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Definition: Heaven-sent |
Heaven-sentAdjective1. 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-sentSynonyms: miraculous (adj), providential (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Heaven-sent |
| English words defined with "heaven-sent": miraculous ♦ providential. (references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 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) | ||||||||||
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. 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)48 65 61 76 65 6E 2D 73 65 6E 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01100001 01110110 01100101 01101110 00101101 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e a v e n - s e n t |
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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