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"LUDDITES" is a plural of: luddite. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Luddites (2 syl.). Riotous workmen who went about the manufacturing districts breaking machines, under the notion that machinery threw men out of employ. Miss Martineau says that the term arose from Ned Lud, of Leicestershire, an imbecile who was much hounded by boys. One day he chased a set of tormentors into a house, and broke two stocking-frames, whence the leader of these rioters was called General Lud, his chief abettors Lud's wives, and his followers Luddites. (1811-1816.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Party | Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar; Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK; Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: LUDDITES |
| Specialty definitions using "LUDDITES": Lud. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| "LUDDITES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LUDDITES" is used about 15 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% | 15 | 90,616 |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the luddites | 30 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LUDDITES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | лудити. (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | luddisták. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | udditeslay луддиты. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-l-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: diluted, dilutes, duelist, studdie, studied. | |
-2 letters: delist, dilute, dusted, duties, idlest, listed, lusted, sidled, silted, suited, tildes. | |
-3 letters: deils, deist, delis, delts, didst, diets, dites, dudes, duels, duets, duits, dulse, edits, etuis, idled, idles, ileus, isled, islet, istle, leuds, lieus, ludes, luted, lutes, sided, sidle, sited, slide, slued, stied, stile, suite, tided, tides. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-l-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: cuddliest, puddliest, studiedly. | |
+2 letters: deltoideus, multisided. | |
+3 letters: deductibles, disgruntled, disgustedly, stridulated. | |
+4 letters: dissimulated, midlatitudes. | |
+5 letters: demodulations, dinucleotides, dissimilitude, multistranded. | |
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