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"CLOWNS" is a plural of: clown. |
Date "CLOWNS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Clowns The three most celebrated are Joseph Grimaldi (1779-1837), the French Carlin (1713-1783), and Richard Tarlton, in the days of Queen Elizabeth, who acted at the galleried inn called the Belle Sauvage. "To sit with Tarlton on an alehouse signe." Bishop Hall: Satires. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: CLOWNS |
| English words defined with "CLOWNS": circus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CLOWNS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (clowns). |
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Screenplays | Let us have pirates, clowns, and a happy ending, or we shall send you back to Stratford to your wife! (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard) Too many clowns. (Monk; writing credit: Andy Breckman; David Breckman) And there was these things, these killer clowns, and they shot popcorn at us! (Killer Klowns from Outer Space; writing credit: Charles Chiodo; Edward Chiodo) Not when there's clowns like you around. (Queen of Swords; writing credit: Durnford King; James Thorpe) Clowns Welcome! (Quick Change; writing credit: Howard Franklin) | |
Lyrics | On the jumpers and the clowns when they did their tricks for you ("Like a Rolling Stone"; performing artist: Bob Dylan) You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns (Like a Rolling Stone; performing artist: Bob Dylan) We all need the clowns (FAITHFULLY; performing artist: Journey) Snatchin' crowns from clowns beat downs are found (Hip-Hop Hooray; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) | |
Clever | Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny? (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Climbing crimes are lures for crowded clowns. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | 4 Clowns (1970) I Clowns (1970) A Thousand Clowns (1965) La Princesse aux clowns (1924) Circus Clowns (1922) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Wool Bill" ram leaping over "Presidential veto" banner, held by House Leader Oscar Wilder Underwood and Speaker James Beauchamp Clark dressed as clowns in "Democratic House of Representatives" arena] / Bart. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Five celebrated clowns attached to Sands, Nathan Co's Circus. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Circus sketches: clowns and elephants. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Band and clowns at Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | The argument that money corrupts just by being there is the same argument the campaign finance reform clowns make. |
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| "CLOWNS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 88.98% of the time. "CLOWNS" is used about 127 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) | 88.98% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.09% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 3.94% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 127 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CLOWNS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Clowns, Faxenmacher (clown). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ownsclay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CLOWNS": beclowns. (additional references) | |
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"CLOWNS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clawn, clewn, clowan, clowna, clowne, clowny, clows, cownt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CLOWNS" (pronounced klou"nz) |
| 3 | -ou" n z | browns, crowns, downs, drowns, frowns, gowns, towns. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-l-n-o-s-w" | |
-1 letter: clons, clown, cowls, scowl. | |
-2 letters: clon, cols, cons, cowl, cows, lown, lows, nows, owls, owns, scow, slow, snow, sown, wons. | |
-3 letters: col, con, cos, cow, low, nos, now, ons, owl, own, sol, son, sow, won, wos. | |
-4 letters: lo, no, on, os, ow, so, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l-n-o-s-w" | |
+2 letters: beclowns, clownish, cowlings, scowling. | |
+3 letters: closedown, cooldowns, crownless, downscale, lockdowns. | |
+4 letters: allowances, callowness, clampdowns, closedowns, clowneries, clownishly, downscaled, downscales, lancewoods, scowlingly. | |
+5 letters: candlewoods, commonweals, coneflowers, cornflowers, downscaling, lowercasing, welcomeness. | |
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