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Definition: FRATERNITIES |
FRATERNITIESPlural1. Of Fraternity |
Date "FRATERNITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Crosswords: FRATERNITIES |
| Specialty definitions using "FRATERNITIES": FRANKALMOIGNE. (references) |
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Screenplays | Looks like somebody forgot there's a rule against alcoholic beverages in fraternities on probation! (Animal House; writing credit: Harold Ramis; Douglas Kenney) | |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FRANKALMOIGNE, n. The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on condition of praying for the soul of the donor. In mediaeval times many of the wealthiest fraternities obtained their estates in this simple and cheap manner, and once when Henry VIII of England sent an officer to confiscate certain vast possessions which a fraternity of monks held by frankalmoigne, "What!" said the Prior, "would you master stay our benefactor's soul in Purgatory?" "Ay," said the officer, coldly, "an ye will not pray him thence for naught he must e'en roast." "But look you, my son," persisted the good man, "this act hath rank as robbery of God!" "Nay, nay, good father, my master the king doth but deliver him from the manifold temptations of too great wealth." |
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| "FRATERNITIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FRATERNITIES" is used about 18 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% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "FRATERNITIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | "谊会 (fraternity). (various references) | ||||
German | Orden (decoration, medal, medals, order). (various references) | ||||
Italian | onorificenza (decoration, honor, honour). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | aternitiesfray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "FRATERNITIES": confraternities. (additional references) | |
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"FRATERNITIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fraternitate, fraternite, fraternitiy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FRATERNITIES" (pronounced fruter"nutēz) |
| 5 | -n u t ē z | affinities, amenities, communities, divinities, humanities, humanity, immunities, indemnities, indignities, obscenities, opportunities, vanities. |
| 4 | -u t ē z | abilities, abnormalities, absurdities, activities, ambiguities, animosities, annuities, antiquities, anxieties, atrocities, authorities, availabilities, banalities, brutalities, calamities, capabilities, capacities, causalities, cavities, celebrities, charities, commodities, commonalities, complexities, curiosities, deformities, deities, densities, deputies, disabilities, disability, disparities, eccentricities, enmities, entities, equities, extremities, facilities, fatalities, festivities, fidelities, formalities, generalities, gratuities, hostilities, identities, illegalities, improprieties, impurities, inequalities, inequities, infidelities, infirmities, insecurities, instabilities, intensities, irregularities, legalities, liabilities, liquidities, localities, majorities, maturities, minorities, modalities, municipalities, nationalities, necessities, niceties, oddities, parities, peculiarities, personalities, pieties, possibilities, principalities, priorities, probabilities, proclivities, propensities, qualities, quantities, rarities, realities, responsibilities, rigidities, securities, sensibilities, sensitivities, similarities, societies, sororities, technicalities, tonalities, unfamiliarities, universities, utilities, varieties, velocities, verities, vulnerabilities. |
| 3 | -t ē z | amnesties, Antes, beauties, booties, bounties, casualties, certainties, christies, cities, committees, counties, cruelties, diabetes, difficulties, ditties, duties, dynasties, eighties, empties, entreaties, faculties, fatties, fifties, forties, frailties, lefties, liberties, loyalties, Montes, nineties, novelties, panties, parties, patties, penalties, pretties, properties, royalties, seventies, shanties, sixties, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, thirties, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, vigilantes, warranties, zlotys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-i-n-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: itinerates, tertiaries, tristearin. | |
-3 letters: arteritis, enteritis, fatteners, ferritins, festinate, feteritas, interties, irritants, irritates, itinerate, ratifiers, ratteners, reinstate, restraint, retainers, retinites, retirants, ternaries, terrifies, testifier. | |
-4 letters: aerifies, anisette, arenites, ariettes, arsenite, arteries, entities, entreats, fainters, faintest, fastener, fattener, feistier, fenestra, ferities, ferniest, ferrates, ferrites, ferritin, feterita, fieriest, fineries, fretters, frettier, friaries, frisette, fritters, inertiae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-i-i-n-r-r-s-t-t" | |
+3 letters: confraternities, interstratified, interstratifies. | |
+4 letters: recertifications, referentialities. | |
+5 letters: precertifications, transferabilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 52 41 54 45 52 4E 49 54 49 45 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .-. .- - . .-. -. .. - .. . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01010010 01000001 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001110 01001001 01010100 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F R A T E R N I T I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0052 0041 0054 0045 0052 004E 0049 0054 0049 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)405235543952484354433953 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, cinese |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tedesco |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italienisch, italiano |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, inglese |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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