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Definition: Beseem |
BeseemVerb1. 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: BeseemSynonyms: befit (v), suit (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Beseem |
| English words defined with "beseem": Beseemed, Beseeming. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "beseem": Beteem. (references) |
| 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 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) sta bine (pertain to), fi potrivit sã. (various references) приличествовать (befit). (various references) pristajati (adhere, agree, befit, fit, go along with), lepo stajati (befit). (various references) passa sig. (various references) 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) 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) gweddu (become, befit, suit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 73 65 65 6D |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . ... . . -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110011 01100101 01100101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e s e e m |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367185717179 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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