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Heaven-sent

Definition: Heaven-sent

Heaven-sent

Adjective

1. Peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention; "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"; "a providential recovery".

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

Date "heaven-sent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)



Synonyms: Heaven-sent

Synonyms: miraculous (adj), providential (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Heaven-sent

English words defined with "heaven-sent": miraculousprovidential. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Heaven-sent

DomainTitle

Books

  • Angel Messages : A Heaven-Sent Book and Pack of 52 Uniquely Inspirational Cards (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Heaven-sent

"Heaven-sent" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Heaven-sent" is used about 11 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%11106,044

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Heaven-sent

Language Translations for "heaven-sent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

gondviselés-küldötte, égből pottyant. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"し子 (heaven-sent child), 天警 (heaven-sent warning). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

もうし" (heaven-sent child), て"けい (archetypal, divine oracle, divine punishment, gift of nature, Heaven's blessing, heaven-sent warning, incidental details of a picture, natural resources, pattern, persons or animals added to a picture, revelation, type). (various references)

   

Manx

  

voish Jee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eaven-senthay

   

Turkish

  

bulunmaz (rare, unobtainable, unprocurable), beklenmedik (abrupt, adventitious, improbable, snap, sudden, surprise, unannounced, unexpected, unforeseen, unhoped, unhoped-for, unimagined, unlooked for), allah'tan olan (providential). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Heaven-sent

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-h-n-n-s-t-v"

-1 letter: venenates.

-2 letters: venenate.

-3 letters: ethanes, ethenes, evenest, heavens, neatens, seventh.

-4 letters: anenst, enates, ethane, ethene, events, hasten, havens, heaven, heaves, hennas, neaten, sateen, seethe, senate, sennet, shaven, sheave, sheeve, snathe, steeve, thanes, veenas, vestee.

-5 letters: anent, antes, ashen, avens, eaten, eaves, enate, etnas, evens, event, haets, hanse, hants, haste, hates, haven, haves, heats, heave, henna, hents, nates, naves, neath, neats, nenes, neves, senna, sente, setae, seven, shave, sheen, sheet, shent, snath, stane, stave, tease, teens, tense, thane, thens, these, vanes, veena, venae, vents, vesta.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-h-n-n-s-t-v"
 

+5 letters: nonachievements.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Heaven-sent


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

48 65 61 76 65 6E 2D 73 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100101 01100001 01110110 01100101 01101110 00101101 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#97 &#118 &#101 &#110 &#45 &#115 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0065 0061 0076 0065 006E 002D 0073 0065 006E 0074

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

4271678871801585718086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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