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PRONUNCIATION OF WEEPIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WEEPIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Weepies is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WEEPIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

The Weepies

The Weepies are an indie pop-folk duo of married singer-songwriters Deb Talan and Steve Tannen. Their music has been described as "subtly intoxicating folk-pop".

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WEEPIES

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weep
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weeping
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weeping willow
weepingly
weepy
weever
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WORDS THAT END LIKE WEEPIES

canopies
copies
entropies
espies
floppies
guppies
harpies
hippies
jalopies
kelpies
nappies
occupies
philanthropies
photocopies
poppies
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Synonyms and antonyms of weepies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «WEEPIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «weepies» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of weepies

Translation of «weepies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WEEPIES

Find out the translation of weepies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of weepies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «weepies» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

weepies
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

weepies
570 millions of speakers

English

weepies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

weepies
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

weepies
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Weepies
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Weepies
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

weepies
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Weepies
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menangis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Weepies
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

weepies
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

weepies
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngguyu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

weepies
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

weepies
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रडणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Weepies
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Weepies
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Weepies
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Weepies
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

weepies
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

weepies
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

weepies
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Weepies
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Weepies
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of weepies

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WEEPIES»

The term «weepies» is regularly used and occupies the 61.265 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WEEPIES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «weepies» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «weepies» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about weepies

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEEPIES»

Discover the use of weepies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to weepies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Heroes, Antiheroes and Dolts: Portrayals of Masculinity in ...
Four. —. Men. as. Objects: Men. in. the. Weepies. In addition to the six musicals just discussed which had military themes, five of the top 20 films of 1942-1945 were concerned with themes of the War: Mrs. Miniver (1942), Casablanca (1942),  ...
Ashton D. Trice, Samuel A. Holland, 2001
2
Pregnancy in Literature and Film
In fact, “maternal melodramas,” affectionately known as the “weepies,” constituted a substantial subgenre of the “woman's film.” And weepies they were. This is what everyone was weeping about: although an audience would have been able  ...
Parley Ann Boswell, 2014
3
Boys Don't Cry?: Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and ...
failure and; in The Glass Menagerie; impetus for; Kerouac on; as narrative of surrogacy; see also fight or flight male liberation, see men's liberation The Male Machine (Fasteau) male prerogative male weepies, see film, male weepies Malone, ...
Milette Shamir, Jennifer Travis, 2013
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Seen That, Now What?: The Ultimate Guide to Finding the ...
A: With Post-Code Melodramas: The Weepies Hollywood really cleaned up Its act after 1934. The naughty shopgirls and cabaret stars of the early 30s became the domesticated selfless mothers, sweet young things, and unredeemably wicked ...
Andrea Shaw, 1996
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Why Brownlee Left
The. Weepies. Most Saturday afternoons At the local Hippodrome Saw the PatheNews rooster, Then the recurring dream Of a lonesome drifter Through uninterrupted range. Will Hunter, so gifted He couldpeel an orange In a single, ...
Paul Muldoon, 2010
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Understanding Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Film as Private and ...
Douglas Sirk's 1955 film All That Heaven Allows — that subtext for Ali: Fear Eats the Soul — was one of the more recent in a large class of Hollywood movies popular from the 1930s through the 1950s that were variously labeled "weepies,"  ...
Wallace Steadman Watson, 1996
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The Women's Companion to International Film
By the end of the 1960s, macho genres from Hong Kong - SWORDPLAY and KUNG FU - replaced opera films, becoming a counterpoint to the local female ' weepies.' These women's films, mostly adapted from bestsellers written by Chiung ...
Annette Kuhn, Susannah Radstone, 1990
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Hollywood Renaissance: The Cinema of Democracy in the Era of ...
By the time of the release of A Place in the Sun, weepies like Humoresque, for example, had become a readily identifiable subgenre and convention. According to Doane, the music in such films functions as an important form of communication ...
Sam B. Girgus, 1998
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Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film
Since Testament does not fit any previously recognized genre, I am proposing one justification for this film: "postnuclear feminist weepie." We do not need to add dystopic because weepies, at least as some feminist film scholars interpret them, ...
Jerome F. Shapiro, 2002
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Double Vision: Perspectives on Gender and the Visual Arts
Generally speaking, the action of the weepies involves the heroine's struggle against the restrictions of her world; more often than not, she loses the struggle and valiantly capitulates to the forces that thwart her. Male characters are relatively ...
Natalie Harris Bluestone, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WEEPIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term weepies is used in the context of the following news items.
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Weepies return to home
The Weepies returned to Iowa City on Wednesday night for a concert at the Englert Theater after recording its first full-length album in five years. The band ... «UI The Daily Iowan, Jul 15»
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Sound Check: New album helped Weepies in cancer fight
The Weepies perform 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 30, at the Magic Bag in Ferndale. ... When Steve Tannen says the Weepies just wanted “to survive” while making its ... «The Macomb Daily, Jun 15»
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Deb Talan Of The Weepies Reflects On Latest Album
The folk duo The Weepies recently released their fifth studio album Sirens. They're currently on tour for the record which brings them to the Neighborhood ... «WFAE, Jun 15»
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First Watch: The Weepies, 'No Trouble'
At one point they pass the real Weepies, who are busking calmly. As the doubles ... The Weepies are on their first full-band tour in five years. Dates are listed on ... «NPR, Jun 15»
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Editors' Pick: The Weepies
Deb Talan and Steve Tannen met one night and almost immediately began writing music together: This is how indie-folk duo The Weepies came to be. «Austin Monthly, Jun 15»
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Florence + The Machine, Rhett Miller, The Weepies
Florence Welch knew all too well that she had to dial down the diva histrionics for her third album. A broken relationship and broken foot, suffered in rapid ... «Colorado Springs Independent, Jun 15»
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FTC presents The Weepies and singer songwriters Shawn Colvin …
On Thursday, June 25, at 8 p.m., husband and wife duo, The Weepies will ... the two musicians started writing songs together, and soon the Weepies' whimsical, ... «Fairfield Sun, Jun 15»
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WATCH: The Weepies Release New Video For “Fancy Things”
It's love and indie rock when it comes to a dynamic pair called, The Weepies. The Los Angeles natives released a new video for “Fancy Things” from their latest ... «mxdwn.com, Jun 15»
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The Weepies' New Album Reviewed
Indie pop-folk duo The Weepies stays true to their band's name with their latest album, Sirens. Their fifth record presents an emotional spectrum both wide and ... «Santa Barbara Independent, Jun 15»
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Video Premiere: The Weepies - "Fancy Things"
The Weepies are a husband-wife duo from Los Angeles, but their musical relationship may date even further back than their romantic one. Deb Talan and Steve ... «Paste Magazine, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Weepies [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/weepies>. Apr 2024 ».
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