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Definition: YEARNINGS |
YEARNINGSNoun plural1. The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk. |
Date "YEARNINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Such fantastic pictures of future society, painted at a time when the proletariat is still in a very undeveloped state and has but a fantastic conception of its own position correspond with the first instinctive yearnings of that class for a general reconstruction of society. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "YEARNINGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "YEARNINGS" is used about 35 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% | 35 | 58,339 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "YEARNINGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 思慕. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | yearningsay желание (appetence, appetency, appetite, aspiration, desire, mind, the will, want, wish, would). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"YEARNINGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: learnings, yerning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "YEARNINGS" (pronounced yer"ningz) |
| 5 | -er" n i ng z | burnings, earnings. |
| 4 | -n i ng z | beginnings, drownings, evenings, fastenings, happenings, innings, leanings, lightnings, linings, meanings, mornings, openings, poisonings, runnings, screenings, seasonings, underpinnings, warnings, winnings. |
| 3 | -i ng z | bearings, beatings, beheadings, beings, belongings, Billings, blessings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, bushings, carjackings, carvings, casings, castings, ceilings, clippings, closings, coatings, comings, couplings, coverings, cowlings, cravings, crossings, cuttings, darlings, dealings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earrings, earthlings, endings, engravings, etchings, everlastings, facings, failings, feedings, feelings, fightings, filings, fillings, financings, findings, firings, fittings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, frostings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, greetings, groupings, hangings, headings, hearings, helpings, herrings, hijackings, holdings, housings, hustings, killings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, listings, livings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, mailings, makings, marketings, markings, meetings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, moorings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nestlings, nothings, offerings, outings, paintings, pickings, pilings, plantings, pleadings, postings, posturings, printings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, railings, rankings, ratings, readings, recordings, rehearings, ridings, riggings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, samplings, saplings, savings, sayings, schillings, scrapings, seatings, seedlings, servings, settings, shadings, shavings, shillings, shipbuildings, shootings, shortcomings, showings, siblings, sightings, skillings, slayings, soundings, spellings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, tailings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underlings, understandings, undertakings, uprisings, vikings, wanderings, weddings, whitings, workings, writings, wrongdoings, yearlings. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: aginners, earnings, engrains, grannies, resaying, synergia, yearning. | |
-2 letters: aginner, earings, earning, engrain, erasing, gainers, ginners, grannie, insaner, insnare, nearing, reagins, regains, reginas, searing, seringa, snaring, syringa, syringe, yarning, yeaning. | |
-3 letters: anergy, angers, arisen, arsine, earing, easing, ensign, gainer, ginner, grains, grainy, granny, greasy, gyrase, inaner, inanes, inners, insane, narine, ranges, rasing, raying, reagin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: gynandries. | |
+2 letters: androgynies, astringency. | |
+3 letters: astringently, increasingly. | |
+4 letters: unreasoningly. | |
+5 letters: hydrogenations, intransigently. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Historic 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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