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"DRUIDS" is a plural of: druid. |
Date "DRUIDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not disdain to employ the humble allurement of human sacrifice. Very little is now known about the Druids and their faith. Pliny says their religion, originating in Britain, spread eastward as far as Persia. Caesar says those who desired to study its mysteries went to Britain. Caesar himself went to Britain, but does not appear to have obtained any high preferment in the Druidical Church, although his talent for human sacrifice was considerable. Druids performed their religious rites in groves, and knew nothing of church mortgages and the season-ticket system of pew rents. They were, in short, heathens and -- as they were once complacently catalogued by a distinguished prelate of the Church of England -- Dissenters. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: DRUIDS |
| English words defined with "DRUIDS": Druidical, Druidism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DRUIDS": Brennus ♦ Faids ♦ Kingly Titles ♦ Sarsen Stones. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That's 'cause druids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas) These are not the druids that you are looking for. (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas) I am Princess Vespa, daughter of Roland, King of the Druids. (Spaceballs; writing credit: Mel Brooks and Ronny Graham.) In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing (This Is Spinal Tap; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Michael McKean) The Druids, winter solstice, Hannakah, the Romans converted Saternali into Christmas. (Millennium; writing credit: Eric Knight) | |
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| "DRUIDS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DRUIDS" is used about 85 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% | 85 | 35,870 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
druids glen | 52 |
eq druids | 30 |
bard druids order ovates | 17 |
druids henge stone | 6 |
celt and druids | 4 |
celtic druids trefoil | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "DRUIDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 督伊德教憎侣 (Druid). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | uidsdray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"DRUIDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dreds, drid, drinds, droads, droid, droids, droites, druad, druds, druidd, Druide, druides, druidh, druidz, druins, druiod, druit, druits, Druitt, duads, duird. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DRUIDS" (pronounced druw"udz) |
| 4 | -uw" u d z | fluids. |
| 3 | -u d z | acids, alcids, annelids, antacids, aphids, arachnids, ballads, bicuspids, coloreds, Cupids, desmids, hatreds, hundreds, hybrids, invalids, liquids, methods, orchids, periods, pleiads, pyramids, rapids, salads, solids, undecideds. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: siddur. | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-i-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: druid, rudds. | |
-2 letters: duds, rids, rudd, sudd, surd, urds. | |
-3 letters: did, dis, dud, dui, ids, rid, sir, sri, urd. | |
-4 letters: id, is, si, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-i-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: dirdums, siddurs. | |
+2 letters: druidess, druidism, ruddiest, siddurim, sturdied. | |
+3 letters: cruddiest, debruised, disburden, disbursed, disrupted, dissuader, disturbed, druidisms, reduviids, restudied, ruddiness, underbids, underside, undesired, unriddles. | |
+4 letters: diadromous, disburdens, discoursed, disfigured, dissuaders, distrusted, drudgeries, druidesses, shuddering, sideburned, subdivider, undergirds, undersides, undersized, windsurfed. | |
+5 letters: desideratum, disburdened, discouraged, disgruntled, distributed, dundrearies, epidendrums, outstridden, rediscussed, ruddinesses, stridulated, subdividers, superadding, underbodies, undersigned, undistorted, undisturbed, wunderkinds. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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