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Definition: CURIOSITIES |
CURIOSITIESPlural1. Of Curiosity |
Date "CURIOSITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Crosswords: CURIOSITIES |
| English words defined with "CURIOSITIES": Bric-a brac ♦ Scrine, Sight-seeing, Sight-seer ♦ To abound with. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CURIOSITIES": Angelical Stone ♦ Foods and Wines ♦ Medamothi ♦ NICKNACKS. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Of all the curiosities here I've seen, none could've surprised me more than this. (Warlock; writing credit: David Twohy) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Walter Futter's Curiosities (1930) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | On the other side, after having seen all the curiosities of the island, I was very desirous to leave it, being heartily weary of those people. |
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| "CURIOSITIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 91.53% of the time. "CURIOSITIES" is used about 59 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) | 91.53% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.47% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 59 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CURIOSITIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 求知欲 (Curiosity). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | ihmeellisyydet (marvels, wonders). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Raritäten. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | raritások (old curiosities), régiségek (antiquities, old curiosities), antikvitások (old curiosities). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 호기심 (Curiosity). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | uriositiescay curiosidades (bric a brac). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CURIOSITIES": incuriosities. (additional references) | |
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"CURIOSITIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: curiositas, curiosite, curiositys, curiousities, currosities. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CURIOSITIES" (pronounced kyuh'rēÄ"sutēz) |
| 6 | -Ä" s u t ē z | animosities, atrocities, velocities. |
| 5 | -s u t ē z | capacities, complexities, densities, eccentricities, intensities, necessities, niceties, propensities, universities. |
| 4 | -u t ē z | abilities, abnormalities, absurdities, activities, affinities, ambiguities, amenities, annuities, antiquities, anxieties, authorities, availabilities, banalities, brutalities, calamities, capabilities, causalities, cavities, celebrities, charities, commodities, commonalities, communities, deformities, deities, deputies, disabilities, disability, disparities, divinities, enmities, entities, equities, extremities, facilities, fatalities, festivities, fidelities, formalities, fraternities, generalities, gratuities, hostilities, humanities, humanity, identities, illegalities, immunities, improprieties, impurities, indemnities, indignities, inequalities, inequities, infidelities, infirmities, insecurities, instabilities, irregularities, legalities, liabilities, liquidities, localities, majorities, maturities, minorities, modalities, municipalities, nationalities, obscenities, oddities, opportunities, parities, peculiarities, personalities, pieties, possibilities, principalities, priorities, probabilities, proclivities, qualities, quantities, rarities, realities, responsibilities, rigidities, securities, sensibilities, sensitivities, similarities, societies, sororities, technicalities, tonalities, unfamiliarities, utilities, vanities, varieties, verities, vulnerabilities. |
| 3 | -t ē z | amnesties, Antes, beauties, booties, bounties, casualties, certainties, christies, cities, committees, counties, cruelties, diabetes, difficulties, ditties, duties, dynasties, eighties, empties, entreaties, faculties, fatties, fifties, forties, frailties, lefties, liberties, loyalties, Montes, nineties, novelties, panties, parties, patties, penalties, pretties, properties, royalties, seventies, shanties, sixties, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, thirties, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, vigilantes, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-i-o-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-3 letters: citreous, citruses, coituses, crosstie, crustose, curtsies, eristics, iritises, outcries, rictuses, scouters. | |
-4 letters: citrous, corsets, cosiest, costers, courses, couters, cruises, crusets, curites, cutises, eristic, erotics, escorts, estrous, icterus, ictuses, oestrus, ousters, rosiest, rustics, scoters, scouter, sectors, serious, sorites, soritic, sorties, sources, sourest, souters, stories, stoures, stourie, sucrose, suiters, suitors, trioses, tsouris, tussore. | |
-5 letters: cerous. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-i-o-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: incuriosities, promiscuities. | |
+3 letters: diverticulosis, reacquisitions. | |
+4 letters: insurrectionist, securitizations. | |
+5 letters: insurrectionists. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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