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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Scots Own.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Own.
- A suffix of Latin origin, occurring unfelt in English nouns, as in chieftain, captain, chaplain, curtain, and, as originally, in adjectives, as in certain, etc. It is a Middle English and Old French form of -an (which see).
- n. The eighteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, having a vibratory palatal sound without any equivalent in English.
- n. A spring; a fountain. See the extract.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. belonging to or on behalf of a specified person especially one's self; preceded by a possessive.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive
Examples
“Ef all de ghostes say dey ain 'no ghosts, dey _ain'_ no ghosts. ”
“Hoover Electrolux fixed it ... the title ain't html”
“O boyi .... why do people write such titles ... the title ain't this: |”
“_on loan_; small wollum -- the title ain't clear, ah!”
“Besides, this night - drivin 'ain't good for my complexion.”
“But fifteen pounds off without trainin 'ain't condition, Then I'd been drinkin' pretty regular, an 'I didn't have my wind.”
“The trick then was to get it into the hands of as many nice book-buyers as possible -- so I took it upon myself to hang around the books and pimp them like pimpin 'ain't dead.”
“Beantown Blues: Home cookin 'ain't what it used to be for the Boston Red Sox.”
USATODAY.com - Yanks-Giants was great theater, except for the walks
“_Mushtarik_, or words which have several significations, as the Arabic word "'ain," which may mean an eye, a fountain, or the sun.”
“Read! no, missis, guess readin 'ain't no good for servants.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ain’.
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Words
phantasmagoria, eviscerate, avast, simulacrum, varicose, oblique, gestalt, ersatz, vernal, vivace, stellate, synecdoche and 321 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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I Live a (SOWPODS) Hardscrabble Life
aa, ad, ae, ah, ai, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax and 168 more...
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Rogue's Words for bonnie lads n lassies
tinchel, glen, sassenach, guddle, brae, bonnie, eejit, deerhound, hoonds, lassie, laddie, heiland and 188 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
Tweets
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bilby Scots - own. Jan 30, 2009