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Battle Royal

Definition: Battle Royal

Battle Royal

Noun

1. A noisy riotous fight.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Battle Royal

Synonyms: melee (n), scrimmage (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Battle Royal

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

Contention

Conflict, skirmish; rencounter, encounter; rencontre, collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting; tournay, list; pitched battle.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: Battle Royal

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

A Battle Royal (1936)

Battle Royal (1936)

The Battle Royal (1918)

Universal Ike Junior in a Battle Royal (1914)

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

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Commercial Usage: Battle Royal

DomainTitle

Theater & Movies

  • Dragon Ball Z - Babidi - Battle Royal (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Battle Royal

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

battle royal

67

battle royal ralph ellison

13

2 battle royal

9

battle royal by ralph ellison

7

2 battle royal trailer

3

battle royal symbolism

2

battle royal high school

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Battle Royal

Language Translations for "battle royal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

bataille en règle. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γενική συμπλοκή, μάχη μέχρι τελικήσ πτώσεωσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nagyszabású harc, heves harc. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

バッファ確保失敗 (badminton, baffy, banner, baton, baton girl, baton pass, baton passing, baton touch, baton twirler, Battenberg lace, body, buffererror, vanadium). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

バトルロイヤルマッチ . (various references)

   

Manx

  

cah mooar. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

attlebay oyalray

   

Russian 

  

шумная ссора (brawl, fracas, set to), общая свалка (free-for-all, wigs on the green), драка (affray, fight, fray, mix in, mix-in, scrimmage, scrum, scuffle, tussle, wigs on the green). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

batalla campal (pitched battle). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

büyük kavga, kalabalık kavga, hararetli tartışma. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Battle Royal

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Oreodoxa regia, Regius, Roystonea regia, Sterna maxima. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Battle Royal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-l-l-o-r-t-t-y"

-2 letters: alterably, rotatable, tolerably.

-3 letters: aborally, aleatory, allotter, balloter, betrayal, latterly, lobately, oblately, rateably.

-4 letters: abettal, abettor, abollae, alertly, allayer, allobar, areally, attaboy, battery, battler, blatter, bloater, blotter, bottler, brattle, lateral, lottery, loyaler, ratable, ratably, reallot, tabaret, taboret, tallboy, tollbar, totable, totally, trolley.

-5 letters: abater, abator, ablate, abolla, aboral, aortae, aortal, arable, areola, atlatl, baller.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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