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"STILTS" is a plural of: stilt. |
Date "STILTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of walking on stilts, denotes that your fortune is in an insecure condition. To fall from them, or feel them break beneath you, you will be precipitated into embarrassments by trusting your affairs to the care of others. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Tips from 1870 | Avoid bombastic language. Work for plain expressions rather than for the unusual. Use the simplest words that the subject will bear. "Like some beacon-light upon a rock-bound coast against which the surges of the ocean unceasingly roll, and casting its beams far across the waters warning the mariner from the danger near, the college, like a Gibraltar, stands upon the high plains of learning, shedding its rays of knowledge, from the murmurings of the Atlantic to the whirlwinds of the Pacific, guiding womankind from the dark valley of ignorance, and wooing her with wisdom's lore, leads creation's fairest, purest, best into flowery dells where she can pluck the richest food of knowledge, and crowns her brow with a coronet of gems whose brilliancy can never grow dim: for they glisten with the purest thought, that seems as a spark struck from the mind of Deity. There is no need for the daughters of this community to seek colleges of distant climes whereat to be educated, for right here in their own city, God's paradise on earth, is situated a noble college, the bright diadem of that paradise, that has done more for the higher education of woman than any institution in our land." Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Boasting | Elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory;elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts. |
Elevation | Adverb: on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind legs. |
Exaggeration | Adjective: exaggerated; Verb: overwrought; bombastic; (grandiloquent); hyperbolical, on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre, highflying. |
Height | Adverb: on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind; upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high. |
Pride | On one's dignity, on one's high horses,on one's tight ropes, on one's high ropes; on stilts; en grand seigneur. |
Support | Supporter; aid; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger; ratlings. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: STILTS |
| English words defined with "STILTS": Cladorhyncus ♦ genus Cladorhyncus, genus Himantopus ♦ Himantopus ♦ Scatches, Stiltify. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "STILTS": branch root ♦ stilt root. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "STILTS": Grallae. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Consumer Goods |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Hunting and fishing camp built on stilts - accessible only by boat although power lines have been run across the marsh. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Shed on stilts belonging to farmer near Amite, Louisiana. Metal on stilts keeps out rats. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Goldes man in front of thatched-roof store-house built on stilts. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Man, woman, and child in front of small hut on stilts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Three men at thatched-roofed store-house on stilts. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "STILTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.53% of the time. "STILTS" is used about 81 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) | 97.53% | 79 | 37,388 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 81 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "STILTS" 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 |
| Stilts | Last name | 400 | 20,507 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "STILTS": ad on stilts ♦ be on stilts ♦ on stilts. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "STILTS": dodecaphony-on-stilts. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STILTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | крака (locomotives, pins, stump, trilbies, underpinnings), кокили, пергели (pins, stump). (various references) | |
Chinese | 趫 (nimble, walk on stilts). (various references) | |
Czech | chùdy. (various references) | |
German | Stelzen (stalk, to stalk). (various references) | |
Greek | σηκώνω σε ξυλοπόδαρα (walk on stilts). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קבים. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 竹馬 (bamboo horse). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たけうま (bamboo horse), ちくば (bamboo horse). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iltsstay.(various references) | |
Romanian | picioroange (drumsticks), catalige (broomsticks, drumsticks, pin). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"STILTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scholtzs, shilts, stilte, stilth, stilus, stolt, Stoltz, stylte, swilts, Tsiliso. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STILTS" (pronounced sti"lts) |
| 5 | -t i" l t s | tilts. |
| 4 | -i" l t s | gilts, Hilts, kilts, quilts, Wilts. |
| 3 | -l t s | adults, assaults, basalts, belts, bolts, catapults, celts, colts, consults, cults, defaults, exalts, exults, faults, felts, halts, holts, insults, jolts, malts, melts, pelts, results, revolts, salts, schmaltz, seatbelts, somersaults, speltz, vaults, volts, waltz. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: lists, silts, slits, stilt, tilts. | |
-2 letters: list, lits, silt, sits, slit, tils, tilt. | |
-3 letters: its, lis, lit, sis, sit, til, tis. | |
-4 letters: is, it, li, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: lutists, stylist. | |
+2 letters: altoists, cultists, elitists, flutists, leftists, lustiest, saltiest, siltiest, skittles, slatiest, slitters, spittles, stillest, stylists, stylites, thistles, tintless, titlists. | |
+3 letters: altruists, blastiest, costliest, fatalists, flautists, glottises, lutanists, lutenists, metalists, mistitles, pastelist, settlings, shortlist, silentest, siltstone, slattings, sleetiest, slightest, sluttiest, smaltites, sottishly, splitters, stalkiest, steeliest, stilbites, stilettos, stilliest, stolidest, studliest, stylistic, subtilest, subtitles, sultriest, swiftlets, systaltic, taintless, telestics, testicles, totalises, totalisms, totalists, ultraists, vitalists, wristlets. | |
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