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"FAIRS" is a plural of: fair. |
Date "FAIRS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
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Bible | Fairs (Heb. 'izabhonim), found seven times in Ezek. 27, and nowhere else. The Authorized Version renders the word thus in all these instances, except in verse 33, where "wares" is used. The Revised Version uniformly renders by "wares," which is the correct rendering of the Hebrew word. It never means "fairs" in the modern sense of the word. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FAIRS | English | Fair and Impartial Random Selection System | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: FAIRSSynonym: Exhibitions & fairs. (additional references) |
Crosswords: FAIRS |
| English words defined with "FAIRS": barnstorm ♦ Dryfland ♦ fairground ♦ Grab hag ♦ Lastage, Leipzig ♦ Nundinate, Nundination ♦ Piccage ♦ Stallage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FAIRS": Audley ♦ COUNTY HOME-DEMONSTRATION AGENT ♦ display and banner designer, DISPLAY DESIGNER ♦ FIREWORKS DISPLAY SPECIALIST, flag decorator and designer, FOUR-H CLUB AGENT ♦ Gingerbread Husbands ♦ home agent, home-demonstration agent, home-extension agent ♦ JINGLERS ♦ Open Air Mission ♦ Pie Poudre, PIG RUNNING ♦ setter-off, setter-up, Statute Fairs ♦ TO WHIP THE COCK, transient location, Transient Night. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "FAIRS": Nundinate. (references) |
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![]() | Peter Strasse in Leipzig--a city famous for its great fairs, Germany. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | County agent. Sublette, Kansas. Talking with farmer at 4-H fair held there. These 4-H fairs have supplanted the county fair in the more stricken sections of the country. The financial requirements of the county fair cannot be met any more by the stricken. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | These masters attend the fairs, where I have seen them |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Foreign firms should participate in local trade fairs. (references) | |
Local publishers and agents in Taiwan are very interested in attending book fairs. (references) | ||
ENIT often coordinates the Italian pavilions in major tourism trade fairs worldwide. (references) | ||
Economic History | Sri Lanka | Trade exhibitions and fairs are limited. (references) |
India | CII organizes trade fairs, conferences, and meetings. (references) | |
Brazil | The city of São Paulo hosts around 300 trade fairs per year. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Panama | Laws protect intellectual property rights of indigenous artwork and set up regulations for artisan fairs. (references) |
Trade | Mauritius | Items for trade fairs may be imported duty-free. (references) |
Bolivia | Manufacturers may distribute products through international trade fairs. (references) | |
Travel | Australia | In most cases, items imported for the sole use of exhibiting at local trade fairs are not subject to import duties. (references) |
Switzerland | The trade fairs in Switzerland all have customs offices that can facilitate the payment of fees and clearing of items in an expeditious fashion. (references) | |
Colombia | Colombian executives and technicians, as well as government officials, travel frequently to the U.S. for meetings, conferences, trade fairs, training and tourism. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "FAIRS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FAIRS" is used about 297 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% | 297 | 16,856 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "FAIRS": Health Fairs. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "FAIRS": fun-fairs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
fairs.co.uk penman | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FAIRS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 市场 (market, marketplace, Market-place). (various references) | |
Danish | messer (Customs Convention concerning Facilities for the Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions, Meetings or Similar Events - Brussels 1961), kongresser eller lignende arrangementer - Bruxelles 1961 (Customs Convention concerning Facilities for the Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions, Meetings or Similar Events - Brussels 1961). (various references) | |
Dutch | beurzen (Customs Convention concerning Facilities for the Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions, Meetings or Similar Events - Brussels 1961). (various references) | |
French | une foire (Customs Convention concerning Facilities for the Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions), un congrès ou une manifestation similaire - Bruxelles 1961 (Customs Convention concerning Facilities for the Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions). (various references) | |
German | Zolluebereinkommen ueber Erleichterungen fuer die Einfuhr von Waren (Customs Convention concerning Facilities for the Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions, Meetings or Similar Events - Brussels 1961), Messen (compete, Gage, gauge, measure, measure off, measuring, mete, meter, sound, take, time, to gauge, to measure, to mete), die auf Ausstellungen (Customs Convention concerning Facilities for the Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions, Meetings or Similar Events - Brussels 1961). (various references) | |
Italian | fiera (exhibition, fair, fete), congresso o manifestazione analoga - Bruxelles 1961 (Customs Convention concerning Facilities for the Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions, Meetings or Similar Events - Brussels 1961). (various references) | |
Korean | 박람회 (fairground, fairgrounds). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airsfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | congressos ou manifestaçoes semelhante s (Customs Convention concerning Facilities for the Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions, Meetings or Similar Events - Brussels 1961), Bruxelas 1961 (Customs Convention concerning Facilities for the Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions, Meetings or Similar Events - Brussels 1961). (various references) | |
Spanish | ferias (Customs Convention concerning Facilities for the Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions, Meetings or Similar Events - Brussels 1961), congresos o en manifestaciones similares (Customs Convention concerning Facilities for the Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions, Meetings or Similar Events - Brussels 1961), Bruselas 1961 (Customs Convention concerning Facilities for the Importation of Goods for Display or Use at Exhibitions, Meetings or Similar Events - Brussels 1961). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Ezekiel Chapter 27, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ex oikou qergama ippouV kai ippeiV edwkan agoran sou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | De domo Thogorma equos et equites et mulos adduxerunt ad forum tuum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Of the hous Togorma thei brouyten to thi chepynge horsis, and horsmen, and mulis. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The people of Togarmah gave horses and war-horses and transport beasts for your goods. |
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| Language | Ezekiel Chapter 27, Verse 14 |
| Cebuano | Sila nga gikan sa balay sa Togarma nakigbugtiay sa imong mga manggad mga kabayo sa mga kabayo sa gubat ug mga mula. |
| Croatian | Oni iz Bet Togarme davahu konje, trkaæe konjiæe i mazge. |
| Danish | Togarmas Hus gav dig Køreheste, Rideheste og Muldyr for dine Varer. |
| Dutch | Uit het huis van Togarma leverden zij paarden, en ruiteren, en muilezels op uw markten. |
| Finnish | Toogarman heimo maksoi sinun tavarasi hevosilla, sotaratsuilla ja muuleilla. |
| French | Ceux de la maison de Togarma Pourvoyaient tes marchés de chevaux, de cavaliers et de mulets. |
| German | Die von Thogarma haben dir Rosse und Wagenpferde und Maulesel auf deine Märkte gebracht. |
| Haitian Creole | Ou fè trafik ak moun Togama. Ou vann yo machandiz pa ou. Pou peye ou, yo ba ou chwal pou travay, chwal pou fè lagè ak milèt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Engkau menukarkan barang-barangmu dengan kuda kereta, kuda tunggang dan bagal dari Bet-Togarma. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dari Bait-Togarma datanglah kuda penghela dan kuda kendaraan dan bagal akan ditukar dengan daganganmu. |
| Italian | Quelli di Togarmà ti fornivano in cambio cavalli da tiro, da corsa e muli. |
| Maori | Ko nga tangata o te whare o Tokarama, ko ta ratou i tuku ai i au hokohokonga he hoiho, he hoiho no te whawhai, he muera. |
| Norwegian | Togarma-folket betalte dine varer med vognhester og ridehester og mulesler. |
| Portuguese | Os da casa de Togarma trocavam pelas tuas mercadorias cavalos e ginetes e machos; |
| Rumanian | Cei din casa Togarmei aduceau la tkrgul tqu cai, cqlqreyi wi catkri. |
| Spanish | Los de Bet-togarma, con caballos, corceles y mulos, pagaban tus mercaderÃas. |
| Swedish | Vagnshästar, ridhästar och mulåsnor gåvos åt dig såsom betalning från Togarmas land. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "FAIRS": affairs, funfairs. (additional references) | |
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"FAIRS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afars, afis, fafir, fagrs, faids, fains, faird, faires, fairess, Fairisle, fairn, fairo, fairt, fairys, fajr, faqir, fari, farib, faric, faries, Fariq, farit, farrs, Fars, fayre, fayts, Fehrs, feira, feiris, Feirus, fiars, frais, fuir, rairs, vairs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FAIRS" (pronounced fe"rz) |
| 4 | f e" r z | affairs, fares. |
| 3 | -e" r z | airs, bares, bears, billionaires, blares, cares, chairs, compares, dares, declares, despairs, downstairs, errs, flares, glares, hairs, hares, heirs, impairs, Mairs, mares, millionaires, multimillionaires, pairs, Pares, pears, prayers, prepares, questionnaires, repairs, scares, shares, snares, spares, squares, stairs, stares, swears, tears, theirs, unawares, upstairs, wares, wears. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fiars. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-r-s" | |
-1 letter: airs, arfs, fair, fiar, firs, rias, rifs, sari. | |
-2 letters: air, ais, arf, ars, far, fas, fir, ifs, ras, ria, rif, sir, sri. | |
-3 letters: ai, ar, as, fa, if, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-r-s" | |
+1 letter: afrits, fakirs, faqirs, ferias, flairs, frails, fraise, friars, kafirs, safari, sharif. | |
+2 letters: affairs, affirms, fabrics, faeries, fairest, fairies, fairish, faquirs, farcies, farinas, farside, fiacres, firmans, fraises, frazils, freesia, garfish, infares, insofar, kaffirs, maftirs, oarfish, raffias, raffish, ratfish, safaris, scarify, sharifs, suffari, tariffs, zaffirs. | |
+3 letters: aerifies, affaires, affixers, airfares, airflows, airfoils, airlifts, aquifers, argufies, barflies, basifier, boarfish, crawfish, crayfish, disfavor, draffish, dwarfish, dwarfism, failures, fainters, fairings, fairness, fairways, fairyism, faitours, fakeries, fanciers, faradise, faradism, farinhas, farinose, farmings, farriers, farsides, fatbirds, fibromas, filarees, finmarks, firearms, firebase, firepans, fistular, flashier, foresaid, foresail, frailest, framings, frayings, freakish, freesias, friaries, frigates, funfairs, gasifier, gasiform, giraffes, grayfish, indrafts, infarcts, infracts, ingrafts, isograft, misframe, misgraft, panfries, parfaits, piaffers, ramifies, rarefies, rarifies, ratafias, ratfinks, ratifies, refrains, ruffians, safaried, safranin, sanserif, scarfing, scarfpin, starfish, strafing, stratify, suffaris, traffics, transfix, vasiform. | |
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