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AQUILINE
Definition of AQUILINE
adjective
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of eagles; resembling that of an eagle.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
AQUILINE carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Relating to or having the characteristics of an eagle.
adjective
Curved or hooked like an eagle's beak.
“an aquiline nose.”
Of or pertaining to the eagle.
Resembling an eagle; having the characteristics of an eagle; especially, resembling an eagle's beak; curving; hooked; prominent.
Where it comes from
From Latin aquilīnus, from aquila (“eagle”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,723)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
AQUILINE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 172 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 10, 30 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
AQUILINE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEIILNQU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of AQUILINE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start AQUILI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found AQUILINE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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