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Mormons

Definition: Mormons

Mormons

Noun

1. Church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City Utah.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Mormons" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references)


Synonyms: Mormons

Synonyms: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (n), Mormon Church (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Mormons

English words defined with "Mormons": Beehive StateDanitegentileMormon State, MormondomOgdenProvoSegoUT, Utah. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Mormons": Red MenSalt Lake, Skopts, Skopti. (references)

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Modern Usage: Mormons

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Oh no, Mormons! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Mormons think Jesus was a yank! (The Getaway; writing credit: Katie Ellwood; Brendan McNamara)

I had forgotten about it until the minister told us to go rough up the Mormons. Then I remembered: I am one! (The Other Side of Heaven; writing credit: Mitch Davis; John H. Groberg)

Movie/TV Titles

Trapped by the Mormons (1922)

A Victim of the Mormons (1910)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mormons

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-Day Saints in American Religion (Religion in America) (reference)

  • Reasoning from the Scriptures With the Mormons (reference)

  • Speaking the Truth in Love to Mormons (reference)

  • Tale of Two Cities: Mormons Vs Catholics (reference)

  • The Story of the Mormons (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Mormons

Photos:
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Photo Album: Mormons

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Pictured is a family scene, with a mother reading a story to several children. She is seated in a rocking chair and they are surrounding her on the floor in a family room setting. These people are part of a Mormon family. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate, well below the national average. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Pictured are two young sisters playing on a swing. It is an outdoor summer, sunny setting. In the background a large home may be seen and a farm style setting. Hese are two members of a large Mormon family. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

The image shows an older woman holding a little girl on her lap. The photo also includes the profile of a younger woman. They are watching a parade. These people are members of a large Mormon family. The Mormons are being studied because of their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Mormons observing a parade. It is a bright sunny day in Salt Lake City. Pictured are crowds of people and also small groups of people. (note: this could be a picture of any people watching an outdoor event, such as a parade). The Mormons are being studied for their low cancer death rate-about 20% below the national average. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Several adolescent women are painting a fence on a summer day. A farmhouse and mountains can be seen in the background of Utah landscape. These young women are part of a larger Mormon family. The Mormons are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Mormon encampment on the Mississippi Mormon tabernacle camp ; Mormons building a bridge. Credit: Library of Congress.

Grants, New Mexico. Cultivated fields along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico. This land, farmed by Mormons, shipped over a thousand carloads of carrots, lettuce, peas, etc., last year. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mormons

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Tonga

Mormons utilize Radio Tonga for the announcement of church activities and functions. (references)

Russia

Mormons also have experienced trouble in obtaining permission to build and then occupy an assembly hall in Volgograd. (references)

Russia

The Mormons have had problems in procuring residency permits for missionaries in regions such as Chelyabinsk and Kazan. (references)

Economic History

Greece

Other religious communities in Greece include Catholics, Jews, Old Calendar Orthodox, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, and Protestants. (references)

Minorities

Greece

The Orthodox Church issued a list of practices and religious groups, including Jehovah's Witnesses, Evangelical Protestants, Scientologists, Mormons, Baha'is, and others, which it believes to be sacrilegious. (references)

Russia

In the materials that came out of the conference, groups such as Pentecostals, Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Unification Church, and Scientology were included in the list of "cults," despite the fact that all have legal status. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Mormons

"Mormons" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mormons" is used about 28 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%2865,706

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mormons

Language Translations for "Mormons"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

摩门教' (Mormon). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

모르몬 교도 (Mormon). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ormonsmay

   

Spanish

  

mormones. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Mormons

Misspellings

"Mormons" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Momone, Morman, Mormesnil, Mortons, Moumouni. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Mormons

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "m-m-n-o-o-r-s"

-1 letter: morons.

-2 letters: monos, moons, moors, morns, moron, nomos, norms, rooms.

-3 letters: moms, mono, mons, moon, moor, moos, morn, mors, noms, norm, roms, room, soon, sorn.

-4 letters: mom, mon, moo, mor, mos, nom, noo, nor, nos, oms, ons, ors, rom, som, son.

-5 letters: mm, mo, no, om, on, or, os, so.

 Words containing the letters "m-m-n-o-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: monomers, moronism.

 

+2 letters: commoners, groomsman, groomsmen, monograms, moronisms, nomograms.

 

+3 letters: comonomers, conformism, meromyosin, metronomes, monodramas, monometers, monorhymes, monotremes.

 

+4 letters: conformisms, consummator, meromyosins, monochromes, mushrooming.

 

+5 letters: commentators, commissioner, comportments, compromising, consummators, consummatory, countermemos, endomorphism, monochromats, monochromist, monogrammers, monomorphism, monorchidism, recommission, rumormongers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Mormons


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 72 6D 6F 6E 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ---    .-.    --    ---    -.    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01110010 01101101 01101111 01101110 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#114 &#109 &#111 &#110 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 0072 006D 006F 006E 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47818479818085

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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