Baedeker

Definitions: Baedeker

Baedeker

Noun

1. German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859).

2. Any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker.

Date "Baedeker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Baedeker

Domain	Definitions
Biographical Satire	BAEDEKER, Karl, one of the most versatile men who ever lived. Childhood and old age unknown. Formed an ambition to travel when quite young. First visited Switzerland, where he climbed every peak, walked every path, hired every guide, and did everything a tourist should so. His field of travel widened until every country in Europe was visited, as well as the United States, Canada, Alaska, and Mexico. In these lands he slept in every hotel, ate every dish in every restaurant, drank every wine, rode on every boat, tramway, subway, and train; visited every ruin, museum, art gallery, church, store; mastered every language, science, art, literature, custom, history, and drew maps and plans of everything. Publications: Baedekers. Recreation: Staying at home. Ambition: Tourists. Residence: Germany. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
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Specialty Definition: Baedeker

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Karl Baedeker (not Baedecker) ( 3 November, 1801 - 4 October, 1859) was a publisher whose company set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists. Such a book is often referred to as "a Baedeker", and sometimes the term is used about similar works from other publishers. They contain important introductions, descriptions of buildings, of museum collections, etc., written by the best specialists, and are frequently revised in order to be up to date. For the convenience of travellers, they are in a handy format and in small print.

Baedeker was born in Essen, the son of a book printer, and started his publishing company in 1827 in Koblenz. Baedeker's company in 1832 bought another Koblenz publisher (Friedrich Röhling) which had in 1828 published a handbook for travellers by J.A. Klein, under the title Rheinreise von Mainz bis Köln (travelling the Rhine from Mainz to Köln). This provided the basis for the first of the Baedeker travel guides.

The Baedeker Company

The Baedeker company relocated in 1872 to Leipzig under his third son Fritz, who took over control of the company following the death and disablement of his older brothers. With the widespread advent of mechanical transportation, it was Fritz who managed an explosive growth in the line of travel guides, also producing international guides.

In World War II, Germany launched a series of revenge attacks against English cities featured in the Baedeker Guide to Britain, known as the Baedeker raids.

The Baedeker company's premises and files perished in a December 1943 air raid, but Baedeker's great grandson revived it, restarting, in 1948, publication of tourist guides.

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Baedeker."

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Synonym: Baedeker

Synonym: Karl Baedeker (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Baedeker

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Journey	Plan, itinerary, guide; handbook, guidebook, road book; Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray; map, road map, transportation guide, subway map.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Baedeker

English words defined with "Baedeker": Karl Baedeker. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Baedeker

Domain	Title
Books	Baedeker Jerusalem (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: Baedeker

"Baedeker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.33% of the time. "Baedeker" is used about 15 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 (singular)	73.33%	11	106,044
Noun (proper)	26.67%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

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

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Expression: Baedeker

Expression using "Baedeker": Karl Baedeker. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Baedeker

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
baedeker	11
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Modern Translations: Baedeker

Language		Translations for "baedeker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		aedekerbay.(various references)

Romanian		ghid (book of reference, cicerone, companion, courier, guide, guide book, leader). (various references)

Russian		бедекер, путеводитель по историческим местам. (various references)

Swedish		bädeker. (various references)

Turkish		yolculuk rehberi, kılavuz (code, conductor, guide, lead, manual, pilot, pioneer, rudder). (various references)

Vietnamese		sổ tay hướng dẫn du lịch. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Baedeker

Misspellings
	"Baedeker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Audemer, Bedevere, Boedecker, Boedeker, Bredekis, Laydeker. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Baedeker

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-e-k-r"
	-1 letter: beraked.
	-2 letters: barked, beaked, beaker, berake, braked, debark, debeak, dekare, kerbed, reeked.
	-3 letters: ardeb, baked, baker, barde, bared, beard, brake, bread, break, brede, breed, debar, drake, eared, kebar, raked, rakee.
	-4 letters: abed, akee, bade, bake, bard, bare, bark, bead, beak, bear, beer, brad, brae, bred, bree, darb, dare, dark, dear, deer, deke, dere, drab, dree, drek, eked, kbar, kerb, rake, read, rede, reed, reek.
	-5 letters: arb, are, ark, bad, bar, bed, bee, bra, dab, dak, deb, dee, ear, eke, era, ere, kab, kae, kea, rad, reb, red, ree.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-e-e-k-r"
	+2 letters: bedarkened, reembarked.
	+4 letters: rekeyboarded.
	+5 letters: brokenhearted, doublespeaker.
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