FENIANS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Fenians An anti-British association of disaffected Irishmen, called the Fenian Brotherhood, after the ancient Fenians of Ireland: formed in New York, in 1857, to overthrow the domination of England in Ireland, and make Ireland a republic. The word means a hunter - Gaelic, fianna, from feadhach (pronounced fee-agh), a hunt. Before the Germanic invasion, a Celtic race so called occupied not only parts of Ireland and Scotland, but also the north of Germany and the Scandinavian shores. Oisin (Ossian) refers to them, and one passage is thus rendered in The Antiquary "Do you compare your psalms to the tales of the bare-armed Fenians?" Oisin was the grandson of Fionn, the "fair-haired righ (chief) of the Fenians," and all the high officers of this volunteer association were men of rank. It appears that the Fenians of Ireland (Eirin), Scotland (Alba), England (Socring), and Scandinavia, had a great civil battle at Gabhra, in Ireland, and extirpated each other. Oisin alone escaped, and he had slain "twice fifty men with his own hand." In the great Fenian outbreak of Ireland in 1865, etc., the leaders were termed "head centres," and their subordinates "centres." (See Clan-Na-Gael.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: FENIANS

English words defined with "FENIANS": Fenian, Fenianism. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Ireland	A decade later, in 1858, the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB--also known as the Fenians) was founded as a secret society dedicated to armed rebellion against the British. (references)
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"FENIANS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FENIANS" is used about 7 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%	7	133,076

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Language		Translations for "FENIANS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Manx		Ny Fenee (The Champions, The Fenians). (various references)

Pig Latin		eniansfay
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	Direct Anagrams: fannies.
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-n-n-s"
	-1 letter: inanes, insane, sienna.
	-2 letters: anise, fanes, fines, inane, naifs, neifs, nines, senna.
	-3 letters: ains, anes, anis, fain, fane, fans, fens, fine, fins, inns, naif, nans, neif, nine, safe, sain, sane, seif, sine.
	-4 letters: ain, ais, ane, ani, efs, ens, fan, fas, fen, fie, fin, ifs, inn, ins, nae, nan, sae, sea, sei, sen, sin.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-n-n-s"
	+1 letter: fanzines, finances, infantes.
	+2 letters: faineants, faintness, fanciness, fastening, fibrannes, infancies, infestant, safranine.
	+3 letters: cofinances, fastenings, financiers, infantries, infestants, influenzas, refinances, safranines, unfairness, zinfandels.
	+4 letters: confidantes, enfranchise, faintnesses, fancinesses, festinating, fingernails, finicalness, frangipanes, franticness, gainfulness, halfpennies, infestation, manifestant, manifesting, nonfamilies, painfulness, prefinances, refastening, sinfonietta, transferrin, transfinite, unfastening.
	+5 letters: antifeminism, antifeminist, benefactions, confessional, disinfectant, disinfestant, enfranchised, enfranchises, faintishness, fancifulness, fecundations, fenestration, fomentations, frankincense, franklinites, freestanding, frontiersman, indefinables, infanticides, infantilizes, infestations, influentials, interfacings, manifestants, manifestoing, manifoldness, refashioning, refrainments, reinflations, significance, sinfoniettas, somnifacient, transfecting, transfection, transferring, transferrins, unfairnesses.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
fenians	22
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