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THATCHED

Definition: THATCHED

THATCHED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Thatch

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "THATCHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1622. (references)

 

Crosswords: THATCHED

English words defined with "THATCHED": old-timequaintthatch. (references)
Specialty definitions using "THATCHED": Thatch. (references)

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Commercial Usage: THATCHED

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Books

  • Japan's Folk Architecture: Traditional Thatched Farmhouses (reference)

  • Thatched buildings of Dorset (reference)

  • Thatched houses in County Meath (reference)

  • Thatched huts and stucco palaces : peasants and landlords in 19th-century Nepal (reference)

  • Thatched Ireland (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: THATCHED

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Photo Album: THATCHED

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A thatched roof house in Christchurch. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Thatched building. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pond by thatched house and building. Credit: Library of Congress.

Thatched roof buildings on the farm of a settler, Kenya. Credit: Library of Congress.

Russian village with thatched buildings about 20 miles out of Kiev. Credit: Library of Congress.

Thatched building and banana plant, possibly Nassau, Bahamas. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S. forces establish bases in Liberia. These American soldiers stationed in Liberia, Africa, are guarding a dock where supplies are being unloaded. The thatched hut in the background is a repair shop. Chiefly Negro units, the American forces are construc. Credit: Library of Congress.

Front of thatched house made of palm leaves near Moore Haven, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Family standing in front of thatched house. Credit: Library of Congress.

Woman with baby and pony in front of thatched houses. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: THATCHED
 

"Windmill" by Uschi Hering
Commentary: "The mill has a thatched roof."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Use in Literature: THATCHED

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Over the square frame, on untrimmed willow limbs, grass had been piled, not thatched, but heaped up in a low mound

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: THATCHED

"THATCHED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 83.70% of the time. "THATCHED" is used about 184 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
Adjective (general or positive)83.7%15425,326
Noun (proper)7.07%1397,576
Lexical Verb (past tense)5.43%10111,207
Lexical Verb (past participle)3.8%7133,076
                    Total100.00%184N/A

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

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Expression: THATCHED

Expressions using "THATCHED": thatched country cottage thatched roof thatched roof disease. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "THATCHED": thatched-roof.

Ending with "THATCHED": palm-thatched.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: THATCHED

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

thatched roof

39

thatched cottage

31

thatched

9

thatched umbrella

8

hut thatched

7

cottage roof thatched

7

roofing thatched

6

cottage scotland thatched

4

insurance oxfordshire property thatched

4

insurance quote thatched

3

insurance property thatched

3

building insurance thatched uk

3

cover thatched umbrella

3

thatched cottage uk

3

garage roof thatched

2

material roof thatched

2

cottage europe thatched

2

house thatched

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

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Modern Translation: THATCHED

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

Chinese 

  

用茅草等盖 (Thatching). (various references)

   

Danish

  

thatched roof disease (an allergic lung disease occuring in thatchers caused by inhalation of dust particles from dry grass and thatch, thatched roof disease), tækkemandslunge (an allergic lung disease occuring in thatchers caused by inhalation of dust particles from dry grass and thatch, thatched roof disease), bulhus (thatched country cottage). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

strodakziekte (an allergic lung disease occuring in thatchers caused by inhalation of dust particles from dry grass and thatch, thatched roof disease), houten huis (thatched country cottage). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

olkikatto (thatched roof). (various references)

   

French

  

maladie des toits de chaume (an allergic lung disease occuring in thatchers caused by inhalation of dust particles from dry grass and thatch, thatched roof disease), maison à pan de bois et remplissage horizontal (thatched country cottage). (various references)

   

German

  

Strohdach (thatched roof). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νόσος των καλαμοσκεπών (an allergic lung disease occuring in thatchers caused by inhalation of dust particles from dry grass and thatch, thatched roof disease), οικία με ξυλότοιχο και οριζόντιο γέμισμα (thatched country cottage). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שכוך (covered, pacification, sedation), סכוך (screening, thatching). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

zsúpfedél (thatched roof), nádtető (thatch, thatched roof), nádfedél (thatched roof). (various references)

   

Italian

  

malattia dei tetti di paglia (an allergic lung disease occuring in thatchers caused by inhalation of dust particles from dry grass and thatch, thatched roof disease). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

茅舎 (hovel, my humble cottage, thatched cottage), 茅屋 (hovel, my humble cottage, thatched cottage), 藁葺き (thatched roof), 草庵 (thatched hut), 草屋根 (thatched roof), 草屋 (thatched hut), 草堂 (humble abode, monks cell, thatched hut). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

くさやね (thatched roof), くさや (thatched hut), そうおく (thatched hut), そうどう (humble abode, monks cell, rebellion, riot, strife, temple meditation hall or certain other temple structures, thatched hut), そうあん (draft, original idea, priest's hermitage, thatched hut), ぼうおく (hovel, my humble cottage, thatched cottage), ぼうしゃ (hovel, my humble cottage, thatched cottage), わらぶき (thatched roof). (various references)

   

Manx

  

thooit. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atchedthay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

doença dos manipuladores de colmo para tectos (an allergic lung disease occuring in thatchers caused by inhalation of dust particles from dry grass and thatch, thatched roof disease), casa de madeira com revestimento horizontal (thatched country cottage). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

enfermedad del tejador con paja (an allergic lung disease occuring in thatchers caused by inhalation of dust particles from dry grass and thatch, thatched roof disease), casa de entramado de madera y relleno horizontal (thatched country cottage). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

halmtak (thatch, thatched roof). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lợp rạ, lợp lá, có mái tranh, có mái rạ, có mái lá; lợp tranh. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: THATCHED

Misspellings

"THATCHED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thetted, Tkachev. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "THATCHED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "THATCHED" (pronounced tha"kht)
3-a" kh tattached, detached, dispatched, hatched, latched, matched, mismatched, overmatched, patched, reattached, scratched, snatched, unattached, unmatched.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: THATCHED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-h-h-t-t"

-1 letter: chatted, hatched, hatchet.

-2 letters: catted, chetah, detach, hatted, thatch.

-3 letters: ached, acted, cadet, cheat, cheth, death, hatch, hated, heath, tacet, tache, teach, tecta, theca, theta.

-4 letters: aced, ache, cade, cate, chad, chat, dace, date, each, eath, etch, hade, haed, haet, hate, hath, head, heat, heth, tace, tach, tact, tate, teat, teth, thae, that.

-5 letters: ace.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-h-h-t-t"
 

+2 letters: deathwatch.

 

+3 letters: chitchatted.

 

+4 letters: deathwatches, hypothecated, photocathode.

 

+5 letters: photocathodes.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Images: Digital Art
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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