ariot
/əˈɹaɪət/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "In the camp at the bend of the river, with its dozen saloons aglare, Its gambling dens ariot, its gramophones all ablare;"
- "It was a red drama of the primitive—destruction amuck and ariot, the primordial embodied in fangs and talons, gone mad and plunging in slaughter."
- "1896, Octave Thanet (pseudonym of Alice French, “The Captured Dream” in A Book of True Lovers, Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897, p. 262, […] a white fence glittered in front of an old fashioned garden ariot with scarlet salvias and crimson coxcomb."
- "The rooms seemed to run on for blocks, stuffed with automata human and animal assembled and in pieces, disappearing-cabinets, tables that would float in midair and other trick furniture, Davenport figures with dark-rimmed eyes in sinister faces, lengths of perfect black velvet and multicolored silk brocade a-riot with Oriental scenes […]"
Etymology
From a- (“on, in”) + riot.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a
Inflected Forms
a-riot (alternative)