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"BAYONETS" is a plural of: bayonet. |
Date "BAYONETS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bayonets A synonym of "rank and file," that is, privates and corporals of infantry. As, "the number of bayonets was 25,000." "It is on the bayonets that a Quartermaster-General relies for his working and fatigue parties." - Howitt: Hist. of Eng. (year 1854, p. 200). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: BAYONETSSynonym: Bayoneting. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Opposition | In hostile array, front to front, with crossed bayonets, at daggers drawn; up in arms; resistant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: BAYONETS |
| English words defined with "BAYONETS": line ♦ Spanish dagger ♦ To stack arms ♦ Yucca gloriosa. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BAYONETS": As well as ♦ But ♦ Nor ♦ Or ♦ Save. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Then you must use your bayonets, sergeant (George Washington; writing credit: Jon Boothe; Richard Fielder) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fixed Bayonets (1951) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | U.S. Marines rest in the field on Guadalcanal, circa August-December 1942. Most of these Marines are armed with M1903 bolt-action rifles and carry M1905 bayonets and USMC 1941 type packs. Two men high on the hill at right wear mortar vests and one in center has a World War I type grenade vest. The Marine seated at far right has a Browning Automatic Rifle. Credit: NAVY. |  | Soldiers drilling with rifles and bayonets. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Battle scene with line of bayonets. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Columbian soldiers at attention in formation, with rifles and bayonets. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Washington, D.C. Infantry unit with fixed bayonets followed by ambulances passing on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Treasury. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Petersburg, Va. Company F, 114th Pennsylvania Infantry (Zouaves) with fixed bayonets. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | On Hancocks front-- the soldiers ha[ving] no picks and shovels used bayonets, tin pans, old canteens, and even their hands in throwing up breastworks ARW. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rivets are bayonets - Drive them home! / J. E. Sheridan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rivets are bayonets - Drive them home! / J. E. Sheridan. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Camillo Di Cavour | You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them. |
Douglas William Jerrold | Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Their great horses reared, trampled upon the ranks, leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four living walls |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Angola | On August 2 in Malange, PIR officers threatened NGO workers with bayonets in an effort to get transport and stole the goods that the NGO workers were distributing after they refused to transport the PIR officers. (references) |
Burundi | The ABDP estimated that prison officials and security forces used beatings with batons and pipes, tying victims with ropes, electrocution, burning, bayonets, and needles to torture up to 45 percent of the prison population. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Paul Harvey | I certainly hope we won't think of future wars in terms of marching boys with bayonets. Those weapons have lost our last three wars. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root. |
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| "BAYONETS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.59% of the time. "BAYONETS" is used about 71 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) | 98.59% | 70 | 39,981 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.41% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 71 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BAYONETS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Seitengewehre. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ayonetsbay.(various references) | |
Russian | примкнутый штык (fixed bayonets). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"BAYONETS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: baconers, Bamonte, baonett, batonist, bayanett, bayonete, bayonett, bayonette, Bayonnais, bisontes, boyonet, rayonnent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BAYONETS" (pronounced bā"une'ts) |
| 4 | -n e' t s | dragnets. |
| 3 | -e' t s | assets, epithets, handsets, headsets, inlets, offsets, outlets, soviets, sunsets, twinjets, videocassettes. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-n-o-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: bayonet, soybean. | |
-2 letters: absent, astony, atones, batons, beanos, betons, betony, botany, stoney, yentas. | |
-3 letters: abets, abyes, aeons, antes, antsy, atone, atony, banes, banty, baste, bates, baton, beano, beans, beast, beats, bents, besot, betas, beton, boast, boats, bones, boney, botas, bytes, ebons, ebony, etnas, nabes, nasty, nates, neats, nosey, notes, oaten, obeys, onset, sabot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-n-o-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: barytones. | |
+2 letters: corybantes, obeisantly. | |
+3 letters: antiobesity, observantly, obstinately, treasonably. | |
+4 letters: amblygonites, cybernations, demonstrably, questionably. | |
+5 letters: antiobscenity, bisectionally, cytomembranes, incontestably, postembryonal, reasonability, subordinately, subventionary. | |
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