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Definitions: FENIAN |
FENIANAdjective1. Pertaining to Fenians or to Fenianism. Noun1. A member of a secret organization, consisting mainly of Irishment, having for its aim the overthrow of English rule in ireland. |
Date "FENIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disobedience | Insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur; seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue; Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade; ringleader. |
Opponent | Malcontent; Jacobin, Fenian; demagogue, reactionist. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FENIAN |
| Specialty definitions using "FENIAN": Fenians ♦ I.R.B. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Fenian Collar, Ireland for the Irish.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Liam Mellowes : a great Fenian who saw the poor as the freedom force of the nation, as Tone did : shot by firing squad, Mountjoy jail, Dec. 8, 1922.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The gossip of his fellowstudents which strove to render the flat life of the college significant at any cost loved to think of him as a young fenian. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "FENIAN" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FENIAN" is used about 16 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "FENIAN": fenian doctrine. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fenian | 14 |
fenian raid | 9 |
fenian movement | 7 |
ct fenian | 2 |
fenian mouvement | 2 |
brotherhood fenian | 2 |
bold fenian man | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FENIAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fenian szövetség tagja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | feniaghtagh (chivalrous, heroic, noble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enianfay guarda-fogo (baffle, louvre). (various references) revoluţionar irlandez. (various references) фенианский. (various references) fenijski. (various references) feniano. (various references) irlandanın bağımsızlığı örgütü taraftarı. (various references) thuộc phong tr o Phê-ni-an; thuộc tổ chức Phê-ni-an. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-n-n" | |
-1 letter: inane. | |
-2 letters: fain, fane, fine, naif, neif, nine. | |
-3 letters: ain, ane, ani, fan, fen, fie, fin, inn, nae, nan. | |
-4 letters: ae, ai, an, ef, en, fa, if, in, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-n-n" | |
+1 letter: fannies, fanzine, finance, infante. | |
+2 letters: enfacing, faineant, fanzines, fibranne, financed, finances, infantes, infaunae, infernal. | |
+3 letters: cofinance, deafening, defanging, enflaming, enframing, faineants, faintness, falconine, fanciness, fastening, fattening, fenagling, fibrannes, financier, infancies, infantile, infantine, infestant, influenza, refinance, safranine, zinfandel. | |
+4 letters: cofinanced, cofinances, confidante, definienda, enfilading, engrafting, fastenings, financiers, fingernail, flanneling, flattening, fountained, frangipane, infantries, infernally, infestants, influenzal, influenzas, meaningful, prefinance, refinanced, refinances, refraining, safranines, unfairness, unfindable, uninflated, zinfandels. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 45 4E 49 41 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . -. .. .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000101 01001110 01001001 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F E N I A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0045 004E 0049 0041 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)403948433548 |
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