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Definition: Semidarkness |
SemidarknessNoun1. Partial darkness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "semidarkness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Crosswords: Semidarkness |
| English words defined with "semidarkness": cloudiness ♦ overcast. (references) |
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Human Rights | Panama | The Human Rights Commission of the Legislative Assembly also reported that prisoners at the Women's Prison of Colon suffer from overcrowding, constant semidarkness, constantly wet floors, and virtually no health care. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Semidarkness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Semidarkness" is used about 3 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "semidarkness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | gjysmerrësirë (dusk, shadow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puolipimeä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | halbdunkel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | félhomály (dusk, half-light, semi-darkness, subdued light, twilight), derengés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 幽明 (dark and light, deep and strange, hades, the present and the other world), 幽冥 (dark and light, deep and strange, hades, the present and the other world). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ゆうめい (dark and light, deep and strange, fame, great renown, hades, the present and the other world). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emidarknesssay полутьма (semi-darkness). (various references) penumbra (gloom, halflight, Penumbra, sunspot penumbra). (various references) halvmörker, halvdunkel (dim, dusk, dusky). (various references) напівтемрява (half-light, shade, shadow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "semidarkness": semidarknesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-k-m-n-r-s-s-s" | |
-2 letters: aridnesses, darknesses, dreaminess, markedness. | |
-3 letters: arsenides, deerskins, diemakers, dimnesses, kirmesses, madnesses, nearsides, readiness, seaminess. | |
-4 letters: amenders, aniseeds, aridness, arsenide, darkness, dearness, deerskin, dermises, diemaker, direness, diseases, easiness, kamseens, kermises, kneaders, meanders, miseases, misreads, missends, missense, nearside, ramekins, redskins, remained, sameness, samisens, sardines, seasides, seedsman, seminars, seriemas, siameses, sneakers, sneakier. | |
-5 letters: admires, amender, aniseed, arsines. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-k-m-n-r-s-s-s" | |
+2 letters: semidarknesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6D 69 64 61 72 6B 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -- .. -.. .- .-. -.- -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101101 01101001 01100100 01100001 01110010 01101011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e m i d a r k n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006D 0069 0064 0061 0072 006B 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| 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)537179757067847780718585 |
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