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Definition: Durante |
DuranteNoun1. United States comedian remembered for his large nose and hoarse voice (1893-1980). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Durante" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Etymology: Durante \Du*ran"te\, preposition. [Latin expression, abl. case of the p. pr. of durare to last.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Durante Durante bene placito (Latin). During pleasure. Durante minore ætate (Latin). During minority. Durante viduitate (Latin). During widowhood. Durante vita (Latin). For life. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: DuranteSynonym: Jimmy Durante (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: administration durante absentia (law), administration durante animi vitio, administration durante corporis aut animi vitio, administration durante dementia, administration durante minore aetate, administration durante minoritate administratoris, administration pendente absentia, administrator durante absentia, administrator durante animi vitio, administrator durante corporis aut animi vitio, administrator durante dementia, administrator durante minore aetate, administrator durante minoritate administratoris, administrator pendente absentia, administrator pendente durante absentia, grant durante absentia, grant durante animi vitio, grant durante corporis aut animi vitio, grant durante dementia, grant durante minore aetate, letters of administration durante absentia, Residual Current Device.E'un interruttore automatico molto sensibile incorporato nelle spine elettriche e nei trasformatori.Scatta in 40 mil-lisecondi e interrompe il circuito garantendo cosi'la mas-sima protezione ad es.durante l'uso di utensili elettrici.. (abbreviation). |
Crosswords: Durante |
| Specialty definitions using "Durante": administration durante corporis aut animi vitio, administrator durante absentia, administrator durante minore aetate, administrator durante minoritate administratoris, administrator pendente absentia ♦ grant durante absentia, grant durante animi vitio, grant durante corporis aut animi vitio, grant durante dementia, grant durante minore aetate. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Durante" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (during, for, in, over, pending, through, whereas, while, whilst), Papiamen (during, for, whereas, while, whilst), Portuguese (during, for, in, long, over, pending, per, under, while, whilst), Portuguese Brazilian (during), Spanish (during, pending, when, while, whilst). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters (1969) The Jimmy Durante Show (1954) | |
Song Titles | Black Strap Molassas (performing artist: Jimmy Durante) Inka Dinka Doo (performing artist: Jimmy Durante) Start Off Each Day With A Song (performing artist: Jimmy Durante) Who Will Be With You When I'm Far Away (performing artist: Jimmy Durante) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Solamente usted puede darle el mejor regalo a su bebé: : deje de fumar durante el embarazo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Durante" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Durante" is used about 8 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) | 75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Durante" 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 |
| Durante | Last name | 1,000 | 9,982 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Durante": administration durante absentia ♦ administration durante animi vitio ♦ administration durante corporis aut animi vitio ♦ administration durante dementia ♦ administration durante minore aetate ♦ administration durante minoritate administratoris ♦ administrator durante absentia ♦ administrator durante animi vitio ♦ administrator durante dementia ♦ administrator durante minore aetate ♦ administrator durante minoritate administratoris ♦ grant durante absentia ♦ grant durante animi vitio ♦ grant durante corporis aut animi vitio ♦ grant durante dementia ♦ grant durante minore aetate ♦ Jimmy Durante. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Durante"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Farsi | حبس (Bail, Calaboose, Custody, Imprisonment, Jail, Lockup, Prison), توقیف (Arrest, Bail, Constraint, Custody, Holdup, Internment, Lockup, Nab, Suppression), دوام (Continuance, Continuity, Life, Permanency, Perpetuity, Persistence, Strength, Substance), بقاء (Duration). (various references) | ||||
French | lettres d'administration pendant l'incapacité mentale (grant durante animi vitio, grant durante dementia), lettres d'administration pendant l'incapacité (grant durante corporis aut animi vitio), lettres d'administration pendant l'absence (grant durante absentia, letters of administration durante absentia), administration pendant l'incapacité mentale (administration durante animi vitio, administration durante dementia), administration pendant l'incapacité (administration durante corporis aut animi vitio), administration pendant l'absence (administration durante absentia), administrateur remplaçant l'exécuteur absent (administrator pendente durante absentia), administrateur pendant l'incapacité mentale (administrator durante animi vitio, administrator durante dementia), administrateur pendant l'incapacité (administrator durante corporis aut animi vitio), administrateur pendant l'absence (administrator durante absentia). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | uranteday | ||||
| Words rhyming with "Durante" (pronounced 'Du*ran"te'): Achiote, Aguardiente, Andante, Aphrodite, Astarte, Atte, Bleynte, Borachte, Breste, Brillante, Cete, Chicalote, Chierte, Cognoscente, Concertante, Freelte, Frelte, Lentamente, Lette, machete, Mecate, Mercatante, metate, Mordente, Niste, Pococurante, Prighte, Rafte, rete, Semidiapente, Soavemente, Stacte, Sterte, Stirte, Swatte, Venite. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: daunter, natured, unrated, untread. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: ardent, nature, ranted, tundra, turned, unread. | |
-2 letters: anted, antre, dater, daunt, denar, derat, nuder, rated, redan, tared, trade, tread, trend, trued, tuned, tuner, under, urate. | |
-3 letters: ante, aunt, dare, darn, dart, date, daut, dean, dear, dent, drat, duet, dune, dunt, dura, dure, durn, earn, etna, nard, near, neat, nerd, nude, nurd, rand, rant. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: breadnut, daunters, denature, dentural, indurate, ruinated, transude, truanted, turbaned, uncrated, underact, underate, undereat, undertax, undreamt, unparted, unthread, untraced, untreads, urinated. | |
+2 letters: adventure, breadnuts, curtained, denatured, denatures, indurated, indurates, numerated, outearned, outlander, outranged, outranked, reductant, redundant, renatured, ruminated, sauntered, transduce, transuded, transudes, truncated, turbanned, unaltered, uncharted, uncreated, underacts, undercoat, undereats, underpart, underrate, undertake, unearthed, unrelated, unthreads, untrained, untreated. | |
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