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Definition: Postillion |
PostillionNoun1. Someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "postillion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
"Postillion" is a common misspelling or typo for: cotillion, octillion. |
Synonym: PostillionSynonym: postilion (n). (additional references) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This time the postillion reached its address, although he for whom the message was destined was then (r)in solitary. |
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| Language | Translations for "postillion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | postakocsis (postilion), ostorhegyesen ülő hajtó (postilion), nyergesen ülő hajtó (postilion), lovon ülő postakocsis (postilion), hírnök (ambassador, forerunner, guard, herald, Mercury, messenger, missive, postilion, pursuivant), gyorsküldönc (poster, postilion), futár (courier, dispatch, dispatch rider, express messenger, messenger, poster, postilion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ostillionpay curier (courier, express, messenger, runner). (various references) форейтор (postboy, postilion). (various references) postillón (postboy, postilion). (various references) postilyon (postilion), posta arabası sürücüsü (postilion). (various references) форейтор (postilion). (various references) người dẫn đầu trạm (postilion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "postillion": postillions. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-l-l-n-o-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: postilion. | |
-2 letters: inositol, pillions, pinitols, position. | |
-3 letters: instill, lintols, lotions, options, pillion, pinitol, plosion, pollist, poloist, pontils, potions, soliton, topsoil. | |
-4 letters: instil, lintol, lipins, lotion, option, pilots, pinots, pintos, pistil, pistol, piston, pitons, points, poison, polios, pontil, postin, potion, solion, spinto, splint, spoilt, stolon, tonsil. | |
-5 letters: intis, lilts, linos, lints, lions, lipin, loins, loons, loops. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-i-l-l-n-o-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: postillions. | |
+2 letters: pollinations, positionally. | |
+4 letters: antipollutions, polytonalities. | |
+5 letters: anisotropically, blaxploitations, compositionally, lyophilizations, postpollination, prepositionally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 73 74 69 6C 6C 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- ... - .. .-.. .-.. .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o s t i l l i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0073 0074 0069 006C 006C 0069 006F 006E |
| 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)50818586757878758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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