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"LAMAS" is a plural of: lama. |
Date "LAMAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Small family of ruminant mammals of the order Artiodactyla comprising camels and lamas. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: LAMAS |
| English words defined with "LAMAS": lamasery. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "LAMAS": camels ♦ INFIDEL. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "LAMAS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (flush, sludge, turbid water), Spanish (lamas, Lammas). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine foreign minister, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1936, half-length portrait, facing right, standing at a podium, speaking. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Worker Rights | China | The Pawo Rinpoche was recognized by the Karmapa and is one of the senior Karma Kargyu lamas remaining in Tibet. (references) |
China | The departure of the Karmapa added to tensions and increased the authorities' efforts to exert control over the process for finding and educating reincarnated lamas. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. (See GIAOUR.) A kind of scoundrel imperfectly reverent of, and niggardly contributory to, divines, ecclesiastics, popes, parsons, canons, monks, mollahs, voodoos, presbyters, hierophants, prelates, obeah-men, abbes, nuns, missionaries, exhorters, deacons, friars, hadjis, high-priests, muezzins, brahmins, medicine-men, confessors, eminences, elders, primates, prebendaries, pilgrims, prophets, imaums, beneficiaries, clerks, vicars-choral, archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, preachers, padres, abbotesses, caloyers, palmers, curates, patriarchs, bonezs, santons, beadsmen, canonesses, residentiaries, diocesans, deans, subdeans, rural deans, abdals, charm-sellers, archdeacons, hierarchs, class-leaders, incumbents, capitulars, sheiks, talapoins, postulants, scribes, gooroos, precentors, beadles, fakeers, sextons, reverences, revivalists, cenobites, perpetual curates, chaplains, mudjoes, readers, novices, vicars, pastors, rabbis, ulemas, lamas, sacristans, vergers, dervises, lectors, church wardens, cardinals, prioresses, suffragans, acolytes, rectors, cures, sophis, mutifs and pumpums. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "LAMAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "LAMAS" is used about 11 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) | 90.91% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "LAMAS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lamas | Last name | 1,000 | 9,542 |
| 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 "LAMAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | kameliderne (camelidae, camels), kamelfamilien (camelidae, camels), kameler (camelidae, camels), kameldyr (camelidae, camels). (various references) | |
Dutch | kameelachtigen (camelidae, camels). (various references) | |
French | camélidés. (various references) | |
German | Kameltiere (camelidae, camels), Kamele (camels). (various references) | |
Greek | καμηλίδες (camelidae, camels). (various references) | |
Italian | camelidi (camelidae, camels). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amaslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | camelídeos (camelidae, camels). (various references) | |
Spanish | lamas (Lammas). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Camelidae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "LAMAS": lamaseries, lamasery. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "LAMAS": llamas, ulamas. (additional references) | |
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"LAMAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aljmas, Almansi, almas, Amsa, hamas, jamas, kama, Klimas, Lahma, lamad, lamae, lamag, lamans, lamaus, lamay, lamaz, lamec, lammis, lampads, Lampass, lamus, lanab, lanas, lanaw, Lansa, lapas, lasmac, Lasmacs, Latasi, leama, Leamas, lemaz, lemus, lhama, Limmack, lumis, Lummis, lunas, Uamhas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "LAMAS" (pronounced lÄ"muz) |
| 5 | l Ä" m u z | llamas. |
| 4 | -Ä" m u z | commas, dramas, mamas, pajamas. |
| 3 | -m u z | almas, aromas, cinemas, Comas, dilemmas, diplomas, drachmas, Dumas, enemas, Limas, lymphomas, melodramas, simas, traumas. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: almas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-m-s" | |
-1 letter: aals, alas, alma, alms, amas, lama, lams, slam. | |
-2 letters: aal, aas, ala, als, ama, lam, las, mas, sal. | |
-3 letters: aa, al, am, as, la, ma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-m-s" | |
+1 letter: alamos, alarms, almahs, balsam, halmas, hamals, kalams, lamias, lampas, llamas, malars, plasma, salaam, salami, tamals, ulamas. | |
+2 letters: abysmal, alarums, almsman, amatols, amylase, animals, baalism, balsams, calamus, camails, chasmal, hamauls, hammals, impalas, kalmias, kamalas, lactams, lambast, lambdas, laminas, lampads, maculas, malaise, malates, maltase, malthas, mammals, manilas, manuals, marsala, marshal, miasmal, napalms, plasmas, salaams, salamis, tamales, wadmals. | |
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