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"CHAMELEONS" is a plural of: chameleon. |
Date "CHAMELEONS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Group of specialized Old World lizards with the ability to change the colour of the skin according to external stimuli. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: CHAMELEONS |
| English words defined with "CHAMELEONS": Anolis ♦ Chamaeleonidae, Chamaeleontidae ♦ family Chamaeleonidae, family Chamaeleontidae, family Rhiptoglossa ♦ genus Anolis ♦ Lacertilia ♦ Rhiptoglossa ♦ Sauria, suborder Lacertilia, suborder Sauria ♦ tree lizard. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CHAMELEONS": Chameleon. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Chameleons (1992) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Locke | We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. |
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| "CHAMELEONS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.56% of the time. "CHAMELEONS" is used about 41 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) | 97.56% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CHAMELEONS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 变色蜥蜴 (Chameleon). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 카멜 온 (Chameleon). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ameleonschay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Chamaeleonidae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"CHAMELEONS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cameleon, cameleons, chaceleon, chaemerops, chamelean, chameleion, chameleonism, chamelion, chamellion, chamelon, chameoleon, chamleon, kameleon, Kapelnoes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-l-m-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: chameleon. | |
-2 letters: chalones, echelons, enhaloes, manholes, shoelace. | |
-3 letters: achenes, chalone, cleanse, cleomes, echelon, enamels, enchase, enclose, enhalos, enlaces, enolase, leaches, loaches, lochans, manches, manhole, menaces, scalene. | |
-4 letters: achene, almehs, amoles, aneles, anoles, ashmen, camels, cameos, canoes, celoms, chelae, chelas, chemos, chosen, cleans, cleome, clones, echoes, enamel, encase, encash, enemas, enhalo, enlace, enmesh, haloes, hances. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-l-m-n-o-s" | |
+2 letters: melancholies. | |
+3 letters: mesencephalon. | |
+4 letters: catecholamines, cholestyramine, encephalograms, metencephalons, methodicalness, neurochemicals. | |
+5 letters: cholestyramines, myelencephalons, phenomenalistic, plainclothesmen. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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