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Definition: Buttressed |
ButtressedAdjective1. Held up by braces or buttresses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "buttressed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Synonym: ButtressedSynonym: braced (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Buttressed |
| English words defined with "buttressed": Ficus sycomorus ♦ mulberry fig ♦ sycamore, sycamore fig. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Sweden | Swedish-American friendship is buttressed by the presence of nearly 14 million Americans of Swedish heritage. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Buttressed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "Buttressed" is used about 50 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 70% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 20% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 50 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "buttressed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 扶壁 (Buttress, Buttressing). (various references) | ||||
German | stärkte (invigorated, starched, strengthened). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | uttressedbay | ||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "buttressed" (pronounced bu"trust) |
| 5 | -t r u s t | interest, noninterest, psychiatrist. |
| 4 | -r u s t | aquarist, barest, dearest, deforest, direst, embarrassed, fairest, florist, forest, guitarist, merest, nearest, poorest, purest, rainforest, rarest, reforest, severest, surest, terraced, tourist. |
| 3 | -u s t | ablest, abolitionist, abortionist, absolutist, accompanist, activist, agonist, agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, antagonist, anthropologist, anticommunist, apologist, apprenticed, archaeologist, archivist, arsonist, artist, atheist, August, ballast, balloonist, behaviorist, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, botanist, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, cardiologist, caricaturist, cartoonist, catalyst, cellist, chauvinist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, cleanest, closest, coldest, colonialist, colonist, columnist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, conversationalist, coolest, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cultist, cyclist, darkest, deadliest, deepest, deist, densest, dentist, dermatologist, determinist, dirtiest, dishonest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, earnest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, eldest, elitist, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exhibitionist, exorcist, expressionist, extremist, faintest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, federalist, feminist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, finest, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funnest, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, greenest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, gymnast, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harnessed, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, honest, hottest, hugest, humblest, humorist, hygienist, idealist, ideologist, illusionist, immunologist, imperialist, impressionist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, internationalist, internist, interventionist, isolationist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, keenest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leanest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, lyricist, machinist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, materialist, meanest, medalist, mercantilist, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, misogynist, modernist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, noncommunist, nonconformist, noticed, novelist, nutritionist, oboist, obstructionist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, opportunist, organist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, pianist, polemicist, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, preservationist, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, protagonist, protectionist, proudest, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, quickest, quietest, quietist, racist, radiologist, rainiest, rapist, receptionist, reddest, refocused, remotest, repurchased, reservationist, reservist, resurfaced, revolutionist, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secessionist, secularist, segregationist, seismologist, semifinalist, separatist, serologist, serviced, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, softest, soonest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, sternest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surfaced, survivalist, sweetest, swiftest, tallest, tannest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, theorist, therapist, thickest, thinnest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unfocused, unionist, unkindest, unnoticed, urologist, violinist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, witnessed, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-r-s-s-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: burettes, burseeds, buttered, buttress, rebutted, trusteed, trustees. | |
-3 letters: bestuds, betters, burette, burseed, bursted, busters, butters, deserts, dessert, detests, dusters, rebuses, retests, setters, streets, subsere, subtest, suttees, tersest, testers, tressed, trussed, trusted, trustee, uttered. | |
-4 letters: berets, besets, bested, bestud, betted, better, bredes, breeds, bruted, brutes, burets, burses, bursts, bussed, busted, buster, butted, butter, buttes. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-r-s-s-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: distributees. | |
+3 letters: redistributes. | |
+4 letters: subdepartments. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 75 74 74 72 65 73 73 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... ..- - - .-. . ... ... . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110101 01110100 01110100 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B u t t r e s s e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0075 0074 0074 0072 0065 0073 0073 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36878686847185857170 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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