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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Idolatry | Phrase: adorer le veau d'or. |
Ornament | Embroidery; brocade, brocatelle, galloon, lace, fringe, trapping, border, edging, trimming; hanging, tapestry, arras; millinery, ermine; drap d'or. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: D'OR |
| Specialty definitions using "D'OR": Hook, Hooks. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "D'OR": Toison d'or. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "D'OR" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (golden). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | 4500 kilos d'or pur (1972) Bol d'or (1971) La Cravache d'or (1969) L' Age d'or du fer (1962) La Salamandre d'or (1962) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Wing of Infirmiry. College of Dentistry A.E.F. University. Cote D'Or, France]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | A horse-drawn sleigh pulls as men guide the Silver Dart, one of the Aerial Experiment Association's early airplanes, over the frozen Bras d'Or Lake on Cape Breton Island. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Diplôme avec médaille d'or grand module. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bras d'Or Lake, Baddeck and Beinn Bhreagh, Nova Scotia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Congo | Feu d'or Bosange Ifonge, a music reporter who was arrested in 1999, fled to Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, where he died of unknown causes in September. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "D'OR" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.66% of the time. "D'OR" is used about 109 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) | 92.66% | 101 | 32,488 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.34% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 109 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "D'OR": adorer le veau d'or ♦ drap d'or ♦ louis d'or ♦ Toison d'or. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "D'OR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | lajos-arany (louis d'or). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | コスト効率 (bowling in a bowling alley that is lit up like a disco with lots of flashing lights, cockatrice, Cocker spaniel, cockney, cockpit, cockroach, cook, coq d'or, cosmetic, cosmetic lens, cosmetics, cosmetology, cosmic, cosmology, cosmonaut, cosmopolis, cosmopolitan, cosmopolitanism, cosmos, cost effectiveness, costume play, cottage, cotton, cox, faucet, glass, Kodak, rough play, spigot, tap). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | コックドール (coq d'or). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-d-o-r" | |
-1 letter: dor, rod. | |
-2 letters: do, od, or. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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