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ALES

"ALES" is a plural of: ale.

"ALES" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a helper", "a defender", "defend", "help".

Date "ALES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)


Abbreviations & Acronyms: ALES

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ALES

EnglishLeprosy Relief Work Emmaus-SwitzerlandReligion & Philosophy, Social Sciences

ALES

FrenchAide aux lépreux Emmaüs-SuisseReligion & Philosophy, Social Sciences

ALES

GermanAussätzigenhilfe Emmaus SchweizReligion & Philosophy, Social Sciences

ALES

ItalianAiuto ai Lebbrosi Emmaus SvizzeraReligion & Philosophy, Social Sciences

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: ALES

Specialty definitions using "ALES": Notarica. (references)
Non-English Usage: "ALES" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (augury, omen, portent, precursor, presage), Romanian (admirable, beau, choice, chosen, clear, dainty, delicate, distinct, distinguished, elect, elective, excellent, exquisite, first rate, grand, high, lofty, picked, rare, remarkable, select, splendid, supreme).

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Modern Usage: ALES

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Mikolás Ales (1951)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: ALES

DomainTitle

References

  • Ales Groupe: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Ales and Stouts (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Brew Your Own British Real Ale: Recipes for More Than 100 Brand-Name Real Ales (reference)

  • Alewife's Garden: 7 Radical Weeds for Brewing Herbal Ales (reference)

  • The Homebrewer's Recipe Guide: More Than 175 Original Beer Recipes, Including Magnificent Pale Ales, Ambers, Stouts, Lagers, and Seasonal Brews, Plus (reference)

  • The Organic Beer Guide: Ales, Stouts and Lagers Produced from Barley and Hops Without Chemicals and Pesticides (reference)

  • The Homebrewer's Recipe Guide: More Than 175 Original Beer Recipes, Including Magnificent Pale Ales, Ambers, Stouts, Lagers, and Seasonal Brews, Plus Tips from the Master Brewers (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: ALES

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

The best wines, liquors, ales & lager beer, we are selling here. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ALES

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The consistently high volume of imports from the United Kingdom and Ireland over the last three years is partly due to the introduction of English and Irish ales on tap and the popularity of themed Irish pub chains such as Bridie O’Reillys and O’Malley’s. (references)

Civil Liberties

Slovak Republic

On November 9, Parliament passed an amendment to the Penal Code criminalizing the "denial or belittling of the Holocaust." In June the President made a complaint to the General Prosecutor against Ales Kratky, a writer for the daily Novy Cas. (references)

Belarus

In autumn 2000, the authorities refused to grant permission to a painter, Ales Pushkin, who had earlier been convicted of malicious hooliganism because of a 1999 protest-performance critical of Lukashenka, to travel to Poland to exhibit his works. (references)

Belarus

On January 16, police arrested Ales Abramovich, Alesia Yasiuk, Nadzieya Grachukha, and Dmitry and Mikhail Kuznitsov who had picketed for 30 minutes in Borisov; they were charged with defamation for verbal abuse of the President's honor and dignity. (references)

Human Rights

Belarus

For example, on September 1, 8 days before the election, Ales Belyatsky, one of the cochairmen of the independent domestic observation network, was detained for approximately seven hours. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ALES

"ALES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 72.22% of the time. "ALES" is used about 108 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)72.22%7837,656
Noun (proper)27.78%3063,341
                    Total100.00%108N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: ALES

The following table summarizes the usage of "ALES" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
AlesLast name20030,826
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: ALES

"ALES" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a helper", "a defender", "defend", "help".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "ALES."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
AlexiusMaleAncient Greek (Latinized)N/A
AlesMaleCzechAlexej
AlexejMaleCzechAlexius
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: ALES

CountryName
France

Ales Groupe

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: ALES

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ALES": church-ales.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ALES

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ales

55

ales group

3

ales hanak

31

ales croxley

3

ales hemsky

7

inn ales

3

ales hrdlicka

5

ales de digital procesamiento se

3

ales beer

5

ales company telemarketing teles

3

ales france

5

ales ambient denton facial genetics occlusion orthodontia orthopedic y

3

hales ales

5

ales mussolini

2

rogue ales

4

ales d des ecole mine

2

ales hanek

4

ales de se transito

2

pyramid ales

4

ales pa

2

ales stenar

4

ales belgian

2

ales groupe

4

ales dog flying

2

john ales

4

ales valenta.cz

2

hotel ales

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ALES

Language Translations for "ALES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

ALES, Aide aux lépreux Emmaüs-Suisse. (various references)

   

German

  

Aussätzigenhilfe Emmaus Schweiz (Leprosy Relief Work Emmaus-Switzerland), ALES (Leprosy Relief Work Emmaus-Switzerland). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ALES (Leprosy Relief Work Emmaus-Switzerland), Aiuto ai Lebbrosi Emmaus Svizzera (Leprosy Relief Work Emmaus-Switzerland). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alesay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ALES

Derivations

Words ending with "ALES": amygdales, australes, bales, biennales, bubales, chorales, dales, downscales, empales, exhales, farthingales, females, fetiales, finales, folktales, gales, galingales, gunwales, hales, impales, inhales, intervales, jacales, kales, keelhales, locales, macroscales, males, martingales, microscales, montadales, morales, musicales, narwhales, nightingales, oversales, pales, pastorales, percales, petrales, pinwales, quetzales, quezales, rales, rationales, reales, regales, resales, rescales, romeldales, sales. (additional references)

Words containing "ALES": agendaless, arbalest, arbalests, braless, calesa, calesas, centralest, coalesce, coalesced, coalescence, coalescences, coalescent, coalesces, coalescing, convalesce, convalesced, convalescence, convalescences, convalescent, convalescents, convalesces, convalescing, dalesman, dalesmen, dismalest, federalese, federaleses, halest, idealess, incalescence, incalescences, incalescent, journalese, journaleses, legalese, legaleses, loyalest, officialese, officialeses, opalesce, opalesced, opalescence, opalescences, opalescent, opalescently, opalesces, opalescing, palest, palestra, palestrae, palestras. (additional references)


Misspellings

"ALES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aals, abes, ables, adles, ael, Aelst, ahes, ailes, ajes, ajle, alac, alask, alass, alast, alax, Alaysi, Alazi, albeis, Alcs, Aldec, aldens, alea, aleb, alec, alecs, aled, aleds, aleed, aleef, aleeg, aleem, aleet, alefs, aleg, alei, alek, Aleksi, Alem, alen, aler, alet, aletsch, aleu, aleus, Alexsey, alez, alfed, alies, alifs, alips, alis, alism, aliso, Aliss, alist, alits, Alkem, allas, alle, allek, allers, alles, allev, allez, allus, almes, Alness, alos, alpes, Alse, Alsek, alsets, alsw, altec, alus, Alush, Alvesda, Alvez, Alzet, anlas, aoes, aples, Aqesqn, ates, atls, Aulis, aulos, aves, ayllus, Ealees, eles, elesy, iles, jales, laes, oles, ules, ulevs, Ulles. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "ALES"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ALES" (pronounced ā"lz)
3ā" l zails, assails, bails, bales, Brailles, curtails, dales, derails, details, entails, fails, gales, hails, Hales, jails, mails, males, nails, pails, pales, prevails, quails, rails, rales, sails, sales, scales, shales, snails, swails, Swales, tails, tales, trails, travails, unveils, vales, veils, wails, Wales, whales.
2-l zAbeles, ables, accruals, acquittals, admirals, advertorials, aerosols, agrochemicals, airfoils, aisles, alls, Als, ambles, angels, angles, animals, ankles, annals, annuals, anthills, apostles, appalls, appeals, apples, appraisals, approvals, archangels, arrivals, arsenals, articles, artiodactyls, assembles, audiophiles, australs, automobiles, axles, consoles, constables, continentals, controls, convertibles, cools, corals, councils, counsels, baffles, bagels, balls, balmorals, bankrolls, barbells, barbels, barnacles, barrels, baseballs, basketballs, battles, baubles, beadles, beagles, beetles, befalls, befuddles, belittles, belles, bells, bels, betrayals, bibles, bicycles, bifocals, biles, bills, bindles, biologicals, biomaterials, biphenyls, bisexuals, boggles, boils, boles, bolls, bombshells, Boodles, boondoggles, bottles, bowels, bowls, brambles, brawls, bristles, brothels, bubbles, buckles, bugles, bulls, bundles, burials, bushels, buttonholes, cables, calls, camels, canals, cancels, candles, cannibals, capitals, capitols, capsules, cardinals, Carles, carls, carnivals, carols, cartels, cartwheels, castles, casuals, catcalls, cathedrals, cells, cels, cereals, channels, charcoals, chemicals, Chiles, chills, chisels, chorals, chortles, chronicles, chuckles, circles, coals, coattails, cocktails, coils, Coles, collectibles, colonels, colonials, commercials, compatibles, compels, compiles, conceals, confessionals, counterproposals, couples.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: ALES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lase, leas, sale, seal.

Words within the letters "a-e-l-s"

-1 letter: ale, als, els, las, lea, sae, sal, sea, sel.

-2 letters: ae, al, as, el, es, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-s"
 

+1 letter: ables, aisle, alecs, alefs, almes, aloes, arles, axels, axles, bales, blase, dales, deals, earls, easel, elans, false, fleas, gales, hales, heals, kales, laces, lades, lakes, lames, lanes, lapse, lares, lased, laser, lases, laves, lazes, leads, leafs, leaks, leans, leaps, lears, lease, leash, least, lyase, males, meals, pales, peals, pleas, rales, reals, sable, salep, sales, salve, scale, seals, selah, selva, sepal, seral, setal, shale, sheal, slake, slate, slave, spale, stale, steal, stela, swale, taels, tales, teals, tesla, vales, valse, veals, wales, weals, zeals.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Names: Derived from
10. Names: Company Usage
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Abbreviations
15. Acronyms
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Bibliography


  

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