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Dark-haired

Definition: Dark-haired

Dark-haired

Adjective

1. Having hair of a dark color; "a dark-haired beauty".

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

Date "dark-haired" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)


Synonyms: Dark-haired

Synonyms: black-haired (adj), brown-haired (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dark-haired

English words defined with "dark-haired": black-haired, brown-haired. (references)
Specialty definitions using "dark-haired": Women. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Dark-haired

"Dark-haired" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dark-haired" is used about 178 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%17823,220

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dark-haired

Language Translations for "dark-haired"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

flokëzi (dark-haired man), brunet (dark-haired man). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

чернокос човек (dark-haired man). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tummatukkainen. (various references)

   

German

  

brünett (brunette, dark). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sötét hajú. (various references)

   

Italian

  

dai capelli scuri, moro (dark-skinned, moor, moorish). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ark-hairedday.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

negricios (blackish, dark, darkish, dark-skinned, dusky, swarthy), brunet (muddy, swarthy), brun (black, Brown, dark, dark-skinned). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

темноволосый (dark). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

crnomanjast čovek (dark-haired man). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Dark-haired

Misspellings

"Dark-haired" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: darkhaired. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Dark-haired

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-h-i-k-r-r"

-2 letters: diarrhea.

-3 letters: airhead, diehard, hardier, harried, khaddar.

-4 letters: arider, daiker, darked, darker, dirked, haired, harder, harked, keddah, kerria, kidder, raided, raider, ridder.

-5 letters: aahed, adder, ahead, aided, aider, aired, airer, dared, darer, deair, diked, diker, direr, drake, dread, drear, dried, drier, haded, haika, hared, heard, hided, hider, hiked, hiker, hired, hirer, irade, irked, khadi.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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