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WEIRD SISTERS

Definition: WEIRD SISTERS

WEIRD SISTERS

1. The Fates. [Scot.] --G. Douglas. Note: Shakespeare uses the term for the three witches in Macbeth. The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: WEIRD SISTERS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Sorcerer

Katerfelto, Cagliostro, Mesmer, Rosicrucian; Circe, siren, weird sisters.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: WEIRD SISTERS

English words defined with "WEIRD SISTERS": weird, Wyrd. (references)

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Modern Usage: WEIRD SISTERS

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Movie/TV Titles

The Three Weird Sisters (1948)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: WEIRD SISTERS

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Books

  • Glamorgan and Other Plays (includes the plays Glamorgan, The Weird Sisters, Fair Rosamund and Her Murderer, With the Ghostly Mansion's Labyrinth, Give Us a Kiss and Show Us Your Knickers, Necropolis, Squirrels, and Major Weir) (reference)

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Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: WEIRD SISTERS

Expressions using "WEIRD SISTERS": the Three Weird Sisters the weird sisters. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: WEIRD SISTERS

Language Translations for "WEIRD SISTERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Romanian

  

parcele (the weird sisters). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kader tanrıçaları (the destinies). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: WEIRD SISTERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-r-r-s-s-s-t-w"

-3 letters: destriers, dressiest, resisters, siderites.

-4 letters: derrises, desirers, desserts, destrier, dieresis, diesters, disseise, disserts, distress, dressers, dressier, editress, residers, resisted, resister, restress, rewrites, siderite, sidewise, sistered, stressed, strewers, striders, tressier, weirdest, weirdies, wresters, wristier.

-5 letters: deities, derries, deserts, desirer, desires, desists, dessert, dewiest, diester, dieters, dirtier, dirties, dissert, ditsier, dresser, dresses, redress, redries, reedits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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