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BRILLANTE

Definition: BRILLANTE

BRILLANTE

Adjective

1. In a gay, showy, and sparkling style.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BRILLANTE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1778. (references)

Etymology: Brillante \Bril*lan"te\, adverb. [Italian See Brilliant,]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: BRILLANTE

Non-English Usage: "BRILLANTE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (lustering, refulgently), German (brilliantly), Italian (bright, brilliant, diamond, refulgent, refulgently, scintilating, shining, shiny, slick, smart, snappy, splendit, starry), Spanish (agleam, alight, bright, brilliant, dashing, diamond, flashing, gay, glaring, glazy, glistening, glossy, glowing, high, lurid, quicksilver, radiant, reflective, scintillant, scintillating, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, starry, twinkling).

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Modern Usage: BRILLANTE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

La Comedia brillante (1974)

Brillante porvenir (1965)

Valse brillante (1948)

En busca del brillante perdido (1985)

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

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Commercial Usage: BRILLANTE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Verba volant : manuale di brillante conversazione per ben figurare in società : indispendabile al fine dicitore (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BRILLANTE

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

brillante mente

34

brillante mente una

24

brillante de efecto el la pintura

15

brillante john mente nash

8

brillante mariposa

6

brillante mente pelicula

4

brillante

4

brillante grande valse

3

brillante mente pelicula una

2

brillante grande polonaise

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

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Rhyming with "BRILLANTE"

Words rhyming with "BRILLANTE" (pronounced 'Bril*lan"te'): Achiote, Aguardiente, Andante, Aphrodite, Astarte, Atte, Bleynte, Borachte, Breste, Cete, Chicalote, Chierte, Cognoscente, Concertante, Durante, Freelte, Frelte, Lentamente, Lette, machete, Mecate, Mercatante, metate, Mordente, Niste, Pococurante, Prighte, Rafte, rete, Semidiapente, Soavemente, Stacte, Sterte, Stirte, Swatte, Venite. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BRILLANTE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-l-l-n-r-t"

-1 letter: libelant.

-2 letters: braille, latrine, liberal, librate, linable, literal, ralline, ratline, reliant, retinal, tallier, trenail, triable.

-3 letters: albeit, albite, alible, aliner, antler, bailer, baiter, baller, ballet, banter, barite, berlin, biller, billet, binate, entail, labile, labret, larine, learnt, lentil, liable, librae, lienal, lineal, linear, lintel, linter, nailer, ratine, ratlin, rebait, rebill, renail, rental, retail, retain.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-l-l-n-r-t"
 

+2 letters: antiliberal, inalterable, inalterably, intolerable, intolerably.

 

+3 letters: antiliberals, biparentally, bipropellant, brilliantine, interlobular, turbellarian.

 

+4 letters: bipropellants, brilliantines, nonfilterable, turbellarians, unreliability, vulnerability.

 

+5 letters: antiliberalism, cybernetically, defibrillating, defibrillation, inalterability, incontrollable, intolerability, liberalization, rationalizable, unalterability.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BRILLANTE


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

42 52 49 4C 4C 41 4E 54 45

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 01010010 01001001 01001100 01001100 01000001 01001110 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#82 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0052 0049 004C 004C 0041 004E 0054 0045

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

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

365243464635485439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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