DIMANCHE

  

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DIMANCHE

Specialty Definition: DIMANCHE

DomainDefinition

Literature

Dimanche (Monsieur). A dun. The term is from Molière's Don Juan, and would be, in English, Mr. Sunday. The word damanche is a corruption and contraction of dies Domanica (the Lord's day). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: DIMANCHE

Non-English Usage: "DIMANCHE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (sabbath, Sunday), French Canadian (Sunday).

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Modern Usage: DIMANCHE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Grands moments de dimanche - Salvador (1974)

Dimanche volé (1972)

L'enfant du dimanche Bruno (1969)

Jeudi on chantera comme dimanche (1967)

Le Dimanche de la vie (1967)

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

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Commercial Usage: DIMANCHE

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Usage Frequency: DIMANCHE

"DIMANCHE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "DIMANCHE" is used about 3 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)66.67%2245,945
Noun (singular)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: DIMANCHE

The following table summarizes the usage of "DIMANCHE" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
DimancheLast name10073,538
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DIMANCHE

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

dimanche progres

11

dimanche du journal le

10

dimanche du journal

10

dimanche progrès

9

dimanche

6

dimanche france

6

5 dimanche plus

4

dimanche leon

4

change dimanche ouvert paris

3

dimanche progrs

3

de dimanche la pentecôte

2

un dimanche a la campagne

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

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Anagrams: DIMANCHE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: machined.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-h-i-m-n"

-1 letter: chained, echidna, machine.

-2 letters: aidmen, anemic, chaine, chimed, chined, cinema, daimen, haemic, haemin, iceman, inched, maiden, manche, median, medina, miched, minced, niched.

-3 letters: ached, acned, admen, aimed, amend, amice, amide, amine, amnic, anime, caned, canid, chain, chide, chime, china, chine, dance, denim, hance, hemic, hemin, maced, mache, maned, manic, media, medic, menad, miche.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-h-i-m-n"
 

+2 letters: chairmaned, championed, machinated, mechanized.

 

+3 letters: chairmanned, hemodynamic, merchandise, merchandize.

 

+4 letters: hemodynamics, hydromancies, indomethacin, merchandised, merchandiser, merchandises, merchandized, merchandizes, mischanneled, scrimshander, unmechanized.

 

+5 letters: archimandrite, commandership, decamethonium, endolymphatic, hydromagnetic, indomethacins, merchandisers, merchandising, merchandizing, mischannelled, multibranched, rhabdomancies, scrimshanders, thermodynamic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DIMANCHE


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

44 49 4D 41 4E 43 48 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)

01000100 01001001 01001101 01000001 01001110 01000011 01001000 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#77 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#72 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 004D 0041 004E 0043 0048 0045

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

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

3843473548374239

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INDEX

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


  

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