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AIGRE

Definition: AIGRE

AIGRE

Adjective

1. Sour.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Aigre \Ai"gre\, adjective. [French expression See Eager.]. (Websters 1913)



Crosswords: AIGRE

Etymologies containing "AIGRE": AlegarEgriot. (references)
Non-English Usage: "AIGRE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (abrasive, acerbic, acetous, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, cross, cross-grained, lurid, nasty, sharp, sour, tart).

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Commercial Usage: AIGRE

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Books

  • Aigre, Mansle et leurs environs : exploration archéologique du département de la Charente, cantons d'Aigre et de Mansle (reference)

  • Quatre auteurs génévois de bandes dessinées : Ab' Aigre 49, Ceppi, Aloys, Poussin : Musée Rath, du 18 oct. au 25 nov. 1984 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Derivations: AIGRE

Derivations

Words beginning with "AIGRE": aigret, aigrets, aigrette, aigrettes. (additional references)

Words ending with "AIGRE": maigre. (additional references)

Words containing "AIGRE": vinaigrette, vinaigrettes. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "AIGRE"

Words rhyming with "AIGRE" (pronounced 'Ai"gre'): Eagre, Higre, Malgre, Ogre, Soupe-maigre. (additional references)

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Anagrams: AIGRE

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-r"

-1 letter: ager, gear, rage, ragi.

-2 letters: age, air, are, ear, era, erg, gae, gar, gie, ire, rag, reg, rei, ria, rig.

-3 letters: ae, ag, ai, ar, er, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-r"
 

+1 letter: aigret, cagier, earing, earwig, gainer, gaiter, gamier, glaire, hegari, hegira, imager, maigre, mirage, reagin, regain, regina, rivage, sagier, triage.

 

+2 letters: abridge, aginner, aigrets, aligner, anergia, anergic, angrier, armiger, baggier, bearing, brigade, cigaret, deraign, earings, earning, earring, earwigs, engrail, engrain, epigram, erasing, fearing, fragile, frigate, gabbier, gainers, gaiters, gambier, gammier, gappier, garigue, garpike, gassier, gaudier, gauzier, gawkier, gearing, germina, giraffe, gisarme, glacier, gladier, glaired, glaires, glarier, glazier, gracile, gradine, grained, grainer, granite, grannie, grapier, gratine, gravies, grazier, gremial, grimace, hagride, hearing, hegaris, hegiras, imagers, imagery, ingrate, jaggier, mangier, migrate, mirages, naggier, nargile, nearing, primage, raggies, ragtime, rangier, reading, reagins, realign, reaming, reaping, rearing, reaving, refugia, regains, regalia, reginae, reginal, reginas, reimage, rivages, saggier, seagirt, searing, seringa, stagier, tangier, tearing, triaged, triages, vinegar, virgate, wearing, zingare.

 

+3 letters: abridged, abridger, abridges, adhering, aerating, aggrieve, aginners, aglimmer, aglitter, agreeing, agrestic, aigrette, alerting, algerine, aligners, allergic, allergin, altering, amercing, anearing, anergias, anergies, angaries, angering, angriest, argentic, arginase, arginine, argosies, argufied, argufier, argufies, armigero, armigers, arpeggio, assigner, astringe, auguries, averring, averting, bagpiper, bearding, bearings, beraking, berating, bewaring, bigarade, birdcage, blearing, braggier, breading, breaking, breaming, brigaded, brigades, capering, carriage, catering, cigarets, clearing, craggier, creaking, creaming, creasing, creating, cribbage, deairing, decigram, deraigns, derating, dialoger, disagree, disgrace, draggier, dragline, drainage, dreading, dreaming, driftage, earnings, earrings, earthing, emigrant, emigrate, engrails, engrains, enraging, epigrams, epigraph, ergastic, ergative, ferriage, figeater, figurate, filagree, finagler, firefang, flaggier, freaking, frigates, fruitage, gainlier, galleria, gambiers, ganglier, ganister, gantries, gardenia, garigues, garpikes, gasalier, gaselier, gasifier, gasolier, gearings, geranial, geraniol, geranium, gerardia, germanic, germinal, gesneria, gharries, giftware, giraffes, girasole, gisarmes, glaciers, gladlier, glairier, glariest, glassier, glaziers, glaziery, gleamier, gnarlier, gnattier, grabbier, graciles, gradient, gradines, graecize, grainers, grainier, granites, grannies, graphite, grapiest, grapline, grassier, gratinee, gravidae, graziers, greasier, greasily, greasing, gremials, grievant, grillade, grillage, grimaced, grimacer, grimaces, guerilla, hagrides, hangfire, havering, hearings, hearsing, hearting, heritage, ideogram, imaginer, ingather, ingrates, integral, interage, irrigate, janglier, lagering, lawgiver, layering, learning, ligature, litharge, magister, maligner, malinger, margined, marriage, midrange, migraine, migrated, migrates, misgrade, narghile, nargileh, nargiles, orangier, organdie, organise, organize, papering, parridge, pearling, perigeal, perigean, pillager, primages, progeria, pterygia, quaggier, quagmire, ragtimes, rangiest, raveling, ravening, ravigote, razeeing, reaching, reacting, readding, readings, readying, reaginic, realigns, rearming, reassign, rebating, recaning, redating, refacing, regained, regainer, regaling, regality, regional, reimaged, reimages, relacing, relating, relaxing, relaying, remaking, remating, remigial, renaming, repaving, repaying, resawing, resaying, retaking, retaping, retaxing, rewaking, rewaxing, sabering, seraglio, seringas, shaggier, shearing, signaler, slaggier, slangier, smearing, snaggier, spearing, staggier, sterigma, sugarier, swearing, synergia, tabering, tanglier, tapering, thirlage, treading, treating, triangle, twangier, umpirage, vagaries, verbiage, vicarage, villager, vinegars, vinegary, vintager, viragoes, virgates, wafering, wagering, watering, wavering, wearying, wigmaker, wreaking, yearling, yearning.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AIGRE


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

41 49 47 52 45

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 01001001 01000111 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#73 &#71 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0049 0047 0052 0045

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

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

3543415239

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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