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"Teacups" is a plural of: teacup. |
Date "Teacups" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of teacups, foretells that affairs of enjoyment will be attended by you. For a woman to break or see them broken, omens her pleasure and good fortune will be marred by a sudden trouble. To drink wine from one, foretells fortune and pleasure will be combined in the near future. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Teacups |
| English words defined with "Teacups": slop basin, slop bowl. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A chatty quarter of an hour over the teacups, check books and fountain pens put everything in order. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Teacups" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.55% of the time. "Teacups" is used about 29 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) | 96.55% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 3.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
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 |
saucer teacups | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Teacups"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Teetassen. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 夫婦茶碗 (his and her teacups). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | めおとぢゃわ" (his and her teacups). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eacupstay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Teacups": teacupsful. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cuspate. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-p-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: acutes, aspect, catsup, cuesta, epacts, taupes, teacup, upcast. | |
-2 letters: acute, capes, caput, caste, cates, cause, cesta, cutes, epact, paces, pacts, paste, pates, pause, peats, puces, sauce, saute, scape, scaup, scuta, scute, septa, setup, space, spate, sputa, stupa, stupe, taces, tapes, taupe, tepas, upset. | |
-3 letters: aces, acts, apes, apse, ates, cape, caps, case, cast. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-p-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: cajeputs, captures, cuspated, outpaces. | |
+2 letters: aspectual, capturers, copulates, cuspidate, deathcups, eucalypts, outcapers, paucities, peculates, spacesuit, speculate. | |
+3 letters: capsulated, duplicates, eucalyptus, exculpates, inculpates, leucoplast, metacarpus, parachutes, pasticheur, paunchiest, peculators, petulances, punctuates, recaptures, spacesuits, speculated, speculates, speculator, subchapter, supplicate, teacupfuls, teacupsful. | |
+4 letters: apicultures, cantaloupes, capitulates, champertous, copulatives, encapsulate, eucalyptols, intercampus, leucoplasts, outpreaches, pasticheurs, patchoulies, peculations, pediculates, petulancies, precautions, procrustean, pugnacities, purtenances, recuperates, spectacular, specularity, speculating, speculation, speculative, speculators, subchapters, superjacent, supplicated, supplicates, supremacist. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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