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- [kroo-seez]
- /ˈkru siz/
- /ˈkruː.siz/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [kroo-seez]
- /ˈkru siz/
Definitions of cruces word
- abbreviation CRUCES crux 3
- noun cruces a city in S New Mexico, on the Rio Grande. 1
- noun plural cruces a vital, basic, decisive, or pivotal point: The crux of the trial was his whereabouts at the time of the murder. 1
- noun plural cruces a cross. 1
- noun plural cruces something that torments by its puzzling nature; a perplexing difficulty. 1
- noun cruces Plural form of crux. 1
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Origin of cruces
First appearance:
before 1635 One of the 43% oldest English words
1635-45; < Latin: stake, scaffold, or cross used in executions, torment; figurative senses perhaps < New Latin crux (interpretum) (commentators') torment, a difficult passage in a text; cf. crucial
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Parts of speech for Cruces
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cruces popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 70% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
cruces usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for cruces
noun cruces
- roots — a part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
- hearts — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- cores — Plural form of core.
- bodies — the physical structure and material substance of an animal or plant, living or dead.
- matters — the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed: the matter of which the earth is made.
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