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Celebes

Definition: Celebes

Celebes

Noun

1. 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: Celebes

Synonym: Sulawesi (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Celebes

English words defined with "Celebes": anoa, Anoa depressicornisdwarf buffaloGreater Sunda IslandsMacassar oil, Macrocephalon maleo, maleo, MoluccasSpice 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).

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Modern Usage: Celebes

DomainUsage

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)

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

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Commercial Usage: Celebes

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ethnographical Studies in Celebes: Results of the Author's Expedition to Celebes, 1917-1920 (reference)

  • Onderworpenen : Schetsen uit Celebes (reference)

  • Pepper, rice, and elephants : a Southeast Asian journey from Celebes to Siam (reference)

  • Singer on the sand : the true story of an occurance on the island of Great Sangir, north of the Celebes, more than a hundred years ago (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Celebes

Illustrations: Celebes

Subject(s): ... Borneo, Celebes, Sea, pacific ...
Subject(s): ... Celebes, Malaysia, Indonesia ...

More Illustrations...

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Usage Frequency: Celebes

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)92.5%3756,631
Noun (plural)7.5%3202,518
                    Total100.00%40N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Celebes

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Celebes

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.

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Misspellings: Celebes

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).

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Anagrams: Celebes

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.

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

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