CANDIDE

Date "CANDIDE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1759. (references)

"CANDIDE" is a common misspelling or typo for: candid, candied.

Domain	Definition
Literature	Candide (2 syl.). The hero of Voltaire's novel so called. All sorts of misfortunes are heaped upon him, and he bears them all with cynical indifference. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Candide is a short novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire.

Sardonic in outlook, it follows the naive protagonist Candide from his first exposure to the precept that "all is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds," and on through a series of adventures that dramatically disprove that precept even as the protagonist clings to it.

Leonard Bernstein based an operetta (1956) on Voltaire's story. The overture is very popular as an orchestral piece.

External Links

French text from University of Virginia: [1]
English translation at the Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford
A letter written by Voltaire to the Journal encyclopédique in which the author denies being the author of Candide: [1]

Crosswords: CANDIDE

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

French (candid, ingenuous, sincere, undesigning, unwarped), Latin (candidly, clearly, openly).

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Candide (1973)

La Candide madame Duff (2000)

Candide (1989)

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Domain	Title
Books	Candide (reference) Candide and Other Stories (Everyman's Library) (reference) Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) (reference) Candide, and Related Writings (reference) Candide, Zadig and Selected Stories (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	What overwhelms Othello, glides over Candide.
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"CANDIDE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CANDIDE" is used about 2 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)	100%	2	245,945

Derivations
	Words beginning with "CANDIDE": candider, candidest. (additional references)
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: candied.
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-i-n"
	-1 letter: caddie, candid, danced.
	-2 letters: acned, aided, caned, canid, dance, diced, dined, nicad, nided.
	-3 letters: aced, acid, acne, aide, cade, cadi, caid, cain, cane, cedi, cine, dace, dead, dean, deni, dice, died, dine, iced, idea, nice, nide.
	-4 letters: ace, add, aid, ain, and, ane, ani, cad, can, dad, den, did, die, din, end, ice, nae.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-d-e-i-n"
	+1 letter: candider, cyanided, riddance.
	+2 letters: candidate, candidest, discanted, distanced, indicated, jaundiced, riddances.
	+3 letters: candidates, candidness, dedicating, dedication, endocardia, haciendado, handpicked, sandwiched, syndicated, vindicated.
	+4 letters: backslidden, caddishness, candidacies, candidature, candidiases, coordinated, deadlocking, decadencies, dedications, deracinated, discordance, endocardial, endocardium, forbiddance, haciendados, handicapped, incandesced, readdicting, scandalised, scandalized, undecidable, undedicated, unmedicated.
	+5 letters: candidatures, candidnesses, chandeliered, consolidated, contradicted, credentialed, deacidifying, decarbonized, denticulated, discordances, disenchanted, dodecaphonic, endocarditis, forbiddances, incarnadined, merchandised, merchandized, nonaddictive, noncandidate, outdistanced, radionuclide, rededicating, rededication, redundancies, stickhandled, unaccredited, unbarricaded, undischarged, undistracted, unduplicated.
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