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Meaning of "deaf-and-dumb" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEAF-AND-DUMB

deaf-and-dumb play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEAF-AND-DUMB

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Deaf-And-Dumb can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DEAF-AND-DUMB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of deaf-and-dumb in the English dictionary

The definition of deaf-and-dumb in the dictionary is unable to hear or speak. Other definition of deaf-and-dumb is a deaf person without speech.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEAF-AND-DUMB

deadpanner
deadstock
deadweight
deadwood
deaerate
deaeration
deaerator
deaf
deaf aid
deaf without speech
deaf-mute
deaf-muteness
deaf-mutism
deafblind
deafen
deafening
deafeningly
deafish
deafly
deafness

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEAF-AND-DUMB

bedumb
benumb
bethumb
breadcrumb
crumb
dumb
green thumb
hop-o´-my-thumb
miller´s thumb
Northumb
numb
plumb
replumb
rhumb
rule of thumb
rule-of-thumb
succumb
thumb
Tom Thumb
under someone´s thumb

Synonyms and antonyms of deaf-and-dumb in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «deaf-and-dumb» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEAF-AND-DUMB

Find out the translation of deaf-and-dumb to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of deaf-and-dumb from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «deaf-and-dumb» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

聋和哑
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sordo- mudos y -
570 millions of speakers

English

deaf-and-dumb
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बहरा व गूंगा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الصم و البكم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

глухо- и - немой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

surdo -mudo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বধির-এবং-বোবা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sourd-muet
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

pekak dan bodoh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Taubstummen-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

耳が聞こえない·アンド·ダム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

청각 장애인 앤 바보
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wong budheg lan bisu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

điếc và câm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செவிடு மற்றும் ஊமை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बहिरा आणि मूर्ख
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sağır ve dilsiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

- sordomuto
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

głuchy głupi - i -
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

глухо - і - німий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

surdo - mut și -
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κωφών - και - dumb
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dowe - en - stom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

döv - och - dum
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

døve - and- dumb
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of deaf-and-dumb

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEAF-AND-DUMB»

The term «deaf-and-dumb» is normally little used and occupies the 117.007 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEAF-AND-DUMB» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «deaf-and-dumb» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «deaf-and-dumb» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about deaf-and-dumb

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEAF-AND-DUMB»

Discover the use of deaf-and-dumb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to deaf-and-dumb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Annual Abstract of Statistical Information Relative to the ...
_ Deaf and dumb... Deaf and dumb. _ . Deaf and dumb-.Deafand dumb.-Deaf and dumb. _Deaf and dumb.-Deaf and dumb-__ Deaf and dumb-_Deaf and dumb- -_ Deaf and dumb.-Deaf and dumb--. Deaf and dumb.-Deaf and dumb.- Deaf and ...
Michigan. Department of State, 1874
2
Deaf Liberation Theology
Seventeen years younger than Burns, he and his wife Isabella were among the first members of the Edinburgh Deaf and Dumb congregation in 1 830. A tailor by trade, he moved to Salford, near Manchester, in 1843 to try to improve the ...
Revd Dr Hannah Lewis, 2013
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Annual Abstract of Statistical Information Relative to the ...
4 INTRODUCTORY LETTER. the number of these classes reported in this abstract-when special efforts have been made to make the returns of them complete-»suggests the probability that such as are here reported partially deaf and dumb, ...
Michigan. Department of State, 1877
4
The Disability Studies Reader
The Greeks perceived deafness as an intellectual impairment because of the difficulty in verbal communication that accompanies deafness. The obsolete expression “deaf and dumb” is an apt description of the way in which a deaf ...
Lennard J. Davis, 2006
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Deaf and Dumb
My father wasn't a bad man. He just loved his wife more then me, and because I couldn't fill his shoes, he just put me to the side and forgot about me. That wasn't the only reason he was up set. Not only was I a girl, I was born Deaf and Dumb.
Joseph E. Kaufmann, 2010
6
Deaf and Dumb
Deaf. and. Dumb! >9 "We are going out in a cart," said Henry Rawlinson, as he jumped down the steps of the street-door, to meet Mr. Beaufort, a gentleman who was then on a visit to his father, and who had gained the affections of all the ...
Elizabeth Sandham, 2013
7
Deaf History Unveiled: Interpretations from the New Scholarship
Fifty-first Report of the Directors of the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb ( Hartford, Conn.: Case, Lockwood & Co., 1867), 72ff.'ln 1819 Massachusetts allocated tax dollars for ongoing yearly support of twenty indigent deaf citizens at  ...
John V. Van Cleve, 1999
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Health, Medicine, and Society in Victorian England
Before that, there was no school anywhere in Britain for the ''deaf and dumb,'' as they were called to distinguish them from those deafened later in life who were able to retain the power of speech. (Although the term deaf and dumb has been ...
Mary Wilson Carpenter, 2010
9
Deaf-mutes in the United States
It consists mainly of an intensive study of the statistics for the 19,153 deaf-mutes who returned a special schedule of inquiry which was sent out to every person reported as deaf and dumb by the population enumerators; it also includes a ...
United States. Bureau of the Census, Joseph Adna Hill, Reginald L. Brown, 1918
10
The contrast between atheism, paganism and Christianity ...
The following pagjs contain the substance of a few general lectures, on the subject of the Deaf and Dumb, delivered at the Rotundo in Dublin, in the be- ginning of l8l6, with a view to excite public attention to their neglected condition in Ireland, ...
Charles Edward H. Orpen, 1827

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEAF-AND-DUMB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term deaf-and-dumb is used in the context of the following news items.
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Guddu Rangeela, A Review
... cross paths with too many gangsters, and, with a big debt on their heads, they take on a lucrative mission to kidnap a deaf-and-dumb girl. «India Currents, Jul 15»
2
Sanitary inspector: Headmaster buys sanitary pads for school girls
He said the school also had 56 teaching and 57 non- teaching staff of 18 of whom are deaf-and-dumb. Known as the first ever established ... «Pulse.com.gh, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Deaf-And-Dumb [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/deaf-and-dumb>. Apr 2024 ».
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