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Definition: Sundries |
SundriesNoun1. 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: SundriesSynonyms: stuff (n), sundry (n), whatchamacallit (n), whatsis (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sundries |
| English words defined with "sundries": Sundryman. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sundries": STEWARD/STEWARDESS, CHIEF, PASSENGER SHIP. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "sundries": sundries account. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 gêneros diversos. (various references) diverse. (various references) всякая всячина (et, et cetera, gallimaufry, mingle-mangle, motley, olio, whatnot). (various references) sitnice (minutiae). (various references) miscelánea (medley, Miscellanea, miscellany). (various references) diverse (divers, miscellaneous, miscellany, sundry, various). (various references) ผลไม้ตากแห้ง. (various references) ufak tefek eşyalar, öteberi (paraphernalia, this and that, various things), çeşitli eşyalar. (various references) усяка всячина (hodgepodge, olio, omnium gatherum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
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. | |
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| 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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