Apollinaire

Definition: Apollinaire

Apollinaire

Noun

1. French poet; precursor of surrealism (1880-1918).

"Apollinaire" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a strength", "a father lion", "a father light", "destroy".

Synonyms: Apollinaire

Synonyms: Guillaume Apollinaire (n), Wilhelm Apollinaris de Kostrowitzki (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Apollinaire

English words defined with "Apollinaire": Guillaume Apollinaire. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Apollinaire

Domain	Title
Books	Apollinaire and the Faceless Man: The Creation and Evolution of a Modern Motif (reference) La langue, la poésie : essais sur la poésie française contemporaine : Apollinaire, Bonnefoy, Breton, Dada, Eluard, Faye, Garnier, Goll, Jacob, Leiris, Meschonnic, OuliPo, Roubaud (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Poetes: Apollinaire & Baudelaire [BOX SET] [IMPORT] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Apollinaire

Author	Quotation
Guillaume Apollinaire	Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
	The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
	Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
	To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
	A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
	I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.
	''Come to the edge,'' He said. They said, ''We are afraid.'' ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They cam. He pushed them... and they flew.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Apollinaire

"Apollinaire" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Apollinaire" is used about 11 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)	90.91%	10	111,207
Noun (singular)	9.09%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	11	N/A

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

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Derived & Related Names: Apollinaire

"Apollinaire" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a strength", "a father lion", "a father light", "destroy".

The following table summarizes names related to "Apollinaire."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Apollinaris	Male	Ancient Greek	Apollo
Apollinaire	Male	French	Apollinaris
Apollo	Male	Greek Mythology (Latinized)	N/A
Apollinariya	Female	Russian	Apollinaris
Apolinar	Male	Spanish	Apollinaris
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Apollinaire

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Apollinaire

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
apollinaire	80
guillaume apollinaire	44
apollinaire st	4
apollinaire zone	3
alcools apollinaire	2
apollinaire dieu guillaume	2
apollinaire biografia de guillaume	2
apollinaire calligrammes guillaume	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Apollinaire

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-l-n-o-p-r"
	-3 letters: airplane, pelorian, pollinia.
	-4 letters: aeolian, aileron, airline, alienor, apnoeal, epinaoi, opaline, pallier, peloria, perilla, pillion, plainer, praline, preanal, proline, ralline, ripieno.
	-5 letters: aerial, aliner, alpine, anopia, apneal, apnoea, areola, earlap, enroll, eolian, inlier, larine, lienal, lineal, linear, linier, loaner, loreal, nailer, narial, neroli, nielli, niello, oilier, orpine, paella, paleal, palier, pallia, pallor, panier.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-i-l-l-n-o-p-r"
	+4 letters: postmillenarian.
	+5 letters: postmillenarians.
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