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"GOBLINS" is a plural of: goblin. |
Date "GOBLINS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Goblins In Cardiganshire the miners attribute those strange noises heard in mines to spirits called "Knockers" (goblins). (See above.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: GOBLINSSynonym: Hobgoblins. (additional references) |
Crosswords: GOBLINS |
| Specialty definitions using "GOBLINS": Follets ♦ Heimdaller ♦ Knockers ♦ Lubins ♦ St. John's Eve, St. Mark's Eve, Strong-back. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We have murders in New York without benefit of ghouls and goblins. (Sleepy Hollow; writing credit: Kevin Yagher) There's made up, like elves, goblins, and Eskimos! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) So I don't want to hear a lot of malarkey about spooks and goblins and demons. (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Goblins of Sapei: Great Ghost War (1968) Old Man and the Goblins (2001) Ghosts'n Goblins (1986) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This last book interested him the more, since his garden was one of the spots formerly haunted by goblins. |
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| "GOBLINS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 59.84% of the time. "GOBLINS" is used about 376 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 (proper) | 59.84% | 225 | 20,080 |
| Noun (plural) | 40.16% | 151 | 25,596 |
| Total | 100.00% | 376 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "GOBLINS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Kobolde (bogeys, elfs, hobgoblins, hobs, sprites). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 魍魎 (all kinds of spirits and goblins). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | もうりょう (all kinds of spirits and goblins). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oblinsgay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "GOBLINS": hobgoblins. (additional references) | |
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"GOBLINS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: boglins, coblyns, gilbanks, gobbin, gobblin, gobelins, gobin, gobins, goblen, gobulin, goklin, goolis, holbeins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GOBLINS" (pronounced gÄ"bli'nz) |
| 4 | -l i' n z | Collins, merlins. |
| 3 | -i' n z | Biggins, bodkins, calkins, coffins, Cummins, Dobbins, firkins, Gaskins, jerkins, kingpins, levins, mannequins, Martins, moccasins, napkins, olefins, origins, pippins, puffins, raisins, Redskins, resins, Robbins, sabins, sequins. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: globins. | |
| Words within the letters "b-g-i-l-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: bingos, gibson, globin, goblin, losing, soling. | |
-2 letters: bingo, bison, boils, boing, bongs, globs, lingo, lings, linos, lions, loins, longs, noils, sling. | |
-3 letters: bigs, bins, bios, blin, bogs, boil, bong, gibs, gins, glib, glob, gobs, ions, libs, ling, lino, lins, lion, lobs, logs, loin, long, nibs, nils, nobs, nogs, noil, obis, oils, sign, silo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-g-i-l-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: biltongs, blousing, bowlings. | |
+2 letters: absolving, bloodings, bottlings, globulins, kingbolts, obelising, ringbolts, symboling. | |
+3 letters: abolishing, belongings, billabongs, blazonings, blossoming, bolstering, corbelings, hobgoblins, lobstering, mobilising, myoglobins, obsoleting, slobbering, subcooling, subsoiling, symbolling. | |
+4 letters: aboriginals, absorbingly, balloonings, biofoulings, bobsledding, bookselling, cognoscible, consignable, diagnosable, disboweling, disobliging, euglobulins, globalising, hemoglobins, ignobleness, laborsaving, lobsterings, mislaboring, obligations, observingly, obsolescing, outblessing, outblushing, sailboating, snowballing, subregional, subtotaling, symbolising, symbolizing, zabagliones. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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