Auteur

  

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Auteur

Definition: Auteur

Auteur

Noun

1. A filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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


Synonyms within Context: Auteur

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Book

Phrase: "among the giant fossils of my past"; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux; "for authors nobler palms remain"; "I lived to write and wrote to live"; "look in thy heart and write"; "there is no Past so long as Books shall live"; "the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers"; "volumes that I prize above my dukedom".

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Auteur

Etymologies containing "auteur": Author. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Auteur" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (author, authoress, woman writer, writer), French (author, doer, instigator, originator, perpetrator, progenitor, writer), Frisian (author, writer).

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Modern Usage: Auteur

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Zes personages zoeken een auteur (1971)

Un comédien lit un auteur (1979)

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

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Commercial Usage: Auteur

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cagney: The Actor As Auteur (reference)

  • Georges Melies: The Birth of the Auteur (French Film Directors) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

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

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Usage Frequency: Auteur

"Auteur" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Auteur" is used about 13 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 (singular)100%1397,576

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

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Expression: Auteur

Expression using "auteur": craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Auteur

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

auteur

21

auteur droit

19

auteur d droit

13

auteur theory

12

auteur compositeur interprète

10

auteur d droits

9

auteur d droit internet

7

andré auteur mathieu

7

auteur compositeur

6

auteur fiscalité

5

auteur compositeur interprte

4

auteur québécois

4

auteur koutani

3

auteur debuterend

2

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2

auteur d droit videogrammes

2

auteur peter simons

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Auteur

Derivations

Words beginning with "auteur": auteurist, auteurists, auteurs. (additional references)

Words ending with "auteur": hauteur. (additional references)

Words containing "auteur": hauteurs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Auteur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acteur, aeteur, aluntur, amuteur, atear, ateu, Atiqur, autair, autar, auteer, auter, auteurs, autheurs, authur, autier, autour, autrui, autuer, avtur, Lutfur, Lutteur. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Auteur

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-r-t-u-u"

-1 letter: urate.

-2 letters: rate, tare, tear, true, urea.

-3 letters: are, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, era, eta, rat, ret, rue, rut, tae, tar, tau, tea, uta.

-4 letters: ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-r-t-u-u"
 

+1 letter: auteurs, hauteur, trumeau.

 

+2 letters: auguster, cubature, hauteurs, outargue, trumeaux.

 

+3 letters: arbutuses, auteurist, autoroute, cubatures, curvature, fulgurate, luxuriate, outargued, outargues, suppurate, thesaurus, trousseau, ultrapure.

 

+4 letters: adulterous, apiculture, argumentum, auriculate, auteurists, autoroutes, aviculture, bureaucrat, curvatures, duumvirate, elucubrate, fraudulent, fulgurated, fulgurates, inaugurate, judicature, juggernaut, luxuriated, luxuriates, nunciature, nurturance, outrageous, parimutuel, quadrature, quadruplet, rouseabout, sauerkraut, suppurated, suppurates, trousseaus, trousseaux, tubercular, ultraquiet, ungrateful, unsaturate.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Auteur


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

41 75 74 65 75 72

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)

01000001 01110101 01110100 01100101 01110101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#117 &#116 &#101 &#117 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0075 0074 0065 0075 0072

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

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

358786718784

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INDEX

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


  

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