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Bernhardt

Definition: Bernhardt

Bernhardt

Noun

1. French actress (1844-1923).

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

Date "Bernhardt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1890. (references)

 

Specialty Definitions: Bernhardt

DomainDefinitions

Biographical Satire

BERNHARDT, Sarah, an ancient French actress. Sarah was born before birth records were inaugurated, and no historian has been able to determine her age. Career: On the stage at four months. During her young-woman and goodlooking days-hood B. is said to have made a hit with European nobility. In her declining years she made a few other fortunes in the United States. B.'s fame culminated in having several cigars, perfumes, perspiration powders, and a theatre named after her. Ambition: The fountain of youth. Recreation: Statuary, acting. Address: Private cars and 56 Blvd. Pereire, Paris. She also has a telephone. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

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

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Synonyms: Bernhardt

Synonyms: Henriette Rosine Bernard (n), Sarah Bernhardt (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: Bernhardt formula (medicine), Bernhardt-Roth symptom complex.

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Crosswords: Bernhardt

English words defined with "Bernhardt": Sarah Bernhardt. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Bernhardt": BERNHARDTLANGTRY. (references)

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Modern Usage: Bernhardt

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

De Memoires van Sarah Bernhardt (1981)

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

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Commercial Usage: Bernhardt

DomainTitle

Books

  • Comedienne: de Mlle Mars a Sarah Bernhardt (reference)

  • The gilded stage: the lives and careers of four great actresses: Rachel Félix, Adelaide Ristori, Sarah Bernhardt and Eleanora Duse (reference)

  • A Holmes family of Rowan and Davidson counties, North Carolina, with Haden, Heilig, Reid, Rex, Linn, Smith, Bernhardt, Snider, Pearson, Graham, White, Sawyer, Foushee, Ballou, Hurley, Morrison, King, Erwin, Pannill, Dillard, Knowles (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: Bernhardt

Illustrations:
Bernhardt

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Photo Album: Bernhardt

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Miss Bernhardt, the Ocean Express.Credit: Library of Congress.

Sarah Bernhardt dans Gismonda.Credit: Library of Congress.

Bernhardt, Sarah, and unidentified man, portrait photograph.Credit: Library of Congress.

Sarah Bernhardt as Phaedre in the Greek Theatre of Berkeley.Credit: Library of Congress.

Sarah Bernhardt Tent, Chicago.Credit: Library of Congress.

Mme. Sarah Bernhardt in Phédre, Hearst Greek Theatre, May 17, '06, Act 1.Credit: Library of Congress.

La dame aux camelias--Sarah Bernhardt Theatre de la Renaissance/ / Mucha.Credit: Library of Congress.

Matinée de gala au bénéfice de l'Association Nationale de Mutilés de la Guerre Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt.Credit: Library of Congress.

Matinée de gala au bénéfice de l'Association Nationale de Mutilés de la Guerre Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt.Credit: Library of Congress.

Sarah Bernhardt, 1844-1923, actress.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Usage Frequency: Bernhardt

"Bernhardt" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bernhardt" is used about 24 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 (proper)100%2471,196

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Bernhardt

The following table summarizes the usage of "Bernhardt" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BernhardtLast name3,0004,733
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Bernhardt

Expression using "Bernhardt": Sarah Bernhardt. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bernhardt

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bernhardt furniture

624

bernhardt leather sofa

3

bernhardt

288

bernhardt buy furniture

3

sarah bernhardt

73

agency bernhardt

3

daniel bernhardt

25

gale bernhardt

3

bernhardt sofa

16

bernhardt furniture price

3

bernhardt sandra

16

bernhardt textile

3

william bernhardt

11

wilhelm bernhardt

3

bernhardt furniture company

10

bernhardt fabric

3

discount bernhardt furniture

8

bernhardt unit wall

3

kevin bernhardt

7

bernhardt fudyma

3

bernhardt furniture martha stewart

7

bernhardt furniture leather

3

bernhardt martha stewart

6

bernhardt rendition

3

bernhardt design

5

bernhardt furniture mahanttan

2

bernhardt furniture outlet

5

bernhardt patrick

2

bernhardt furniture.com

4

sara bernhardt

2

bernhardt clarisa

4

bernhardt chair

2

bernhardt co furniture

4

bed bernhardt

2

bernhardt bedroom furniture

4

bernhardt carolina furniture north

2

peony sarah bernhardt

4

bernhardt ernst oscar

2

bernhardt leather

3

bernhardt furniture manufacturer

2

victoria bernhardt

2
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Anagrams: Bernhardt

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-h-n-r-r-t"

-2 letters: bartend, brander, breadth.

-3 letters: anther, ardent, bander, banter, barred, barren, barret, barter, bathed, bather, bertha, breath, darner, darter, dearth, errand, errant, hanted, harden, harder, hatred, ranted, ranter, rather, retard, tarred, thenar, thread, trader.

-4 letters: anted, antre, ardeb, baned, barde, bared, barer, barre, bated, bathe, beard, berth, brand, brant, bread, brent, darer, dater, death.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-h-n-r-r-t"
 

+4 letters: brokenhearted.

 

+5 letters: featherbrained, threadbareness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bernhardt


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

42 65 72 6E 68 61 72 64 74

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)

01000010 01100101 01110010 01101110 01101000 01100001 01110010 01100100 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#114 &#110 &#104 &#97 &#114 &#100 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 0072 006E 0068 0061 0072 0064 0074

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

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

367184807467847086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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