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Definition: Chandelier |
ChandelierNoun1. Branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "chandelier" was first used: 14th century. (references) |
Etymology: Chandelier \Chan`de*lier"\, noun. [French expression See Chandler.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of a chandelier, portends that unhoped-for success will make it possible for you to enjoy pleasure and luxury at your caprice. To see a broken or ill-kept one, denotes that unfortunate speculation will depress your seemingly substantial fortune. To see the light in one go out, foretells that sickness and distress will cloud a promising future. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonym: ChandelierSynonym: pendant (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Chandelier |
| English words defined with "chandelier": Droplight ♦ Epicurean ♦ Gasalier ♦ luxurious ♦ sybaritic ♦ voluptuary, voluptuous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "chandelier": FIXTURE MAKER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "chandelier": Gaselier. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Chandelier" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (candlestick). |
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Screenplays | Up on the chandelier! (Men in Black; writing credit: Felix Adler) He should have been hit by a truck while riding home from the factory with the chandelier on the handlebars and your mommy should be whoring to feed the family (Ladri di saponette; writing credit: Mauro Monti; Maurizio Nichetti) What did you do, Madeline, mug a chandelier on the way in (Santa Barbara; writing credit: Meg Bennett; Bettina F. Bradbury) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Shooting the Chandelier (1977) Le Chandelier (1977) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Interior view of room showing chandelier, decorative arch, fireplace, and furniture. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chandelier tree, Underwood Park / P.O. Cummings, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Detroit City Gas Company chandelier. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Interior of the stone mountain lodge of Mrs. Paul T. Mayo, Bear Creek Cañon, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, designed by architect June B. Benedict, showing cathedral ceiling, fireplace, chandelier, furniture, and polar bear rug. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Marsden J. Perry home, Providence, Rhode Island. Interior scene, detail of piano, crystal chandelier, mirror, and door. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chandelier in Carson Brewery. Carson City, Nevada. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mrs. Lawrence Ullman, business in Tarrytown, New York. Chandelier. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Kent Realty Co., 3906 Union St., Flushing, New York. Chandelier on stairs. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mrs. Moran home at 2320 Bancroft. View of paneled walls in Mrs. Moran's home, past chandelier. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Miscellaneous interiors. Chandelier and corner of room with built-in shelves. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Chandelier" by Rene Cerney Commentary: "One of the chandeliers in the kitchen, casting an interesting shadow." | "Chandelier 2" by Igor Kasalovic Commentary: "Chandelier in my house." |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The sun succeeded to the chandelier, and entered cheerfully into the parlour |
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| "Chandelier" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.91% of the time. "Chandelier" is used about 91 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) | 87.91% | 80 | 37,112 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 9.89% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.2% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 91 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "chandelier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | llambadar (floor lamp, lamp-port). (various references) | |
Arabic | الثريا, ثريا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | полилей (luster). (various references) | |
Chamorro | kandelaria. (various references) | |
Chinese | 吊燈 , 枝形吊灯. (various references) | |
Czech | lustr (corona). (various references) | |
Danish | lysekrone. (various references) | |
Dutch | luchter, kroonluchter, kroon (crown, summit, surface, top). (various references) | |
Esperanto | lustro. (various references) | |
Faeroese | ljósakrúna. (various references) | |
Finnish | kynttelikkö (candela|brum), kruunu (coronet, crown, lustre). (various references) | |
French | lustre. (various references) | |
German | kronleuchter (candelabrum, luster, lusters, lustres), lüster (chandeliers, luster, lustre). (various references) | |
Greek | πολύφωτο (candelabrum), πολυέλαιοσ (candelabrum), πολυέλαιος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | נברשת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | csillár (luster, lustre, pendant). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kandil (candelabrum, candlestick, lamp). (various references) | |
Italian | lampadario (candelabrum, lamp holder). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | シャモット煉瓦 (beautiful, chamotte brick, champagne, champignon, Champs Elysees, chanson, chansonnier, Chantilly, charade, Charlotte, charm, charming, chou a la creme, cream-filled pastry, Schubert, shallot, shampoo, Shangri-la, shank, shoes, shoeshine, shoot, shooting script, shower, ski jump, sugar, sugar coat, sugar cut, sure, surrealism). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | シャンデリア . (various references) | |
Manx | cainleyr banglaneagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | lysekrone. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andelierchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | lustre (electrolier, glaze, luster, lustre, sheen, shine, shoeshine). (various references) | |
Romanian | candelabru (candelabra, candelabrum, luster, lustre). (various references) | |
Romansch | candalaber. (various references) | |
Russian | канделябр (candelabrum, sconce), люстра (electrolier, lustre). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | luster (luster, lustre). (various references) | |
Spanish | chandelie/r, candelabro (candelabra, candelabrum, candleholder, sconce), lustro (lustrum), arana (spider), araña de luces, araña (electrolier, prostitute, resourceful person, spider). (various references) | |
Swedish | ljuskrona (lustre). (various references) | |
Turkish | avize (luster, lustre). (various references) | |
Turkmen | lяstra (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | канделябр (candelabrum, girandole), люстра (luster, lustre), панікадило. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chúc đài treo, đèn treo nhiều ngọn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | chandelabre. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chandelier": chandeliered, chandeliers. (additional references) | |
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"Chandelier" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Candillier, chandaler, chandalier, chandeleer, chandelliere, chandlier. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "chandelier" (pronounced shanduli"r) |
| 6 | -n d u l i" r | bandolier, gondolier. |
| 4 | -u l i" r | cavalier, Chevalier. |
| 3 | -l i" r | clear, fleer, Lear, unclear. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-i-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: headliner. | |
-2 letters: calender, chandler, children, decliner, echidnae, enriched, hardline, headline, heraldic, inarched, leachier, lichened, reclined, rehandle, reliance, renailed, richened. | |
-3 letters: aliened, aliener, archine, cairned, candler, carline, chained, chaired, charlie, charnel, cleaned, cleaner, cleared, creedal, deciare, declare, decline, decrial, delaine, echidna, eldrich, elenchi, endarch, enlaced, handier, handler, headier, herniae, hernial, inhaled, inhaler, inhered, inlaced. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-h-i-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: chandeliers, chandleries. | |
+2 letters: chandeliered, cheerleading, dechlorinate. | |
+3 letters: candlelighter, cephaloridine, dechlorinated, dechlorinates. | |
+4 letters: candlelighters, cephaloridines, dichloroethane, indecipherable, undecipherable. | |
+5 letters: dichloroethanes. | |
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