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The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.
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Meaning of "unheard of" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNHEARD OF

unheard of  [ʌnˈhɜːd ɒv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNHEARD OF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unheard of is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNHEARD OF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unheard of in the English dictionary

The definition of unheard of in the dictionary is previously unknown. Other definition of unheard of is without precedent.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNHEARD OF

unhead
unheaded
unheal
unhealable
unhealed
unhealing
unhealth
unhealthful
unhealthfully
unhealthfulness
unhealthier
unhealthiest
unhealthily
unhealthiness
unhealthy
unheard
unheard-of
unheart
unheated
unhedged

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNHEARD OF

a load of
ahead of
clap hold of
get a load of
get any good of
get hold of
get rid of
in aid of
in the neighbourhood of
instead of
kind of
lay hold of
put one in mind of
sam hold of
streets ahead of
think the world of
to windward of

Synonyms and antonyms of unheard of in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unheard of» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNHEARD OF

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

Translator English - Chinese

闻所未闻
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inaudito
570 millions of speakers

English

unheard of
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनसुना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لم يسمع به
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неслыханное
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inédito
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনাহুত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

du jamais vu
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

tidak pernah di dengari
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unerhört
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

前代未聞
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전례
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unheard of
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nghe
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கேள்விப்படாதே
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

च्या पूर्वी कधीही न ऐकलेला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Duyulmamış
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inaudito
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niespotykane
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нечуване
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nemaiauzit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανήκουστο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ongehoord
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oerhörd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uhørt
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unheard of

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNHEARD OF»

The term «unheard of» is quite widely used and occupies the 36.207 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNHEARD OF» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «unheard of» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «unheard of» 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 unheard of

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10 QUOTES WITH «UNHEARD OF»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unheard of.
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Brian Blessed
My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school.
2
Natalie Dormer
Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
3
Dr. Dre
My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.
4
Ben Fountain
I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.
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Rose George
The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.
6
Barry Gibb
You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
7
Yunjin Kim
I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
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Lee Krasner
In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of.
9
Freddie Mercury
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
10
Kathryn Minshew
Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNHEARD OF»

Discover the use of unheard of in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unheard of and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
Throughout her coverage of the sensational trial, Gitta Sereny never believed the characterizations of Bell as the incarnation of evil, the bad seed personified.
Gitta Sereny, 2000
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Unheard Of: Memoirs of a Canadian Composer
Memoirs of a Canadian Composer John Beckwith. LIFE WRITING SERIES In the Life Writing Series, Wilfrid Laurier University Press publishes life writing and new life-writing criticism and theory in order to promote autobiographical accounts, ...
John Beckwith, 2012
3
Ears of the Angels: Healing the Sounds - Heard and Unheard - ...
" - Christiane Northrup, MD This is the story of violin maker Deena Zalkind Spear, who developed innovative physical methods to enhance the sounds of violin, violas and cellos, and then discovered she could transform the acoustics of ...
Deena Zalkind Spear, 2003
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Living the Death of God: A Theological Memoir
This is not unheard of in the history of theology— one has only to think of the late Luther— nor is it unheard of in the history of philosophy, as witness both Plato and Hegel, but it is unheard of in our imaginative history, unheard of in our ...
Thomas J. J. Altizer, 2006
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Handbook of Creativity
A similar inference follows from James's statement that the thought processes of these "highest order of minds" bring about the "most unheard of" combinations, presumably unheard of to thinker as well as to the audience. This again is a claim  ...
Robert J. Sternberg, 1999
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The Skin of the System: On Germany's Socialist Modernity
—Johannes R. Becher, The Great Plan2 1. the unheard-of beginning: introduction to a socialist flaying Echoing the claim by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, the father-figure of German bourgeois literature, that the dramatic novel is an “ unheard-of ...
Benjamin Robinson, 2009
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Passions of the Sign: Revolution and Language in Kant, ...
Read in this context, Goethe's famous "definition" of the genre "as an unheard-of event that has actually occurred" acquires a new and heightened significance.62 "This formulation," Wellbery comments, "merely accentuates what had been the ...
Andreas Gailus, 2006
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Hammarskjöld: A Life
We know something of his awareness of frontiers, but here we find his first, by no means last, reference to “the unheard-of.” I have counseled with Swedish and American friends concerning the proper translation and possible sources in ...
Roger Lipsey, 2013
9
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
ously close to counting as the rule rather than as the exception. Situations that stand as exceptional in our own day and age were not necessarily unheard of in another era. As shocking as the deeds of Hansel and Gretel's parents may seem to ...
Maria Tatar, 2003
10
Nietzsche and Metaphor
I. An. Unheard-of. and. Insolent. Philosophy. The speaker has already vulgarized himself by speaking. - From a moral code for deaf-mutes and other philosophers. (TI, 'Expeditions of an Untimely Man', 26) Writing on Nietzsche presents a ...
Sarah Kofman, Duncan Large, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNHEARD OF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unheard of is used in the context of the following news items.
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Admitting students with lower grades is not unheard of at UT
AUSTIN (KXAN) – Because she was in the top 10 percent of her graduating class, Maya Gogli did not have to sweat it. The University of Texas was her one and ... «KXAN.com, Jul 15»
2
Unheard of 20 years ago, chief risk officers have become …
There's a skills shortage and, in shortages, the price rises. In the City these days, that means that the price of risk managers is surging. Chief risk officers, who ... «The Times, Jul 15»
3
Once unheard of, US-Iran talks become the new normal
VIENNA (AP) — The top American and Iranian diplomats faced each other across a square table in a 19th century Viennese palace, the room austerely ... «Yahoo News, Jun 15»
4
New Jersey girl diagnosed with unheard of medical condition
RUTHERFORD, N.J. — For a year and a half we've been telling the story of Maya-Rose Dwek and her dad Alex. They live in Rutherford, N.J. Maya is 8 1/2 now. «New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV, Jun 15»
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RICHMOND HILL: 6-week trial in Indiana 'unheard of'
RICHMOND HILL: 6-week trial in Indiana 'unheard of'. TheIndyChannel.com Staff. 9:47 AM, Jun 6, 2015. 12:48 AM, Jun 8, 2015. Previous Next. Autoplay:. «WRTV Indianapolis, Jun 15»
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"Pitch Perfect 2" Just Did Something Completely Unheard Of
Here's some aca-crazy news: Pitch Perfect 2 just made more in one weekend than Pitch Perfect made in its entire run. That's insane. Not only that, but the sequel ... «Cosmopolitan.com, May 15»
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Honeybees dying, situation 'unheard of'
Just last year, it seemed there was something to celebrate despite planet Earth's ongoing honeybee apocalypse: Bee colony losses were down. Not by enough ... «Washington Post, May 15»
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It's unheard of - Alta missed 100-inch base
(Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune) For only the second time in the last 50 years, Alta Ski Area has not reached a 100-inch base. Skiers enjoy the foggy ... «Salt Lake Tribune, Apr 15»
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A Tropical Storm in April? It's Not Unheard Of | The Weather Channel
Meteorologist Ari Sarsalari talks about the anniversary of Tropical Storm Ana, a storm that formed before the offical start to the Atlantic hurricane season. «The Weather Channel, Apr 15»
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Gun-magazine bill rift leads to unheard of maneuver in Colorado …
The schism among conservatives over Colorado's gun laws widened this week when four House Republicans formed a secret pact and pushed for a procedural ... «The Denver Post, Apr 15»

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