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伯
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Definitions
- 1. father's elder brother
- 2. senior
- 3. paternal elder uncle
- 4. eldest of brothers
- 5. respectful form of address
- 6. Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wǔ děng jué wèi]
Example Sentences
1 shown鮑 伯 在話劇社。
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Words Containing 伯
shrike (family Laniidae)
Xibo ethnic group of northeast China
name or river God associated with Yellow river
The Canterbury Tales, collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer 喬叟|乔叟[qiáo sǒu]
Peloponnese (peninsula in southern Greece)
assistance that one gets from another
Blumberg or Bloomberg (name)
Arabic (language & writing)
father's brother (uncle)
see 孜然[zī rán], cumin
David Hilbert (1862-1943), German mathematician
Hubble Space Telescope
Kimberlite (geology)
Li Boyuan or Li Baojia 李寶嘉|李宝嘉 (1867-1906), late Qing journalist, novelist and social observer, author of Observations on the current state of officialdom 官場現形記|官场现形记
Steve Jobs (1955-2011), US co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc.
Bayan (name)
earl
Arab League, regional organization of Arab states in Southwest Asia, and North and Northeast Africa, officially called the League of Arab States
Bern, capital of Switzerland
Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Bethlehem (in the biblical nativity story)
Siberia
Zebedee (name)
(bird species of China) Chinese grey shrike (Lanius sphenocercus)
Zerubbabel (son of Shealtiel)
father's elder brother
Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war
Abraham (name)
Jobs (name)
Sir Tim Berners-Lee (1955-), British computer scientist and co-creator of the World Wide Web
Arabic (language)
Bo Le (horse connoisseur during Spring and Autumn Period)
lit. unable to distinguish eldest brother from second brother (idiom); they are all equally excellent
see 阿斯佩爾格爾|阿斯佩尔格尔[ā sī pèi ěr gé ěr]
St Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
brother-in-law
Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿[āi dé méng dùn]
Hebrew language
Earl Grey tea
Bertrand (name)
Robert Louis Stevenson (novelist), author of Treasure Island 金銀島|金银岛[jīn yín dǎo]
Shaobo Lake, freshwater lake in Jiangsu Province
Feng Doubo or Feng Wu (1672-), calligrapher of the Ming-Qing transition
governor (of a province)
Dorbod Mongol autonomous county in Daqing 大慶|大庆[dà qìng], Heilongjiang
Aberdeen (city on east coast of Scotland)
Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿[āi dé méng dùn]
Hebrew language
Arabian Sea
gum arabic
Hebrew
Gilbert Islands
(bird species of China) tiger shrike (Lanius tigrinus)
Webb, Webber or Weber (name)
(bird species of China) Burmese shrike (Lanius collurioides)
ThyssenKrupp
Herbstosaurus (genus of pterosaur)
Krupp
a Saudi
Albert (name)
Arab Telecommunication Union
lit. there are many swift horses, but very few who can spot them (idiom)
Dorbod Mongol autonomous county in Daqing 大慶|大庆[dà qìng], Heilongjiang
Arab
Edwin Hubble (1889-1953), US astronomer
Bernanke (name)
The Butterfly Lovers, Chinese folktale of the tragic love between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai
(bird species of China) southern grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis)
Bo Yikao, eldest son of King Wen of Zhou 周文王[zhōu wén wáng] and the elder brother of King Wu 周武王[zhōu wǔ wáng] who was the founder of the Zhou Dynasty 周朝[zhōu cháo] of ancient China
(coll.) husband's elder brother
Beelzebub
father's father's brother's wife
Arabian
(bird species of China) great grey shrike (Lanius excubitor)
Xi Xiaobo (1910-1977), Beijing opera star, one of the Four great beards 四大鬚生|四大须生
Job (name)
Novosibirsk (city in Russia)
butcher
Jacob (name)
wife of father's elder brother
Saudi Arabia
Avebury (stone circle near Stonehenge)
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), German physicist
Herbert (name)
Bertrand (name)
Gilbert (name)
Scarborough Shoal (Philippines' name for Huangyan Island)
Carlsberg
father's father's brother
Middlebury (College)
(bird species of China) grey-backed shrike (Lanius tephronotus)
Oberlin
Bratislava, capital of Slovakia
Arab
(bird species of China) bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus)
almost on a par
(bird species of China) long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach)
see 阿斯佩爾格爾|阿斯佩尔格尔[ā sī pèi ěr gé ěr]
Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright
Khyber pass (between Pakistand and Afghanistan)
Halliburton (US construction company)
tiger (ancient, dialect)
shrike
fool
Roberts
Bunbury, coastal city in Western Australia
the Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Wei Boyang (c. 100-170), Chinese author and alchemist
Liberman, Lieberman or Liebermann (name)
(bird species of China) red-tailed shrike (Lanius phoenicuroides)
Bertha (name)
Epistle of St Paul to the Philippians
Stonehenge
Steven Spielberg (1946-), US film director
Robertson (name)
Novosibirsk, city in Russia
Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿[āi dé méng dùn]
Chamberlain (name)
Bournemouth, UK
Abe (short form for Abraham)
Arab Common Market
Epistle of St Paul to the Hebrews
Justin Bieber (1994-), Canadian singer
Robespierre (name)
(name) Berger
Belize
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese poet, writer and artist
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish dramatist and writer
Apert syndrome
Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet
(bird species of China) red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio)
Khyber province of Pakistan
Hebrew language
(bird species of China) brown shrike (Lanius cristatus)
Bloomsbury, London district
Tiber (river in Italy, the main watercourse of Rome)
Jürgen Habermas (1929-), German social philosopher
Bethsaida, settlement on the shore of the Sea of Galilee mentioned in the New Testament
Robert (name)
Hebrew
Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Klebsiella pnenmoniae
Highbury (name)
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish philosopher and political scientist, member of British Parliament
Birmingham
Dublin, capital of Ireland
(bird species of China) Vega gull (Larus vegae)
Libreville, capital of Gabon
eldest
Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba, Canada
Hebrew person
(of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather
Chen Boda (1904-1989), communist party theorist, interpreter of Maoism
arabinose (type of sugar)
Tang Bohu or Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子
Mark Zuckerberg (1984-), American computer programer, co-founder and CEO of Facebook
father's elder brother
Philip
(bird species of China) steppe grey shrike (Lanius pallidirostris)
Maubeuge (French city)
Arabian Peninsula
(bird species of China) isabelline shrike (Lanius isabellinus)
Gilbert's syndrome
neighborhood warden
(bird species of China) lesser grey shrike (Lanius minor)
Xibo ethnic group of northeast China
Liu Bowen (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[zhū yuán zhāng], with a reputation as a military genius, also called Liu Ji 劉基|刘基[liú jī]
Burns (name)
Canterbury
Salisbury plain
Dorbod Mongol autonomous county in Daqing 大慶|大庆[dà qìng], Heilongjiang
Berkeley
David Hilbert (1862-1943), German mathematician
Klebsiella
Bunbury, coastal city in Western Australia
Jian Bozan (1898-1968), Chinese Marxist historian and vice-president of Bejing University 1952-1968
to ask for assistance
Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州[yī lí hā sà kè zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
Maspero (name)
Peter (Catholic transliteration)
Merriam-Webster (dictionary)