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"DRYADS" is a plural of: dryad. |
Date "DRYADS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dryads Nymphs of the trees. (Greek, drus, any forest tree.) They were supposed to live in the trees and die when the trees died. Eurydice, the wife of Orpheus (2 syl.) the poet, was a dryad. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I would join the rural divinities in the fete, I would convoke the dryads and the nereids. |
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| "DRYADS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 86.36% of the time. "DRYADS" is used about 22 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) | 86.36% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.64% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 22 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DRYADS": he-dryads. | |
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| 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 |
dryads | 17 |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "DRYADS": hamadryads. (additional references) | |
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"DRYADS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dorads, Drasdo, drinds, droads, Dryades, Dryas, dyrad. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: drays, dryad, dyads, yards. | |
-2 letters: adds, dads, days, dray, drys, dyad, rads, rays, ryas, sard, yard. | |
-3 letters: add, ads, ars, ays, dad, day, dry, rad, ras, ray, rya, sad, say, yar. | |
-4 letters: ad, ar, as, ay, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: dryades. | |
+2 letters: saddlery. | |
+3 letters: dastardly, daydreams, deeryards, dockyards, dooryards, dryasdust, hydracids, ladybirds, yardbirds, yardlands, yardwands. | |
+4 letters: anhydrides, bodyguards, dairymaids, daytraders, dehydrates, disarrayed, doomsdayer, dryasdusts, hamadryads, hydrazides, readymades, standardly. | |
+5 letters: daydreamers, dehydrators, discordancy, doomsdayers, hamadryades, hydromedusa, redisplayed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 52 59 41 44 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .-. -.--. .- -.. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01010010 01011001 01000001 01000100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D R Y A D S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0052 0059 0041 0044 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)385259353853 |
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