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Definition: Abydos |
AbydosNoun1. An ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles; scene of the legend of Hero and Leander. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Abydos" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: Abydos |
| Specialty definitions using "Abydos": Abdallah ♦ Blind old Man of Scio's rocky Isle, Bride of Abydos. (references) |
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| "Abydos" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 81.48% of the time. "Abydos" is used about 27 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 (proper) | 81.48% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Noun (plural) | 18.52% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
abydos | 13 |
abydos egypt | 5 |
abydos gate | 4 |
abydos sety | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "abydos"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | abydosay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-o-s-y" | |
-2 letters: abos, abys, ados, bads, bays, boas, bods, body, boys, dabs, days, doby, soda, soya, sybo, yobs, yods. | |
-3 letters: abo, abs, aby, ado, ads, ays, bad, bas, bay, boa, bod, bos, boy, bys, dab, day, dos, ods, sab, sad, say, sob, sod, soy, yob, yod. | |
-4 letters: ab, ad, as, ay, ba, bo, by, do, od, os, oy, so, ya, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-o-s-y" | |
+1 letter: boyards, byroads. | |
+2 letters: baywoods, daybooks. | |
+3 letters: anybodies, babyhoods, boatyards, boneyards, keyboards. | |
+4 letters: backwoodsy, bawdyhouse, bioassayed, bodyguards, hybridomas, molybdates, storyboard. | |
+5 letters: bawdyhouses, bodaciously, isoantibody, keyboarders, keyboardist, rekeyboards, storyboards. | |
| 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)41 62 79 64 6F 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... -.--. -.. --- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01111001 01100100 01101111 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b y d o s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 0079 0064 006F 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)356891708185 |
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