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Definition: THATCHED |
THATCHEDImperative & past participle1. Of Thatch |
Date "THATCHED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1622. (references) |
Crosswords: THATCHED |
| English words defined with "THATCHED": old-time ♦ quaint ♦ thatch. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "THATCHED": Thatch. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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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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| "Windmill" by Uschi Hering Commentary: "The mill has a thatched roof." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 83.7% | 154 | 25,326 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.07% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 5.43% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 3.8% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 184 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| 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. | ||
Misspellings | |
"THATCHED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thetted, Tkachev. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "THATCHED" (pronounced tha"kht) |
| 3 | -a" kh t | attached, detached, dispatched, hatched, latched, matched, mismatched, overmatched, patched, reattached, scratched, snatched, unattached, unmatched. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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