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"FLATTERERS" is a plural of: flatterer. |
Date "FLATTERERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Flatterers When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. Flattery is so pernicious, so fills the heart with pride and conceit, so perverts the judgment and disturbs the balance of the mind, that Satan himself could do no greater mischief. He may go to dinner and leave the leaven of wickedness to operate its own mischief. "Porteus, there is a proverb thou shouldst read: `When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner.' " Peter Pindar: Nil Admirari. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: FLATTERERS |
| Specialty definitions using "FLATTERERS": Adventurer ♦ Claw-backs ♦ Psaphon's Birds ♦ Satan. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld | Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. |
Plutarch | When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Grants, promises, and oaths, are bonds that hold the Almighty: whatever some flatterers say to princes of the world, who all together, with all their people joined to them, are, in comparison of the great God, but as a drop of the bucket, or a dust on the balance, inconsiderable, nothing! (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| "FLATTERERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FLATTERERS" is used about 11 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% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "FLATTERERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Schmeichler (adulator, blandisher, blandishers, cajoler, coaxer, fawner, flatterer, sycophant). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | atterersflay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"FLATTERERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glitterers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-l-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: falterers, flatterer. | |
-2 letters: alertest, alterers, falterer, ferrates, flatters, fretters, rattlers, realters, reflates, relaters, retreats, startler, treaters. | |
-3 letters: afreets, alerter, alterer, elaters, estreat, falters, fearers, feaster, featest, ferrate, ferrels, ferrets, fetters, fettles, flatter, fraters, fretter, leftest, letters, rafters, ratters, rattler, rattles, realest, realter, reflate, reflets, relater, relates, reslate, restart, restate, retaste, retears, retreat, serrate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-l-r-r-s-t-t" | |
+4 letters: tetrafluorides, transferential. | |
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