Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to grandparents.
- n. In Canada, an act of suretyship or guaranty on a promissory note.
Wiktionary
- n. finance A financial guarantee by a third party to assume the burden of a debt, especially a bill of exchange in the event of default.
- adj. rare Of, related to, or characteristic of a grandparent.
Etymologies
- From Latin avus, "grandfather." (Wiktionary)
Examples
“By means of them, you turned en aval, that is to say, below or west of Etretat, entered the Chambre des Demoiselles, in all probability passed under Fort Frefosse and thus arrived at the Needle.”
“From a clever Farsi date interpretation of when the EU proposal was due, "aval" or "avayel", "first of" or "beginning of" August, to the nuclear message sent by Iran while Khatami was still president, the Iranians played their hand masterfully while the Europeans seemed at a loss as to how to deal with the Iranian nuclear threat.”
“Ani bead she taasi kessef, zot haahava shelach aval ze gam parnassa.”
“Gam ani katavti al Harajuku Lovers bablog sheli, aval ein li otam beBrazil...”
“Ani kiviti shebahag haze ihie shaket aval tamid iesh alimut, haval meod.”
“My mom and aunts have gone the whole nine yards as usual and made varieties of seedai, murukku, thattai, athirasam, vella aval and some more sweets.”
“I'll be making the simple vella aval beaten rice with jaggery and coconut and Panakam for naivedyam this evening.”
“Mika, was browsing through your wonderful recipes - this puli aval brought back memories: my mom makes puli aval and vella aval at the same time, she never makes one without the other - and it has stuck - i can't think of making puli aval without its companion these days :”
“Dear Mika, Puli aval looks like a great brunch or dinner dish!”
“I am prejudiced towards Puli aval, an adaptation of poha made, Kannadiga style.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aval’.
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Rare Words - A
Not just rare words, but thousands of RARE WORDS WITH DEFINITIONS.
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http://phrontistery.i...aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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from phrontistery.info
aba, abacinate, abactor, abaculus, abaft, abampere, abapical, abarticular, abasement, abasia, abask, abatis and 1214 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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Courtesy of Josefa
A selection of words appearing in Mrs Byrne's dictionary of unusual, obscure, and preposterous words (1994 edition).
trollylolly, pozzy-wallah, kittly-benders, jimberjaw, lollybanger, randle, aval, perjinkities, brontophobia, mumruffin, rotche, atmatertera and 29 more...
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Quiz time 7 : special Saturnalia ed...
A yuletide diversion. Sorry for all the pictures and links, but a purely word-based quiz is hard to make search-engine proof. Not that this one is, but you may have to work at some of these clues a...
fortississimo, dulosis, toroid, stakhanov, fünfzehn, barouche, quiche, lapis lazuli, kangaroo, mendelssohn, gaston, cumyxaphily and 28 more...
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Extended Family
There's an Irish joke that goes something like this. After listening to a sermon in which the priest rails on about promiscuity from the pulpit, the following exchange takes place between an elderl...
tritavus, tritavia, aval, matima, materteral, avuncular, novercal, tetnit, quatrayle, oom, nepotal, yokemate and 8 more...
Tweets
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bilby lava backwards. Sep 27, 2008
sionnach pertaining to grandparents. Dec 20, 2007