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Definition: Tagus |
TagusNoun1. A European river; flows into the North Atlantic. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Tagus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
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View over Tejo River from
São Jorge Castle in Lisbon (June 2002).Tagus (Latin Tagus, Spanish Tajo, Portuguese Tejo) is one of the major rivers of Spain and Portugal.
The Tagus ends in the Atlantic Ocean at Lisbon.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tagus."
Synonym: TagusSynonym: Tagus River (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tagus |
| English words defined with "Tagus": capital of Portugal, Celtiberian ♦ Lisboa, Lisbon ♦ Ponte 25' de Abril ♦ Toledo. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Tagus": Galiana. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The cathedral and Alcazar, looking N. from south bank of Tagus, Toledo, Spain. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Bridge over the river Tagus" by Luis Alves Commentary: "25 de Abril bridge over the river Tagus. a bridge very similar to the Golden Gate that connects Almada to Lisbon. I have some more in my records. --------------------------- Notice: You can use this image, but please send me an e-mail if you use it, I" |
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| "Tagus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Tagus" is used about 10 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 40% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Tagus": tagus River. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tagus | 29 |
tagus torre | 6 |
river tagus | 4 |
bridge tagus | 2 |
tagus viagens | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Tagus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | Taag. (various references) | |
Esperanto | Tago, Taĥo. (various references) | |
French | Tage. (various references) | |
German | Tajo. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agustay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Tejo, Tajo. (various references) | |
Spanish | Tajo (block, chop-block, chop-board, gash, hack). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: gast, gats, gust, guts, stag, tags, taus, tugs, utas. | |
-2 letters: gas, gat, gut, sag, sat, sau, tag, tas, tau, tug, uta, uts. | |
-3 letters: ag, as, at, ta, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: aughts, august, gamuts, gaults, ghauts, outgas, sagbut, teguas, tragus. | |
+2 letters: agoutis, augites, baguets, catguts, dustrag, fugatos, gateaus, guitars, hagbuts, mustang, naughts, nougats, outages, outsang, ragouts, sagbuts, scutage, tautogs, upstage, vaguest, waughts. | |
+3 letters: agouties, augments, auguster, augustly, barguest, bushgoat, claughts, cutgrass, cuttages, draughts, dustrags, fatigues, fraughts, gallnuts, gastrula, gauchest, gaudiest, gauntest, gauziest, gestural, ghastful, grayouts, gunboats, gustable, hangouts, languets, mustangs, mutagens, nutgalls, nutgrass, outbrags, outdrags, outgains, outgnaws, outrages, saluting, sastruga, sastrugi, sauteing, scutages, shantung, stageful, stumpage, subagent, substage, tautaugs, tugboats, tunnages, unitages, upstaged, upstages, vulgates, zastruga, zastrugi. | |
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