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Definition: Cognac |
CognacNoun1. High quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Cognac" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1827. (references) |
Etymology: Cognac \Co"gnac`\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913) |
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Food & Agriculture | Natural spirit obtained by distilling wine. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Cognac |
| English words defined with "Cognac": cafe royale, coffee royal ♦ foie gras ♦ pate de foie gras. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cognac" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (brandy, cognac), Dutch (brandy, cognac), French (brandy, cognac), Italian (brandy, cognac). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "Cognac", the ship's dog, poses on the capstan, at Venice, Italy, in 1924-25. Credit: NAVY. |
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Economic History | Ukraine | In addition, there are hundreds of other producers of spirits, liqueurs, wine, and cognac. (references) |
Armenia | An American-Armenian joint venture is in the process of upgrading its wine and cognac production at Yerevan's Ararat winery. (references) | |
Taiwan | Conspicuous consumption is rampant in Taiwan society and consumers are eager to pay top-dollar for the right brand of watch, car, cognac or necktie. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | In January 2001, excise duty rates were differentiated for cigarettes with and without filters and increased on certain wines, vermouth, and cognac. (references) |
Moldova | The imports and sales of vodka, liqueurs and other alcoholic drink; grape, fruit and berry wine; sparkling wine; brandy and cognac; tobacco products, coffee, perfumes and furs are allowed by customs and fiscal bodies if they were marked with excise stamps during their production. (references) | |
Travel | Kazakhstan | Usually diners share a bottle of vodka or cognac and offer toasts, stating their desire for a fruitful business relationship and warm personal relations between partners. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cognac" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.28% of the time. "Cognac" is used about 139 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) | 99.28% | 138 | 27,024 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.72% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 139 | 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 "Cognac"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | konjak (brandy, eau de vie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كونياك (brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | коняк. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 科涅克白兰地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | koòak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | cognac (brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cognac (brandy), brandy (brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | konjakon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | konjak (brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کنیاک (Brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | konjakki (brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cognac. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | konjak (brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kognak (brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κονιάκ (brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hawaiian | konjak (brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קו יאק (brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | konyak (bingo, brandy, French brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | coinneac (brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cognac (brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | コップの中の嵐 (clicking, cobalt, cobalt blue, cobalt green, cohabitation, connect, Connecticut, connection, connectionism, connectionist, connectionist-model, connector, connotation, cottage, cottage cheese, drumming, Fujiyama-shaped volcano, laboriously, oven, pull, steadily, storm in a teacup, unflaggingly, untiringly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | コニャック . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | liggar feeyney (brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | koñak (brandy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ognaccay conhaque (brandy), aguardente (aquavitae, blue rum, brandy, hootch, spirit). (various references) coniac (brandy, lace). (various references) коньяк (brandy, eau de vie, eau-de-vie, French brandy). (various references) konjak. (various references) coñac (brandy). (various references) konjak (brandy). (various references) konyak, kanyak (brandy, eau de vie), fransa'nın cognac bölgesi üzümünden yapılan konyak. (various references) коньяк. (various references) rượu cô-nhắc. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "Cognac": cognacs. (additional references) | |
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"Cognac" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cagnac, carnac, Catnach, Cernac, cernach, cogan, cogea, Cognee, cognes, cognex, cogni, cognic, cognik, Coignac, conbac, congac, congenic, congic, congnac. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-g-n-o" | |
-1 letter: conga. | |
-2 letters: agon, coca. | |
-3 letters: ago, can, cog, con, gan, goa, nag, nog, oca. | |
-4 letters: ag, an, go, na, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-g-n-o" | |
+1 letter: cognacs. | |
+2 letters: coaching, coacting, coagency. | |
+3 letters: according, accosting, chalcogen, concaving. | |
+4 letters: accounting, accoutring, caracoling, carcinogen, cariogenic, chalcogens, coagencies, coalescing, cochairing, cocreating, coenacting, cognizance, colocating, compacting, concealing, contacting, cyanogenic, gonococcal, lactogenic, peacocking. | |
+5 letters: accordingly, accountings, accoutering, accustoming, caracolling, carcinogens, cardiogenic, charcoaling, coanchoring, cocainizing, cocktailing, cofinancing, cognizances, collocating, concubinage, contracting, copycatting, coruscating, encroaching, glauconitic, gynecocracy, occasioning, oncological, outcatching, outcoaching. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 67 6E 61 63 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- --. -. .- -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01100111 01101110 01100001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o g n a c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0067 006E 0061 0063 |
| 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)378173806769 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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