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Howdah

Definition: Howdah

Howdah

Noun

1. A (usually canopied) seat for riding on the back of a camel or elephant.

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

Date "howdah" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Etymology: Howdah \How"dah\, noun. [from Arabic expression hawdaj.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definitions: Howdah

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Howdah A canopy, or seat fixed on the back of an elephant.
"Leading the array, three stately elephants marched, bearing the Woons in gilded howdahs under gold umbrellas." - J. W. Palmer: Up and Down the Irrawaddi, chap. xx. p. 169. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonym: Howdah

Synonym: houdah (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Howdah

Non-English Usage: "Howdah" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (howdah).

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Photo Album: Howdah

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Elephant with howdah. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Howdah

"Howdah" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Howdah" is used about 9 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%9117,287

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Howdah

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

camel howdah

3

howdah pistol

3

howdah

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Howdah

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

Arabic 

  

‏هودج. (various references)

   

French

  

howdah. (various references)

   

German

  

sänfte (chair, litter, palanquin, sedan, sedan chair). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owdahhay

   

Turkish

  

semer sepeti. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

ghế đặt trên lưng voi, b nh voi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Howdah

Derivations

Words beginning with "howdah": howdahs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Howdah" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hawtah, hoadah, hoddah, hoodah, hoqdah, hosdah, Howdee, howden, Howdon. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Howdah"

Words rhyming with "howdah" (pronounced 'How"dah'): Purdah. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Howdah

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-h-h-o-w"

-2 letters: dhow, whoa, woad.

-3 letters: ado, dah, daw, dow, had, hah, hao, haw, hod, how, wad, wha, who.

-4 letters: ad, ah, aw, do, ha, ho, od, oh, ow, wo.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-h-h-o-w"
 

+1 letter: howdahs.

 

+4 letters: showerhead.

 

+5 letters: chowderhead, handwrought, shadowgraph, showerheads.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Howdah


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

48 6F 77 64 61 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    ---    .--.    -..    .-    ....

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

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

01001000 01101111 01110111 01100100 01100001 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#111 &#119 &#100 &#97 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 0077 0064 0061 0068

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

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

428189706774

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INDEX

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


  

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