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CLIMBERS

"CLIMBERS" is a plural of: climber.

Date "CLIMBERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)


Specialty Definition: CLIMBERS

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Biographical Satire

CLIMBERS, T. H. E., an American man and woman who had money and ambition. Spent the early portion of their lives gathering cash, and the later in spending it. Were welcomed by many people, but never quite reached the top. Both died trying to get there. Ambition: An English nobleman in the family. Recreation: Paris, London, and Switzerland. Address: See Recreation. Clubs: All, with the exception of the ones they wanted. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: CLIMBERS

English words defined with "CLIMBERS": alpenstock, Ardisia, Argyreiacunonia family, CunoniaceaeDecumaria, Dilleniaceae, dishcloth gourdErcillafamily Cunoniaceae, family Dilleniaceae, family Menispermaceae, fend, Ficusgenus Ardisia, genus Argyreia, genus Calamus, genus Decumaria, genus Ercilla, genus Ficus, genus Grewia, genus Jasminum, genus Lardizabala, genus Peireskia, genus Pereskia, genus Pothos, genus Pterocarpus, genus Scindapsus, genus Solandra, genus Stenochlaena, Grewiaice ax, ice axeJasminumLardizabala, luffaMarsdenia, Menispermaceae, moonseed family, mountain sicknessPassion flower, Peireskia, Pereskia, piolet, Pterocarpusrag gourd, resistScindapsus, Solandra, sponge gourd, stand, Stenochlaena, strainer vineweb-toed salamander. (references)
Specialty definitions using "CLIMBERS": disengagement cutting, disengagement felling. (references)

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Modern Usage: CLIMBERS

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Screenplays

Social climbers on the rise. (The First Wives Club; writing credit: Robert Harling)

Movie/TV Titles

Alpine Climbers (1936)

The Climbers (1927)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: CLIMBERS

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Books

  • Aconcagua: Summit of the Americas -- A Map-Guide for Climbers and Trekkers (reference)

  • A Creative Step-By-Step Guide to Climbers and Trellis Plants (Clb Step-By-Step Garden Books) (reference)

  • Mountain Men: A History of the Remarkable Climbers and Determined Eccentrics Who First Scaled the World's Most Famous Peaks (reference)

  • Garden Favorites: Designing With Herbs, Climbers, Roses, and Grasses (reference)

  • Knots & Ropes for Climbers (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: CLIMBERS

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Photo Album: CLIMBERS

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Rock escarpment in Red Rock Canyon, popular with climbers, Las Vegas, Nevada. Credit: Phil Guerrero.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CLIMBERS

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Business

Equipment that shows the most sales potential in the local market is home cardiovascular equipment, especially treadmills, exercise bikes, and stair steppers and climbers, in that order. (references)

Specifically within the home fitness equipment market, which shows a 75 percent growth potential over the next three years, exercise bikes, treadmills, and stair steppers and climbers present three distinct types of end-users depending on the quality, price, and origin of the products. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CLIMBERS

"CLIMBERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CLIMBERS" is used about 582 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%58210,884

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: CLIMBERS

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "CLIMBERS": rock-climbers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CLIMBERS

Language Translations for "CLIMBERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

котки (climbing irons). (various references)

   

Czech

  

horolezci. (various references)

   

German

  

Schlingpflanzen. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

imbersclay

   

Russian 

  

монтерские когти. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: CLIMBERS

Misspellings

"CLIMBERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calibmeas, climbes, Culemborg. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CLIMBERS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "CLIMBERS" (pronounced klī"merz)
4-ī" m er zprimers, timers.
3-m er zastronomers, bloomers, bombers, boomers, charmers, comers, consumers, costumers, cucumbers, customers, dimmers, disclaimers, dreamers, drummers, elastomers, farmers, framers, Gamers, glimmers, groomers, hammers, homers, informers, isomers, jackhammers, jammers, latecomers, lemurs, monomers, murmurs, newcomers, performers, plumbers, polymers, programmers, reamers, reformers, rumors, rumours, screamers, shimmers, simmers, skimmers, steamers, streamers, summers, swimmers, termers, transformers, tremors, trimmers, tumors.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: CLIMBERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-i-l-m-r-s"

-1 letter: climber, limbers.

-2 letters: birles, climbs, climes, crimes, libers, limber, milers, relics, scribe, slicer, smiler.

-3 letters: berms, bices, biers, biles, birle, birls, birse, bries, brims, ceils, cires, climb, clime, cribs, cries, crime, emirs, liber, liers, limbs, limes, melic, merls, mesic, miler, miles, mires, miser, relic, ribes, rices, riels, riles, rimes, scrim, slice, slier, slime.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-i-l-m-r-s"
 

+2 letters: crumbliest.

 

+3 letters: crumbliness, meroblastic.

 

+4 letters: bicameralism, blackmailers, chamberlains, compressible, descrambling, microtubules, problematics.

 

+5 letters: bicameralisms, crumblinesses, discriminable, microbalances, republicanism.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Bibliography


  

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