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"BENEDICTINES" is a plural of: benedictine. |
Date "BENEDICTINES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | BENEDICTINES, n. An order of monks otherwise known as black friars. She thought it a crow, but it turn out to be A monk of St. Benedict croaking a text. "Here's one of an order of cooks," said she -- "Black friars in this world, fried black in the next." "The Devil on Earth" (London, 1712). Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Benedictines (4 syl.). Monks who follow the rule of St. Benedict, viz. implicit obedience, celibacy, abstaining from laughter, spare diet, poverty, the exercise of hospitality, and unremitting industry. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BENEDICTINES |
| English words defined with "BENEDICTINES": Benedictine ♦ Maurist. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | These Bernardines, consequently, were attached, not to Clairvaux, like other Bernardines, but to Citeaux, like the Benedictines. |
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| "BENEDICTINES" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "BENEDICTINES" is used about 25 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 (proper) | 80% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (plural) | 20% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BENEDICTINES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 本尼迪克特教团 (Benedictine). (various references) | ||||
German | Benediktiner (benedictine, Benedictine monk). (various references) | ||||
Korean | ë² ë„¤ë"•íŠ¸íšŒ 수사 (Benedictine). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | enedictinesbay | ||||
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"BENEDICTINES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Benedettini. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-e-i-i-n-n-s-t" | |
-2 letters: tendencies. | |
-3 letters: benedicts, enceintes, incidents, indictees, sentenced, sentience, tendences. | |
-4 letters: benedict, bisected, dentines, desinent, einstein, enceinte, incensed, incident, indecent, indictee, neediest, nescient, niceties, nineties, sentence, tendence. | |
-5 letters: bendees, bennets, bennies, betides, deceits, deistic, deities, dentine, dentins, descent, destine, diciest, eidetic, endites, enticed, entices, identic, incense, incised, incited, incites, indenes, indents, indices, indicts, indites, intends. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 4E 45 44 49 43 54 49 4E 45 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . -. . -.. .. -.-. - .. -. . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01001110 01000101 01000100 01001001 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001110 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E N E D I C T I N E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 004E 0045 0044 0049 0043 0054 0049 004E 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)363948393843375443483953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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