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"Furs" is a plural of: fur. |
Date "Furs" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of dealing in furs, denotes prosperity and an interest in many concerns. To be dressed in fur, signifies your safety from want and poverty. To see fine fur, denotes honor and riches. For a young woman to dream that she is wearing costly furs, denotes that she will marry a wise man. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Furs |
| English words defined with "Furs": Clothes moth, costusroot ♦ Dermestes ♦ Furriery ♦ Nutmeg flower ♦ Peltry, Purfle ♦ sable coat, Saussurea costus, Saussurea lappa, Secretage ♦ trapper. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Furs": BRUSHER, MACHINE ♦ CARROTING ♦ FUR BLENDER, FUR BLOWER, FUR CLEANER, FUR CUTTER, FUR DRESSER, fur dry-cleaner, fur dyer, fur ironer, FUR NAILER, fur repairer, fur tailor, fur tinter, FUR-GLAZING-AND-POLISHING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ Minx ♦ NECK ♦ sawdust-machine operator ♦ TO BUG. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Furs" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (thief). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | The diamonds, the furs, and the house (Deep Inside; performing artist: Mary J. Blige) Why Chumps Be Coping Them Diamonds And Furs And All That (Pu**y; performing artist: R. Kelly) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Venus in Furs (1967) Trimmed in Furs (1934) The Lady in Furs (1925) Venus in Furs (1994) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | He was quite motionless, half hidden in furs, a mammal on the borderland of the unknown. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Louise Cromwell, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing left, wearing fox furs. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Company trader buying white fox furs and other skins from an Eskimo at a Revillon Freres post. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | FSA (Farm Security Administration) Supervisor examining one of the trapper's furs during an auction sale held in a dance hall on Delacroix Island, Saint Bernard Parish, Lousiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Rich's department store, business in Knoxville, Tennessee. Furs. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Lord & Taylor, business in Washington, D.C. Furs. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Potomac Electric Power Co. air conditioning and lighting. Zirkin furs shop I. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Persons who work with imported animal hides or furs in areas where standards are insufficient to prevent exposure to anthrax spores. (references) | |
Economic History | Russia | Natural resources: Petroleum, natural gas, timber, furs, precious and nonferrous metals. (references) |
Uruguay | Trade: Exports--$2.2 billion: meat, wool, hides, leather and wool products, fish, rice, furs. (references) | |
Norway | Products--dairy, livestock, grain (barley, oats, wheat), potatoes and other vegetables, fruits and berries, furs, wool. (references) | |
Trade | Moldova | The imports and sales of vodka, liqueurs and other alcoholic drink; grape, fruit and berry wine; sparkling wine; brandy and cognac; tobacco products, coffee, perfumes and furs are allowed by customs and fiscal bodies if they were marked with excise stamps during their production. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Furs" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 93.28% of the time. "Furs" is used about 119 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) | 93.28% | 111 | 30,796 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 3.36% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.36% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 119 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Furs": barter for furs with spirits. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Furs": al-furs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Furs"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | turkikset (pelts, skins). (various references) | |
German | Pelze. (various references) | |
Italian | pellicceria (furrier's shop, furriery), pelli (skins). (various references) | |
Norwegian | pelsverk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ursfay.(various references) | |
Romanian | blãnãrie (furrier's, furriery). (various references) | |
Spanish | trocar licores por pieles (barter for furs with spirits). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pellicia, pelliciae, pelliciam, pellicias. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "Furs": desulfurs, sulfurs, underfurs. (additional references) | |
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"Furs" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fagrs, farrs, Fars, Fehrs, Fers, fersc, ferz, fors, forsc, Forss, Forz, frs, fru, frud, frus, fruse, frush, frux, fuds, Fuerst, fugr, fugs, fuhr, Fuhri, fuhs, fuis, Fuls, fura, furb, fure, furg, furh, furi, furk, furms, Furn, furr, furse, furst, fursy, furt, furu, furus, furz, fus, fusr, fuys, ufs, urs, urz. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Furs" (pronounced fer"z) |
| 3 | f er" z | chauffeurs, confers, defers, firs, infers, prefers, refers, transfers. |
| 2 | -er" z | blurs, concurs, connoisseurs, demurs, deters, entrepreneurs, ers, incurs, liqueurs, occurs, purrs, restaurateurs, saboteurs, slurs, spurs, stirs. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: surf. | |
| Words within the letters "f-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: fur. | |
-2 letters: us. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: curfs, fours, frugs, furls, ruffs, scurf, surfs, surfy, turfs. | |
+2 letters: femurs, feuars, flours, fluors, forums, frauds, fruits, frumps, frusta, fumers, furans, furies, furors, furzes, fusser, gruffs, refuse, ruffes, rufous, scruff, scurfs, scurfy, suffer, sulfur, surfed, surfer. | |
+3 letters: armfuls, armsful, ausform, buffers, carfuls, curfews, duffers, earfuls, faquirs, favours, ferrous, ferrums, ferulas, ferules, fibrous, figures, fissure, fixures, flusher, fluster, fluters, focuser, fourths, fractus, frenums, friseur, frustum, fubsier, fuckers, fuelers, fuhrers, fullers, fulmars, funkers, furanes, furbish, furioso, furious, furlers, furless, furnish, furores, furrows, fussers, fussier, fustier, futures, infuser, jarfuls, jarsful, ourself, perfuse, profuse, puffers, purfles, rebuffs, refocus, refuels, refuges, refunds, refusal, refused, refuser, refuses, refutes, restful, restuff, ruboffs, ruffles, runoffs, russify, scruffs, scruffy, snuffer, stuffer, suffari, suffers, sulfurs, sulfury, sunroof, surface, surfeit, surfers, surfier, surfing, truffes, tufters, turfski, unfrees, unfurls, unroofs. | |
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