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"REGULARS" is a plural of: regular. |
Date "REGULARS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Regulars (The). All the British troops except the militia, the yeomanry, and the volunteers. There are no irregulars in the British army, but such a force exists among the black troops. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | REGULARS. Share of the booty. The coves cracked the swell's crib, fenced the swag, and each cracksman napped his regular; some fellows broke open a gentleman's house, and after selling the property which they had stolen, they divided the money between the. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth, the army, standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry, volunteers, trainband, fencible; auxiliary, bersagliere, brave; garde-nationale, garde-royale; minuteman; auxiliary forces, reserve forces; reserves, posse comitatus, national guard, gendarme, beefeater; guards, guardsman; yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: REGULARS |
| English words defined with "REGULARS": Third order. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "REGULARS": Nana. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | U.S. Regulars Thirteenth Infantry (1898) The Regulars (1997) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Road Leading Around Base of Hill to left of Siboney, Cuba. : It was over this road that the U.S. Regulars advanced towards Santiago. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Portrait of a musician, 2d Regulars, U.S. Cavalry. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A Cavalry Encampment in the advance lines of the Army -- the sixth regulars. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rifle pits on the right of the Orange Turnpike occupied by the regulars on the first day and by the 6th corps subsequently. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | American cemetery - Belleau Woods, France. Where over 2000 regulars and Marines who gave their lives in the victory at Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood, sleep the last sleep. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Belize | The Belize Defence Force (BDF), established in January 1973, consists of a light infantry force of regulars and reservists along with small air and maritime wings. (references) |
Algeria | Bouteflika, the candidate who appeared to enjoy the backing of the military, as well as FLN and RND party regulars, won with an official vote count of 70% of all votes cast. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | In this disposition is included a force consisting of regulars and militia, embodied in the Indiana Territory and marched toward our northwestern frontier. |
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| "REGULARS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 90.07% of the time. "REGULARS" is used about 292 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) | 90.07% | 263 | 18,193 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.93% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Total | 100.00% | 292 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "REGULARS": semi-regulars. | |
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| Language | Translations for "REGULARS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | редовна войска. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Stammgäste (frequenters). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 正規兵 (regular soldiers). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せいきへい (regular soldiers). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | egularsray stammanskap. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "REGULARS": irregulars. (additional references) | |
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"REGULARS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: refuellers, regalar, Reglar, reglaurs, regula, regulare, Regulares, Regularis, regulary, Regularz, reguli, regulkar, regulo, rivulare, rivularis, rotular. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "REGULARS" (pronounced re"gyulerz) |
| 8 | r e" g y u l er z | irregulars. |
| 5 | -y u l er z | binoculars, circulars, particulars. |
| 4 | -u l er z | chancellors, councilors, counsellors, counselors, embezzlers, fiddlers, gobblers, guzzlers, hustlers, jewelers, jewellers, jugglers, levelers, revelers, shufflers, Staplers, travelers, travellers, wranglers. |
| 3 | -l er z | anglers, antlers, assemblers, babblers, bachelors, bestsellers, boilers, booksellers, bottlers, bowlers, broilers, bunglers, burglars, butlers, callers, caterpillars, cellars, chroniclers, cobblers, collars, colors, compilers, controllers, coolers, couplers, cullers, curlers, dealers, discolors, Distillers, dollars, drillers, dwellers, feelers, fellers, filers, fillers, gamblers, gillers, handlers, haulers, healers, hecklers, hollers, installers, jailers, killers, mailers, Millers, mufflers, Oilers, painkillers, panhandlers, parlors, peddlers, petrodollars, pillars, preschoolers, propellers, ramblers, recyclers, resellers, retailers, rollers, rulers, rustlers, sailors, samplers, schedulers, scholars, scribblers, sellers, settlers, smugglers, spellers, spillers, spoilers, sprinklers, storytellers, stragglers, strollers, swindlers, tailors, tellers, temblors, templars, thrillers, toddlers, trailers, trawlers, tumblers, warblers, watercolors, whalers, Wheelers, whistlers, wholesalers, willers, wrestlers. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-l-r-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: arguers, regular, surreal. | |
-2 letters: argles, arguer, argues, augers, glares, gluers, gruels, lagers, larger, larges, lugers, lurers, rasure, rulers, sauger, saurel, surger, urares, urgers. | |
-3 letters: agers, agues, argle, argue, argus, arles, auger, aures, earls, gales, gaurs, gears, glare, gluer, glues, gruel, grues, guars, gular, gules, lager, lares, large, laser, lears, luger, luges, lurer, lures. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-l-r-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: burglaries, guerrillas, irregulars, regulators, superlarge. | |
+3 letters: burglarizes, garrulities, regularizes, reregulates, slaughterer, vulgarizers. | |
+4 letters: agricultures, disregardful, gregariously, grossularite, preslaughter, reassuringly, regularities, slaughterers. | |
+5 letters: garrulousness, granularities, grossularites, neurosurgical, overregulates, regardfulness, reregulations, stereoregular, superregional. | |
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