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"AZTECS" is a plural of: aztec. |
Date "AZTECS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Aztecs An indigenous people of Mexico who, in 1325, founded Tenochtitlán. They were in the zenith of their power in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. When the Spaniards arrived, their king was Montezuma; their supreme god was Taoti; and Huitzilopochtli was the divine protector of their nation, to whom they offered human victims. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: AZTECS |
| English words defined with "AZTECS": Cortes, Cortez ♦ Hernan Cortes, Hernan Cortez, Hernando Cortes, Hernando Cortez ♦ Paiute, Piute ♦ Shoshone, Shoshoni. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "AZTECS": Feast ♦ Mexitli. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Altar of the Aztecs (1913) | |
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Economic History | Mexico | Highly developed cultures, including those of the Olmecs, Mayas, Toltecs, and Aztecs existed long before the Spanish conquest. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are "movable" and "immovable," but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full. In their earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead; such were held by the Greeks, under the name Nemeseia, by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese; though it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters. Among the many feasts of the Romans was the Novemdiale, which was held, according to Livy, whenever stones fell from heaven. |
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| "AZTECS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AZTECS" is used about 38 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% | 38 | 55,818 |
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| Language | Translations for "AZTECS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | Ny h-Asteckee (The Aztecs). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | aztecsay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"AZTECS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aptech, Aztech, Saztec. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-s-t-z" | |
-1 letter: caste, cates, cesta, taces, zetas. | |
-2 letters: aces, acts, ates, case, cast, cate, cats, east, eats, etas, sate, scat, seat, sect, seta, tace, teas, zest, zeta. | |
-3 letters: ace, act, ate, cat, eat, eta, sac, sae, sat, sea, sec, set, tae, tas, tea. | |
-4 letters: ae, as, at, es, et, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-s-t-z" | |
+2 letters: craziest, zincates. | |
+3 letters: activizes, canzonets, catalyzes, ectozoans, ostracize. | |
+4 letters: actualizes, bacterizes, cartelizes, catalyzers, catechizes, cauterizes, cicatrizes, crystalize, eczematous, factorizes, hoactzines, italicizes, narcotizes, ostracized, ostracizes, plasticize, schematize, schmaltzes. | |
+5 letters: capitalizes, catabolizes, catechizers, categorizes, centralizes, cinematizes, crystalized, crystalizes, crystallize, elasticized, fanaticizes, mycetozoans, plasticized, plasticizer, plasticizes, schematized, schematizes, schismatize, schmaltzier, schmalziest, vasectomize. | |
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