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"STAGS" is a plural of: stag. |
Date "STAGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Stags in Stock Exchange phraseology, are persons who apply for the allotment of shares in a joint-stock company, not because they wish to hold the shares, but because they hope to sell the allotment at a premium. If they fail in this they forbear to pay the deposit and the allotment is forfeited. (See Bear, Bull .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
STAGS | German | Sterling Transferable Accruing Government Securities | Finance |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: STAGS |
| English words defined with "STAGS": staghound. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "STAGS": Chariots ♦ Stag ♦ Yggdrasil'. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The only way to solve the question: have at least two stags who are faithfully parked. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "STAGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 90.70% of the time. "STAGS" is used about 86 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) | 90.7% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.98% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 2.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 86 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "STAGS". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Elim | N/A | Biblical | Stags |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Language | Translations for "STAGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Hirsche (harts). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | agsstay рогач (hart, stag beetle). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"STAGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Estaugh, Etages, satages, setag, stagg, stagse, stagt, staig, stais, stalg, stangs, stas, staugs, stego, stg, stgss, stig, stmg. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gasts. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: gast, gats, sags, stag, tags, tass. | |
-2 letters: ass, gas, gat, sag, sat, tag, tas. | |
-3 letters: ag, as, at, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: agists, angsts, sagest, stages, staigs, stangs. | |
+2 letters: ageists, gashest, gaskets, gasters, sagbuts, sagiest, satangs, stagers, stalags, stigmas. | |
+3 letters: agonists, assignat, bastings, castings, cutgrass, dustrags, eastings, fastings, gabfests, gagsters, gassiest, gastness, gastreas, gastrins, gateless, gestalts, gestapos, gestates, giantess, glasnost, gymnasts, hostages, imagists, lastings, mustangs, nutgrass, postages, postbags, restages, saggiest, saltings, sastruga, sastrugi, savagest, scutages, seatings, sightsaw, skatings, slatings, staggers, staggies, stagiest, stagings, stashing, stengahs, stopgaps, storages, stowages, substage, upstages, wastages. | |
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