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"BRONTES" is a plural of: bronte. |
Date "BRONTES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Brontes (2 syl.). A blacksmith personified, one of the Cyclops. The name signifies Thunder. "Not with such weight, to frame the forky brand, The ponderous hammer falls from Brontes' hand." Hoole: Jerusalem Delivered, book xx. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: BRONTES |
| Specialty definitions using "BRONTES": Giants. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Brontes of Haworth (1973) | |
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| "BRONTES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "BRONTES" is used about 12 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) | 91.67% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
anne brontes grey | 12 |
the brontes | 11 |
emily brontes wuthering heights | 3 |
charlotte brontes jane eyre | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sorbent. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: betons, boners, brents, nestor, noters, sorbet, stoner, strobe, tenors, tensor, toners, trones. | |
-2 letters: bents, besot, beton, boner, bones, bores, borne, borts, brens, brent, brose, ebons, nerts, noter, notes, onset, rents, robes, roset, rotes, senor, seton, snore, snort, sober, steno, stern, stone, store, tenor, terns, toner, tones, tores, torse, trone. | |
-3 letters: bens, bent, best. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: baronets, bestrown, bethorns, bornites, brownest, burstone, sorbents. | |
+2 letters: absorbent, adsorbent, baritones, barytones, betatrons, bevatrons, brimstone, bronziest, browniest, buhrstone, burgonets, burrstone, burstones, buttoners, curbstone, observant, obtainers, rebuttons, reobtains, taborines, tenebrous, trombones. | |
+3 letters: abnegators, absorbents, adsorbents, barbitones, bestrowing, birthstone, bolstering, bonesetter, breastbone, brimstones, brominates, brownstone, buhrstones, burrstones, carbonates, corybantes, curbstones, insobriety, lobstering, lobsterman, lobstermen, observants, outnumbers, robustness, stubborner, subnetwork, subreption, subroutine, tenebrious, warbonnets. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 52 4F 4E 54 45 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-. --- -. - . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010010 01001111 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B R O N T E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0052 004F 004E 0054 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)36524948543953 |
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