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Date "LOOKERS-ON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Lookers-on The man on the dyke always hurls well. The man standing on the mound, and looking at those who are playing at hurling, can see the faults and criticise them. Umpires are lookers-on. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Pythagoras | In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. |
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| "LOOKERS-ON" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LOOKERS-ON" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
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| Language | Translations for "LOOKERS-ON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | néző (bystander, looker-on, spectator). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ookers-onlay seyirciler (audience). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: onlookers. | |
| Words within the letters "e-k-l-n-o-o-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: onlooker. | |
-2 letters: lookers, relooks, snooker, snorkel. | |
-3 letters: enrols, kelson, kroons, loners, looker, loosen, looser, nerols, nooser, relook, sooner. | |
-4 letters: enols, enrol, kenos, kerns, koels, kolos, krone, kroon, lenos, loner, looks, loons, loose, lores, loser, nerol, noels, nolos, nooks, noose, oleos, orles, roles, rooks, roose, senor, snook, snool, snore, sokol, solon, sorel. | |
-5 letters: elks, enol, eons. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Familiar 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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