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"NICKNAMES" is a plural of: nickname. |
Date "NICKNAMES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Nicknames National Nicknames: For an American of the United States, "Brother Jonathan" (q.v.). For a Dutchman, "Nic Frog" (q.v.), and "Mynheer Closh" (q.v.). For an Englishman, "John Bull." (See Bull.) For a Frenchman, "Crapaud" (q.v.), Johnny or Jean, Robert Macaire. For French Canadians, "Jean Baptiste." For French reformers, "Brissotins." For French peasantry, "Jacques Bonhomme." For a Glaswegian, "Glasgow Keelie." For a German, "Cousin Michael" or "Michel" (q.v.). For an Irishman, "Paddy." For a Liverpudlian, "Dicky Sam." For a Londoner, "A Cockney" (q.v.). For a Russian, "A bear." For a Scot, "Sawney" (q.v.). For a Swiss, "Colin Tampon" (q.v.). For a Turk, "Infidel." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: NICKNAMES |
| English words defined with "NICKNAMES": fasten. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "NICKNAMES": American States ♦ Jack-Amend-All. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I understand some of the players have rather strange nicknames, rather silly pet names the players have nowadays. (The Kids in the Hall; writing credit: Dave Foley; Bruce McCulloch) They all have nicknames, however I prefer to use the names society will recognize them by. (Holes; writing credit: Louis Sachar) People with cute nicknames should be used for food. (Cybill; writing credit: William Lucas Walker; Lee Aronsohn) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nicknames (1928) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames. |
Thomas C. Haliburton | Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. |
Thomas Paine | Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "NICKNAMES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 93.98% of the time. "NICKNAMES" is used about 83 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) | 93.98% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 4.82% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 83 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "NICKNAMES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Spitznamen (sobriquets). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | icknamesnay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"NICKNAMES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nickhame. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "NICKNAMES" (pronounced ni"knā'mz) |
| 4 | -n ā' m z | surnames. |
| 3 | -ā' m z | counterclaims, mainframes. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-k-m-n-n-s" | |
-1 letter: nickname. | |
-2 letters: amnesic, canines, cinemas, encinas, kinemas, kinsman, kinsmen, nancies. | |
-3 letters: amices, amines, anemic, animes, camise, canine, cannie, casein, cinema, encina, iceman, inanes, incase, insane, inseam, kamsin, kinase, kinema, manics, mesian, minces, minkes, nances, nanism, semina, sicken, sienna. | |
-4 letters: acmes, acnes, amens, amice, amies, amine, amins, amnic, anime, anise, cains, cakes, cames, canes, cines. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-k-m-n-n-s" | |
+1 letter: nicknamers. | |
+4 letters: benchmarkings. | |
+5 letters: cabinetmakings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 49 43 4B 4E 41 4D 45 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, 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)01001110 01001001 01000011 01001011 01001110 01000001 01001101 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N I C K N A M E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0049 0043 004B 004E 0041 004D 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)484337454835473953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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