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Sundries

Definition: Sundries

Sundries

Noun

1. Miscellaneous unspecified artifacts; "the trunk was full of stuff".

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

Date "sundries" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)


Synonyms: Sundries

Synonyms: stuff (n), sundry (n), whatchamacallit (n), whatsis (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sundries

English words defined with "sundries": Sundryman. (references)
Specialty definitions using "sundries": STEWARD/STEWARDESS, CHIEF, PASSENGER SHIP. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sundries

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000-2005 Outlook for Wholesale Drugs, Proprietaries and Sundries in Asia (reference)

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Mexican Sundries (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Buttons & Sundries (The Twentieth Century-Histories of Fashion Series) (reference)

  • Fragrance: How to Make Natural Soaps, Scents, and Sundries (reference)

  • Sundries in honour of Torgny Säve-Söderbergh (reference)

  • The 2000-2005 Outlook for Wholesale Drugs, Proprietaries and Sundries in Africa (reference)

  • The 2000-2005 World Outlook for Drugs, Proprietaries and Sundries Wholesale [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Sundries

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sundries

SubjectTopicQuote

Worker Rights

Paraguay

Thousands of children in urban areas, many of them younger than 12 years of age, are engaged in informal employment such as selling newspapers and sundries and cleaning car windows. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sundries

"Sundries" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sundries" is used about 17 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%1785,106

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Sundries

Expression using "sundries": sundries account. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sundries

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

sundries

34

paint and sundries

29

midtown sundries

22

soap sundries

14

painting sundries

10

office sundries

5

decorating sundries

5

wholesale sundries

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

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Modern Translation: Sundries

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

Albanian

  

gjëra të ndryshme (gallimaufry, motley). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏أشتات. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

това-онова (this and that), дреболии (gewgaw, harslets, haslets, knick-knackery, minutiae, notions, oddments, paraphernalia), джунджурии (kickshaw, knick-knackery, notions). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

什物. (various references)

   

Czech

  

drobnosti (details, minutiae, oddments, odds and ends, trivia). (various references)

   

Danish

  

stykgodstrafik (less than carload freight, less-than-carload, part-load traffic, sundries traffic), stykgodssamlestation (sundries depot), diverse konto (sundries account). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vervoer per eenheid (sundries traffic), groepshoofdstation voor stukgoed (sundries depot), eenheidsvervoer (sundries traffic), diversenrekening (sundries account), centrum voor wegvervoer (sundries depot). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

متفرقه (Miscellaneous), گوناگون (Diverse, Miscellaneous, Multifarious, Multiple, Pied, Protean, Variant, Varied, Various). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sekatavara (sundry wares), sekalaisia kuluja (sundry expenses). (various references)

   

French

  

articles divers. (various references)

   

German

  

verschiedenes (Miscellanea), beilagen (extra, trimmings). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ποικιλία (choice, diversity, kind, miscellaneousness, miscellany, potpourri, variety, variety of, variousness), διαφορά (contrast, difference, differentiation, discrepancy, odds, variance, variant, variation). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

שו ים (miscellaneous, sundry, varied, various), שו ות (difference, divergence, variance). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vegyes tételek, vegyes (assorted, composite, farraginous, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, mixed fat and lean, motley, pot-pourri, promiscuous, sundry), rövidáru (dry goods, haberdashery, petty wares), különböző holmik, különböző cikkek, költségek (charges, expenditures, expenses, haulage, legal charges, legal expenses, necessary, outgoings, outlay). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kelontong (five-and-dime goods, peddler). (various references)

   

Italian

  

spese vare, oggetti vari, cianfrusaglie (frippery, lumber). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

雑貨 (general goods, miscellaneous goods), 雑" (odds and ends), '物 , 小"物 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ざっか (general goods, miscellaneous goods), ざっぴ" (odds and ends), "まもの, あらもの. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

잡". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

undriessay

   

Portuguese

  

gêneros diversos. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

diverse. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

всякая всячина (et, et cetera, gallimaufry, mingle-mangle, motley, olio, whatnot). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sitnice (minutiae). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

miscelánea (medley, Miscellanea, miscellany). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

diverse (divers, miscellaneous, miscellany, sundry, various). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ผลไม้ตากแห้ง. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ufak tefek eşyalar, öteberi (paraphernalia, this and that, various things), çeşitli eşyalar. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

усяка всячина (hodgepodge, olio, omnium gatherum). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Sundries

Misspellings

"Sundries" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: saundres, sindhis, sundrie, Sundrige, undries. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Sundries

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: insureds.

Words within the letters "d-e-i-n-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: insured, insures, niduses, sudsier, sunders, sunrise, undress.

-2 letters: diners, disuse, druses, duress, indues, insure, inured, inures, issued, issuer, nudies, nursed, nurses, resids, resins, rinsed, rinses, ruined, rusine, serins, sieurs, sirens, snider, sudser, sunder, undies, urines, ursine.

-3 letters: diner, dines, dress, dries, druse, dunes, dures, durns, indue, inure, issue, nerds, nides, nidus, nisus, nuder.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-n-r-s-s-u"
 

+1 letter: burnsides, luridness, ruddiness, sideburns, sourdines.

 

+2 letters: denturists, disburdens, industries, nursemaids, sturdiness, superminds, turbidness, turgidness, undersides, underspins, undressing.

 

+3 letters: discounters, disgruntles, fundraisers, furanosides, hurriedness, husbandries, luridnesses, mudslingers, outdressing, oversudsing, prudishness, rediscounts, ruddinesses, scrutinised, superseding, undershirts, underskirts, unimpressed, unreadiness, unsurprised.

 

+4 letters: adenoviruses, adventurisms, adventurists, countrysides, desirousness, destructions, disbursement, disencumbers, disfurnished, disfurnishes, disjunctures, disturbances, droughtiness, enduringness, gourmandises, groundfishes, misconstrued, outsiderness, pridefulness, prussianised, prussianized, purblindness, rediscussing, sturdinesses, subordinates, suburbanised, superinduces, superintends, turbidnesses, turgidnesses, understories, understudies, undesirables, unsupervised.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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