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Definition: Brutus |
BrutusNoun1. Statesman of ancient Rome who (with Cassius) led a conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar (85-42 BC). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Brutus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | BRUTUS, Et Tu, a Roman murderer. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Brutus (Junius ), the first consul of Rome. He condemned to death his own two sons for joining a conspiracy to restore to the throne the banished Tarquin. "The public father [Brutus], who the private quelled, And on the dread tribunal sternly sat." Thomson: Winter. The Spanish Brutus. Alphonso Perez de Guzman (1258-1320). While he was governor, Castile was besieged by Don Juan, who had revolted from his brother, Sancho IV. Juan, who held in captivity one of the sons of Guzman, threatened to cut his throat unless Guzman surrendered the city. Guzman replied, "Sooner than be a traitor, I would myself lend you a sword to slay him," and he threw a sword over the city wall. The son, we are told, was slain by the father's sword before his eyes. Brutus (Marcus). Cæsar's friend, joined the conspirators to murder him, because he made himself a king. "And thou, unhappy Brutus, kind of heart, Whose steady arm, by awful virtue urged, Lifted the Roman steel against thy friend." Thomson: Winter, 524-6. Et tu, Brute. What! does my own familiar friend lift up his heel against me? The reference is to that Marcus Brutus whose "bastard hand stabbed Julius Cæsar." (Suetonius.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Brutus is a Roman cognomen used by several politicians of the Junii family, especially in the Roman Republic. It is also the name given to the trojan Brutus who, according to legend founded Britain.
For the Brutus who was the most famous of Julius Caesar’s assassins, see Marcus Junius Brutus. Other notable Brutii include:
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Brutus is a town located in Cayuga County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 4,777.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Brutus."
Synonym: BrutusSynonym: Marcus Junius Brutus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Brutus |
| English words defined with "Brutus": battle of Philippi ♦ Marcus Junius Brutus ♦ Philippi. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Brutus": Beefeaters, BRUTUS ♦ Danaos, Dying Sayings ♦ Friendships Broken ♦ l'Affection aveugle raison, Last of the Romans, Locrin ♦ Mother Earth ♦ Rascal Counters ♦ Spanish Brutus ♦ Westmoreland. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Brutus" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (awkward, brute, burdensome, dull, heavy, obtuse, stupid). |
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Screenplays | Brutus and Cassius? (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Brutus and Cassius (1918) | |
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 | Mr. Macready as Cassius and Mr. E.L. Davenport as Brutus / engraved by Hollis, the former from an original painting by Reid, the latter from a daguerreotype by Mayall. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Brutus in the zoo. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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William Shakespeare | A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Hurrah for Brutus! he slew. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The Governor at my request gave the sign for Caesar and Brutus to advance towards us. |
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| "Brutus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 91.94% of the time. "Brutus" is used about 124 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) | 91.94% | 114 | 30,294 |
| Noun (plural) | 6.45% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.61% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 124 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "Brutus" 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 |
| Brutus | Last name | 400 | 21,708 |
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1. Brutus, MI |
Expression using "Brutus": Marcus Junius Brutus. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Brutus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | 'ρούτοσ. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | utusbray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Brutus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bertus, Boretius, brotus, Brotzu, Brugus, Buthus, Butrus, Buxus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-r-s-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: burst, rubus. | |
-2 letters: brut, burs, bust, buts, rubs, rust, ruts, stub, tubs, urbs, urus. | |
-3 letters: bur, bus, but, rub, rut, sub, tub, urb, uts. | |
-4 letters: us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-r-s-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: arbutus, krubuts, rubouts. | |
+2 letters: burgouts, burnouts, butyrous, outburns, outburst, sunburnt, sunburst, tuberous. | |
+3 letters: arbutuses, brusquest, cubatures, cucurbits, outbursts, runabouts, sunbursts, troublous, trueblues, tubulures. | |
+4 letters: blusterous, buttercups, butternuts, cloudburst, dumbstruck, outnumbers, robustious, rouseabout, roustabout, shutterbug, soubriquet, subcluster, subcrustal, subculture, subjugator, subproduct, subroutine, substratum, subterfuge, turnabouts. | |
+5 letters: bureaucrats, cloudbursts, elucubrates, groundburst, outrebounds, roundabouts, rouseabouts, roustabouts, rumbustious, shutterbugs, soubriquets, subclusters, subcultural, subcultured, subcultures, subcurative, subindustry, subjugators, subproducts, subroutines, substratums, subterfuges, subtreasury, suburbanite, supersubtle, surrebutter, thumbsucker, troubadours, troublously, trustbuster, tuberculars, tuberculins, tuberculous, tumblerfuls, turbulences, turnbuckles, undisturbed, unobtrusive. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 72 75 74 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-. ..- - ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01110010 01110101 01110100 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B r u t u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0072 0075 0074 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)368487868785 |
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