Hobbes

Definition: Hobbes

Hobbes

Noun

1. English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679).

Date "Hobbes" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1754. (references)

"Hobbes" is a common misspelling or typo for: hobbies, Hobbs.

Synonym: Hobbes

Synonym: Thomas Hobbes (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Hobbes

English words defined with "Hobbes": Berkeley, Bishop Berkeley ♦ George Berkeley ♦ Hobbism, Hobbist ♦ Tabula rasa, Thomas Hobbes. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Hobbes": Leap in the Dark ♦ Stimulants of Great Men. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hobbes

Domain	Usage
Clever	Let a man, as most men do, rate themselves at the highest value they can, yet their true value is no more than it is esteemed by others. (references; author: Hobbes)
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Commercial Usage: Hobbes

Domain	Title
Books	There's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection (reference) The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book (reference) Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection (reference) The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book: A Collection of Sunday Calvin and Hobbes Cartoons (reference) Hobbes über die Freiheit : Widmungsschreiben, Vorwort an die Leser und Kapitel I-III aus "De Cive" (lateinisch-deutsch) (reference) (more book examples)
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Familiar Quotations: Hobbes

Author	Quotation
Thomas Hobbes	Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
	Covenants without swords are but words.
	Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
	In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
	Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
	No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
	Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.
	Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.
	The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject but man only.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Hobbes

"Hobbes" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.25% of the time. "Hobbes" is used about 236 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)	90.25%	213	20,749
Noun (plural)	9.32%	22	74,468
Lexical Verb (-s form)	0.42%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	236	N/A

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

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Expression: Hobbes

Expression using "Hobbes": Thomas Hobbes. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hobbes

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
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thomas hobbes	252	calvin and hobbes sticker	9
hobbes	172	calvin hobbes strip	9
calvin hobbes picture	85	bill calvin hobbes watterson	9
calvin hobbes wallpaper	80	calvin and hobbes t shirt	8
calvin hobbes comic	52	calvin hobbes desktop theme	8
calvin and hobbes quote	49	calvin hobbes tattoo	8
calvin and hobbes comic strip	31	calendar calvin hobbes	8
calvin hobbes pic	29	miranda hobbes	7
buddy calvin hobbes icon	27	calvin and hobbes screen saver	7
calvin hobbes cartoon	22	calvin hobbes snowman	7
hobbes leviathan	20	calvin and hobbes animation	7
hobbes leviathan thomas	19	calvin gallery hobbes	6
calvin hobbes icon	18	calvin hobbes downloads	6
calvin hobbes screensaver	18	biography hobbes thomas	5
calvin y hobbes	17	clavin hobbes	5
hobbes and locke	11	calvin desktop hobbes wallpaper	5
calvin game hobbes	11	calvin and hobbes decals	5
calvin and hobbes image	10	hobbes picture thomas	5
hobbes tomas	10	calvin card e hobbes	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Hobbes

Misspellings
	"Hobbes" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hebbess, Hibees, Hobbiss, hobbses, Hobiba, Hubbuch. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Hobbes

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-b-e-h-o-s"
	-2 letters: bobs, bosh, ebbs, hobs, hoes, hose, obes, shoe.
	-3 letters: bob, bos, ebb, hes, hob, hoe, obe, oes, ohs, ose, she, sob.
	-4 letters: be, bo, eh, es, he, ho, oe, oh, os, sh, so.
	Words containing the letters "b-b-e-h-o-s"
	+1 letter: hobbies, hobbles.
	+2 letters: bobeches, hobblers.
	+3 letters: bathrobes, beachboys, bobwhites, bombshell, throbbers.
	+4 letters: barbershop, beachcombs, bombshells, cubbyholes, hobblebush, hobbyhorse, hobnobbers, shibboleth, tabboulehs.
	+5 letters: abolishable, barbershops, bottlebrush, bumbershoot, hobbyhorses, shibboleths.
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