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Definitions: Oates |
OatesNoun1. English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705). 2. United States writer (born in 1938). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Oates" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
"Oates" is a common misspelling or typo for: oases, oaten, oaths, oats. |
Synonyms: OatesSynonyms: Joyce Carol Oates (n), Titus Oates (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Oates |
| English words defined with "Oates": Joyce Carol Oates ♦ Titus Oates. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Oates": Agag ♦ Corah. (references) |
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Song Titles | Method of modern love (performing artist: Hall & oates) SARA SMILE (performing artist: HALL & OATES) | |
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![]() | Rev. John Oates (left) playing bass with a teenage rock and roll band aboard a railroad car while two girls dance.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Alice Oates.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Oates" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Oates" is used about 103 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) | 100% | 103 | 32,137 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Oates" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Oates | Last name | 3,000 | 3,598 |
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Expressions using "Oates": Joyce Carol Oates ♦ Titus Oates. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Oates": oates-like. | |
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| 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. |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "Oates": benzoates, dimethoates. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: stoae, toeas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ates, east, eats, etas, oast, oats, sate, seat, seta, stoa, taos, teas, toea, toes. | |
-2 letters: ate, eat, eta, oat, oes, ose, sae, sat, sea, set, sot, tae, tao, tas, tea, toe. | |
-3 letters: ae, as, at, es, et, oe, os, so, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: atones, avoset, azotes, costae, oaters, orates, osteal, sapote, solate. | |
+2 letters: acetose, acetous, aerosat, amosite, apostle, atomies, atomise, atoners, atonies, atopies, avocets, avosets, azotise, boasted, boaster, boatels, boaters, borates, capotes, coasted, coaster, coatees, coaters, comates, costate, coteaus, donates, dotages, earshot, esparto, etalons, fatsoes, folates, fossate, garotes, gelatos, gestapo, goatees, hostage, iodates, isolate, lactose, legatos, loathes, locates, maestro, maltose, notates, oblates, octanes, octaves, oleates, onstage, opiates, orgeats, osteoma, outages, outeats, pelotas, petasos, podesta, postage, potages, proteas, rebatos, roasted, roaster, roseate, rotates, sapotes, seaboot, seaport, senator, skatole, solated, solates, solvate, sorbate, soutane, stomate, storage, stowage, talcose, teapots, teapoys, teashop, teopans, toadies, toasted, toaster, toecaps, tolanes, topazes, torsade, towages, treason, twasome, zealots. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 61 74 65 73 |
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