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Definition: DESTINIES |
DESTINIESPlural1. Of Destiny |
Date "DESTINIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Crosswords: DESTINIES |
| English words defined with "DESTINIES": Genethlialogy ♦ The Destinies. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DESTINIES": Forbës. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DESTINIES": Destiny. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Soul Reaver and reaver of souls, your destinies are intertwined (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig) | |
Lyrics | The search has come full circle, our destinies are one (The Search is Over; performing artist: Survivor) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tangled Destinies (1932) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Ansel Adams | Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt | You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies. |
James Russell Lowell | In the scale of destinies, brawn will never weigh so much as brain. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | The circumstances under which I have been called for a limited period to preside over the destinies of the Republic fill me with a profound sense of responsibility, but with nothing like shrinking apprehension. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "DESTINIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DESTINIES" is used about 57 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% | 57 | 44,859 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "DESTINIES": the destinies. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "DESTINIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 命运 (Destiny, Fate, Fates). (various references) | |
German | Schicksale (fates). (various references) | |
Korean | 운명 (Destiny, DOOM, Dooms, Fate, Fates, mortal). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | estiniesday.(various references) | |
Spanish | destinos. (various references) | |
Swedish | parcerna, ödesgudinnorna (the fates). (various references) | |
Turkish | kader tanrıçaları (the destinies, weird sisters). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"DESTINIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Despinis, Duntinnie, dystonia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DESTINIES" (pronounced de"stunēz) |
| 5 | -t u n ē z | litanies, mutinies. |
| 4 | -u n ē z | accompanies, aborigines, agonies, balconies, colonies, companies, felonies, harmonies, ironies, peonies, symphonies, tyrannies. |
| 3 | -n ē z | afghanis, attorneys, bikinis, brownies, bunnies, ceremonies, chimneys, crannies, cronies, guineas, Honeys, journeys, kidneys, martinis, minis, moneys, monies, nannies, pennies, ponies, testimonies, tourneys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: densities. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-n-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: destines, insisted, sienites, tidiness. | |
-2 letters: deities, densest, destine, dissent, endites, indites, insides, sestine, sienite, snidest, tineids. | |
-3 letters: deists, denies, desist, dienes, dieses, diesis, endite, indies, indite, insets, inside, insist, nested, niseis, seined, seines, seised, seisin, seniti, sensed, steeds, steins, teiids, teinds, tensed, tenses, tidies, tineid. | |
-4 letters: deets, deist, denes, dense, dents, diene, diets, dines. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-i-n-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: adenitises, sensitised, sensitized, tidinesses. | |
+2 letters: dentistries, desensitize, dirtinesses, disbenefits, disentitles, disinfested, disinterest, disinvested, disseminate, dissentient, dissepiment, distensible, fidgetiness, limitedness, stridencies, timidnesses. | |
+3 letters: daintinesses, definiteness, desensitized, desensitizer, desensitizes, determinisms, determinists, disesteeming, disguisement, dishonesties, disinterests, disseminated, disseminates, dissentients, dissepiments, indirectness, insecticides, intrepidness, irredentisms, irredentists, redigestions, resensitized, seminudities, sidestepping, spiritedness, tendinitises, tendonitises, unsensitized, untidinesses. | |
+4 letters: desensitizers, desensitizing, desiderations, directionless, disguisements, disincentives, disintegrates, disinterested, disinterments, disinvestment, disorientates, disrespecting, endometriosis, essentialized, fidgetinesses, identicalness, immediateness, indigestibles, interdiffuses, limitednesses, misidentifies, pedestrianism, predigestions, presidentship, seditiousness, serendipities, serendipitous, stipendiaries. | |
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