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CHASSEUR

Definition: CHASSEUR

CHASSEUR

Noun

1. An attendant upon persons of rank or wealth, wearing a plume and sword.

2. One of a body of light troops, cavalry or infantry, trained for rapid movements.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CHASSEUR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

Etymology: Chasseur \Chas`seur"\, noun. [French expression, huntsman. See Chase to pursue.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: CHASSEUR

English words defined with "CHASSEUR": Yager. (references)
Non-English Usage: "CHASSEUR" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (bellboy, bellhop, chasseur, dive bomber, evictor, expeller, fighter bomber, Fowler, gunner's, Hunter, huntsman, messenger, page, pigsticker, shooter, shot).

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Modern Usage: CHASSEUR

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's (1953)

Flup chasseur (1920)

Un chasseur sachant chasser (1998)

Le Chasseur de la nuit (1993)

Nick chasseur de tĂȘtes (1989)

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

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Commercial Usage: CHASSEUR

DomainTitle

Books

  • Almanach Hachette du chasseur (reference)

  • Chasseur de noirs (reference)

  • Ernst Jünger : rêveries sur un chasseur de cicindèles (reference)

  • Good Idea of Hell: Letters from a Chasseur a Pied (Texas A & M University Military History Series, 83) (reference)

  • L'\Adieu du Chasseur (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Image Slideshow: CHASSEUR

Illustrations:
CHASSEUR

More pictures...

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Photo Album: CHASSEUR

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Chasseur d'Afrique - officer. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: CHASSEUR

"CHASSEUR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "CHASSEUR" is used about 4 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 (singular)75%3202,518
Noun (proper)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CHASSEUR

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

chasseur d image

30

chasseur de tete

17

chasseur dimage

15

chasseur

15

chasseur de tête

9

chicken chasseur

9

chasseur de tetes

4

chasseur image

4

chasseur le

3

chasseur sauce

3

chasseur de tte

3

chasseur d image magazine

3

chasseur immobilier

3

chasseur francais

2

chasseur d espion

2

chasseur poulet

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

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Modern Translation: CHASSEUR

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

French

  

chasseur. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asseurchay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: CHASSEUR

Derivations

Words beginning with "CHASSEUR": chasseurs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"CHASSEUR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chasser, chassuer, chausseur, chiszar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CHASSEUR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: arcuses, causers, cesuras, chasers, crashes, crushes, eschars, saucers, sucrase.

-2 letters: arches, assure, caress, carses, cashes, causer, causes, cesura, chares, chaser, chases, chasse, crases, cruses, curses, cusser, escars, eschar, hussar, rashes, rhesus, rhuses, ruches, rushes, saucer, sauces, sauchs, scares, scaurs, search, seracs, shares, shears, sucres, surahs, urases, ushers.

-3 letters: aches, acres, arcus, arses, ascus.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-r-s-s-u"
 

+1 letter: aurochses, chasseurs, chaussure, purchases, subchaser.

 

+2 letters: backrushes, charmeuses, chaussures, choraguses, eucharises, haruspices, housecarls, purchasers, schnauzers, subchasers, surcharges.

 

+3 letters: archduchess, chartreuses, meerschaums, pasticheurs, raunchiness, repurchases, subbranches, subchapters, supermachos.

 

+4 letters: bunchgrasses, bushwhackers, prepurchases, scaramouches, squirarchies, supercharges, swashbuckler.

 

+5 letters: archduchesses, hypersurfaces, neurasthenics, raunchinesses, sarcophaguses, sprachgefuhls, squirearchies, superchargers, supergraphics, superphysical, swashbucklers, transhumances.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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