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Definitions: ORGIES |
ORGIESNoun plural1. Drunken revelry; a carouse. 2. A sacrifice accompanied by certain ceremonies in honor of some pagan deity; especially, the ceremonies observed by the Greeks and Romans in the worship of Dionysus, or Bacchus, which were characterized by wild and dissolute revelry. Plural1. Of Orgy |
Date "ORGIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Orgies (2 syl.). Drunken revels, riotous feasts; so called from the nocturnal festivals in honour of Bacchus. (Greek, orge, violent emotion.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intemperance | Revels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies; excess, too much. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ORGIES |
| English words defined with "ORGIES": seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ORGIES": Baptes ♦ GHOUL ♦ Lucrezia di Borgia ♦ Master Leonard. (references) |
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Screenplays | Or, uh, one of your orgies!? (Fierce Creatures; writing credit: John Cleese; Iain Johnstone) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Imperial Orgies (1996) Black Orgies Party 34 (1995) Wild Orgies 4 (1994) Paul Norman's Nastiest: Orgies (1993) East Side Orgies (1993) | |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The existence of ghouls has been disputed by that class of controversialists who are more concerned to deprive the world of comforting beliefs than to give it anything good in their place. In 1640 Father Secchi saw one in a cemetery near Florence and frightened it away with the sign of the cross. He describes it as gifted with many heads an an uncommon allowance of limbs, and he saw it in more than one place at a time. The good man was coming away from dinner at the time and explains that if he had not been "heavy with eating" he would have seized the demon at all hazards. Atholston relates that a ghoul was caught by some sturdy peasants in a churchyard at Sudbury and ducked in a horsepond. (He appears to think that so distinguished a criminal should have been ducked in a tank of rosewater.) The water turned at once to blood "and so contynues unto ys daye." The pond has since been bled with a ditch. As late as the beginning of the fourteenth century a ghoul was cornered in the crypt of the cathedral at Amiens and the whole population surrounded the place. Twenty armed men with a priest at their head, bearing a crucifix, entered and captured the ghoul, which, thinking to escape by the stratagem, had transformed itself to the semblance of a well known citizen, but was nevertheless hanged, drawn and quartered in the midst of hideous popular orgies. The citizen whose shape the demon had assumed was so affected by the sinister occurrence that he never again showed himself in Amiens and his fate remains a mystery. |
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| "ORGIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.61% of the time. "ORGIES" is used about 59 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) | 96.61% | 57 | 44,859 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.39% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 59 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "ORGIES": part-orgies, sex-orgies. | |
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| Language | Translations for "ORGIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 喧闹的宴会 (Orgy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Orgien (bacchanals, reveleries, sprees). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orgiesay excesser. (various references) baküs alemleri, baküs adına yapılan seks partileri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ORGIES": porgies. (additional references) | |
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"ORGIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dorigish, gorgias, gorgies, Oggie, ogie, ogives, ogreish, oogie, oogies, orbie, orbius, Ordie, oregoes, orges, orgi, orgia, orgiast, orgiasts, orgics, orgie, orgied, Orgues, orides, orie, ories, origie, origies, oris, orise, ornies, orvis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ORGIES" (pronounced ô"rjēz) |
| 3 | -j ē z | allergies, analogies, anthologies, apologies, biotechnologies, chronologies, doxologies, energies, etiologies, eulogies, ideologies, methodologies, pathologies, phalanges, prodigies, refugees, strategies, synergies, technologies, veggies. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: giros, goers, gores, gorse, ogres, osier. | |
-2 letters: egis, egos, ergo, ergs, eros, gies, giro, goer, goes, gore, ires, ogre, ores, regs, reis, rigs, rise, roes, rose, sego, sire, sore, sori. | |
-3 letters: ego, erg, ers, gie, gor, gos, ire, oes, ore, ors, ose, reg, rei, res, rig, roe, seg, sei, ser, sir, sri. | |
-4 letters: er. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: eringos, glories, goiters, goitres, goosier, goriest, gorsier, ignores, ogreish, ogreism, porgies, regions, serpigo, signore, soggier. | |
+2 letters: argosies, coreigns, cosigner, digestor, disgorge, ergotism, eringoes, firedogs, forgives, gasolier, genitors, georgics, ghostier, girasole, glossier, gomerils, goriness, gorsiest, gossiper, grievous, griseous, grodiest, groupies, ignorers, negroids, negronis, obligers, ogreisms, organise, perigons, pirogies, pirogues, reposing, resoling, resowing, seignior, seignory, seraglio, smoggier, sobering, spongier, stodgier, strigose, vertigos, viragoes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 52 47 49 45 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in 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)01001111 01010010 01000111 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O R G I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0052 0047 0049 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)495241433953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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