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Definition: Danton |
DantonNoun1. French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris Bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Danton" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | DANTON, the man who wound up France before the revolution. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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Synonym: DantonSynonym: Georges Jacques Danton (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Danton |
| English words defined with "Danton": Cordelier ♦ Danton True Young ♦ Georges Jacques Danton. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Danton": Cordeliers ♦ Dying Sayings ♦ September Massacres. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Danton (1970) Caméra explore le temps: La terreur et la vertu: Danton (1964) Danton (1939) | |
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Georges Danton | In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare. |
Georges Jacques Danton | In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. |
| What care I that I am called a "drinker of blood?" Well, let us drink the blood of the enemies of humanity. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He is the support of Napoleon, and the resource of Danton. |
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| "Danton" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Danton" is used about 5 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) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "Danton" 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 |
| Danton | Last name | 200 | 32,178 |
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Expressions using "Danton": Danton True Young ♦ Georges Jacques Danton. Additional references. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
danton | 43 |
danton mike | 24 |
george danton | 10 |
ray danton | 7 |
george jacques danton | 5 |
danton jill | 3 |
danton walston | 3 |
büchner danton | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "danton"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | antonday.(various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-n-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: donna. | |
-2 letters: anon, dato, doat, dona, nona, nota, toad. | |
-3 letters: ado, and, ant, don, dot, nan, nod, not, oat, tad, tan, tao, tod, ton. | |
-4 letters: ad, an, at, do, na, no, od, on, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-n-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: fondant. | |
+2 letters: adnation, anointed, antinode, cantoned, dominant, donating, donation, dynatron, fondants, lentando, nonadult, nonrated, nontidal, unatoned, wantoned. | |
+3 letters: adnations, adornment, andantino, annotated, anticodon, antinodal, antinodes, asyndeton, badminton, confidant, contained, damnation, dissonant, dominants, donations, dynatrons, innovated, intonated, inundator, nominated, nonaddict, nonadults, nonsteady, northland, outmanned, sandstone. | |
+4 letters: adjunction, admonition, adornments, andantinos, anticodons, antidoting, antimodern, antimonide, antipodean, astounding, asyndetons, badmintons, codominant, commandant, concordant, condensate, confidante, confidants, contraband, covenanted, damnations, denegation, denominate, denotation, denudation, detonating, detonation, divination, dominantly, dominating, domination, emendation, foundation, fountained, indagation, indexation, indication, induration, inordinate, internodal, inundation, inundators, inundatory, iodinating, iodination, montagnard, mordanting, nationhood, nationwide, nodulation, nonaddicts, nondeviant, nondormant, northlands, ordainment, ordination, ornamented, outdancing, outplanned, outspanned, pteranodon, reanointed, sanctioned, sandstones, standpoint, turnaround, undulation. | |
+5 letters: abandonment, adjournment, adjunctions, admonitions, anodization, antagonized, antimoderns, antimonides, antioxidant, antipodeans, auditioning, coattending, codefendant, codominants, commandants, commandment, condensates, condimental, conditional, condonation, conductance, confidantes, constrained, contrabands, contravened, contredanse, countermand, deamination, decantation, declination, delineation, denegations, denervation, denigration, denominated, denominates, denominator, denotations, denudations, designation, destination, detonations, dissonantly, divinations, dominations, emendations, fecundation, foundations, goaltending, indagations, indentation, indexations, indications, indignation, indurations, inundations, iodinations, mandolinist, montagnards, nationhoods, nodulations, nonadaptive, nonadditive, nonadjacent, nonattached, nonattender, nonauditory, nondelegate, nondeviants, nondiabetic, nondidactic, nondogmatic, nondominant, nondramatic, nongraduate, nonstandard, nonvalidity, opinionated, ordainments, ordinations, outstanding, pentahedron, postlanding, predominant, pteranodons, rallentando, renominated, stanchioned, standpoints, subdominant, syndication, transponder, turnarounds, unaccounted, unannotated, uncaptioned, undulations, vindication. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 6E 74 6F 6E |
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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 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a n t o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 006E 0074 006F 006E |
| 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)386780868180 |
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