassetting, battalions, brattiness, carnotites, cartoonist, castrating, castration, catatonias, catatonics, centralist, certainest, chattiness, constative, constipate, constraint, dictations, dietitians, disputants, distasting, distraints, emittances, entertains, enthusiast, entreaties, estaminets, estimating, estimation, estivating, estivation, estreating, fantasists, fantastico, fantastics, festinated, festinates, flauntiest, flotations, gestations, gustations, guttations, hesitantly, hesitating, hesitation, imitations, inartistic, inconstant, infatuates, infestants, initiators, injectants, inpatients, instalment, instigated, instigates, instigator, intactness, integrates, intendants, intercaste, interstage, interstate, intestates, intestinal, intimaters, intrastate, intrigants, iterations, itinerants, itinerates, lactations, latinities, lovastatin, lustrating, lustration, magnetites, maisonette, martensite, mentalists, mentations, ministates, ministrant, misstating, monetarist, nasturtium, natalities, nativistic, nativities, natrolites, naturalist, naughtiest, negativist, negotiants, negotiates, neutralist, nictitates, nightstand, nitrations, nonartists, nostalgist, novitiates, orientates, outfasting, outlasting, outskating, outstaring, outstating, outstation, outstaying, outtasking, outwasting, pantheists, pantsuited, pantywaist, partitions, patientest, plaintexts, poinsettia, postdating, postmating, potentials, pretasting, protistans, psittacine, quantities, quittances, quotations, registrant, reinstated, reinstates, resistants, restarting, restraints, retransmit, saintliest, saltations, salutation, sanctities, sanitating, sanitation, satiations, saturating, saturation, scattering, sententiae, sentential, shattering, siltations, situations, smattering, snatchiest, solicitant, spattering, spectating, sprattling, stagnating, stagnation, standpoint, standstill, starvation, stationary, stationers, stationery, stationing, stentorian, sterilants, stimulants, straighten, straitened, straitness, striations, stringhalt, substation, syntactics, tacticians, tanistries, tantalised, tantalises, tantalites, tantalizes, tanzanites, tarantisms, tarnations, taxonomist, tearstains, tenacities, tenantries, tentatives, terminates, tetanising, timpanists, titanesses, titrations, tonalities, totalising, traditions, transcript, transients, transistor, transiting, transition, transitive, transitory, triathlons, tribunates, tristearin, truantries, turbinates, tympanists, tympanites, uintahites, unartistic, unchastity, upstarting, ventifacts, ventilates, visitation, vitiations, wadsetting, withstands.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TANIST


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

54 41 4E 49 53 54

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)

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

01010100 01000001 01001110 01001001 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0041 004E 0049 0053 0054

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

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

543548435354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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