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Definition: Bernhardt |
BernhardtNoun1. 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) |
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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. |
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Synonyms: BernhardtSynonyms: Henriette Rosine Bernard (n), Sarah Bernhardt (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Bernhardt formula (medicine), Bernhardt-Roth symptom complex. |
Crosswords: Bernhardt |
| English words defined with "Bernhardt": Sarah Bernhardt. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Bernhardt": BERNHARDT ♦ LANGTRY. (references) |
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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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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bernhardt | Last name | 3,000 | 4,733 |
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Expression using "Bernhardt": Sarah Bernhardt. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 72 6E 68 61 72 64 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .-. -. .... .- .-. -.. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110010 01101110 01101000 01100001 01110010 01100100 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e r n h a r d t |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367184807467847086 |
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