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Date "CHIEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
"CHIEN" is a common misspelling or typo for: chief, chin, chine. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Chien Entre chien et loup. Dusk, between daylight and lamp-light; owllight. "The best time to talk of difficult things is entre chien et loup, as the Guernsey folk say."- Mrs. Edwardes: A Girton Girl, chap. xlvi. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Morning | Hr. "at shut of evening flowers"; entre chien et loup; "flames in the forehead of the morning sky"; "the breezy call of incense-breathing morn". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CHIEN |
| Specialty definitions using "CHIEN": Chien de Jean de Nivelle ♦ Darby and Joan ♦ Love me, Love my Dog ♦ Mad as a March Hare. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CHIEN" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (cock, dog, hanger, hound). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Chien qui a vu Dieu (1970) Ballade pour un chien (1967) Le Chien (1962) Un chien dans un jeu de quilles (1962) Chien de pique (1960) | |
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 | Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Kee-O-Kuck or the Watching Fox the present Chief of the Sauk tribe and successor to Black Hawk / / painted by J.O. Lewis at the great treaty of Prarie du Chien 1825 ; Lehman & Duval Lithrs. Philada. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The pipe dance and the tomahawk dance / F. Barinsou ; painted at the treaty of Prairie du Chien 1825 by J.O. Lewis ; Lehman & Duval Lithrs. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pehriska-Ruhpa Mönnitarri krieger im auzuge des hundetanzes = Guerrier Monnitarri costumé pour la danse du chien = Moennitarri warrior in the costume of the dog danse [sic] / / ch. Bodmer pinx. ad nat. ; René Rollet sc. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "CHIEN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 45.45% of the time. "CHIEN" is used about 11 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 (proper) | 45.45% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 27.27% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Unclassified Items | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CHIEN" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Chien | Last name | 1,000 | 17,832 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Taiwan | Chien Tai Cement Company Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "CHIEN": entre chien et loup ♦ Prairie du Chien. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CHIEN": chien-han, chien-shien, chien-shiung. | |
Ending with "CHIEN": ho-chien, ming-chien. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
chien | 424 | chien de dressage | 13 |
prairie du chien wisconsin | 189 | chien donner | 13 |
prairie du chien | 85 | petit chien | 13 |
chien de race | 77 | boxer chien | 13 |
chien de nom | 40 | dressage chien | 13 |
chien de traineau | 39 | chasse chien | 12 |
un chien andalou | 36 | chien nom | 12 |
avec chien son | 30 | chien du prarie | 11 |
un apres midi de chien | 27 | chien japonais épagneuil | 10 |
chien race | 24 | chien lien wu | 10 |
chien photo | 22 | chien danois | 10 |
chasse chien de | 20 | chien niche | 10 |
chien vendre | 19 | chien fume qui | 9 |
chien de photo | 16 | chien shiung wu | 9 |
bernois bouvier chien | 15 | chien et chat | 9 |
le chien | 15 | avec chien promenade son | 9 |
chien labrador | 15 | chien nam tranh viet | 9 |
beagle chien | 15 | chien neuve terre | 9 |
chien de prairie | 15 | chien du prairie rendezvous | 7 |
prairie du chien hotel | 14 | chien pension pour | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chine, niche. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-n" | |
-1 letter: chin, cine, inch, nice. | |
-2 letters: chi, hen, hic, hie, hin, ice, ich. | |
-3 letters: eh, en, he, hi, in, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-n" | |
+1 letter: chaine, chined, chines, eching, echini, enrich, ethnic, hyenic, inched, inches, lichen, niched, niches, richen, zechin. | |
+2 letters: archine, benthic, birchen, chained, chaines, chewing, chewink, chicane, chicken, chidden, chimney, chinked, chinned, chinone, choline, chopine, chorine, cinched, cinches, cithern, cithren, conchie, echidna, echinus, echoing, elenchi, enchain, etching, ethnics, finches, hedonic, helicon, hircine, hyaenic, ichnite, kitchen, leching, lichens, machine, nephric, nitchie, peching, penuchi, phocine, phrenic, pinched, pincher, pinches, richens, sphenic, sthenic, technic, thicken, winched, wincher, winches, zecchin, zechins. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 48 49 45 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .... .. . -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001000 01001001 01000101 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C H I E N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0048 0049 0045 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3742433948 |
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