CALENDS

Definition: CALENDS

CALENDS

Noun plural

1. The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "CALENDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Calends The first of every month was so called by the Romans. Varro says the term originated in the practice of calling together or assembling the people on the first day of the month, when the pontifex informed them of the time of the new moon, the day of the nones, with the festivals and sacred days to be observed. The custom continued till A.U.C. 450, when the fasti or calendar was posted in public places. (See Greek Calends .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: CALENDS

English words defined with "CALENDS": Kalends ♦ The Greek calends. (references)

Specialty definitions using "CALENDS": Ad Græcas Calendas. ♦ Greek Calends ♦ June Marriages Lucky ♦ May-day ♦ Queen Dick. (references)

Etymologies containing "CALENDS": Calendula. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Staves calends legends (reference) (more book examples)
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"CALENDS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "CALENDS" is used about 5 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)	80%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

Expressions using "CALENDS": at the greek calends ♦ Greek calends ♦ on the greek calends ♦ The Greek calends. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "CALENDS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kalenda (kalends). (various references)

Arabic		‏لوائح. (various references)

Bulgarian		календи (kalends). (various references)

Czech		první den římského mìsíce (kalends). (various references)

French		calendriers, règlements. (various references)

Greek		καλένδεσ, αρχιμηνιά (first day of the month). (various references)

Hungarian		hó elsõ napja (kalends). (various references)

Italian		calende (kalends). (various references)

Manx		Caillyn. (various references)

Pig Latin		alendscay.(various references)

Portuguese		calendas (Kali). (various references)

Romanian		calende. (various references)

Russian		календы (kalends). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prvi dan u mesecu po staro-rimskom kalendaru. (various references)

Spanish		calendas (kalends), primer día del mes. (various references)

Swedish		aldrig (at the greek calends, ne'er, never). (various references)

Turkish		roma takviminde ayın ilk günü (kalends). (various references)

Ukranian		список (bill, calendar, catalogue, inventory, list, nomenclature, panel, roster, schedule), календар (almanac, calendar), календи (kalends). (various references)

Vietnamese		không bao giờ (kalends, never, shot, sorra), không đời n� o (jugful, kalends). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"CALENDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Allendy, Calanus, calem, calen, calend, Calende, calenes, Calland, Callands, callen, clands, Kalend. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: candles.
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-l-n-s"
	-1 letter: ascend, candle, clades, cleans, dances, decals, elands, ladens, lanced, lances, naleds, scaled, sendal.
	-2 letters: acned, acnes, alecs, cades, caned, canes, cased, clade, clads, clans, clean, daces, dales, dance, deals, deans, decal, eland, elans, laced, laces, laden, lades, lance, lands, lanes, lased, leads, leans, lends, naled, saned, scald, scale, scena, scend, sedan.
	-3 letters: aced, aces, acne, alec, ales, ands, anes, cade, cads, cane, cans, case, cels, clad, clan, dace, dale, dals, deal, dean, dels, dens, elan, elds, ends, lace, lacs, lade, lads, land, lane, lase, lead, lean, leas, lend, lens, sade, sale, sand, sane, scad, scan, seal, send, sled, sned.
	-4 letters: ace, ads, ale, als, and, ane, cad, can, cel, dal, del, den, eds, eld, els, end, ens, lac, lad, las, lea, led, nae, sac, sad, sae, sal, sea, sec, sel, sen.
	-5 letters: ad, ae, al, an, as, de, ed, el, en, es, la, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-l-n-s"
	+1 letter: candelas, candlers, celadons, cleansed, unscaled.
	+2 letters: calendars, calenders, canalised, canfields, canoodles, chandlers, colanders, conelrads, downscale, dulcineas, enclasped, inclasped, landscape, scandaled, slackened, spanceled, unclasped.
	+3 letters: adolescent, anglicised, ascendable, ascendible, benchlands, calendulas, candlefish, candlenuts, candlepins, celandines, chandelles, chlordanes, colonnades, cradlesong, dalliances, decathlons, decennials, decisional, declarants, declassing, downscaled, downscales, encapsuled, enchiladas, escalading, indexicals, lancewoods, landscaped, landscaper, landscapes, lidocaines, medicinals, placidness, scandalise, scandalize, scandalled, screenland, spancelled, underclass, unshackled, vulcanised.
	+4 letters: accidentals, acetanilids, adolescence, adolescents, ascendantly, backslidden, calamanders, calenderers, candelabras, candlestick, candlewicks, candlewoods, centralised, chandeliers, chandleries, cladocerans, clandestine, condensable, consolidate, convalesced, cordialness, coromandels, cradlesongs, credentials, dilatancies, discernable, endoplasmic, granduncles, incidentals, inosculated, landscapers, misbalanced, radicalness, relandscape, scandalised, scandalises, scandalized, scandalizes, scolopendra, screenlands, secondarily, stickhandle, uncalloused, uncoalesced, unscrambled.
	+5 letters: accelerandos, acetanilides, acknowledges, adolescences, adolescently, anecdotalism, anecdotalist, blackhanders, candelabrums, candlefishes, candlelights, candlepowers, candlesticks, candyflosses, cannibalised, cardinalates, chalcedonies, cladogeneses, cladogenesis, considerable, considerably, consolidated, consolidates, constellated, cowardliness, declamations, declarations, declensional, declinations, decollations, decreasingly, deescalating, deescalation, defalcations, delectations, delicatessen, deliverances, descrambling, disallowance, disconsolate, discountable, discrepantly, displacement, elucidations, encapsulated, endonuclease, fraudulences, housecleaned, indelicacies, insecticidal, knuckleheads, maledictions, masculinised, masculinized, mendaciously, mischanneled, nucleocapsid, nucleotidase, placidnesses, relandscaped, relandscapes, scintillated, scolopendras, stickhandled, stickhandler, stickhandles, syndactylies, syndetically, thunderclaps, translocated, unclassified, underclasses, unsocialized, valedictions.
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