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BROCKEN

Date "BROCKEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

"BROCKEN" is a common misspelling or typo for: bracken, brocket, broken.


Specialty Definition: BROCKEN

DomainDefinition

Literature

Brocken The spectre of the Brocken. This is the shadow of men and other objects greatly magnified and reflected in the mist and cloud of the mountain opposite. The Brocken is the highest summit of the Harz range. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Crosswords: BROCKEN

Specialty definitions using "BROCKEN": Spectre of the Brocken. (references)
Non-English Usage: "BROCKEN" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

German (boulder, boulders, chunk, dollop, gobbet, gobbets, hunk, hunks, lump, scrap, snatch, whopper).

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Commercial Usage: BROCKEN

DomainTitle

Books

  • Henry Brocken, His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scare-Imaginable Regions fo Romance (Collected Works of Walter de la Mare) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Use in Literature: BROCKEN

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

He apostrophised, as he leaped across a brook, a portress with a beard fit to meet Faust upon the Brocken, who had her broom in her hand.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: BROCKEN

Expressions using "BROCKEN": Brocken specter Brocken spectre the brocken. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BROCKEN

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

brocken

10
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Modern Translation: BROCKEN

Language Translations for "BROCKEN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

ブロック塀 (blob, blonde, bond, bromide, bronze, concrete block wall, publicity photograph). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ブロッケン . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ockenbray

   

Swedish

  

blåkulla (the brocken). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BROCKEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-e-k-n-o-r"

-1 letter: beckon, broken, conker, reckon.

-2 letters: boner, borne, brock, broke, bronc, crone, krone, ocker, recon.

-3 letters: beck, bock, bone, bonk, bore, born, bren, cero, coke, cone, conk, core, cork, corn, ebon, keno, kerb, kern, knob, kore, neck, nock, once, reck, robe, rock.

-4 letters: ben, bro, cob, con, cor, eon, ern, ken, kob, kor, neb, nob.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-e-k-n-o-r"
 

+1 letter: beckoner.

 

+2 letters: beckoners, workbench.

 

+3 letters: cornerback.

 

+4 letters: cabinetwork, cinderblock, cornerbacks, workbenches.

 

+5 letters: backcourtmen, backgrounded, backgrounder, cabinetworks, cinderblocks.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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