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Brecht

Definition: Brecht

Brecht

Noun

1. German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956).

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


Synonym: Brecht

Synonym: Bertolt Brecht (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: Boucke-Brecht pulse pick-up (medicine), Brecht tweezers.

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Specialty Definition: Brecht

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

For information on the German author, please see Bertolt Brecht. Brecht is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Brecht proper, Sint-Job-in't-Goor and Sint-Lenaarts. On January 1st, 2000 Brecht had a total population of 25,091 (12,584 males and 12,507 females). The total area is 91.19 km² which gives a population density of 275.15 inhabitants per km².

Official website

www.brecht.be (Dutch only)

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

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Crosswords: Brecht

English words defined with "Brecht": Bertolt BrechtKurt WeillWeill. (references)

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Modern Usage: Brecht

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Gisela May singt Brecht (1967)

Bert Brecht vor dem McCarthy-Ausschuß (1966)

Antoine Vitez s'amuse avec Claudel et Brecht (1976)

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

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Commercial Usage: Brecht

DomainTitle

Books

  • Leitmotiv and Drama: Wagner, Brecht, and the Limits of Epic Theatre (reference)

  • Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic (reference)

  • Proletarian Performance in Weimar Berlin: Agitprop, Chorus, and Brecht (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) (reference)

  • Bland annat om Brecht : texter om teater (reference)

  • Baal: A Man's a Man and the Elephant Calf: Early Plays by Bertolt Brecht (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: Brecht

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[Nelson DuVal Brecht, M.D.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Wizje Simony Machard [by] Brecht / Tomaszewski. Credit: Library of Congress.

Red Flag Theater presents The mother, by Bertolt Brecht. Credit: Library of Congress.

Partial screen of poster for Red Flag Theater presentation of The mother, by Bertolt Brecht. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Brecht

"Brecht" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 64.00% of the time. "Brecht" is used about 25 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)64%1687,710
Noun (singular)16%4175,879
Lexical Verb (infinitive)12%3202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)8%2245,945
                    Total100.00%25N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Brecht

The following table summarizes the usage of "Brecht" 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
BrechtLast name1,00012,470
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Brecht

Expression using "Brecht": Bertolt Brecht. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Brecht

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

bertolt brecht

110

bertolt brecht die mutter

4

brecht

89

berthold brecht referat

3

brecht bmw

31

bertolt brecht brecht

3

bertold brecht

16

bertolt brecht des leben

3

bertholt brecht

13

brecht on theater

3

brecht suzanne

9

berlot brecht

3

berthold brecht

8

brecht poem

2

brecht sander

6

brecht coraje madre

2

brecht forum

5

bertold brecht study

2

susanne brecht

5

brecht gedichte

2

berthold bild brecht

5

bertolt brecht picture

2

brecht mini

4

brecht galileo life

2

bertolt brecht poem

4

bertol brecht

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Brecht

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-h-r-t"

-1 letter: berth, chert, retch.

-2 letters: beth, etch, herb.

-3 letters: bet, eth, her, het, reb, rec, ret, the.

-4 letters: be, eh, er, et, he, re.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-h-r-t"
 

+1 letter: batcher, botcher, brachet, butcher.

 

+2 letters: batchers, bitchery, bitchier, botchers, botchery, botchier, brachets, britches, butchers, butchery.

 

+3 letters: blotchier, brachiate, branchlet, brochette, butchered, butcherly, trebuchet.

 

+4 letters: beachfront, bewitchery, bichromate, birthplace, bitcheries, blackheart, botcheries, brachiated, brachiates, branchiest, branchlets, brochettes, butcheries, butchering, charitable, chatterbox, eurybathic, subchapter, superbitch, thumbscrew, trebuchets.

 

+5 letters: antechamber, backstretch, bathymetric, beachfronts, bichromated, bichromates, birdwatcher, birthplaces, blackhearts, bleacherite, blowtorches, breechcloth, breechclout, interbranch, leatherback, stretchable, subchapters, thrombocyte, thumbscrews, thumbsucker, torchbearer.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Brecht


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

42 72 65 63 68 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 01110010 01100101 01100011 01101000 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#114 &#101 &#99 &#104 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0072 0065 0063 0068 0074

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

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

368471697486

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INDEX

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


  

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