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Definition: Druid |
DruidNoun1. A pre-Christian priest among the Celts of ancient Gaul and Britain and Ireland. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "druid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
Etymology: Druid \Dru"id\, noun. [Latin expression Druides; of Celtic origin; compare to Irish Gaelic draoi, druidh, magician, Druid, Welsh derwydd Druid.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Druid A chief priest (Celtic, der, superior; wydd, priest or instructor). In Taliesin we read, Bûm gwydd yngwarth an (at length I became a priest or wydd). It was after this period that the wydds were divided into two classes, the Der-wydds and the Go-wydds (Druids and Ovidds). Every chief had his druid, and every chief druid was allowed a guard of thirty men (Strabo). The order was very wealthy. (Not derived from the Greek drus, an oak.) Patricius tells us that the Druids were wont to borrow money to be repaid in the life to come. His words are, "Druidæ pecuniam mutuo accipiebant in posteriore vita reddituri." `Like money the Druids borrowed, In t'other world to be restoréd." Butler: Hudibras, part iii. canto 1,. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DRUID | English | Secret Information from a Third-Party Intercept | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Mullah, muezzin, ayatollah; ulema, imaum, imam, sheik; sufi; kahin, kassis; mufti, hadji, dervish; fakir, faquir; brahmin, guru, kaziaskier, poonghie, sanyasi; druid, bonze, santon, abdal, Lama, talapoin, caloyer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Druid |
| English words defined with "druid": Druidess ♦ Sarsen. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "druid": Chyndonax, Clavie ♦ druid stone ♦ Philomelus ♦ Sarsen Stones. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Druid" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (druid), Romanian (druid), Scottish (a starling, close, close; draw nigh, starling), Serbo-Croatian (druid). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | South terrace and Mansion, Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Md. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bactrian camel, Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Md. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Island house, Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Md. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Economic History | Ireland | The pagan druid tradition collapsed in the face of the spread of the new faith, and Irish scholars excelled in the study of Latin learning and Christian theology in the monasteries that shortly flourished. (references) |
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| "Druid" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.83% of the time. "Druid" is used about 72 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) | 95.83% | 69 | 40,280 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.17% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 72 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Druid Group Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "druid": Druid Hills ♦ Druid stone ♦ Druid stones ♦ North Druid Hills. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
druid | 338 | art druid | 10 |
ever quest druid | 44 | druid history | 9 |
eq druid | 36 | druid pack peak | 8 |
disk druid | 33 | druid magic | 8 |
druid symbol | 25 | 2 diablo druid guide | 8 |
celtic druid jewelry pagan | 24 | druid robe | 8 |
druid hill park | 19 | disk download druid | 8 |
druid name | 19 | druid ritual | 8 |
druid spells | 15 | 2 diablo druid strategy | 7 |
2 diablo druid | 15 | druid god | 7 |
druid hills high school | 14 | druid grove | 7 |
druid religion | 14 | diablo druid ii | 7 |
city druid hospital | 13 | druid tree | 7 |
druid hills | 13 | download druid | 7 |
druid picture | 12 | druid quest | 6 |
druid epic | 12 | diablo druid | 6 |
druid ever quest quest | 11 | class druid | 6 |
druid ever quest spells | 11 | dnd druid | 6 |
club druid golf hills | 11 | druid ever guide quest | 6 |
command disk druid line | 11 | d d druid | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "druid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | druid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الدرويد كاهن. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | друид, древнокелтски жрец. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 督伊德教憎侣 (DRUIDS). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | druïde. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | druide. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιερέασ των κελτών. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | druida. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pawang (expert, guide, hunter, steersman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | druido. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | druaightys (charming, druidism, magic), druaightagh (charmer, charming, druidic, druidical, magician, occult), druaight (charm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uiddray druida. (various references) druid. (various references) друид. (various references) druidh (a magician). (various references) druid. (various references) druida. (various references) rahip sınıfı üyesi. (various references) друїд. (various references) derwydd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "druid": druidess, druidesses, druidic, druidical, druidism, druidisms, druids. (additional references) | |
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"Druid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dhuit, djukic, draic, drid, Drii, driut, drizic, droad, Droi, droid, drood, Drouard, druad, Drud, druidd, Druide, druidh, druidz, druie, druil, druim, druin, druiod, druir, druit, Druitt, druiz, druyed, dudik, duid, duird, dured, duri, Durji, Durruti, fruid, Idurd, truid. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "druid" (pronounced druw"ud) |
| 3 | -uw" u d | fluid. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-i-r-u" | |
-1 letter: rudd. | |
-2 letters: did, dud, dui, rid, urd. | |
-3 letters: id. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-i-r-u" | |
+1 letter: dirdum, druids, siddur. | |
+2 letters: dirdums, druidic, muddier, ruddier, ruddily, siddurs, undried, updried. | |
+3 letters: cruddier, crudding, cuddlier, drudging, druidess, druidism, intruded, puddlier, reduviid, ruddiest, ruddling, siddurim, sturdied, underbid, underdid, ungirded, unriddle, upgirded. | |
+4 letters: cruddiest, debruised, detruding, disburden, disbursed, disrupted, dissuader, disturbed, druidical, druidisms, indurated, juddering, outridden, pedicured, rebuilded, reduviids, reinduced, restudied, ridiculed, ruddiness, unadmired, unbraided, unbridged, unbridled, underbids, undergird, underlaid, underpaid, underside, undesired, undrained, undrilled, unriddled, unriddles, upbraided. | |
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