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Deerhound

Definition: Deerhound

Deerhound

Noun

1. Very large and tall rough-coated dog bred for hunting deer; known as the royal dog of Scotland.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "deerhound" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Synonym: Deerhound

Synonym: Scottish deerhound (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Deerhound

English words defined with "deerhound": Scottish deerhound. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Deerhound" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (deer-hound).

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Image Slideshow: Deerhound

Illustrations:
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Expression: Deerhound

Expression using "deerhound": Scottish deerhound. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Deerhound

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

scottish deerhound

39

deerhound

26

deerhound rescue scottish

6

deerhound rescue

4

picture of scottish deerhound

4

deerhound information scottish

3

deerhound sale scottish

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Deerhound

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

French

  

limier (detective). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vizsla (beagle, deer-hound, gun-dog, pointer, ranger, retriever), nagy skót vadászkutya, kopó (foxhound, hound, ranger, sleuth, sleuth-hound, tail). (various references)

   

Manx

  

coo feeaih. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eerhoundday

   

Russian 

  

гончая (beagle, harrier, hound, whippet). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Deerhound

Derivations

Words beginning with "deerhound": deerhounds. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Deerhound" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deerhood. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Deerhound

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-h-n-o-r-u"

-1 letter: dehorned.

-2 letters: denuder, endured, hounded, hounder, hundred, redound, rounded, underdo.

-3 letters: dehorn, denude, droned, dudeen, duende, durned, endued, endure, enduro, enured, eroded, herded, hereon, hodden, horded, horned, nodder, redden, redone, rended, undoer.

-4 letters: donee, dreed, drone, dured, ended, ender, endue, enure, erode, heder, heron, honed, honer, horde, hound, nuder, odder, reded, redon, rouen, round, udder, undee, under, uredo.

-5 letters: deed, deer, dene, dere, doer, done, dore, dour, dree, dude, dune, dure, durn, duro, eddo, erne, euro, heed, herd, here, hern, hero, hoed, hoer, hone, horn, hour, hued, need, nerd, node, nude, nurd, ohed, redd, rede, redo, reed, rend, rode, roue, rudd, rude, rued, rune, unde, undo.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-h-n-o-r-u"
 

+1 letter: deerhounds, enshrouded.

 

+2 letters: roundheaded.

 

+5 letters: uncomprehended, undernourished.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Deerhound


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

44 65 65 72 68 6F 75 6E 64

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 01100101 01100101 01110010 01101000 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#101 &#114 &#104 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 0065 0072 0068 006F 0075 006E 0064

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

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

387171847481878070

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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