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"CHESTNUTS" is a plural of: chestnut. |
Date "CHESTNUTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of handling chestnuts, foretells losses in a business way, but indicates an agreeable companion through life. Eating them, denotes sorrow for a time, but final happiness. For a young woman to dream of eating or trying her fortune with them, she will have a well-to-do lover and comparative plenty. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Crosswords: CHESTNUTS |
| English words defined with "CHESTNUTS": Araucaria bidwillii, Australia chestnut ♦ beech family, breadfruit, bunya bunya, bunya bunya tree ♦ Castanea, Conopodium denudatum ♦ earthnut ♦ Fagaceae, family Fagaceae ♦ genus Castanea ♦ Loranthus europaeus ♦ mistletoe, Moreton Bay chestnut. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CHESTNUTS": Cat's Paw ♦ Grangousier. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CHESTNUTS": Castanets. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Cat and the Chestnuts (1913) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Hot roasted chestnuts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Moliere | To pull the chestnuts out of the fire with the cat's paw. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | When chestnuts were ripe I laid up half a bushel for winter |
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Economic History | Georgia | Georgia's fertile soil and good climate are favorable for production of a wide variety of high value agricultural products, including grapes and wine, nuts (hazelnuts, almonds, walnuts, chestnuts), tea, citrus fruits, and apricots. (references) |
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| "CHESTNUTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CHESTNUTS" is used about 126 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 126 | 28,512 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CHESTNUTS": water-chestnuts. | |
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| Language | Translations for "CHESTNUTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | marrons. (various references) | |
German | Kastanien. (various references) | |
Hungarian | gesztenyeszínû. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 焼き (roasted chestnuts), " (broiled sweet chestnuts), " (broiled sweet chestnuts). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あまぐり (broiled sweet chestnuts), やきぐり (roasted chestnuts). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | estnutschay.(various references) | |
Russian | пули. (various references) | |
Spanish | catsa as, castan~as. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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"CHESTNUTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chesnut, chessnut. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CHESTNUTS" (pronounced khe"snuts) |
| 4 | -n u t s | baronets, bluebonnets, cabinets, coordinates, electromagnets, hornets, laminates, magnets, minutes, peanuts, planets, tenets, unfortunates, units. |
| 3 | -u t s | advocates, affidavits, affiliates, affricates, agates, aggregates, amulets, animates, anklets, approximates, articulates, associates, audits, Babbitts, ballots, bandits, banquets, barbiturates, baskets, berets, bigots, billets, biscuits, blankets, booklets, bracelets, brackets, branchlets, buckets, budgets, buffets, bullets, carats, carpets, carrots, caskets, certificates, chariots, cheviots, chocolates, ciliates, circuits, climates, closets, comets, compatriots, composites, conduits, conglomerates, consulates, correlates, covets, credits, crickets, culprits, deficits, degenerates, demerits, deposits, diets, digits, discredits, dockets, doctorates, droplets, edits, electorates, elicits, Emirates, ergots, estimates, exhibits, exits, eyelets, facets, faucets, favorites, ferrets, fillets, frigates, gadgets, garrets, gaskets, graduates, guesstimates, habits, hamlets, hatchets, helmets, helots, hermits, hypermarkets, idiots, illiterates, inaugurates, ingots, inhabits, inherits, inhibits, initiates, intermediates, interprets, intimates, invertebrates, islets, jackets, jesuits, junkets, lancets, laureates, leaflets, legates, limits, limpets, maggots, markets, merits, microcircuits, microclimates, midgets, millets, moderates, nonprofits, nuggets, nutlets, omelets, opiates, opposites, orbits, packets, palates, pallets, pamphlets, parrots, particulates, patriots, pellets, perquisites, pickets, pickpockets, piglets, pilots, pirates, platelets, plaudits, plummets, pockets, poets, portraits, posits, prelates, prerequisites, privates, profits, prohibits, prophets, puppets, quiets, quintuplets, rackets, racquets, requisites, revisits, rickets, riots, rivets, rockets, russets, secrets, sextuplets, silicates, snippets, sockets, solicits, spigots, spirits, starlets, summits, supermarkets, surrogates, tablets, targets, thickets, tickets, toilets, trinkets, triplets, trumpets, turrets, underestimates, undergraduates, violets, visits, wallets, wastebaskets, whats, wickets, widgets, zealots. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-n-s-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: chestnut. | |
-2 letters: tusches. | |
-3 letters: census, cestus, chests, chutes, cutest, scents, scutes, shunts, shutes, stench, stunts, sunset, tenths, tusche, tushes, tusseh, unsets. | |
-4 letters: cents, centu, chess, chest, chute, cutes, hents, hests, hunts, nests, netts, scent, scute, scuts, sects, setts, shent, shuns, shunt, shute, shuts, stets, stuns, stunt, suets, tench, tenth, tents, tests, teths, teuch, thens. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-n-s-s-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: staunchest, unstitches. | |
+2 letters: touchstones. | |
+3 letters: countershots, enthusiastic, unchastities. | |
+5 letters: coquettishness, counterthrusts, unenthusiastic. | |
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