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AVANT-COURIER

Definition: AVANT-COURIER

AVANT-COURIER

Noun

1. A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Avant-courier \A*vant"-cou`ri*er\, noun. [French expression, from avant before courrier. See Avaunt, and Courier.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: AVANT-COURIER

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

Precursor

Noun: precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor; forerunner, vancourier, avant-coureur, pioneer, prodrome, prodromos, prodromus, outrider; leader, bellwether; herald, harbinger; foreboding; dawn; avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare, forelooper, foreloper, stalking-horse, voorlooper, voortrekker.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: AVANT-COURIER

English words defined with "AVANT-COURIER": Van-courier, Vant-courier. (references)
Etymologies containing "AVANT-COURIER": Van-courier, Vant-courier. (references)

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Rhyming with "AVANT-COURIER"

Words rhyming with "AVANT-COURIER" (pronounced 'A*vant"-cou`ri*er'): Abaiser, Abandoner, Abaser, Abater, Abhorrer, Abider, Abjurer, Abolisher, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Abutter, Acater, Acceder, Accelerometer, Accepter, Accipenser, Accipiter, Acclaimer, Accompanier, Accomplisher, Accorder, Accruer, Accumber, Accuser, Acetifier, Acetimeter, Acetometer, Achiever, Acidifier, Acidimeter, Acipenser, Acknowledger, Acoumeter, Acquirer, Acquitter, Acroter, Actinometer, Adducer, Adelaster, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admeasurer. (additional references)

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Anagrams: AVANT-COURIER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-n-o-r-r-t-u-v"

-2 letters: aeronautic, evacuation, vacationer.

-3 letters: carnivora, carnivore, contriver, covariant, incurvate, narrative, overtrain, raconteur, tarriance.

-4 letters: aeration, aeronaut, anoretic, anterior, anuretic, arcature, aurorean, carinate, carrotin, cavatine, caveator, cavorter, conative, contrive, courante, courtier, craniate, creation, curarine, curative, evacuant, invertor, invocate, navicert, neurotic, oceanaut, outrance, overturn, raincoat, reaction, tricorne, trouncer, turnover, unerotic, vacation, varactor, variance, veratria, veratrin.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-n-o-r-r-t-u-v"
 

+4 letters: atrioventricular, overarticulating.

 

+5 letters: macroevolutionary, revascularization, ultraconservatism, ultraconservative.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AVANT-COURIER


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

41 56 41 4E 54 2D 43 4F 55 52 49 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01000001 01010110 01000001 01001110 01010100 00101101 01000011 01001111 01010101 01010010 01001001 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#86 &#65 &#78 &#84 &#45 &#67 &#79 &#85 &#82 &#73 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0056 0041 004E 0054 002D 0043 004F 0055 0052 0049 0045 0052

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

35563548541537495552433952

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INDEX

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


  

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