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Date "MAY-DAY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | May-day Polydore Virgil says that the Roman youths used to go into the fields and spend the calends of May in dancing and singing in honour of Flora, goddess of fruits and flowers. The early English consecrated May-day to Robin Hood and the Maid Marian, because the favourite outlaw died on that day. Stow says the villagers used to set up May-poles, and spend the day in archery, morris-dancing, and other amusements. Evil May-day (1517), when the London apprentices rose up against the foreign residents, and did incalculable mischief. The riot lasted till May 22nd. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: MAY-DAY |
| English words defined with "MAY-DAY": May game. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MAY-DAY": Ill May-day ♦ Knots of May ♦ Mayor of the Bull-ring, May-pole, May-queen ♦ PRINCES. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I've got a may-day, I'm trying to keep us in the air! (Eraser; writing credit: Tony Puryear; Walon Green) | |
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| "MAY-DAY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "MAY-DAY" is used about 5 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 (proper) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "MAY-DAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Scottish | bealtuinn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mayday. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-m-y-y" | |
-2 letters: maya. | |
-3 letters: ama, dam, day, mad, may, yam, yay. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, am, ay, ma, my, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-m-y-y" | |
+1 letter: maydays. | |
+5 letters: dynamically, pyramidally. | |
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