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Date "GRIEVES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: GRIEVES |
| Specialty definitions using "GRIEVES": Debt. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | His dog up and died, up and died, after 20 years he still grieves. (Mr. Bojangles; performing artist: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) She said it grieves me so to see you in such pain (50 Ways To Leave Your Lover; performing artist: PAUL SIMON) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
Francis Bacon | The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. |
Marcus T. Cicero | Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Such news, my lord, as grieves me to report. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave- driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it. Barlow S. Vode |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "GRIEVES" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "GRIEVES" is used about 32 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 75% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (proper) | 18.75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (plural) | 6.25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "GRIEVES" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Grieves | Last name | 400 | 20,868 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GRIEVES": Grieves-cook. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
grieves | 23 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GRIEVES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | afflige. (various references) | ||||
German | kränkt (aggrieves, mortifies), bekümmert (distressed, sorry, troubled, worried). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ievesgray | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pigeat. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "GRIEVES": aggrieves. (additional references) | |
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"GRIEVES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: greige, greiv, greive, greves, Grevos, greylevel, Griefen, griefs, griege, griev. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GRIEVES" (pronounced grē"vz) |
| 5 | g r ē" v z | Greaves. |
| 4 | -r ē" v z | reaves, Reeves, retrieves. |
| 3 | -ē" v z | achieves, believes, cleaves, eaves, Eves, heaves, leaves, misperceives, Neves, peeves, perceives, receives, recitatives, relieves, sheaves, sleeves, steeves, thieves, weaves. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: regives. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: givers, grieve, regive, reives, revise, vegies, verges. | |
-2 letters: egers, giver, gives, grees, reges, reive, rives, serge, serve, sever, siege, sieve, siree, siver, veers, vegie, verge, verse, viers, vires. | |
-3 letters: eger, egis, ergs, ever, eves, gees, gies, give, gree, ires, rees, regs, reis, revs, rigs, rise, rive, seer, sere, sire, veer, vees, vier, vies. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: diverges, grievers, severing, veligers. | |
+2 letters: aggrieves, deserving, graveside, reserving, reversing, revesting, sovereign, verbiages, vertigoes. | |
+3 letters: aggressive, caregivers, degressive, deservings, digressive, gerundives, grapevines, gravesides, grievances, ingressive, inveighers, inveiglers, moviegoers, overdesign, overseeing, oversewing, overweighs, preserving, privileges, regressive, savageries, sovereigns, variegates, veneerings, vermifuges, vernissage, vertigines, vignetters. | |
+4 letters: beshivering, desilvering, dissevering, divergences, ergonovines, everlasting, forgiveness, gravimeters, ingressives, misgoverned, overdesigns, overseeding, overselling, oversetting, overweights, persevering, progressive, reinvesting, reobserving, reservicing, resilvering, resurveying, segregative, shivareeing, sovereignly, sovereignty, stevedoring, supervening, timeserving, undeserving, vegetarians, verdigrises, vernissages, vicegerents, villageries. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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