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ADVERSIS

Date "ADVERSIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)


Synonyms within Context: ADVERSIS

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

Friend

Phrase: amici probantur rebus adversis; ohne bruder kann man leben nicht ohne Freund; " best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness "; conocidos muchos amigos pocos; " friend more divine than all divinities "; vida sin amigo muerte sin testigo.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: ADVERSIS

Non-English Usage: "ADVERSIS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (adversary, direct, direction, directly facing, draw one's attention to, enemy, face to, facing, foe opposite, obstacle, opponent, person, pilot, point opposite, political opponent, steer, towards, trouble, turn, uphill slope).

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Anagrams: ADVERSIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: advisers.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-r-s-s-v"

-1 letter: adviser, advises, dissave, visards.

-2 letters: advise, aiders, aivers, arises, asides, daises, dassie, davies, deairs, divers, drives, irades, raised, raises, redias, resaid, resids, savers, serais, sivers, varied, varies, visaed, visard.

-3 letters: aider, aides, aired, aiver, arise, arses, arsis, aside, assed, avers, dares, deair, dears, devas, divas, diver, dives, drave, dress, dries, drive, ideas, irade.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-r-s-s-v"
 

+2 letters: advertises, advisories, gravesides.

 

+3 letters: adversaries, adversities, advertisers, disapproves, driveshafts, semidwarves.

 

+4 letters: adenoviruses, adventurisms, adventurists, adversatives, advertisings, disapprovers, disseverance, maidservants, vineyardists.

 

+5 letters: adversariness, avoirdupoises, disseverances, ditransitives, misadventures, rhabdoviruses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ADVERSIS


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

41 44 56 45 52 53 49 53

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)

01000001 01000100 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010011 01001001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#83 &#73 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0056 0045 0052 0053 0049 0053

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

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

3538563952534353

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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