Freud

Definition: Freud

Freud

Noun

1. Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939).

Date "Freud" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Synonym: Freud

Synonym: Sigmund Freud (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Freud

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Pleasure	A wilderness of sweets; "I wish you all the joy that you can wish"; jour de ma vie; "joy ruled the day and love the night"; "joys season'd high and tasting strong of guilt"; "oh happiness, our being's end and aim!"; "there is a pleasure that is born of pain"; "throned on highest bliss"; vedi Napoli e poi muori; zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht weit.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Freud

English words defined with "Freud": Freudian, Freudian slip ♦ psychoanalytic, psychoanalytical ♦ Sigmund Freud. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Freud": Psychoanalytic Theory. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Freud" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (Freud).

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Modern Usage: Freud

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	We'll be talking about Freud and why he did enough cocaine to kill a small horse. (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck) Well, what would Freud say? (Manhattan; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) I don't know why you claim to be Sigmund Freud. (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure; writing credit: Chris Matheson; Ed Solomon) What can I say, Freud was a perv. (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes) Freud says that guns are an extension of your dick, Jo Bob. (North Dallas Forty; writing credit: Peter Gent)
Lyrics	Siegmund freud (Die Another Day; performing artist: Madonna; writing credit: Madonna)
Clever	Throughout the ages, the problem is that women have puzzled people of every kind. (references; author: Freud) Men do not always take their great thinkers seriously, even when they profess most to admire them. (references; author: Freud)
Movie/TV Titles	French Freud (1969) Freud (1962) Rencontre avec le docteur Freud (1994) Freud flyttar hemifrån... (1991) The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Freud

Domain	Title
Books	The Freud Reader (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Biography - Sigmund Freud (reference) Freud Leaving Home (reference) Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Avoid Freud (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Freud RC-003 72 mm Ball Bearing Rub Collar for 3/4" Spindle Shaper (reference) Freud EB010 13/16" White Birch Edge Banding Tape (reference) Freud CD008 8" Calibration and Sanding Disk (reference) Freud 14-204 1/2" Diameter by 1-1/2" Stagger Flute Compression Router Bit (reference) Freud 900-00 Size 00 Biscuit Splines - Bulk Pack (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Freud

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Photo Album: Freud

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Sigmund Freud, M.D. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Freud / Sidney Chafetz. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Freud / S. Chafetz. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Those present include (seated, front row): Sigmund Freud, Granville S. Hall and Carl Jung; (standing, back row): Abraham A. Brill, Ernest Jones and Sándor Ferenczi. Credit: NAVY.
	Impossible interviews: Sigmund Freud vs. Jean Harlow] / Covarrubias. Credit: Library of Congress.		Freud with his wife and daughter in 1899. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Sigmund Freud. Credit: Library of Congress.		Wir fordern Berufsverbot fur Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann ... Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Freud

Author	Quotation
Freud	Throughout the ages, the problem is that women have puzzled people of every kind.
	Men do not always take their great thinkers seriously, even when they profess most to admire them.
Sigmund Freud	Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Freud

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		But in 1897, the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud disagreed. (references)
		Sigmund Freud, who greatly influenced the field of psychology, believed dreaming was a "safety valve" for unconscious desires. (references)
Civil Liberties	Saudi Arabia	The authorities prohibit the study of evolution, Freud, Marx, Western music, and Western philosophy. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Freud

"Freud" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.60% of the time. "Freud" is used about 1,291 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)	97.6%	1,260	6,225
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.47%	19	80,337
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.7%	9	117,287
Noun (singular)	0.23%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	1,291	N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Freud

The following table summarizes the usage of "Freud" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Freud	Last name	130	57,220
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Freud

Expressions using "Freud": Sigmund Freud ♦ zwischen Freud und Leid ist die Brucke nicht weit. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Freud": Freud-darwin, freud-like.
	Ending with "Freud": F-freud.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Freud

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
sigmund freud	1,147	biography freud	13
freud	860	freud interpretation of dream	12
lucian freud	86	ego freud id superego	10
freud tool	50	freud religion	10
biography sigmund freud	50	freud picture	10
anna freud	42	freud psychology	9
sigmund freud theory	35	freud wood working tool	9
freud theory	32	de freud teoria	9
freud saw blade	30	biografia de freud sigmund	8
freud router bit	29	freud id	8
sigmund freud picture	29	ego freud	8
freud dream	20	sigmund freud interpretation of dream	8
sigmund freud 1900	19	civilization discontents freud its	8
defense freud mechanism	17	biografia freud sigmund	7
lucien freud	15	complex freud oedipus	7
freud,theories sigmund	15	dream freud sigmund	7
freud router	15	freud los sueños y	7
freud quote sigmund	15	biografia de freud	7
freud blade	14	freud and dora	7
freud quote	13	sigmund freud photo	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Freud

Language		Translations for "Freud"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		Psychiatr (headshrinker, psychiatrist). (various references)

German		Freud. (various references)

Pig Latin		eudfray

Serbo-Croatian		frojd. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Freud

Derivations
	Words containing "Freud": schadenfreude, schadenfreudes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Freud" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Feraud, Fremund, Frequ, Freunde, freut, Froud, frud, Frued, fryud. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Freud

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-f-r-u"
	-1 letter: dure, feud, rude, rued.
	-2 letters: due, fed, fer, feu, fud, fur, red, ref, rue, urd.
	-3 letters: de, ed, ef, er, re.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-f-r-u"
	+1 letter: duffer, furled, furred, refund, ruffed, surfed, turfed.
	+2 letters: dareful, defraud, direful, duffers, feruled, feudary, figured, floured, founder, frugged, fruited, gruffed, purfled, refound, refuged, refunds, refused, refuted, ruffled, unfired, unfreed.
	+3 letters: argufied, buffered, defrauds, desulfur, diffuser, dirgeful, dreadful, dreamful, drumfire, favoured, featured, ferruled, fissured, flounder, fluoride, flurried, forjudge, fortuned, founders, frondeur, frounced, fullered, furcated, furnaced, furrowed, outfired, overfund, perfumed, perfused, prideful, purified, rebuffed, refluxed, refounds, refueled, refunded, refunder, suffered, sulfured, surfaced, truffled, underfed, underfur, unfeared, unfolder, unforced, unforged, unforked, unformed, unframed, unfurled, unrifled, unroofed.
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