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"GROANS" is a plural of: groan. |
Date "GROANS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | If you hear groans in your dream, decide quickly on your course, for enemies are undermining your business. If you are groaning with fear, you will be pleasantly surprised at the turn for better in your affairs, and you may look for pleasant visiting among friends. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Crosswords: GROANS |
| English words defined with "GROANS": groaner. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GROANS": Funeral. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Grunts and Groans Grips (1937) Moans and Groans (1935) | |
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Lamb | A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Father Fauchelevent was uttering doleful groans. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Bangladesh | Persons who lived nearby reported hearing screams and groans during the night. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears. The savage dies -- they sacrifice a horse To bear to happy hunting-grounds the corse. Our friends expire -- we make the money fly In hope their souls will chase it to the sky. Jex Wopley |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | The groans and agony of it all had not yet reached our ears, the solemn, moving undertone of our life, coming up out of the mines and factories, and out of every home where the struggle had its intimate and familiar seat. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | To the folks watching at home, those were the groans of pain in the audience. |
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| "GROANS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 83.54% of the time. "GROANS" is used about 79 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) | 83.54% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 16.46% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 79 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "GROANS". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Nebuchadnezzar | N/A | Biblical | Tears and groans of judgment |
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| Language | Translations for "GROANS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | stöhnt (moans). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | geme (moans). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oansgray jale (dejection, despair, gloom, grief, mourning, sage, sorrow, wailing, woe), bocet (dirge, keen, lament, lamentation, threnody, wail, wailing). (various references) osnaich (groaning; sighs, sighing). (various references) stönar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lamentum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "GROANS": begroans. (additional references) | |
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"GROANS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Garofani, girons, gonas, gora, goran, Gorane, Gorani, Gorgan, Gorzanis, graon, greganus, groa, groane, groant, grobags, Grodas, groen, grogan, Gronant, grones, grotan, groun, grounse, growns, groynes, Grunau. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "GROANS" (pronounced grō"nz) |
| 4 | -r ō" n z | drones. |
| 3 | -ō" n z | bemoans, bones, clones, condones, cones, cyclones, hipbones, intones, Jones, knowns, leones, loans, moans, owns, phones, postpones, quinones, scones, sones, stones, tones, trombones, unknowns, zones. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: argons, orangs, organs, sarong. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: agons, argon, arson, gnars, grans, groan, orang, organ, roans, sonar. | |
-2 letters: agon, gars, gnar, goas, gran, nags, naos, nogs, oars, osar, rags, rang, roan, sago, sang, snag, snog, soar, song, sora, sorn. | |
-3 letters: ago, ars, gan, gar, gas, goa, gor, gos, nag, nog, nor, nos, oar, ons, ora, ors, rag, ran, ras, sag. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: angoras, barongs, brogans, dragons, garcons, garrons, jargons, morgans, onagers, oranges, origans, ourangs, sarongs, signora, soaring. | |
+2 letters: acrogens, angstrom, arousing, assignor, begroans, clangors, congrats, crannogs, dragoons, estragon, gadroons, garrison, goldarns, gormands, grandson, granolas, grantors, groaners, jargoons, languors, negators, nonsugar, orangish, oreganos, organics, organise, organism, organist, organons, organums, organzas, osnaburg, paragons, probangs, roarings, roasting, savoring, signoras, soarings, sonogram, wagoners. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Derived from 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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