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"SERPENTS" is a plural of: serpent. |
Date "SERPENTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of serpents, is indicative of cultivated morbidity and depressed surroundings. There is usually a disappointment after this dream. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonyms: SERPENTSSynonyms: Sea monsters, Snakes. (additional references) |
Crosswords: SERPENTS |
| English words defined with "SERPENTS": Echidnine, Elapine ♦ grotesque ♦ monstrous, Mosasauria ♦ Ophiologist, Ophiology, Ophiomancy, Ophiophagous, Opisthoglypha ♦ Poison fang, Proteroglypha ♦ Rauwolfia serpentina ♦ Serpent eage, Serpentry, snakewood, Solenoglypha ♦ unnatural ♦ Venomous snake, Viperoides. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SERPENTS": Bandbox Plot, Bronze ♦ Copperheads ♦ Gods ♦ Harmonia's Robe ♦ Ifurin, Illuminations ♦ language, LAOCOON, Lawns, Lemnian Earth ♦ Nastrond ♦ Sigun'a ♦ Wise as a Serpent. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Serpents (1912) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Les Serpents Africains Enfin Vaincus! : Ipser Afrique Pasteur / A. Godard. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | From a distance they would be taken for two immense serpents of steel stretching themselves towards the crest of the plateau. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia. |
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| "SERPENTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SERPENTS" is used about 69 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% | 69 | 40,280 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "SERPENTS": demon-serpents, Seraph-serpents. | |
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| Language | Translations for "SERPENTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Schlangen (snakes). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | erpentssay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Cyrtodactylus serpensinsula, Ophisurus serpens. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 33 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | OfeiV gennhmata ecidnwn pwV fughte apo thV krisewV thV geennhV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Serpentes genimina viperarum quomodo fugietis a iudicio gehennae |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Eale ge næddra & neddrena kyn. hwifleo ge fram helle dome. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Ye eddris, and eddris briddis, hou schulen ye fle fro the doom of helle? |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Yee serpentes and generacion of vipers how shuld ye scape ye dapnacio of hell? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell? |
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| Language | Matthew Chapter 23, Verse 33 |
| Cebuano | Kamong mga halas, kamong kaliwat sa mga bitin, unsaon ugod ninyo paghilingkawas gikan sa pagkahinukman ngadto sa infierno? |
| Croatian | "Zmije! Leglo gujinje! Kako æete uteæi osudi paklenoj? |
| Danish | I Slanger! I Øgleunger! hvorledes kunne I undfly Helvedes Dom? |
| Dutch | Gij slangen, gij adderengebroedsels! hoe zoudt gij de helse verdoemenis ontvlieden? |
| Finnish | Sentähden, katso, minä lähetän teidän tykönne profeettoja ja viisaita ja kirjanoppineita. Muutamat heistä te tapatte ja ristiinnaulitsette, ja toisia heistä te ruoskitte synagoogissanne ja vainoatte kaupungista kaupunkiin; |
| French | Serpents, race de vipères! comment échapperez-vous au châtiment de la géhenne? |
| German | Ihr Schlangen und Otterngezücht! wie wollt ihr der höllischen Verdammnis entrinnen? |
| Haitian Creole | Bann rize, bann vèmen! Kouman n'a fè chape anba chatiman lanfè a? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kalian jahat dan keturunan orang jahat! Bagaimana kalian bisa menyelamatkan diri dari hukuman di neraka? |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hai ular dan benih ular! Bagaimanakah dapat kamu lari melepaskan dirimu daripada hukuman neraka? |
| Italian | Serpenti, razza di vipere, come potrete scampare dalla condanna della Geenna? |
| Latvian | Jûs, èûsku un odþu izdzimums, kâ jûs izbçgsiet no elles sodîbas? |
| Manx Gaelic | Shiuish ard-nieughyn, sheeloghe dy ard-nieughyn, kys oddys shiu kerraghey niurin y scapail? |
| Maori | E nga neke, e te uri nakahi, me aha ka rere ai koutou i te kupu tuku ki te reinga? |
| Norwegian | I slanger! I ormeyngel! hvorledes kan I undfly helvedes dom? |
| Portuguese | Serpentes, raça de víboras! como escapareis da condenação do inferno? |
| Rumanian | Werpi, pui de nqpkrci! Cum veyi scqpa de pedeapsa gheenei? |
| Russian | ъНЙЙ, ПТПЦ"ЕОЙС ЕИЙ"ОЙОЩ! ЛБЛ Х'ЕЦЙФЕ ЧЩ ПФ ПУХЦ"ЕОЙС Ч ЗЕЕООХ? |
| Shuar | `Napia ainiuitrume. Shuar aya yajauch awajniuitrume. Túmatirmesha Yus Tunáa shuaran jinium akupkartatna nuya ¿itiurak uwempratarum? |
| Swedish | I ormar, I huggormars avföda, huru skullen I kunna söka undgå att dömas till Gehenna? |
| Uma | "He topebagiu, he koi' to bengku' gau' -ni! Ha ni'uli' -koina tewi'iha-koi mpai' ngkai huku' -ni hi rala naraka-e? |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"SERPENTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: serenos, Serletis, serpant, serpeant, serpentes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SERPENTS" (pronounced ser"punts) |
| 5 | -p u n t s | occupants, participants. |
| 4 | -u n t s | abandonments, abatements, abortifacients, accelerants, accidents, accompaniments, accomplishments, accountants, accouterments, achievements, adherents, adjustments, adolescents, advancements, advertisements, agents, agreements, ailments, alignments, allotments, amendments, amusements, ancients, announcements, antecedents, antidepressants, antioxidants, apartments, applicants, appointments, arguments, armaments, arraignments, arrangements, aspirants, assailants, assessments, assignments, assistants, astringents, attachments, attendants, basements, battlements, belligerents, blandishments, bombardments, celebrants, claimants, clients, coefficients, combatants, commandments, commitments, compartments, complainants, complements, components, condiments, consonants, constants, constituents, consultants, contaminants, contestants, continents, contingents, coolants, copayments, cormorants, correspondents, covenants, Crosscurrents, currents, curtailments, decedents, decongestants, defendants, deferments, defoliants, delinquents, deodorants, departments, dependents, deployments, depressants, derailments, descendants, descendents, detergents, determinants, deterrents, developments, deviants, disagreements, disappointments, disbursements, disinfectants, dispersants, displacements, dissidents, divestments, docents, documents, elements, elephants, embarrassments, emigrants, emplacements, employments, enactments, encampments, encroachments, endorsements, endowments, enforcements, engagements, enhancements, enjoyments, enlargements, enrollments, entanglements, entertainments, enticements, entitlements, entrants, environments, equipments, equivalents, escarpments, establishments, experiments, exponents, figments, filaments, fluorescents, formants, fragments, frequents, garments, giants, governments, grandparents, hydrants, immigrants, impairments, impeachments, impediments, implements, impoundments, improvements, incidents, incitements, incompetents, increments, incumbents, independents, indictments, indigents, inducements, infants, informants, infringements, ingredients, inhabitants, inhalants, innocents, inpatients, installments, instruments, insurgents, investments, involvements, irritants, judgements, judgments, lieutenants, ligaments, litigants, lubricants, managements, measurements, merchants, migrants, militants, miscreants, misjudgments, misstatements, moments, monuments, movements, mutants, noncombatants, nonresidents, nutrients, opponents, ornaments, overpayments, overstatements, oxidants, pageants, parents, parliaments, patents, patients, pavements, payments, peasants, pennants, pheasants, pigments, placements, pollutants, postponements, precedents, predicaments, prepayments, presents, procurements, pronouncements, propellants, proponents, protestants, punishments, readjustments, reagents, realignments, reassignments, recipients, redeployments, reenactments, refinements, refreshments, refrigerants, Regents, regiments, registrants, reimbursements, reinforcements, remnants, repayments, replacements, requirements, resentments, residents, respondents, restatements, retirements, retrenchments, rodents, rudiments, sacraments, savants, sealants, sediments, segments, sentiments, sergeants, servants, settlements, shipments, solvents, statements, stimulants, students, subcontinents, succulents, supergiants, superintendents, supplements, talents, temperaments, tenants, tenements, torrents, tournaments, transients, treatments, tyrants, undercurrents, undergarments, underpayments, vagrants, variants, warrants. |
| 3 | -n t s | accents, accounts, affronts, amounts, ants, appoints, aunts, ballpoints, blueprints, blunts, brents, cents, chants, checkpoints, circumvents, comments, complaints, compliments, confidants, confronts, consents, constraints, contents, counts, croissants, dachshunds, debutantes, dents, descents, disappoints, discontents, discounts, dissents, eggplants, events, ferments, fingerprints, flaunts, flints, fonts, footprints, forints, fronts, grants, grunts, haunts, hints, hunts, implants, imprints, intents, invents, jaunts, joints, laments, malcontents, mints, misrepresents, mounts, paints, pants, percents, pinpoints, pints, plants, points, portents, presidents, prevents, prints, punts, quints, recounts, rents, represents, reprints, resents, restaurants, restraints, saints, scents, splints, sprints, standpoints, stints, storefronts, stunts, sweatpants, taints, taunts, tents, tints, torments, transplants, underpants, vents, viewpoints, wants, waterfronts. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pensters, pertness, presents. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-n-p-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: nesters, penster, pesters, present, presets, renests, repents, resents, serpent. | |
-2 letters: enters, esters, nester, perses, pester, peters, preens, preset, prests, reests, renest, rentes, repent, resent, resets, serest, sneers, speers, spense, sprees, sprent, steeps, steers, steres, sterns, streps, tenser, tenses, ternes, treens. | |
-3 letters: enter, ernes, erses, ester, neeps, nerts, nests, peens, peers, penes, perse, pests. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-n-p-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: pretenses. | |
+2 letters: copresents, depressant, expertness, interposes, parentless, persistent, personates, pertnesses, pinsetters, pistareens, presentees, presenters, presentism, presentist, presidents, prettiness, raptnesses, reinspects, represents, sparteines, spinnerets. | |
+3 letters: antipyreses, apartnesses, depressants, enterprises, escarpments, externships, impressment, interphases, interposers, interspaces, intersperse, pantdresses, parentheses, parenthesis, partnerless, patronesses, patternless, peasantries, pedestrians, perfectness, persistence, persistency, predestines, premoistens, presentisms, presentness, presweetens, pretensions, privateness, proteinases, putrescines, repleteness, respondents, rinderpests, septenarius, serpentines, spessartine, spleenworts, stepparents, superagents, terpeneless. | |
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