Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hatches, matches, and dispatches

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English

Syllables: hatch-es, -match-es, and dis-patch-es
IPA

51

Scrabble Score

27

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

plural of hatch, match, and dispatch

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of hatch, match, and dispatch

Example Sentences

"Those who study diligently the 'hatches, matches, and dispatches' column of the 'Times' will see that the 25th of January (the- festival of the Conversion of St Paul) was a great day for weddings this year.'"
"He would have some time for reading his Farmer's Weekly and the Scottish Farmer while the daily paper, the Dundee Courier and Advertiser, was a necessary conduit of local and social news; the “hatches, matches, and dispatches” page an indispensable notice of births, marriages, and deaths in the Fife population."
"In some households it is still given a place of honour on the sideboard or coffee table, not necessarily to be read but to record the family history of hatches, matches and dispatches."

Questions

What does hatches, matches, and dispatches mean?: plural of hatch, match, and dispatch

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