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Date "DANSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Danse La danse commence la-bas, fighting has broken out yondër. "Mon Caporal, there is great news: La danse commence la-bas." - Ouida: Under Two Flags, chap. xxv. A la danse. On the march. "The regiment was ordered out a la danse There was fresh war in the interior." - Ouida: Under Two Flags, chap.xxv. (See Dance.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: DANSE |
| Specialty definitions using "DANSE": Dances. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "DANSE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (dance). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Porto Novo - la danse des reines (1971) Musique et danse des chasseurs Gow (1965) La Danse à -gogo (1964) Danse carrée (1961) Le Saint mène la danse (1960) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | La danse de saint Guy Lith. de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Au cours d'une manifestation de la Jeunesse Libre Allemande, Paul Robeson, d'une action spontanée, danse avec un groupe culturel amateur d'Afrique la danse de la libération. 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. |  | Portrait of Alicia Markova, "Foyer de Danse". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "DANSE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "DANSE" is used about 20 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) | 70% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 30% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "DANSE": contra danse ♦ danse du ventre ♦ danse macabre. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DANSE": contre-danse. | |
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| 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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DANSE": danseur, danseurs, danseuse, danseuses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "DANSE": contredanse. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DANSE": contredanses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: deans, saned, sedan. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-s" | |
-1 letter: ands, anes, dean, dens, ends, sade, sand, sane, send, sned. | |
-2 letters: ads, and, ane, den, eds, end, ens, nae, sad, sae, sea, sen. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, an, as, de, ed, en, es, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-s" | |
+1 letter: amends, anodes, ascend, dances, davens, dedans, denars, desand, desman, dewans, elands, kneads, ladens, menads, naleds, redans, sadden, sained, sanded, sander, sedans, sendal, snaked, snared, snawed, staned, sundae. | |
+2 letters: acnodes, addends, adenyls, advents, agendas, anadems, aniseed, ansated, appends, ascends, asunder, attends, augends, badness, banders, bandies, basined, bedamns, bedpans, bendays, calends, candies, candles, daemons, damners, dampens, dancers, danders, dandies, dandles, dangers, dangles, dankest, danseur, daphnes, dapsone, darkens, darnels, darners, dasheen, daysmen, deacons, deadens, deafens, decanes, decants, deewans, defangs, demands, demeans, denials, dentals, desands, descant, deskman, desmans, destain, detains, donates, duennas, dyspnea, encased, endears, endways, enneads, errands, expands, fadeins, ganders, gardens, glandes, gnashed, handles, handsel, handset, hardens, incased, instead, invades, kalends, lagends, landers, maddens, madness, maenads, maidens, masoned, medians, medinas, medusan, monades, naiades, noyades, panders, pandies, pedants, pentads, randies, remands, saddens, sadness, sainted, sanders, sandier, sandmen, sardine, scanned, scanted, seedman, sendals, shanked, sideman, slander, slanged, slanted, snacked, snafued, snagged, snailed, snapped, snarled, sneaked, sneaped, spandex, spanked, spanned, spawned, speaned, stained, standee, stander, stanged, subdean, sundaes, swanked, swanned, tandems, unasked, unbased, uncased, unlades, unleads, unsated, unsaved, unsawed, wanders, wardens, weasand, wessand, zanders. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 41 4E 53 45 |
| 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)01000100 01000001 01001110 01010011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D A N S E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0041 004E 0053 0045 |
| 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)3835485339 |
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