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Definition: Battle Royal |
Battle RoyalNoun1. A noisy riotous fight. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Battle RoyalSynonyms: melee (n), scrimmage (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Battle Royal (1936) Battle Royal (1936) The Battle Royal (1918) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
Music |
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| 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 |
battle royal | 67 |
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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. | |
| 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 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) batalla campal (pitched battle). (various references) büyük kavga, kalabalık kavga, hararetli tartışma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Oreodoxa regia, Regius, Roystonea regia, Sterna maxima. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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. | |
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| 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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