Fawkes

Definition: Fawkes

Fawkes

Noun

1. English conspirator who was executed for his role in a plot to blow up King James I and the Houses of Parliament (1570-1606).

Date "Fawkes" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonym: Fawkes

Synonym: Guy Fawkes (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Fawkes

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Fawkes is Albus Dumbledore's pet. It is a phoenix from the Harry Potter series and possibly named after Guy Fawkes.

Fawkes seems to be a very special character.

First, he is the one who gives the feathers that will later be used in both Harry and Voldemort's wands.

He plays a special role in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: he's the bird that helps Harry get rid of the basilisk, the monstrous snake that lives in Hogwarts and is controlled by Tom Marvollo Riddle's diary through Ginny Weasley. Fawkes blinds the basilisk and, with is tears, dresses the wound made in Harry's shoulder. Then, he transport Harry, Ginny, Ron Weasley (her brother) and Gilderoy Lockhart, their Defense Against the Drak Arts teacher.

In the fifth book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Fawkes is a special part of the Order, a pheonix himself. At Dumbledore's office, in the night Harry sees Mr. Weasley being beaten by a snake (Voldemort's snake, Nagini), Dumbledore asks Fawkes to advise him if Umbridge goes to the office.

Furthermore, his colours are red and gold, and these are Gryffindor house's colours. Some fans believe that this could not be a coincidence as the author, J. K. Rowling, doesn't use similarities without specific meaning.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fawkes."

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Crosswords: Fawkes

English words defined with "Fawkes": Gunpowder Plot, guy, Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes Day ♦ November 5. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Fawkes": Baga de Secretis. (references)

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Modern Usage: Fawkes

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Guy Fawkes (1923)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Fawkes

Domain	Title
Books	Bonfire Prayers Customs Recipes Songs and Chants for Guy Fawkes Day (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Fawkes

"Fawkes" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.63% of the time. "Fawkes" is used about 64 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)	90.63%	58	44,427
Noun (plural)	7.81%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (-s form)	1.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	64	N/A

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

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Expression: Fawkes

Expressions using "Fawkes": guy Fawkes ♦ guy fawkes day. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "Fawkes": Guy-fawkes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fawkes

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
guy fawkes	64
day fawkes guy	26
fawkes	19
fawkes phoenix	11
fawkes harry potter	8
fawkes guy picture	3
darien fawkes	2
guy fawkes night	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fawkes

Language		Translations for "Fawkes"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Turkish		gay fawkes'in yakalanış günü (guy fawkes day), beş kasım günü (guy fawkes day). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fawkes

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-k-s-w"
	-1 letter: askew, fakes, wakes, wekas.
	-2 letters: awes, fake, kaes, kafs, keas, kefs, safe, sake, skew, waes, wake, weak, weka.
	-3 letters: ask, awe, efs, fas, few, kae, kaf, kas, kea, kef, sae, saw, sea, sew, ska, wae, was.
	-4 letters: ae, as, aw, ef, es, fa, ka, we.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-k-s-w"
	+2 letters: weakfish.
	+3 letters: falsework, snowflake, workfares.
	+4 letters: falseworks, frameworks, snowflakes, weakfishes.
	+5 letters: farmworkers, wakefulness.
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