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DEARN

Definitions: DEARN

DEARN

Adjective

1. Secret; lonely; solitary; dreadful.

Transitive verb

1. Same as Darn.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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Crosswords: DEARN

Etymologies containing "DEARN": Derne. (references)

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Modern Translations: DEARN

Language Translations for "dearn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

earnday.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: DEARN

Derivations

Words beginning with "DEARN": dearness, dearnesses. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DEARN

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: denar, redan.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-r"

-1 letter: dare, darn, dean, dear, earn, nard, near, nerd, rand, read, rend.

-2 letters: and, ane, are, den, ear, end, era, ern, nae, rad, ran, red.

-3 letters: ad, ae, an, ar, de, ed, en, er, na, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-r"
 

+1 letter: ardent, bander, cedarn, craned, damner, dancer, dander, danger, danker, darken, darned, darnel, darner, denari, denars, denary, earned, endear, errand, gander, garden, harden, lander, nacred, narked, neared, pander, rained, ranged, ranked, ranted, redans, remand, repand, sander, snared, unread, wander, warden, warned, yarned, zander.

 

+2 letters: adorned, adorner, adrenal, amender, aneared, aneroid, angered, antired, aproned, araneid, ardency, asunder, banders, bandore, bartend, blander, brained, branded, brander, branned, broaden, cairned, candler, cranked, damners, dancers, danders, dandier, dandler, dangers, dangler, danseur, darkens, darnels, darners, daunder, daunter, deanery, denarii, deraign, derange, detrain, dextran, dragnet, drained, drainer, draymen, duramen, durance, endarch, endears, enraged, errands, franked, ganders, gardens, gnarled, gnarred, gradine, grained, grandee, grander, granted, grenade, groaned, handier, handler, hardens, herdman, inarmed, invader, knarred, kneader, ladrone, landers, landler, launder, learned, lurdane, madrone, mandrel, manured, maunder, meander, nakeder, nardine, natured, operand, padrone, panders, pandore, pardine, pardner, pranced, pranged, pranked, prawned, predawn, ranched, randier, randies, rankled, ravened, ravined, reading, readorn, recaned, redrawn, reedman, remands, renamed, reynard, rondeau, sanders, sandier, sardine, slander, snarled, stander, trained, tranced, unaired, unarmed, undrape, unheard, unraked, unrated, unrazed, unready, untread, uranide, veranda, verdant, wanders, wardens, yardmen, yearend, yearned, zanders.

 

+3 letters: acridine, adherend, adherent, adhering, adorners, adrenals, advancer, aerodyne, alderman, aldermen, amenders, anchored, androgen, aneroids, answered, antherid, antlered, araneids, ardently, aridness, arointed, aroynted, arranged, arsenide, ascender, attender, attorned, bandager, banderol, bandores, bannered, bantered, bartends, bearding, bedarken, bilander, boardmen, boneyard, branched, branders, brandied, brandies, brazened, breading, breadnut, broadens, calendar, calender, candider, candlers, cankered, cantered, careened, cartoned, caverned, chandler, colander, conelrad, cranched, crankled, crannied, cravened, crayoned, credenda, credenza, crenated, daintier, dairymen, dakerhen, damneder, dampener, dandered, dandlers, danewort, dangered, danglers, danseurs, darkened, darkener, darkness, darndest, darneder, daunders, daunters, deaconry, deadener, deairing, dearness, debonair, decanter, decenary, demander, demeanor, denarius, denature, dentural, deraigns, deranged, deranges, derating, detainer, detrains, dextrans, dicentra, dipteran, dognaper, drabness, dracaena, dragline, dragnets, dragomen, dragonet, drainage, drainers, dreading, dreaming, dungaree, duramens, durances, enamored, endanger, endarchy, endbrain, endeared, endeavor, endocarp, endosarc, endpaper, enframed, engraved, enlarged, ensnared, expander, expandor, forehand, foreland, freedman, freehand, furnaced, gadarene, gandered, gardened, gardener, gardenia, garnered, gendarme, glanders, gradient, gradines, grandame, grandees, grandest, grandeur, grenades, handlers, handover, hangared, hankered, hardened, hardener, hardline, hardness, hardnose, harkened, herdsman, inarched, indurate, infrared, inlander, insnared, invaders, islander, jargoned, kidnaper, kneaders, ladrones, landlers, launders, lavender, lurdanes, madrones, mandrake, mandrels, mannered, margined, marinade, marooned, maunders, meanders, meridian, midrange, muraenid, narrated, narrowed, nattered, nearside, neatherd, nitrated, nonrated, normande, oleander, operands, ordained, ordainer, ordinate, ordnance, organdie, orphaned, overhand, overland, padrones, pandered, panderer, pandores, panfried, pardners, pardoned, pardoner, parented, pedantry, pendular, pomander, predawns, profaned, pronated, radiance, radiomen, rancored, randiest, ransomed, rationed, ratooned, rattened, rawboned, readding, readings, readorns, readying, reascend, reasoned, recanted, redating, redemand, redshank, reearned, regained, rehandle, rehanged, reharden, reinvade, reloaned, remained, remanded, remanned, renailed, rendzina, renegade, renegado, reordain, repandly, retained, reynards, riddance, romanced, rondeaux, ruinated, sardines, serenade, serranid, slanders, solander, spandrel, sprained, squander, standers, strained, stranded, strander, surnamed, swanherd, teardown, transude, treading, truanted, turbaned, unargued, unbarbed, unbarred, unbeared, unbraced, unbraked, uncrated, underact, underage, underarm, underate, undereat, underjaw, underlap, underlay, underpay, underran, undersea, undertax, underway, undraped, undrapes, undreamt, unearned, unerased, unfeared, unframed, ungraced, ungraded, unhaired, unharmed, unloader, unmarked, unmarred, unpaired, unparted, unraised, unranked, unrepaid, unseared, unshared, unthread, untraced, untreads, unvaried, unwarmed, unwarned, unwarped, uplander, uranides, uredinia, urinated, verandah, verandas, verdancy, vineyard, wandered, wanderer, wanderoo, wardenry, wrangled, yearends, zemindar.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DEARN


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

44 45 41 52 4E

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)

01000100 01000101 01000001 01010010 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0041 0052 004E

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

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

3839355248

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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