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"ANTELOPES" is a plural of: antelope. |
Date "ANTELOPES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Large family of ruminants containing the true antelopes, oxen, sheep and goats. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Any of various ruminant mammals of the order Bovidae. They include numerous species in Africa and the American pronghorn. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ANTELOPES |
| English words defined with "ANTELOPES": Bovidae ♦ dik-dik ♦ eland ♦ family Bovidae ♦ genus Addax, genus Hippotragus, genus Madoqua, goat antelope, Gue'vi ♦ harnessed antelope, Hippotragus ♦ Kneebrush, Koba, koodoo, koudou, kudu ♦ Madoqua ♦ Pecora ♦ Ruminantia ♦ Sivatherium, suborder Ruminantia ♦ waterbuck. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ANTELOPES": Antelope ♦ goats. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Antelopes on alert, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Anthrax most commonly occurs in wild and domestic lower vertebrates (cattle, sheep, goats, camels, antelopes, and other herbivores), but it can also occur in humans when they are exposed to infected animals or tissue from infected animals. (references) | |
Economic History | Benin | In the north and the northwest of Benin the Reserve du W du Niger and Pendjari National Park attract tourists eager to see elephants, lions, antelopes, hippos, and monkeys. (references) |
Travel | Chad | Waza National Park: A large northern Cameroon game park, not far from N'Djamena featuring elephants, giraffes, antelopes, gazelles, warthogs, lions, water fowl and many other varieties of birds. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ANTELOPES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ANTELOPES" is used about 34 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% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ANTELOPES": goat-antelopes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ANTELOPES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | oksegruppen (bovidae, cattle, goats, sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | runderachtigen (bovidae, cattle, goats, sheep), holhoornigen (bovidae, cattle, goats, sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | bovidés. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Horntraeger (bovidae, cattle, goats, sheep), Horntiere (bovidae, cattle, goats, sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | βοοειδή (cattle). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | bovidi (bovidae, cattle, goats, sheep). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | antelopesay bovídeos (bovine). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Bovidae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ANTELOPES": gantelopes. (additional references) | |
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"ANTELOPES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anatolepis, antalope, antelop, anthelope, antilopes, antipoles, antlelope, Asterope, Atelopus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-n-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: antelope, polentas. | |
-2 letters: apostle, enolase, espanol, etalons, lateens, leanest, leptons, oleates, openest, pelotas, penates, pentose, planets, platens, polenta, posteen, poteens, spelean, teopans, tolanes. | |
-3 letters: aneles, anoles, asleep, aslope, atones, elapse, elates, elopes, enates, etalon, etapes, lanose, lateen, latens, lentos, leones, lepton, nestle, netops, nopals, oleate, osteal, paeons, palest, palets, panels, pantos, pastel, patens. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-n-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: gantelopes, opalescent, phenolates. | |
+2 letters: potableness. | |
+3 letters: coleopterans, conceptacles, contemplates, counterpleas, exponentials, interpolates, opalescently, personalties, plecopterans, poeticalness, postdeadline. | |
+4 letters: antipersonnel, conceptualise, inoperculates, interpersonal, lepidopterans, metallophones, openabilities, outplacements, paleobotanies, pentaploidies, personalities, phenomenalist, phentolamines, planetologies, polyurethanes, potablenesses, preadolescent, septentrional. | |
+5 letters: compatibleness, conceptualised, conceptualises, conceptualizes, contemplatives, convertaplanes, convertiplanes, counterplayers, exceptionalism, interpellators, metencephalons, nonspeculative, paleomagnetism, paleomagnetist, paleontologies, pastoralnesses, pelletizations, percutaneously, phenomenalists, pinealectomies, pneumatologies, poeticalnesses, polybutadienes, postadolescent, potentialities, preadolescents, presentational, profitableness, proletarianise, superelevation, telencephalons, teleportations. | |
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