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Definition: DWARFS |
DWARFSPlural1. Of Dwarf |
Date "DWARFS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dwarfs (under the three feet in height). ANDROMEDA, 2 ft. 4 in. One of Julia's free maids. (See below, gonopas.) ARISTRATOS, the poet, was so small that Athenæos says, "no one could see him." BEBE, or Nicholas Ferry, 2 ft. 9 in. A native of France (1714-1737). He had a brother and sister, both dwarfs. BORUWLASKI (Count Joseph), 2 ft. 4 in. at the age of twenty. (1739-1837). BUCKINGER (Matthew), a German, born 1674. He was born without hands, legs, or feet. Facsimiles of his writing are amongst the Harleian MSS. CHE-MAH (a Chinese), 2 ft. 1 in., weight 52 lbs. Exhibited in London in 1880. COLOBRI (Prince) of Sleswig, 2 ft. 1 in., weight 25 lbs. at the age of 25 (1851). CONOPAS, 2 ft. 4 in. One of the dwarfs of Julia, niece of Augustus. (See above, ANDROMEDA.)) COPPERNIN, the dwarf of the Princess of Wales, mother of George III. The last court dwarf in England. CRACH'AMI' (Caroline). Born at Palermo; 1 ft. 8 in. at death. (1814-24.) Exhibited in Bond Street, London, 1824. DECKER or DUCKER (John), 2 ft. 6 in. An Englishman (1610). FAIRY QUEEN (The), 1 ft. 4 in., weight 4 lbs, Exhibited in Regent Street, London, 1850. Her feet were less than two inches. GIBSON (Richard), a good portrait painter. His wife's maiden name was Anne Shepherd. Each measured 3 ft. 10 in. Waller sang their praises. (In the reign of Charles I.) HUDSON (Sir Jeffrey). Born at Oakham, Rutlandshire; 1 ft. 6 in. at the age of thirty (1619-78). J ARVIS (John), 2 ft. Page of honour to Queen Mary (1508-56). LOLKES (Wybrand), 2 ft. 3 in., weight 57 lbs. Exhibited at Astley's in 1790. LUCIUS, 2 ft., weight 17 lbs. The dwarf of the Emperor Augustus. MARINE (Lizzie), 2 ft. 9 in., weight 45 lbs. MIDGETS, THE. Lucia Zarate, the eldest sister, 1 ft. 8 in., weight 4 3/4 lbs at the age of eighteen. Her sister was a little taller. Exhibited in London, 1881. MILLER (Miss), of Virginia, 2 ft. 2 in. MITE (General), 1 ft. 9 in. (weight 9 lbs.) at the age of seventeen. Exhibited in London, 1881. PAAP (Simon). A Dutch dwarf, 2 ft. 4 in., weight 27 lbs. PHILETAS, a poet, contemporary with Hippocratês. So thin "that he wore leaden shoes lest the wind should blow him away." (Died B.C. 280.) SAWYER (A. L.), 2 ft. 6 1/2 in., weight 39 lbs. Editor in 1883, etc., of the Democrat, a paper of considerable repute in Florida. STOBERIN (C. H.), of Nuremberg, 2 ft. 11 in at the age of twenty. STOCKER (Nannette), 2 ft. 9 in. Exhibited in London in 1815. STRASSE DAVIT Family. Man, 1 ft. 8 in.; woman, 1 ft. 6 in.; child, at age of seventeen, only 6 in. Embalmed in the chemical library of Rastadt. T ERESIA (Madame). A Corsican, 2 ft. 10 in., weight 27 lbs. Exhibited in London 1773. TOM THUMB (General), whose name was Charles S. Stratton, born at Bridgeport in Connecticut, U.S., 2 ft. 1 in., weight 25 lbs, at the age of twenty-five. (1838-83.) Exhibited first in London in 1844. In 1863 he married Betsy Bump (Lavina Warren). TOM THUMB, a Dutch dwarf, 2 ft. 4 in, at the age of eighteen. WANMER (Lucy,) 2 ft. 6 in., weight 45 lbs. Exhibited in London, 1801, at the age of forty-five. WARREN (Lavina), married to General Tom Thumb in 1863, was also a dwarf, and in 1885 she married another dwarf, Count Primo Magri, who was 2 ft. 8 in. WORMBERG (John), 2 ft. 7 in at the age of thirty-eight (Hanoverian period). XIT was the dwarf of Edward VI. ZARATE (Lucia), 1 ft. 3 in. An excellent linguist of Shigaken Osara (b. 1851). Nicephorus Galistus tells us of an Egyptian dwarf not bigger than a partridge. The names of several infants are known whose heads have not exceeded in size an ordinary billiard ball. The son of D. C. Miller, of Candelaria, born October 27th, 1882, weighed only 8 3/3 oz. A silver dollar would entirely hide its face, and its mouth was too small to admit an ordinary lead pencil. The head of the son of Mrs. Charles Tracy, of Kingsbridge, N.Y., was not bigger than a horse-chestnut, and the mouth would hardly grasp a goose-quill. The mother's wedding ring would slip easily up its legs and thighs. The head of Mr. Marion Poe's child was not so big as a billiard ball, and the mother's ring would slip up the arm as high as the shoulder. Mr. Poe stands over six feet in height. I have a list of several other babies of similar dimensions. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: DWARFSSynonym: Midgets. (additional references) |
Crosswords: DWARFS |
| English words defined with "DWARFS": Nibelung. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DWARFS": Dwarf ♦ LILIPUTIAN ♦ Manheim. (references) |
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Screenplays | My contrition completely dwarfs the impending apocalypse. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Dopey may leave the Seven Dwarfs to pursue more dramatic roles. (House of Mouse; writing credit: Tracy Berna; Kevin Campbell) | |
Clever | British Union Finds Dwarfs in Short Supply (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943) Seven Wise Dwarfs (1941) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) The Merry Dwarfs (1929) Golden Anniversary of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1987) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Comparison of ground-based observation of the globular cluster M4 with an HST image showing white dwarfs. (Produced with the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2, Hubble Space Telescope.). Credit: NASA. |  | See one of the all time greats! Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Production. Locomotives. The massive size of this locomotive boiler dwarfs the husky worker inside it. In addition to locomotives, the plant doing this work also turns out tanks and ship propellers. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Royal Lilliputians a gigantic organization of lilliputians, dwarfs, midgets & giants. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
David Ogilvy | If each of us hires people smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. |
Edwin Hubbel Chapin | Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Japan | The above-mentioned difficulties notwithstanding, the bottom line is that the size of the market opportunities in Japan dwarfs any other overseas market, and competitive U.S. companies should be here. (references) |
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| "DWARFS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 73.44% of the time. "DWARFS" is used about 256 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) | 73.44% | 188 | 22,417 |
| Noun (proper) | 17.19% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 9.38% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Total | 100.00% | 256 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "DWARFS". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Gammadims | N/A | Biblical | Dwarfs |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Language | Translations for "DWARFS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | δΎε' (Dwarf, midget, Pygmies, Pygmy). (various references) | ||||
German | Zwerge (midgets, runts). (various references) | ||||
Korean | λμμ΄ (Dwarf). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | arfsdway | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DWARFS": bedwarfs, semidwarfs. (additional references) | |
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"DWARFS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: D'afra, Darfst, dwar, dwarft, dwraf. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DWARFS" (pronounced dwô"rfs) |
| 4 | -ô" r f s | morphs. |
| 3 | -r f s | allomorphs, scarfs. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-r-s-w" | |
-1 letter: draws, dwarf, fards, sward, swarf, wards. | |
-2 letters: arfs, daws, draw, fads, fard, rads, raws, sard, wads, ward, wars. | |
-3 letters: ads, arf, ars, daw, fad, far, fas, rad, ras, raw, sad, saw, wad, war, was. | |
-4 letters: ad, ar, as, aw, fa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-f-r-s-w" | |
+2 letters: bedwarfs, dwarfest, dwarfish, dwarfism, forwards, selfward. | |
+3 letters: dwarfisms, dwarfness, leftwards, semidwarf. | |
+4 letters: afterwards, afterwords, crawfished, dayflowers, delftwares, downdrafts, drawerfuls, dwarfishly, foreshadow, forwarders, forwardest, frontwards, semidwarfs, woodcrafts. | |
+5 letters: afterworlds, dwarfnesses, floodwaters, foreshadows, forwardness, frowardness, waterfloods. | |
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