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PRETENDANT

Definition: PRETENDANT

PRETENDANT

Noun

1. A pretender; a claimant.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PRETENDANT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references)


Modern Translation: PRETENDANT

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

Ukrainian

  

удавальник (dissimulator, make believe, pi, pretender, shammer), претендент (applicant, aspirant, challenger, claimant, contender), прихильник (adherent, advocate, apostle, assertor, believer, encourager, endorser, friend, henchman, lover, patron, protagonist, sympathizer, upholder). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "PRETENDANT"

Words rhyming with "PRETENDANT" (pronounced 'Pre*tend"ant'): Abeyant, Accomptant, Accordant, Accusant, Acquaintant, Adjoinant, Affiant, Affirmant, Aidant, Alliant, Appealant, Aspectant, Avowant, Buoyant, Calorifiant, Claimant, Codefendant, Complainant, Compliant, Concordant, Confessant, Confutant, Consentant, Conservant, Conspirant, Containant, Contestant, Cotenant, Couchant, Creant, Declaimant, Declarant, Defiant, Delirant, Demandant, Durant, flamboyant, Forbearant, informant, lieutenant, Misdemeanant, Misinformant, Mountant, Obscurant, Obversant, Offendant, Pedant, Pendant, Perchant, Perseverant. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PRETENDANT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: patterned, penetrant, repentant, trepanned.

-2 letters: attender, nattered, parented, patented, pattered, pennated, rattened, tenanted.

-3 letters: adepter, dentate, entrant, entreat, pattern, pendant, pendent, pennate, pentane, predate, pretend, ratteen, reptant, retaped, tapered, ternate, treated.

-4 letters: anteed, ardent, arpent, attend, depart, derate, detent, earned, endear, ennead, enrapt, entera, entrap, natter, neared, neaten, neater, netted, netter, pander, panned, panted.

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

+2 letters: interplanted.

 

+4 letters: antidepressant, predestinating, predestination.

 

+5 letters: antidepressants, interpenetrated, nondepartmental, predestinations, transparentized.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PRETENDANT


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

50 52 45 54 45 4E 44 41 4E 54

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)

01010000 01010010 01000101 01010100 01000101 01001110 01000100 01000001 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#69 &#84 &#69 &#78 &#68 &#65 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0045 0054 0045 004E 0044 0041 004E 0054

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

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

50523954394838354854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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