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Definition: CRANBERRIES |
CRANBERRIESPlural1. Of Cranberry |
Date "CRANBERRIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Crosswords: CRANBERRIES |
| English words defined with "CRANBERRIES": Astroloma humifusum ♦ cotton ball, cowberry, cranberry, cranberry culture, cranberry heath, cranberry sauce ♦ genus Vaccinium, groundberry ♦ lingonberry, lowbush cranberry ♦ mountain cranberry ♦ native cranberry ♦ Styphelia humifusum ♦ Vaccinium. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CRANBERRIES": FARM-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
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Screenplays | And if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does. (Animal Crackers; writing credit: George S. Kaufman; Morrie Ryskind) Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. (Animal Crackers; writing credit: George S. Kaufman; Morrie Ryskind) It's a jungle out there; I had to beat an old lady with a stick to get these cranberries. (Spider-Man; writing credit: Stan Lee; Steve Ditko) | |
Lyrics | The Cranberries English tour 1993. (Zombie; performing artist: The Cranberries) | |
Song Titles | Dreams (performing artist: The Cranberries) Free To Decide (performing artist: The Cranberries) Linger (performing artist: The Cranberries) Salvation (performing artist: The Cranberries) When You're Gone (performing artist: The Cranberries) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Cranberries loaded on truck for shippment. Credit: USDA. |  | Woman picking cranberries, Burlington County, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Boy picking cranberries, Burlington County, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Girl picking cranberries, Burlington County, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Man scooping cranberries, Burlington County, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Men scooping cranberries, Burlington County, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Women picking cranberries, Burlington County, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Child picking cranberries, Burlington County, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Children picking cranberries, Burlington County, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Economic History | Taiwan | However, snack fruits such as dried cranberries, mixed dried fruits, and ingredient-ready dried and frozen berries (e.g., blueberries, raspberries, and cranberries) have already seen import values and volumes double since 1998. These products promise to maintain bullish growth through the foreseeable future as such flavors work their way into the mainstream prepared food market. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CRANBERRIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 95.35% of the time. "CRANBERRIES" is used about 43 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) | 95.35% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.65% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CRANBERRIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | è""越æ¡" (Cranberry). (various references) | ||||
German | Preiselbeeren. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | anberriescray | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Oxycoccos macrocarpon, Vaccinium macrocarpon. (various references) |
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"CRANBERRIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: canberries, cramberries, cranmerian, orangeries. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CRANBERRIES" (pronounced kra"nbe'rēz) |
| 5 | -b e' r ē z | blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries. |
| 4 | -e' r ē z | actuaries, adversaries, aviaries, beneficiaries, capillaries, cemeteries, commentaries, commissaries, confectionaries, contemporaries, corollaries, dictionaries, dignitaries, emissaries, estuaries, fiduciaries, functionaries, intermediaries, itineraries, legionaries, libraries, luminaries, mercenaries, militaries, missionaries, monasteries, obituaries, ordinaries, preliminaries, primaries, proprietaries, reactionaries, revolutionaries, sanctuaries, secondaries, secretaries, seminaries, subsidiaries, temporaries, tributaries. |
| 3 | -r ē z | allegories, asymmetries, berries, buries, cadres, canaries, carries, categories, Ceres, cherries, conservatories, countries, cowries, dairies, dormitories, entries, fairies, ferries, foundries, geometries, glories, Harries, imageries, industries, interrogatories, inventories, juries, laboratories, lampreys, laundries, lavatories, lorries, marries, miniseries, ministries, observatories, pastries, pleasantries, prairies, quarries, queries, reformatories, registries, repositories, rivalries, safaris, saris, sentries, series, signatories, stories, tapestries, territories, theories, toiletries, tories, varies, visionaries. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-i-n-r-r-r-s" | |
-2 letters: errancies, increaser, recarries. | |
-3 letters: barrener, barriers, brisance, carbines, carriers, creasier, increase, scarrier, sincerer. | |
-4 letters: absence, acerber, arcsine, arsenic, ascribe, barnier, barrens, barrier, beanies, bearers, berries, bracers, brasier, briners, carbine, careens, careers, caribes, carnies, carrier, carries, caserne, cerebra, creaser, earners, rearers, recanes, reearns, reraise, rerisen, scarier, scriber, sierran, sincere. | |
-5 letters: aerier, aeries, airers, arisen, arsine. | |
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