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Definition: Celebes |
CelebesNoun1. A mountainous island in eastern Indonesia. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Celebes" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Synonym: CelebesSynonym: Sulawesi (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Celebes |
| English words defined with "Celebes": anoa, Anoa depressicornis ♦ dwarf buffalo ♦ Greater Sunda Islands ♦ Macassar oil, Macrocephalon maleo, maleo, Moluccas ♦ Spice Islands. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Celebes": Bonese. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Celebes" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (Celebes), Dutch (Celebes). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A lot of Celebes are bald these days, Bruce Willis, Yul Brynner, Sean Connery, skin's in man. Then again Connery wants the best of both worlds, did you see his wig in The Rock (Phoenix Nights; writing credit: Neil Fitzmaurice; Peter Kay) | |
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| "Celebes" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.50% of the time. "Celebes" is used about 40 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 (proper) | 92.5% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Noun (plural) | 7.5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 40 | N/A |
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 |
celebes | 25 |
celebes nude | 20 |
celebes free nude | 3 |
celebes naked | 3 |
celebes sea | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Celebes"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Celebes. (various references) | |
Danish | anoaböffel (Anoa of Celebes, wild dwarf buffalo). (various references) | |
Dutch | Celebes. (various references) | |
Esperanto | Celebeso. (various references) | |
French | Anoa des Célèbes (Anoa of Celebes). (various references) | |
German | Anoa aus Celebes (Anoa of Celebes, wild dwarf buffalo). (various references) | |
Greek | Anoa της Κελέβης (Anoa of Celebes, wild dwarf buffalo). (various references) | |
Italian | Anoa dell'Isola di Celebes (Anoa of Celebes, wild dwarf buffalo). (various references) | |
Malay | Sulawesi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elebescay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Célebes. (various references) | |
Spanish | anoa de las Célebes (Anoa of Celebes, wild dwarf buffalo). (various references) | |
Tagalog | Salibís. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Celebes" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Belebey, Caldbec, Celbes, Clabecq, Coelebs, Keebles, Kleobis, Oczelebi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-e-l-s" | |
-1 letter: celebs. | |
-2 letters: celeb. | |
-3 letters: bees, bels, cees, cels, eels, else, lees, seel. | |
-4 letters: bee, bel, cee, cel, eel, els, lee, sec, see, sel. | |
-5 letters: be, el, es. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-e-l-s" | |
+3 letters: celebrates, resectable, screenable, selectable. | |
+4 letters: celebrities, cerebellums, delectables, descendible, ebulliences, escheatable, executables, exercisable, receivables, resemblance, respectable, serviceable. | |
+5 letters: benevolences, beseechingly, bespectacled, bleacherites, ebulliencies, obsolescence, overbleaches, researchable, resemblances, respectables. | |
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