Diderot

  

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Diderot

Definition: Diderot

Diderot

Noun

1. French philosopher who was a leading figure of the Enlightenment in France; principal editor of an encyclopedia that disseminated the scientific and philosophical knowledge of the time (1713-1784).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Diderot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)


Synonym: Diderot

Synonym: Denis Diderot (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Diderot

English words defined with "Diderot": Denis DiderotThe Encyclopedists. (references)

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Modern Usage: Diderot

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

'Rameau's Nephew' by Diderot (Thanx to Dennis Young) by Wilma Schoen (1974)

La Religieuse de Diderot (1978)

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

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Commercial Usage: Diderot

DomainTitle

Books

  • Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot (reference)

  • A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry: Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from 'L'Encyclopedie, Ou Dictionnai (reference)

  • Elysian Encounter: Diderot and Gide (reference)

  • Jack the Fatalist and His Master: A New Translation from the French of D. Diderot (American Univ Studies Series, Ii, Romance Languages & Lit Vol 8) (reference)

  • Gardens and Landscapes in the Encyclopedie of Diderot and D'Alembert: The Letterpress Articles and Selected Engravings (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Familiar Quotations: Diderot

AuthorQuotation

Denis Diderot

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Good music is very close to primitive language.
Ignorance is less remote from truth than prejudice.
The point is to get into heaven by hook or by crook.
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
Fools have been and always will be the majority of mankind.
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Diderot

"Diderot" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 78.57% of the time. "Diderot" is used about 14 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 (proper)78.57%11106,044
Lexical Verb (infinitive)7.14%1339,140
Lexical Verb (base form)7.14%1339,140
Noun (singular)7.14%1339,140
                    Total100.00%14N/A

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

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Expression: Diderot

Expression using "Diderot": Denis Diderot. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Diderot

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

diderot

59

denis diderot

40

aristotle diderot mimesis

6

diderot la religieuse

5

encyclopedie diderot

4

diderot encyclopedia

3

diderot neveu rameau

2

diderot filosofo obras

2

diderot filosofo

2

de diderot le neveu rameau

2

biographie diderot

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Diderot

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-o-r-t"

-1 letter: doited, dotier, editor, rioted, triode.

-2 letters: diode, doted, doter, dried, droid, droit, odder, redid, tided, tired, tried, trode.

-3 letters: dido, died, diet, dire, dirt, dite, doer, doit, dore, dote, eddo, edit, ired, redd, redo, ride, riot, rite, rode, rote, roti, tide, tied, tier, tire, tiro, toed, tore, tori, trio, trod.

-4 letters: did, die, dit.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-o-r-t"
 

+2 letters: dedicator, deorbited, disported, disrooted, distorted, outridden.

 

+3 letters: codirected, dedicators, dedicatory, introduced, overedited.

 

+4 letters: coordinated, degradation, dehydration, depredation, diphtheroid, disoriented, fluoridated, interfolded, nondirected, outstridden, redeposited, retrodicted, rodenticide, undistorted.

 

+5 letters: contradicted, decorticated, degradations, dehydrations, democratized, dendrologist, depredations, desideration, deteriorated, diphtheroids, discomforted, disconcerted, endocarditis, outdelivered, overdirected, overstridden, predominated, rededication, rediscounted, reintroduced, rodenticides, subordinated, timberdoodle.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Diderot


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

44 69 64 65 72 6F 74

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)

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

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

01000100 01101001 01100100 01100101 01110010 01101111 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#100 &#101 &#114 &#111 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0064 0065 0072 006F 0074

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

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

38757071848186

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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