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"PANTALOONS" is a plural of: pantaloon. |
Date "PANTALOONS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called "trousers" by the enlightened and "pants" by the unworthy. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Pants, trousers, trowsers; breeches, pantaloons, inexpressibles, overalls, smalls, small clothes; shintiyan; shorts, jockey shorts, boxer shorts; tights, drawers, panties, unmentionables; knickers, knickerbockers; philibeg, fillibeg; pants suit; culottes; jeans, blue jeans, dungarees, denims. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PANTALOONS |
| English words defined with "PANTALOONS": Pantaloonery ♦ Sans-culotte. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PANTALOONS": BRUMMELL ♦ Gent's pants. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Wanna see something that will knock your pantaloons off? (Everwood; writing credit: Michael Green; Rina Mimoun) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Girl in pantaloons standing by bench. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He still wore his yellow coat, his black pantaloons, and his old hat. |
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| "PANTALOONS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PANTALOONS" is used about 26 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% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "PANTALOONS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pantallona (pants, trousers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | панталони (breeches, inexpressibles, pants, trousers, unmentionables), дълги тесни панталони. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kalhoty (pants, trousers, unmentionables). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | pantalons. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παντελόνι (breeches, pants, trousers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pantalló (bags, pair of trousers, pantaloon, slacks, trousering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pantaloni (bag, pantaloon, pants, slacks, trousers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | troosyn chionn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | antaloonspay pantalonas (pantaloon), calças compridas (trousers), calções (galligaskins). (various references) брюки (nether garments, pants, slacks, trousers, unmentionables). (various references) pantalone (inexpressibles, pants, slacks, trousers). (various references) pantalones (bags, breeches, pants, slacks, trousers). (various references) pantalonger, yllebyxor (pantalettes), mamelucker (pantalettes). (various references) pantolon (a pair of trousers, bags, breeches, pair of bags, pants, trousers). (various references) рейтузи (hose), штани (breeches, trousers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | chauces. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"PANTALOONS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pantaleon, Pantaleone, pantalon, pantalons, pantaloona, plantaloon, plantaloons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PANTALOONS" (pronounced pa"ntuluw'nz) |
| 3 | -uw' n z | honeymoons, tablespoons, teaspoons. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-n-n-o-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: pantaloon. | |
-2 letters: platoons, postanal, sonantal. | |
-3 letters: nonpast, nonstop, platans, platoon, pontons, saltpan, tapalos. | |
-4 letters: alants, annals, aslant, atonal, nopals, pantos, plants, platan, ponton, postal, saloon, saloop, sannop, santol, sapota, solano, sonant, sonata, stolon, talons, tapalo, tolans. | |
-5 letters: alans, alant, altos, anlas, annal, annas, anoas, antas, ataps, atlas, loans, loons, loops, loots, lotas, lotos, naans, nanas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-n-n-o-o-p-s-t" | |
+2 letters: postneonatal. | |
+4 letters: compensational, conspirational, homotransplant, nannoplanktons, preconsonantal. | |
+5 letters: homotransplants, personalization, postconsonantal, transpositional. | |
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