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Definition: Bedight |
BedightVerb1. Decorate; "deck the halls with holly". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bedight" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Synonyms: BedightSynonyms: bedeck (v), deck (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ornament | Smart, gay, trickly, flowery, glittering; new gilt, new spangled; fine as a Mayday queen, fine as a fivepence, fine as a carrot fresh scraped; pranked out, bedight, well-groomed. |
Garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank; trick out, fig out; deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array; begawd, titivate; dress, dress up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret, emblazon; illuminate; illustrate. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bedight |
| English words defined with "bedight": Bedighted. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Lullaby and goodnight, and with roses bedight. Whatever that means. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "bedight"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Turkish | bezemek (adorn, bedeck, decorate, trick out, trick up), süslemek (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, caparison, crown, damask, deck out, decorate, dike, dizen, doll out, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, embroider, enamel, enrich, fancy up, fig out, figure, flourish, garnish, gild, gird, grace, interlard, lace, lard, ornament, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, scrimshaw, set, smarten, tart up, tire, titivate, trick out, trick up, trig out, trig up, trim, zing up, zip, zip up), donatmak (arm, attire, bedeck, catch up, damask, deck out, decorate, equip, furnish, gird, invest, ornament, outfit, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, rig out, turn out). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bedight": bedighted, bedighting, bedights. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bighted. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-g-h-i-t" | |
-2 letters: bidet, bight, debit, dight, eight, gibed. | |
-3 letters: beth, bide, bite, debt, diet, dite, edit, gibe, gied, hide, hied, tide, tied. | |
-4 letters: bed, beg, bet, bid, big, bit, deb, dib, die, dig, dit, edh, eth, ged, get, ghi, gib, gid, gie, git, het, hid, hie, hit, ted, teg, the, tie. | |
-5 letters: be, bi, de, ed, eh, et, he, hi, id, it, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-g-h-i-t" | |
+1 letter: bedights, blighted. | |
+2 letters: bedighted, benighted. | |
+3 letters: bedighting, beknighted, bighearted, bigmouthed, brightened. | |
+4 letters: backlighted, benightedly. | |
+5 letters: bigheartedly, nightclubbed, straightbred. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 64 69 67 68 74 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -.. .. --. .... - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100100 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e d i g h t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0064 0069 0067 0068 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36717075737486 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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