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Beseem

Definition: Beseem

Beseem

Verb

1. Accord or comport with.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "beseem" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Synonyms: Beseem

Synonyms: befit (v), suit (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Beseem

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Duty

Verb: be the duty of; be incumbent; Adjective: on, be responsible; Adjective: behoove, become, befit, beseem; belong to, pertain to; fall to one's lot; devolve on; lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door; rest with, rest on the shoulders of. take upon oneself; (promise); be bound to, become bound to, be sponsor for, become sponsor for; incur a responsibility; Noun: be under an obligation, stand under an obligation, lie under an obligation; have to answer for, owe to it oneself.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Beseem

English words defined with "beseem": Beseemed, Beseeming. (references)
Etymologies containing "beseem": Beteem. (references)

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Modern Translations: Beseem

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

Albanian

  

më shkon (become, fit). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

приличам (smack, suit), подхождам (agree, approach, assort, become, befit, conform, do, fit, match, sit, sort), подобавам (become, befit, behoove, pertain). (various references)

   

German

  

sich ziemen (be proper, befit). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αρμόζω (be proper, become, befit, belong, suit), ταιριάζω (arrange, befall, belong, click, comport with, co-ordinate, fit, fit in, go with 1, go with 2, match, suit, to fit in with). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megfelel (befit, fit, tally, to agree, to fit, to gibe, to stand the proof, to suit, to tally), illik (be fitting, befit, to behove, to hitch, to match). (various references)

   

Manx

  

ve cooie, cheet jesh (become, match). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eseembay

   

Portuguese

  

ficar (be, bide, come, continue, go, grow, keep, lie, recline, remain, sojourn, stay, stay over, Tarry, to get, to stay), convir (agree, become, befit, behoove, covenant, do, like, ought, suit). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sta bine (pertain to), fi potrivit sã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

приличествовать (befit). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pristajati (adhere, agree, befit, fit, go along with), lepo stajati (befit). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

passa sig. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yakışık almak, uygun olmak (apply, be all of a piece with, be cut out for, be designed to, be equal to, be in accordance with, be suitable, belong, lend itself to, match, pass muster, pertain, suit). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

годитися (become, befit, belong, fit, suit), личити (become, befit, pertain, suit), підходити (approach, become, befall, befit, come up to, draw on, like, near, nigh, pertain, satisfy), подобати. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

gweddu (become, befit, suit). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Beseem

Derivations

Words beginning with "beseem": beseemed, beseeming, beseems. (additional references)

Words containing "beseem": unbeseeming. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Beseem

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-m-s"

-2 letters: bees, emes, seem, seme.

-3 letters: bee, eme, ems, see.

-4 letters: be, em, es, me.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-e-m-s"
 

+1 letter: berseem, beseems.

 

+2 letters: bedesmen, berseems, beseemed, ensemble, eyebeams, resemble.

 

+3 letters: beseeming, besetment, besmeared, embezzles, ensembles, remembers, resembled, resembles, semibreve.

 

+4 letters: belemnites, bemusement, besetments, bumblebees, debasement, embedments, embezzlers, emblements, misbelieve, reassemble, reembodies, semibreves.

 

+5 letters: absenteeism, bemusements, betterments, cerebellums, debasements, debatements, dismembered, disremember, embellished, embellisher, embellishes, embraceries, misbelieved, misbeliever, misbelieves, misremember, reassembled, reassembles, rememberers, resemblance, submergence, tumbleweeds, unbeseeming.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Beseem


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

42 65 73 65 65 6D

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)

01000010 01100101 01110011 01100101 01100101 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#115 &#101 &#101 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0073 0065 0065 006D

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

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

367185717179

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INDEX

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


  

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