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Definition: COPPERAS |
COPPERASNoun1. Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate. |
Date "COPPERAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of copperas, foretells unintentional wrong will be done you which will be distressing and will cause you loss. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Mining | See:melanterite; copiapite; goslarite; coquimbite. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: COPPERAS |
| English words defined with "COPPERAS": Coquimbite ♦ Green vitriol ♦ Misy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "COPPERAS": copperas stone. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "COPPERAS": Misy. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "COPPERAS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COPPERAS" is used about 2 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 (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "COPPERAS": blue copperas ♦ Copperas Cove ♦ white copperas ♦ yellow copperas. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 "COPPERAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Sulfat Hekuri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Зелен Камък, Железен Сулфат. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | couperose. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Vitriole. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | 'ιτριόλι, Θειικόσ Σίδηροσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Ásványi Vasszulfit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opperascay caparrosa, sulfato ferroso. (various references) Vitriol-verde. (various references) Купорос, Железный Купорос. (various references) zelena galica. (various references) Coperas. (various references) Demir Sülfat. (various references) Купорос. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COPPERAS": copperases. (additional references) | |
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"COPPERAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Capparis, Colperras, Coprefa, cuppear. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-p-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: apposer, cappers, coppers, coppras. | |
-2 letters: appose, capers, capper, coarse, copers, copper, coppra, copras, corpse, crapes, escarp, operas, pacers, papers, pareos, parsec, recaps, sapper, scrape, secpar, soaper, spacer. | |
-3 letters: acres, apers, apres, arose, asper, caper, capes, capos, cares, carps, carse, ceros, coper, copes, copra, copse, cores, corps, corse, crape, craps, crops, escar, ocrea, opera. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-p-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: coappears, copperahs, spaceport. | |
+2 letters: apocarpies, approaches, carpospore, cartoppers, copperases, spaceports. | |
+3 letters: carpophores, carpospores, copperheads, hippocrases, laparoscope, polariscope. | |
+4 letters: appreciators, copperplates, coprophagies, craftspeople, dipterocarps, laparoscopes, pilocarpines, plecopterans, polariscopes, sharecropped, sharecropper, spectrograph. | |
+5 letters: apperceptions, appreciations, cephalosporin, copartnership, cyclopropanes, laparoscopies, perspicacious, pharmacopeias, pictographies, preceptorials, precipitators, propaedeutics, prosencephala, psychotherapy, reprographics, sharecroppers, sharecropping, spectatorship, spectrographs, spectrography. | |
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