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Definition: PRODIGIES |
PRODIGIESPlural1. Of Prodigy |
Date "PRODIGIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
Crosswords: PRODIGIES |
| Specialty definitions using "PRODIGIES": Gildippe ♦ Infant of Lubeck ♦ Siren ♦ Ysolde. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Its outbursts, its great days, its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics fly to the ends of the universe, and so do its cock and bull stories also |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance. |
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| "PRODIGIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PRODIGIES" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 28 | 65,706 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
child prodigies | 25 |
prodigies | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PRODIGIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Wunderkinder (infant prodigies). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | odigiespray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prodÃgios. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"PRODIGIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prodigi, prodigus, prosignias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PRODIGIES" (pronounced prÄ"dujēz) |
| 4 | -u j ē z | analogies, anthologies, apologies, biotechnologies, chronologies, doxologies, etiologies, eulogies, ideologies, methodologies, pathologies, strategies. |
| 3 | -j ē z | allergies, energies, orgies, phalanges, refugees, synergies, technologies, veggies. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-i-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: pirogies, presidio. | |
-2 letters: gipsied, periods, pierogi, podgier, porgies, serpigo, spiroid. | |
-3 letters: dirges, dogies, dopers, dopier, dories, geoids, grides, griped, gripes, groped, gropes, iodise, irides, irised, orgies, pedros, period, pirogi, pogies, poised, poiser, prides, prised, prosed, redips, ridges, spider, spired, spored. | |
-4 letters: dipso, dirge, doers, doges, dogie, doper, dopes, dorps, doser, dregs, dries, drips, drops. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-i-o-p-r-s" | |
+2 letters: redisposing. | |
+3 letters: ideographies, jeopardising, predigestion, predisposing, redepositing. | |
+4 letters: discographies, predigestions, prodigalities, pteridologies, pteridologist, radiographies, videographies. | |
+5 letters: cardiographies, prodigiousness, pteridologists. | |
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