carnage
/ˈkɑɹ.nɪd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "There was carnage after the school play ended with 96 deaths."
- "Unleash the wolves / Carnage has no rules / Comparison, competition / We'll bury one and all, all"
- "Carnage consumes all we’ve ever loved / The innocent blistered by the flame / Trial by fire we burn in shame"
- "The game against Sri Lanka and Australia was carnage with Australia winning by 287 runs."
- "The lads had recently returned from a wild summer on the party island of Ibiza, an increasingly popular hotspot for working-class British youth. But this was not a scene of drunken holiday carnage in tacky discos."
- "Within three hours we'd drunk the place dry. Miraculously, we all made it back on the bus, but I've never seen a more bacchanalian scene of wanton debauchery than the ride back to the hotel. It was total carnage."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French carnage, from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”). By surface analysis, Latin carn- + -age.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkɑɹ.nɪd͡ʒ/
- British English: /ˈkɑː.nɪdʒ/