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Definition: WEEKLIES |
WEEKLIESPlural1. Of Weekly |
Date "WEEKLIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Selina of the Weeklies (1915) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Periodicals |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1332 V St., Washington, D.C., makes a living of photographic illustration and the writing of descriptive articles for magazines, illustrated weeklies, and newspapers.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Most facilities advertise in both English- and Chinese-language newspapers and entertainment weeklies. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Sweden | There are 169 daily newspapers and 455 weeklies. (references) |
Slovak Republic | There were nine national dailies, as well as a sports daily and several weeklies. (references) | |
Mauritania | These journals are weeklies and reach limited audiences, printing at most 3,000 copies of any 1 edition. (references) | |
Economic History | The Bahamas | In Nassau, there are two daily newspapers, three weeklies, and several international newspapers available for sale. (references) |
New Zealand | Most local magazines (63) are published monthly, 30 are published on an alternate month basis, 12 are weeklies and 8 are quarterlies. (references) | |
Mauritius | An Independent Broadcasting Authority was established by the government in March 2001. There are three large newspapers and many weeklies. (references) | |
Political Economy | Malaysia | The Government continued to limit the publication of an opposition party newspaper, and refused to renew the publication permits of several other political weeklies. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "WEEKLIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WEEKLIES" is used about 53 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% | 53 | 46,657 |
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 |
county oswego weeklies | 5 |
weeklies | 4 |
alternative weeklies | 3 |
transcontinental weeklies | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WEEKLIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 周刊. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Wochenzeitungen. (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 주간 (Daytime, Weekly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eekliesway еженедельник (wkly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "WEEKLIES": biweeklies, newsweeklies, semiweeklies, triweeklies. (additional references) | |
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"WEEKLIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: weelies, wellies, Wylies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "WEEKLIES" (pronounced wē"klēz) |
| 3 | -l ē z | alleles, alleys, anomalies, assemblies, Baileys, bellies, bullies, chilies, chilis, chillies, Collies, dailies, doilies, facsimiles, families, fillies, follies, galleys, Gillies, grizzlies, gullies, Hillbillies, hollies, homilies, jellies, jollies, lilies, monopolies, pulleys, rallies, sallies, subassemblies, subfamilies, tallies, tamales, trolleys, valleys, volleys. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-k-l-s-w" | |
-3 letters: keels, leeks, lewis, likes, lweis, sleek, weeks, wiles. | |
-4 letters: eels, ekes, elks, else, ewes, ilks, isle, keel, leek, lees, leis, leke, leks, lies, like, lwei, seek, seel, sike, silk, skee, skew, slew, week, weel, wees, wile, wise. | |
-5 letters: eel, eke, elk, els, ewe, ilk, lee, lei, lek, lie, lis, see, sei, sel, sew. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-k-l-s-w" | |
+2 letters: biweeklies, semiweekly. | |
+3 letters: triweeklies. | |
+4 letters: newsweeklies, semiweeklies, weaklinesses. | |
+5 letters: pickerelweeds. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 45 45 4B 4C 49 45 53 |
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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