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Definition: Carnage |
CarnageNoun1. The savage and excessive killing of people. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "carnage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Carnage \Car"nage\, noun. [French expression carnage, Late Latin expression carnaticum tribute of animals, flesh of animals, from the Latin expression caro, carnis, flesh. See Carnal.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Slang | Noun; ind. Source: From the literal meaning of the word: destruction, chaos, etc. Meaning. Definition: The chaos that results after misjudging a wave, or simply taking a nasty spill. Context: Used to describe the results of a person's (or one's own) mistake or accident. Social Source: Surfers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Synonyms: CarnageSynonyms: butchery (n), slaughter (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Killing | Noun: killing. Verb: homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion; effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue. |
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Crosswords: Carnage |
| English words defined with "carnage": internecine ♦ mutually ruinous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "carnage": Hip and Thigh. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Carnage" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (bloodshed, butchery, carnage, slaughter). |
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Screenplays | But unlike his compatriots, who came for money, the horseman came for love of carnage. (Sleepy Hollow; writing credit: Kevin Yagher) Let's do some carnage! (Mystery Men; writing credit: Kinka Usher, written by Bob Burden and Neil Cuthbert. Based on the comic book series.) Christmas? Christmas means dinner, dinner means death! Death means carnage; Christmas means carnage! (Babe; writing credit: George Miller) The spoils of our once fine city is going to the ruthless scum who can spread the most carnage and blood in our streets. (Predator 2; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Carnage (2001) GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling: Canvas Carnage (1991) Carnage (1983) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Two men with bowed heads in midst of war carnage.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | No mass has been said there since the carnage. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | For numbers and for carnage it was an Austerlitz or Dresden. |
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| "Carnage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Carnage" is used about 152 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 (singular) | 94.74% | 144 | 26,339 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.97% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.32% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.32% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 0.66% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 152 | 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. |
| Language | Translations for "carnage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | masakër (massacre, pogrom, slaughter), kërdi (havoc, massacre, slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مذبحة (butchery, massacre, slaughter), مجزرة (butchery, massacre, slaughter), أشلاء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сеч (butchery, massacre, slaughter, slaughterhouse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 大 杀 (massacre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | masakr (butchery, massacre, shambles, slaughter), krveprolití (bloodshed, bloodshot, massacre), krvavá lázeò. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کشتار (Massacre, Murder, Planter), لاشه ها, قتل عام (Genocide, Holocaust, Slaughter), قصابی , خونریزی (Bloodshed, Slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | verilöyly (massacre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | carnage, massacre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | blutbad (bloodbath, massacre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σφαγή (butchery, kosher butchering, massacre, slaughter, slaughtering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | טבח (butchery, cook, killing, massacre, slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vérontás (bloodshed), mészárlás (massacre, slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pembantaian (abbatoir, butchering, shambles, slaughter, slaughter-house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | carneficina (massacre, shambles, slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 修羅 (fighting, scene of carnage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゅらば (fighting scene, scene of carnage), しゅらのちまた (scene of carnage), しゅらどう (scene of carnage), しゅらじょう (fighting scene, scene of carnage), しゅら (fighting, scene of carnage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | slaigh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arnagecay carnificina (butchery, massacre, shambles, slaughter), carnagem, mortandade (manslaughter, massacre, mortality rate, slaughter), massacre (havoc, massacre, poignancy), amontoado de cadáveres. (various references) carnaj (massacre, slaughter), omor (bane, homicide, murder, slaughter), masacru (butchery, massacre, slaughter), mãcel (bloodshed, butchery, holocaust, massacre, slaughter). (various references) резня (massacre, slaughter, wholesale slaughter). (various references) pokolj (bloodbath, butchery, hecatomb, massacre, slaughter). (various references) carnicería (abattoir, butcher shop, butcher's, butcher's chop, butcher's shop, butchery, shambles, slaughter). (various references) blodbad (massacre, shambles). (various references) katliam (battue, bloodletting, bloodshed, butchery, decimation, hecatomb, massacre, pogrom, slaughter), kan dökme (bloodletting, bloodshed, slaughter). (various references) gyrgynзylyk (slaughter). (various references) різанина (massacre), кривава розправа. (various references) sự t n sát (blood bath, butchery), sự chém giết (blood, blood bath, bloodshed). (various references) celanedd (slaughter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | caedes, carnaticum. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | carnaticum. (various references) |
| Old Italian | 700-1500 | carnaggio. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | massacre. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "carnage": carnages. (additional references) | |
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"Carnage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acrange, Arnage, cabragh, Caprinae, Carague, carange, cardage, cariage, carinae, carinate, Carna, carnagee, carnagey, carnagie, Carnbane, carnege, carnge, carnifex, Carnigill, carpage, carrage, chanrango, Charanga, citrange, Cranidge, crannagh, Crannaig, Farnsagh, Karagwe, karang, karanga. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "carnage" (pronounced kÄ"rnij) |
| 3 | -n i j | coinage, linage, micromanage, mismanage, parsonage, patronage, signage. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-g-n-r" | |
-1 letter: arcane. | |
-2 letters: anear, anger, areca, arena, cager, caner, crane, grace, grana, nacre, rance, range, regna. | |
-3 letters: acne, acre, agar, ager, anga, area, cage, cane, care, carn, crag, earn, gaen, gane, gear, gnar, gran, narc, near, race, raga, rage, rang. | |
-4 letters: ace, aga, age, ana, ane, arc, are, can, car, ear, eng, era, erg, ern. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-g-n-r" | |
+1 letter: carageen, carnages. | |
+2 letters: anchorage, archangel, arrogance, carageens, carrageen, comanager, flagrance, fragrance, sugarcane. | |
+3 letters: abreacting, acerbating, acierating, anchorages, archangels, archegonia, arctangent, arrogances, campaigner, caretaking, carmagnole, carrageens, carragheen, chargehand, comanagers, flagrances, fragrances, gasconader, gearchange, lacerating, macerating, sugarcanes, vagrancies. | |
+4 letters: altercating, archangelic, archegonial, arctangents, berascaling, calendaring, campaigners, caretakings, carmagnoles, carrageenan, carrageenin, carragheens, cavaliering, chaperonage, chargehands, coappearing, demarcating, eradicating, flagrancies, fragrancies, gasconaders, gearchanges, gnatcatcher, micromanage, panegyrical, paragenetic, racewalking, reattaching, reattacking, rebalancing, rectangular, repackaging. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 6E 61 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. -. .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01101110 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r n a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 006E 0061 0067 0065 |
| 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)37678480677371 |
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