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"CLIMBERS" is a plural of: climber. |
Date "CLIMBERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biographical Satire | CLIMBERS, T. H. E., an American man and woman who had money and ambition. Spent the early portion of their lives gathering cash, and the later in spending it. Were welcomed by many people, but never quite reached the top. Both died trying to get there. Ambition: An English nobleman in the family. Recreation: Paris, London, and Switzerland. Address: See Recreation. Clubs: All, with the exception of the ones they wanted. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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Crosswords: CLIMBERS |
| English words defined with "CLIMBERS": alpenstock, Ardisia, Argyreia ♦ cunonia family, Cunoniaceae ♦ Decumaria, Dilleniaceae, dishcloth gourd ♦ Ercilla ♦ family Cunoniaceae, family Dilleniaceae, family Menispermaceae, fend, Ficus ♦ genus Ardisia, genus Argyreia, genus Calamus, genus Decumaria, genus Ercilla, genus Ficus, genus Grewia, genus Jasminum, genus Lardizabala, genus Peireskia, genus Pereskia, genus Pothos, genus Pterocarpus, genus Scindapsus, genus Solandra, genus Stenochlaena, Grewia ♦ ice ax, ice axe ♦ Jasminum ♦ Lardizabala, luffa ♦ Marsdenia, Menispermaceae, moonseed family, mountain sickness ♦ Passion flower, Peireskia, Pereskia, piolet, Pterocarpus ♦ rag gourd, resist ♦ Scindapsus, Solandra, sponge gourd, stand, Stenochlaena, strainer vine ♦ web-toed salamander. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CLIMBERS": disengagement cutting, disengagement felling. (references) |
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Screenplays | Social climbers on the rise. (The First Wives Club; writing credit: Robert Harling) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Alpine Climbers (1936) The Climbers (1927) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Rock escarpment in Red Rock Canyon, popular with climbers, Las Vegas, Nevada. Credit: Phil Guerrero. |
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Business | Equipment that shows the most sales potential in the local market is home cardiovascular equipment, especially treadmills, exercise bikes, and stair steppers and climbers, in that order. (references) | |
Specifically within the home fitness equipment market, which shows a 75 percent growth potential over the next three years, exercise bikes, treadmills, and stair steppers and climbers present three distinct types of end-users depending on the quality, price, and origin of the products. (references) | ||
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| "CLIMBERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CLIMBERS" is used about 582 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% | 582 | 10,884 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "CLIMBERS": rock-climbers. | |
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| Language | Translations for "CLIMBERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | котки (climbing irons). (various references) | ||||||||||
Czech | horolezci. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Schlingpflanzen. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | imbersclay монтерские когти. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CLIMBERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calibmeas, climbes, Culemborg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CLIMBERS" (pronounced klī"merz) |
| 4 | -ī" m er z | primers, timers. |
| 3 | -m er z | astronomers, bloomers, bombers, boomers, charmers, comers, consumers, costumers, cucumbers, customers, dimmers, disclaimers, dreamers, drummers, elastomers, farmers, framers, Gamers, glimmers, groomers, hammers, homers, informers, isomers, jackhammers, jammers, latecomers, lemurs, monomers, murmurs, newcomers, performers, plumbers, polymers, programmers, reamers, reformers, rumors, rumours, screamers, shimmers, simmers, skimmers, steamers, streamers, summers, swimmers, termers, transformers, tremors, trimmers, tumors. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-l-m-r-s" | |
-1 letter: climber, limbers. | |
-2 letters: birles, climbs, climes, crimes, libers, limber, milers, relics, scribe, slicer, smiler. | |
-3 letters: berms, bices, biers, biles, birle, birls, birse, bries, brims, ceils, cires, climb, clime, cribs, cries, crime, emirs, liber, liers, limbs, limes, melic, merls, mesic, miler, miles, mires, miser, relic, ribes, rices, riels, riles, rimes, scrim, slice, slier, slime. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-i-l-m-r-s" | |
+2 letters: crumbliest. | |
+3 letters: crumbliness, meroblastic. | |
+4 letters: bicameralism, blackmailers, chamberlains, compressible, descrambling, microtubules, problematics. | |
+5 letters: bicameralisms, crumblinesses, discriminable, microbalances, republicanism. | |
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