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Definition: Constabulary |
ConstabularyNoun1. The force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "constabulary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references) |
Synonyms: ConstabularySynonyms: law (n), police (n), police force (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Jurisdiction | Judge; tribunal; municipality, corporation, bailiwick, shrievalty; lord lieutenant, sheriff, shire reeve, shrieve, constable; selectman; police, police force, the fuzz; constabulary, bumbledom, gendarmerie. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Constabulary |
| English words defined with "constabulary": Black and Tan ♦ Constablery, Constabulatory. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "constabulary": Constabulatory. (references) |
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 | Ken Crosby, constabulary guard, and shore party Off the MARINDUQUE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Philippine constabulary guard with shore party of George L. Anderson Off the MARINDUQUE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | The Philippine constabulary guard with shore party of Hubert A. Paton Off the PATHFINDER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Roland D. Horne With topo crew, Philippine constabulary guard, and Chinese cook Horne's hat was made on board the MARINDUQUE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ireland | Other divisive issues that have yet to be resolved include carrying out the Patten Commission's recommendations on reform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (Northern Ireland's police force), as well as the emotive issue of flying British and Irish flags over public buildings on holidays and special occasions. (references) |
Human Rights | Jamaica | The revised Jamaica Constabulary Force Act gives security personnel broad powers of search and seizure similar to those granted by the former Suppression of Crimes Act. (references) |
United Kingdom | The law changed the operational name of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) to the Police Service of Northern Ireland, imposed hiring quotas to increase Catholic representation in the service (only 8 percent of the total), and introduced new human rights standards and wider use of community policing practices. (references) | |
Political Economy | Papua New Guinea | Members of the constabulary committed serious human rights abuses. (references) |
Tuvalu | A 70-member police constabulary, the only security force, is responsible to and effectively controlled by civilian authority. (references) | |
Jamaica | The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has primary responsibility for internal security, assisted by the Island Special Constabulary Force. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Constabulary" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 53.10% of the time. "Constabulary" is used about 145 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 (singular) | 53.1% | 77 | 37,929 |
| Noun (proper) | 37.93% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.28% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (common) | 0.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 145 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "constabulary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | xhandarmëri, polici (fuzz, gendarmerie, gendarmery, police, policy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قوة شرطة عسكرية منظمة, ذو علاقة برجال الشرطة, شرطة (police). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | жандармерия (gendarmerie), полиция (police). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | policie (police). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Koninklijke Marechaussee (gendarmerie, Royal Marechaussee, Royal Military Constabulary, Royal Military Police, state police of a military type), KMAR (Royal Marechaussee, Royal Military Constabulary, Royal Military Police). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پاسبانان یک محل , نیروی شهربانی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | paikallispoliisi (county constabulary), nimismies (head of the constabulary, rural police chief, sheriff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | police, force de police. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Polizeitruppe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χωροφυλακή (gendarmerie), αστυνομία (police, the police). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משטר" (police). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rendőrség (police, police force). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | corpo di polizia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | meoiryn shee (police, police force). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onstabularycay policial (bobby, bull, constable, cop, crusher, patrolman, police officer, policeman, policewoman, slop), polícia (bobby, bull, constable, cop, crusher, patrolman, police, police force, police officer, policeman, policewoman, slop). (various references) corp poliţienesc, poliţienesc, poliţie (police), jandarmerie (county police). (various references) полицейские силы (police), полиция (law, police, police body). (various references) vojna policija (redcap), policija (fuzz, police, police force, police office). (various references) policía (bloodhound, bobby, cop, Dick, fuzz, military force, officer, patrolman, peeler, police, police force, police officer, policeman, shadow), de policía. (various references) poliskår (police force), polis-, gendarmeri (gendarmerie, gendarmery). (various references) zabıta (police, the fuzz), polisin yetki alanı, polis örgütü, jandarma (gendarme). (various references) поліція (police), поліцейський (blue, constable, cop, patrolman, peeler, policeman). (various references) sở cảnh sát (police-office), sở công an (police-office). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "constabulary" (pronounced kunsta"byule'rē) |
| 8 | -a" b y u l e' r ē | vocabulary. |
| 6 | -y u l e' r ē | formulary. |
| 5 | -u l e' r ē | ancillary, capillary, corollary, epistolary. |
| 3 | -e' r ē | actuary, adversary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, budgetary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, cemetery, centenary, cometary, commentary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, contemporary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, depositary, Dewberry, dictionary, dietary, dignitary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, dysentery, emissary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, fragmentary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, hereditary, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, interplanetary, involuntary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, military, missionary, momentary, monastery, monetary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, nonmilitary, obituary, ordinary, paramilitary, pecuniary, pituitary, planetary, preliminary, primary, probationary, proprietary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, salutary, sanctuary, sanitary, savagery, secondary, secretary, sedentary, semilegendary, seminary, solitary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unnecessary, unsanitary, urinary, veterinary, visionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-l-n-o-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-3 letters: calutrons, carbonyls, corybants, countably, layabouts, obscurant, sanctuary. | |
-4 letters: acrobats, blatancy, butanols, butyrals, calutron, carbonyl, carousal, casualty, claustra, consular, corybant, courants, courlans, crayolas, labrusca, lacunars, lacunary, layabout, naturals, osculant, robustly, salutary, sortably, unstably. | |
-5 letters: abators, ablauts, acrobat, actuary, alastor, analyst, arousal, aroynts, astylar, austral, balcony, baryons, barytas, borstal, brulots, buoyant, burtons, butanol, butyral, canolas. | |
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