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Clemenceau

Definition: Clemenceau

Clemenceau

Noun

1. French statesman who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles (1841-1929).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Clemenceau

Synonyms: Georges Clemenceau (n), Georges Eugene Benjamin Clemenceau (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Clemenceau

English words defined with "Clemenceau": Georges Clemenceau, Georges Eugene Benjamin Clemenceau. (references)

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Modern Usage: Clemenceau

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war? (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick)

Movie/TV Titles

The Clemenceau Case (1915)

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

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Image Slideshow: Clemenceau

Illustrations:
Clemenceau

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Photo Album: Clemenceau

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Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau, and Woodrow Wilson. Credit: Library of Congress.

The reason Clemenceau said "We are staking the game upon the help of America". Credit: Library of Congress.

Uncle Sam shaking hands with Clemenceau as he walks off a steamer. Credit: Library of Congress.

Georges Clemenceau, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing slightly left. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Familiar Quotations: Clemenceau

AuthorQuotation

Georges Clemenceau

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Clemenceau

"Clemenceau" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Clemenceau" 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 (proper)50%2245,945
Noun (singular)50%2245,945
                    Total100.00%4N/A

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

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Expressions: Clemenceau

Expressions using "Clemenceau": Georges Clemenceau Georges Eugene Benjamin Clemenceau. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Clemenceau

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

george clemenceau

19

clemenceau

16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Clemenceau

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-e-l-m-n-u"

-3 letters: cenacle, lucence.

-4 letters: acumen, almuce, caecum, cancel, cuneal, enamel, enlace, lacune, launce, macule, menace, unlace.

-5 letters: anele, camel, cecal, cecum, clean, emcee, enema, lance, leman, lumen, macle, mecca, melee, neume, ulema, ulnae, uncle.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Clemenceau


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6C 65 6D 65 6E 63 65 61 75

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-..    .    --    .    -.    -.-.    .    .-    ..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101100 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 01100001 01110101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#108 &#101 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#101 &#97 &#117

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006C 0065 006D 0065 006E 0063 0065 0061 0075

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37787179718069716787

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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