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Definition: Confucius |
ConfuciusNoun1. Chinese philosopher (circa 551-478 BC). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Confucius" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a hole", "an opening", "a man", "a husband", "a son". |
Date "Confucius" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biographical Satire | CONFUCIUS, A Chinese preacher of note. Lived some 500 years B. C. and taught the chinks the art of joss making, and how to do things backward. He also was the founder of ancestor worship. This still is practiced in England, but never in the United States or Australia. Recreation: Fireworks. Ambition: A Chinese laundry in every city. Epitaph: More Majorum. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: ConfuciusSynonym: Kung futzu (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pseudo-Revelation | Gautama, Buddha; Zoroaster, Confucius, Bab-ed-Din, Mohammed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Confucius |
| English words defined with "Confucius": Confucian, Confucianism, Confucianist. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Confucius" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (Confucius), Dutch (Confucius). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Confucius say: never use a cannon to kill a mosquito. (Entrapment; writing credit: Ronald Bass; Michael Hertzberg) Oh, c'mon, Confucius, that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard! (Shanghai Knights; writing credit: Alfred Gough; Miles Millar) | |
Clever | To be with God. (references; author: Confucius) The cautious seldom err. (references; author: Confucius) Kindness is greater than law. (references; author: Confucius) True gold fears not the fire. (references; author: Confucius) Among mortals, who is faultless? (references; author: Confucius) | |
Movie/TV Titles | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The image of Confucius. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Confucius | To be with God. |
| The cautious seldom err. | |
| True gold fears not the fire. | |
| Kindness is greater than law. | |
| Among mortals, who is faultless? | |
| To save face keep lower half closed. | |
| Have no friends not equal to yourself. | |
| Good words are like a string of pearls. | |
| To go beyond is as bad as to fall short. | |
| Wherever you go, go with all your heart. | |
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| "Confucius" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.78% of the time. "Confucius" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 97.78% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Noun (plural) | 2.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Confucius"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | Confucius. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "子 , 丘 (given name, mound). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Confucius. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Konfuceo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Konfuzius, Konfuse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ίομφούκιοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "子 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ふうし (appearance, demeanor, innuendo, irony, lampoon, sarcasm, satire, term of address for a teacher, wind god), せ"せい (abjuration, ancient sage, autocracy, despotism, doctor, headstart, master, oath, preempt, teacher), "うし (calf, company, Crown Prince, edict, exercise, filial child, firm, government and people, heir, hind leg, Imperial Heir, kind intention, kind thought, lattice, lecturer, man of noble character, minister, national examinations, official and personal, pearly white teeth, photon, public and private, public announcement, reform, renewal, slag, successor, use, young nobleman), じほ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onfuciuscay Confucio. (various references) Конфуцій. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Confucius" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cantuccio, confucious. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-f-i-n-o-s-u-u" | |
-3 letters: conics, cousin, fucous, fusion. | |
-4 letters: cions, cisco, coifs, coins, conic, conus, cuifs, ficus, finos, focus, foins, fucus, icons, incus, infos, scion, sonic, uncos, uncus. | |
-5 letters: cion, coif, coin, coni, cons, cuif, fico, fino, fins, fisc, foci, foin, fons, fuci, funs, icon, info, ions, nous, onus, unci, unco. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-f-i-n-o-s-u-u" | |
+3 letters: circumfusion. | |
+4 letters: circumfusions. | |
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