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— English words —

• contra prep. Against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to.
• contra adv. Contrary to something.
• contra n. (Business) A deal to swap goods or services.
• contra n. (Politics, derogatory) A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
• contra n. (Accounting, often attributive) An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).
• contra n. (Music, informal) Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass…
• contra n. (Dance) A contra dance.
• contra n. (Obsolete, US, New England, dance) A country dance.
• contra v. (Accounting) To undo; to reverse.
• Contra n. A member of any of various rightist guerrilla groups violently opposing the socialist Sandinista government…
• contra- pref. Against; in opposition to.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Asturian - Galician - Ladin - Occitan
  • contra prep. Against.
• Catalan
  • contra n. Con (disadvantage).
  • contra- pref. Counter-, contra-.
• Catalan - Dalmatian
  • contra adv. Against.
• Finnish
  • contra n. Contra (anti-Sandinista fighter).
• Galician
  • contra n. (Usually in the plural) shutter.
• Romanian
  • contra prep. Against, versus.
  • contra adv. Against, opposed to, opposite.
  • contra adv. In exchange for.
• Venetian
  • contrà n. Street (of houses).

— English word, defined in French —

• contra- préf. Contra-, contre-.

— In German —

• contra Präp. Kontra.
• contra Präp. Mit Akkusativ: gegen, wider.

— In Dutch —

• contra n. Contrarevolutionair.
• contra n. Argumenten tegen de geponeerde stelling.
• contra voorz. Tegen.
• contra- Tegen-, gebruikt in zelfstandige naamwoorden die de tegenhanger…
• contra- Tegen-, gebruikt in bijvoeglijke naamwoorden die een gerichtheid…

— In Latin —

• contra adv. Opposite.
• contra praep. Oppositus.

— In French —

• contra n.m. (Politique) Milicien contre-révolutionnaire dans un pays…
• contra v. Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de contrer.
• contra- préf. Préfixe qui exprime une opposition, variante de contre-.

— In Spanish —

• contra prep. Indica oposición.
• contra prep. Indica la dirección del movimiento.
• contra prep. Indica dirección opuesta a algo que se mueve.
• contra prep. Indica una posición opuesta.
• contra prep. Indica que algo está apoyado en otra cosa.
• contra prep. Indica que una cosa va por otra.
• contra interj. Usado para expresar extrañeza o enfado.

— In Portuguese —

• contra prep. Em oposição a.
• contra prep. Em troca de.
• contra prep. Em direção a.
• contra prep. Defronte de.
• contra prep. Junto de.
• contra prep. De encontro.
• contra s. Objeção.
• contra s. Oposição.
• contra s. Defeito.
• contra s. Inconveniente.
• contra- pref. Indica antagonismo, oposição.

— In Italian —

• contra v. Terza persona singolare dell’indicativo presente di contrare.
• contra v. Seconda persona singolare dell’imperativo di contrare.

74 English words from 21 English definitions

account Accounting Against another anti any attributive Business cancels Con conservative contra- contrabass contrabassoon contra␣dance contrary Contrary␣to contrast counter country country␣dance dance deal derogatory disadvantage England entry exchange fighter for goods government groups guerrilla houses In␣exchange In␣exchange␣for informal instruments member Music musical musical␣instruments New New␣England Nicaraguan Obsolete often opposed opposing opposite opposition originally plural Politics range reverse revolutionaries rightist Sandinista services shutter socialist something Street swap that the tied undo Usually various versus violently

21 English words from 33 foreign definitions

algo Contra- dans del dell die een Indica Junto Kontra Opposite opposition para passé pays persona Politique que simple stelling wider

63 foreign words from 33 foreign definitions

Akkusativ antagonismo apoyado Argumenten Contrarevolutionair contre- contrer contre-révolutionnaire cosa Defeito Defronte direção dirección du␣passé Em␣direção␣a Em␣oposição␣a Em␣troca␣de encontro enfado está expresar exprime extrañeza gebruikt gegen gerichtheid imperativo Inconveniente indicativo Milicien Mit movimiento mueve naamwoorden Objeção oposição oposición opuesta otra passé␣simple personne por posición Préfixe presente qui révolutionnaire Seconda Seconda␣persona singolare singulier tegen tegenhanger Terza Terza␣persona troca Troisième Troisième␣personne una une Usado variante zelfstandige

465 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

contras Contras contract contrail contrary contrast contrate Contrazy contracts contrails contraire contralti contralto contranym contrasts contrasty contraband contrabass contracept contracted contractee contractor Contractor contradick contradict contrafact contraflow Contragate contrahent contraltos contranyms contranymy contrapair contraplex contrapose contrapsin contrarian contraried contraries contrarily contrarity contrary␣to contrasted contravene contrawise contrabands contrabassi contrabasso contracepts Contra␣Costa +415 words

253 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

e-contract decontract e-contracts in␣contrast recontract au␣contraire decontracts ex␣contractu noncontract noncontrast precontract precontrast recontracts subcontract subcontrary acontractile decontracted echocontrast incontracted metacontrast pink␣contract postcontrast precontracts recontracted subcontracts uncontracted uncontrasted will␣contract cocontraction decontracting decontraction hypercontract multicontrast noncontraband noncontracted noncontractor on␣the␣contrary pink␣contracts precontracted prime␣contract quasi-contract radiocontrast recontracting recontraction smart␣contract subcontrabass subcontracted subcontractee subcontractor subcontraries +203 words

3 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

per␣contra anticontra semen␣contra

17 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

con Con CON -con con- cont cont. contr contr. NTR ntr. Ont ONT on't Ont. tra TRA

8 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

art Art ART 'art art. NOC RTN TNO

10 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

cantor Cantor Carnot carton Carton Catron corant craton tracon TRACON

45 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Ancroft anticor Arncott cantaro Cantero cantore cantors Cantors cantour Carlton Carmont carotin cartons cartoon Catrons chantor chortan Cintora Conrath contras Contras coranto corants cortina Cortina Cothran courant Crafton Crantor crapton C-ration cratons Crayton Croatan crontab Cutrona enactor fracton nicator Nicotra on␣track town␣car tracons TRACONs tradcon

43 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

acorn acron acton Acton act␣on actor Arcot Arnot canto Canto Carno caron carto- Caton Cator contr contr. coran Coran Corna Croat Croat. ctRNA narco narco- natro- NOTAR NROTC octan orant racon Raton rat␣on rocta Ronca rotan taroc Taron Tonra toran trona Trona tronc

5 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

centra Condra contro- kontra Sontra

2 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

contr contr.

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