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"BURGLARS" is a plural of: burglar. |
Date "BURGLARS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that they are searching your person, you will have dangerous enemies to contend with, who will destroy you if extreme carefulness is not practised in your dealings with strangers. If you dream of your home, or place of business, being burglarized, your good standing in business or society will be assailed, but courage in meeting these difficulties will defend you. Accidents may happen to the careless after this dream. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BURGLARS |
| English words defined with "BURGLARS": go along ♦ play along ♦ rob. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BURGLARS": BLOOD MONEY ♦ fidelity bond. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's the kind of lock burglars look for. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) Why do burglars look for that lock? (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Lyrics | Smugglers, scramblers, burglars, gamblers ("The Message"; performing artist: Grandmaster Flash) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Too Many Burglars (1920) Burglars (1918) Reconciled by Burglars (1912) Too Many Burglars (1911) The Christmas Burglars (1908) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The sick man hears burglars. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mounted policemen arresting burglars uptown in New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Elias Canetti | The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Belarus | For example, on March 28-29, unidentified burglars broke into the headquarters of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee. (references) |
Travel | Norway | Violent crime, however, remains the exception; thieves and burglars almost never use weapons. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "BURGLARS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BURGLARS" is used about 322 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) | 100% | 322 | 16,053 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BURGLARS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Einbrecher (burglar, burgler, housebreaker, picklock, raider, shop breaker). (various references) | ||||
Italian | ladri (robbers, scroungers, thieveries, thieves). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | urglarsbay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"BURGLARS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: berglar, Brulart, brularts, Burgla, burglers, burglur, burgular. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BURGLARS" (pronounced ber"glerz) |
| 4 | -g l er z | anglers, bunglers, smugglers, stragglers. |
| 3 | -l er z | antlers, assemblers, babblers, bachelors, bestsellers, binoculars, boilers, booksellers, bottlers, bowlers, broilers, butlers, callers, caterpillars, cellars, chancellors, chroniclers, circulars, cobblers, collars, colors, compilers, controllers, coolers, councilors, counsellors, counselors, couplers, cullers, curlers, dealers, discolors, Distillers, dollars, drillers, dwellers, embezzlers, feelers, fellers, fiddlers, filers, fillers, gamblers, gillers, gobblers, guzzlers, handlers, haulers, healers, hecklers, hollers, hustlers, installers, irregulars, jailers, jewelers, jewellers, jugglers, killers, levelers, mailers, Millers, mufflers, Oilers, painkillers, panhandlers, parlors, particulars, peddlers, petrodollars, pillars, preschoolers, propellers, ramblers, recyclers, regulars, resellers, retailers, revelers, rollers, rulers, rustlers, sailors, samplers, schedulers, scholars, scribblers, sellers, settlers, shufflers, spellers, spillers, spoilers, sprinklers, Staplers, storytellers, strollers, swindlers, tailors, tellers, temblors, templars, thrillers, toddlers, trailers, travelers, travellers, trawlers, tumblers, warblers, watercolors, whalers, Wheelers, whistlers, wholesalers, willers, wranglers, wrestlers. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-l-r-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: burglar. | |
-2 letters: bursal, bursar. | |
-3 letters: argus, blurs, brags, buras, burgs, burls, burrs, bursa, garbs, gaurs, grabs, grubs, guars, gular, rugal, rural, slurb, sugar, sural, surra. | |
-4 letters: albs, arbs, bags, bals, bars, blur, brag, bras, bugs, bura, burg, burl, burr, burs, gabs, gals, garb, gars, gaur, grab, grub, guar, guls, labs, lags, lars, lugs, rags. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-l-r-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: burglaries. | |
+3 letters: burglarious, burglarizes. | |
+5 letters: burglariously. | |
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