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Wardroom

Definition: Wardroom

Wardroom

Noun

1. Military quarters for dining and recreation for officers of a warship (except the captain).

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


Crosswords: Wardroom

English words defined with "wardroom": Gunroom. (references)

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Photo Album: Wardroom

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C&GS Ship PIONEER wardroom. Standing L to R: Karwisch, McCaffrey ...... Patrick on end Sitting L to R: Harley Nygren, Horace Conerly, Captain William F. Deane CME De Steuben, Miller Tonkel.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

PATHFINDER wardroom 1959 Front Row: Carter, Keltner, Stavran, Harper, Kinney Center Row: Nygren, Clark, Captain Rubottom, CME Gilgan, Popper Back Row: Poor, McCall, Meiers, Taetz, Wiener, Newton, Ten Eyck, Degroot.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Wardroom of ?? Front Row: Bryant, Partington, Pierce, Healy, Ulm Back Row: ?,?, CME, ?,?, Williams, Tonkel.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Unidentified wardroom of unidentified ship John Ellerbe is front row, far right.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

The wardroom of the PATHFINDER.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Japanese and U.S. officers negotiate the surrender of Mili Atoll, Marshalls, on board USS Levy (DE-162), 22 August 1945. Identified U.S. officers present include (from left to right): Commander H.E. Cross; Captain H. B. Grow, USNR, senior U.S. officer present; Commander W.C. Burkhard; Lieutenant P.S. Breck, Jr.; Commander C.G. Olson; Japanese officers in center include an unidentified junior officer, at left, and Japanese Navy Captain Masanori Shiga. Note pistol shoulder holster worn by U.S. officer in right foreground, fancy rope decoration on stanchions, metal wardroom chairs and steward in right background.Credit: NAVY.

Officers eating in the submarine's Wardroom, served by their Stewards, during Cero's shakedown period, circa July-August 1943, at the Groton, Connecticut, Submarine Base. Photographed by Charles Fenno Jacobs. Officers present are (from left to right): Lieutenant Commander David H. McClintock; Commander David C. White, Commanding Officer; Lieutenant Charles D. Nace.Credit: NAVY.

Commanding Officers in conference off Korea, 26 October 1950. Probably taken in the wardroom of USS Incredible (AM-249), off Wonsan. Those present are identified in Photo # 80-G-422081 (Complete Caption).Credit: NAVY.

Vice Admiral Harold M. Martin, USN, reads his orders, as he assumes command of the Seventh Fleet, 28 March 1951. He relieved Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, who in turn relieved VAdm. Martin as Commander, First Fleet. Ceremonies were held in Missouri's wardroom. The battleship was then at Yokosuka, Japan. She remained VAdm. Struble's flagship during her return to the United States, a voyage that began on 29 March.Credit: NAVY.

U.S.S. Brooklyn wardroom pantry.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Wardroom

"Wardroom" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Wardroom" is used about 16 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
Noun (singular)100%1687,710

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Wardroom

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

  wardroom

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Wardroom

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

Bulgarian 

  

каюткомпания, офицерите на военен кораб. (various references)

   

Czech

  

dùstojnická jídelna. (various references)

   

German

  

Offiziersmesse (officers' mess). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αίθουσα αξιωματικών πλοίου (mess), δωμάτια αξιωματικών πολεμικού πλοίου. (various references)

   

Italian

  

guadrato. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ardroomway

   

Russian 

  

офицерская кают-компания. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oficirska trpezarija. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

officersmäss, gunrum (gun-room). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

subay salonu. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

караульня, офіцерська кают-компанія. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Wardroom

Derivations

Words beginning with "wardroom": wardrooms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Wardroom" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wardloom, Wardoyo, Waruru. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Wardroom

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-m-o-o-r-r-w"

-2 letters: marrow, morrow, ramrod.

-3 letters: ardor, armor, arrow, morro.

-4 letters: doom, door, dorm, dorr, dram, draw, mood, moor, mora, odor, orad, ordo, orra, road, roam, roar, rood, room, ward, warm, woad, wood, word, worm.

-5 letters: ado, arm, dam, daw, dom, dor, dow, mad, mar, maw, moa, mod, moo, mor, mow, oar, ora, rad, ram, raw.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-m-o-o-r-r-w"
 

+1 letter: wardrooms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Wardroom


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

57 61 72 64 72 6F 6F 6D

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010111 01100001 01110010 01100100 01110010 01101111 01101111 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#97 &#114 &#100 &#114 &#111 &#111 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0061 0072 0064 0072 006F 006F 006D

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

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

5767847084818179

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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