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Definition: CICADAS |
CICADASPlural1. Of Cicada |
Date "CICADAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
Crosswords: CICADAS |
| English words defined with "CICADAS": chirr, cicada killer, Cicadidae ♦ family Cicadidae ♦ genus Cicada ♦ Hemiptera, Homoptera ♦ order Hemiptera ♦ Sphecius speciosis, suborder Homoptera. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Loud chirping of a group of crickets and cicadas. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "CICADAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CICADAS" is used about 60 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% | 60 | 43,597 |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cicadas | 180 |
17 cicadas year | 9 |
cicadas illinois | 3 |
cicadas periodical | 3 |
cicadas picture | 3 |
cicadas illinois in | 3 |
cicadas florida | 3 |
cicadas locust | 2 |
cicadas insect | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CICADAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 蝉 (Cicada). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 夏蝉 (summer cicadas). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | なつぜみ (summer cicadas). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 매미 (Cicada). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | icadascay la cigarra. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"CICADAS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aipadass, cecada, cicados, cikades, cycladals, Shihada. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CICADAS" (pronounced sikā"duz) |
| 3 | -d u z | agendas, Bermudas, pandas, sodas, verandas. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-i-s" | |
-1 letter: cicada. | |
-2 letters: acids, asdic, cacas, cadis, caids. | |
-3 letters: acid, aids, asci, caca, cadi, cads, caid, casa, dais, disc, sadi, said, scad. | |
-4 letters: aas, ads, aid, ais, cad, cis, dis, ids, sac, sad, sic. | |
-5 letters: aa, ad, ai, as, id, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-d-i-s" | |
+1 letter: accidias, cardiacs, saccadic. | |
+2 letters: academics, cascading, characids. | |
+3 letters: acaricides, advocacies, saccharide. | |
+4 letters: academicism, accidentals, adjacencies, candidacies, saccharides. | |
+5 letters: academicians, academicisms, acclimatised, archdiocesan, ascendancies, cyclopaedias, decasyllabic, disaccharide, fasciculated, nonacademics, saccharified, saccharoidal, tachycardias. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 49 43 41 44 41 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .. -.-. .- -.. .- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001001 01000011 01000001 01000100 01000001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C I C A D A S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0049 0043 0041 0044 0041 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37433735383553 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, chino |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonés |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonés |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , 한국, coreano |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , 영국, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Sounds | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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