CYGNE

  

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CYGNE

Date "CYGNE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

"CYGNE" is a common misspelling or typo for: Cygnet.


Synonyms within Context: CYGNE

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

Death

Death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne; rigor mortis; Stygian shore.

Perfection

Cygne noir; philosopher's stone; chrysolite, Koh-i-noor.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: CYGNE

Specialty definitions using "CYGNE": Rara A'vis. (references)
Non-English Usage: "CYGNE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (cob, swan).

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Modern Usage: CYGNE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

La Mort du cygne (1938)

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

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Commercial Usage: CYGNE

DomainTitle

References

  • Cygne Designs, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • LA Naissance Du Chevalier Au Cygne (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Use in Literature: CYGNE

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Another, on the Rue du Cygne, was assailed by some thirty young men, who destroyed his drum and took away his sword.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage in Company Names: CYGNE

CountryName
USA

Cygne Designs, Inc.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: CYGNE

Expressions using "CYGNE": chant du cygne La Cygne. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CYGNE

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

la cygne ks

41

la cygne kansas

4

la cygne

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: CYGNE

Derivations

Words beginning with "CYGNE": cygnet, cygnets. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: CYGNE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-g-n-y"

-2 letters: eng, gen, gey, yen.

-3 letters: en, ne, ye.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-g-n-y"
 

+1 letter: agency, cygnet.

 

+2 letters: cogency, cryogen, cygnets, glycine, gynecia, gynecic, regency, urgency.

 

+3 letters: aglycone, chevying, coagency, cogently, cooeying, cryogens, cryogeny, cyanogen, cymogene, cytogeny, decaying, decoying, decrying, dysgenic, elegancy, ensigncy, exigency, geomancy, glycerin, glycines, glycogen, gonocyte, gynaecea, gynaecia, gynecium, gynecoid, gynoecia, hygienic, myogenic, oxygenic, pungency, pyogenic, regnancy, synergic, tangency, turgency.

 

+4 letters: aglycones, cageyness, casefying, clergyman, clergymen, cognately, conveying, cryogenic, cyanogens, cymogenes, cyphering, descrying, emergency, encysting, genically, genotypic, glycerine, glycerins, glycogens, gonocytes, gynaeceum, gynaecium, gynoecium, hygienics, jockeying, lackeying, lysogenic, necrology, panegyric, plangency, polygenic, pregnancy, pyrogenic, recopying, recycling, sergeancy, subagency, syngeneic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CYGNE


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

43 59 47 4E 45

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)

01000011 01011001 01000111 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#89 &#71 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0059 0047 004E 0045

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

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

3759414839

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INDEX

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


  

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