CORNEMUSE

  

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CORNEMUSE

Definition: CORNEMUSE

CORNEMUSE

Noun

1. A wind instrument nearly identical with the bagpipe.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CORNEMUSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references)


Crosswords: CORNEMUSE

English words defined with "CORNEMUSE": Cornamute, Cornmuse. (references)
Non-English Usage: "CORNEMUSE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (pipe).

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Commercial Usage: CORNEMUSE

DomainTitle

Books

  • La tradition de cornemuse en Basse-Auvergne et Sud-Bourbonnais (reference)

  • Ogre ; Cornemuse : théâtre (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CORNEMUSE

"CORNEMUSE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CORNEMUSE" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CORNEMUSE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cornemuse

84
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "CORNEMUSE"

Words rhyming with "CORNEMUSE" (pronounced 'Corne"muse'): Cornmuse, Hemuse. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CORNEMUSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-m-n-o-r-s-u"

-1 letter: cerumens, coenures, consumer, mucrones.

-2 letters: censure, cerumen, coenure, consume, encores, moreens, necrose.

-3 letters: censer, censor, cereus, cerous, ceruse, comers, cornus, course, cremes, crones, crouse, encore, ensure, enures, moreen, mourns, mouser, mucors, mucose, mucros, neumes, ounces, recons, recuse, rescue, resume, rouens, rumens, screen, secern, secure, sermon, socmen, source.

-4 letters: cense, ceres, ceros, comer, comes, cones.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-m-n-o-r-s-u"
 

+2 letters: ceremonious, documenters, overconsume, recoupments.

 

+3 letters: commensurate, countermemos, countermines, countermoves, neurochemist, overconsumed, overconsumes, procurements.

 

+4 letters: accouterments, accoutrements, ceremoniously, commensurable, counterimages, counterstream, documentaries, neurochemists, nomenclatures, overdocuments, renouncements, unceremonious.

 

+5 letters: commensurately, counterdemands, countermarches, countermeasure, counterreforms, counterstreams, cumbersomeness, cumbrousnesses, discouragement, encouragements, incommensurate, macronucleuses, micronucleuses, neurochemicals, neurochemistry, pneumothoraces, pronouncements.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CORNEMUSE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 4F 52 4E 45 4D 55 53 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ---    .-.    -.    .    --    ..-    ...    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01001111 01010010 01001110 01000101 01001101 01010101 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#82 &#78 &#69 &#77 &#85 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0052 004E 0045 004D 0055 0053 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

374952483947555339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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