Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of ash.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.
- n. Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when “returned to dust” by natural decay.
- n. The color of ashes; deathlike paleness.
Examples
“_Dust and ashes, dust and ashes_, echoes from the gray walls, the mouldering thatch of the _souks_, the long lamentable song of the blind beggars sitting in rows under the feet of the camels and asses.”
“Discuss why the phoenix rising from the ashes is an inspiring image for African-Americans emerging from the slave era in”
“He emptied the ashes from the stoves, brought up the coal and kindling, and lighted the fires before the most energetic one of them was at his desk.”
“I glanced warily at him, for I was on my knees taking the ashes from the stove.”
“Blige and Jennifer Hudson left the stage in ashes and left many wondering if any acts on Sunday's Grammy Awards would match their vocal firepower.”
“They were all that were left of Pauloo, which likewise was in ashes, for a third schooner had come in through the Pauloo Passage.”
“As I look out my window I see mounds of ashes from the inferno that occured when Lake Winnipeg boiled over.”
“This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog.”
“Fifth, what burns my ashes is that ignorant conservatives are still trying to spread the LIE that Barack Obama is an Islamist or, to be more correct, a Muslim.”
“Odie saved the wife and kids from burning down the whole forrest when they were dumping ashes from the fire place.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ashes’.
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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Unwanted matter
gangue, dross, slag, scoria, refuse, trash, cinder, ashes, leavings, recrement, debris, waste and 37 more...
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Cricket!
Despite not understanding the game at all, I love the vocabulary.
run-a-ball, roundarm, silly mid-off, mongoose bat, dlf maximum, citi moment of su..., ipl, across the line, agricultural shot, all out, anchor, ashes and 76 more...
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dandy's list
favourite words
cattywampus, wibble, fenagle, whisker, sneeze, wisteria, honeysuckle, clove, perihelion, glimmer, twilight, dusk and 264 more...
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alopecia
i suppose, all of the words & phrases yoni wolf uses in alopecia, that i love.
ladies man, landmine, cavalier, consumer grade video, single's bingo, all-time gringo, calculated birth, manila envelope, mortaring, houdini, punchline, circus mirrors and 160 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Chainlink's Words
hat, opalescent, opal, emerald, sapphire, scythe, carnival, calliope, brilliant, awesome, feather, fantastic and 268 more...
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wreckingball's Words
reprehensible, problematize, crepuscular, deleterious, pestilent, strumpet, draggletail, interrobang, meretricious, systematize, schadenfreude, capricious and 443 more...
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Lees
Items of little or no value that are left behind by physical or biological processes other than passing through an alimentary canal. See also Valse's Leftovers and reesetee's Hogwash! for other tak...
lees, dross, dregs, orts, debris, jetsam, flotsam, rubbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and 130 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Creative Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like what they mean, but they're not *technically* onomatopoetic.
(another edit: this list is morphing into something I can't quite describe. But I still like it.)ugly, icon, hang, weenie, bell, zit, ennui, sour, speed, rankle, muddle, disgruntle and 129 more...
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Playground Completed Despite Rain - S...
looming, motivated, motivate, fact, wielded, wield, ashes, effort, incorporate, arson, drowned out, hardest and 5 more...
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isn't that cute
pattern, purr, humor, echo, bamboo, ripple, tea, postcard, unicorn, caramel, origami, onion and 43 more...
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fitzgeraldean
snobbishly, riotous, impressionability, gestures, hope, gorgeous, dreams, elations, lawns, egg, mansion, supercilious and 60 more...
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I like : A
aglow, aconite, aeon, aisle, altar, amulet, ancient, antiquity, ashram, athame, atoll, auburn and 72 more...
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Underworld notes
Words with which to build the titles of Deathlords and deathknights in the Exalted RPG.
barrow, catacomb, leprous, oblivion, void, abyss, cerement, stygian, demise, quietus, agony, blood and 60 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ashes.
bilby Hear hear. Jul 20, 2009
chained_bear RIP, Frank McCourt. Jul 20, 2009
uselessness And cold cold moon, apparently. ;-) Sep 17, 2007
faraway Haha. Yay for Douglas Adams. And cricket is a rather strange game. Test cricket matches can be played over 5 days, for example, and I mean all day, for 5 days. In the hot hot sun. Sep 15, 2007
uselessness I first discovered this in one of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide books, being completely unfamiliar with the sport of cricket. If I recall correctly, the ashes were actually the remains of some vitally important intergalactic something-or-other, and caused quite the ruckus when the old owners came back for it.
There was also an elaborate explanation for the sport itself, which was actually started millennia ago as a distasteful parody of the slaughtering of an entire alien race on a planet known as Krikkit. Over time humans forgot about the creatures of Krikkit and the origin of the game, and continued to play the barbaric thing; for that reason much of the rest of the galaxy viewed the people of Earth (or at least Britain) as absurdly coarse and insensitive. I might have some of the details wrong, but anything by Douglas Adams is worth reading several times over. ;-) Sep 14, 2007
faraway The Ashes = 'the trophy, in the form of an urn containing a cremated cricket stump, kept permanently in England, played for by England and Australia in test cricket'. - Macquarie dictionary Sep 14, 2007