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CORDELIER

Definition: CORDELIER

CORDELIER

Noun

1. A member of a French political club of the time of the first Revolution, of which Danton and Marat were members, and which met in an old Cordelier convent in Paris.

2. A Franciscan; -- so called in France from the girdle of knotted cord worn by all Franciscans.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CORDELIER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)


Crosswords: CORDELIER

Specialty definitions using "CORDELIER": BartoleDuchesneGrève. (references)

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Modern Usage: CORDELIER

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Movie/TV Titles

Le Testament du Docteur Cordelier (1959)

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

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Modern Translation: CORDELIER

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

Albanian

  

kordiriere. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

монах-францисканец. (various references)

   

Czech

  

mašina na výrobu provazù. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ferences szerzetes (franciscan). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ordeliercay

   

Portuguese

  

frade franciscano (capuchin, minor, minorite). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

кордельер. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kordeljer. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cordelero (ropmaker). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

franciskanermunk. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

fransisken rahibi (capuchin, franciscan). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

кордель"р. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: CORDELIER

Misspellings

"CORDELIER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chordeiles, Corbeiller, Cordeiro, cordelias, Morweiler, Tortellier. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: CORDELIER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-o-r-r"

-1 letter: recoiled, recoiler.

-2 letters: decrier, reoiled.

-3 letters: ceiled, ceiler, clerid, coiled, coiler, colder, corder, corrie, creole, decile, deicer, docile, lieder, oreide, orrice, recode, recoil, record, relied, relier, roiled.

-4 letters: ceder, ceorl, cered, cider, coder, coled, cored, corer, credo, creed, creel, cried, crier, crore, decor, deice, dicer, direr, dolce, dolci, drier, edile, eider, elder, elide, erode.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-o-r-r"
 

+2 letters: decolorizer.

 

+3 letters: cloudberries, decolorizers, plerocercoid, reproducible.

 

+4 letters: deprecatorily, hydroelectric, plerocercoids, reflectorized, reproducibles, supercollider, tetrachloride.

 

+5 letters: counterrallied, interelectrode, irreproducible, microelectrode, reproductively, supercolliders, tetrachlorides.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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