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Definition: Defoe |
DefoeNoun1. English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Defoe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
"Defoe" is a common misspelling or typo for: deface, defame, defer, defied, defile, define, defuse. |
Synonym: DefoeSynonym: Daniel Defoe (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Defoe |
| English words defined with "Defoe": Daniel Defoe ♦ westerly. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Defoe": Great Men. (references) |
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Books |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Daniel Defoe | Pride the first peer and president of hell. |
| Of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. | |
| And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. | |
| Great families of yesterday we show, and lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. | |
| Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. | |
| A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behavior, is a creature without comparison. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Defoe" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.02% of the time. "Defoe" is used about 101 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) | 98.02% | 99 | 32,870 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.99% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.99% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 101 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Defoe" 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 |
| Defoe | Last name | 200 | 32,167 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Defoe": Daniel Defoe. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Defoe": defoe-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
daniel defoe | 82 |
defoe | 40 |
defoe william | 39 |
willem defoe | 18 |
defoe writer | 17 |
robinson crusoe daniel defoe | 16 |
biography daniel defoe | 6 |
defoe willam | 3 |
robinson crusoe by daniel defoe | 2 |
crusoe daniel defoe | 2 |
defoe quartet string | 2 |
defoe jermain | 2 |
defoe england jermain | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-o" | |
-1 letter: feed, feod. | |
-2 letters: dee, doe, fed, fee, foe, ode. | |
-3 letters: de, do, ed, ef, od, oe, of. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-o" | |
+2 letters: deforce, feedbox, feedlot, feoffed, freedom, offered, overfed. | |
+3 letters: beefwood, befogged, befooled, befouled, coffered, defector, deflower, defoamed, defoamer, defogged, defogger, deforced, deforces, deforest, deformed, deformer, enfolded, enfolder, enforced, feedhole, feedlots, fellowed, flowered, foddered, fomented, forebode, foredate, foredeck, foredoes, foredone, forefend, forehead, foreside, forested, fostered, foveated, freedoms, freehold, freeload, frescoed, frogeyed, goffered, offended, offender, overfeed, reflowed, refolded, reforged, reformed, reroofed, softened. | |
+4 letters: bedfellow, beefwoods, confected, conferred, confessed, defection, defectors, deflector, deflowers, defoamers, defocused, defocuses, defoggers, defoliate, deforests, deformers, defrocked, defrosted, defroster, enfeoffed, enfolders, feedboxes, feedholes, feedstock, feodaries, festooned, flowerbed, forearmed, foreboded, foreboder, forebodes, foredated, foredates, foredecks, forefends, foreheads, forejudge, forenamed, foresides, forfeited, forfended, foundered, freeboard, freeholds, freeloads, infeoffed, offenders, officered, overfeeds, performed, preformed, professed, proffered, refloated, reflooded, refocused, refounded, refronted, reoffered, sevenfold, sheepfold, souffleed, threefold, torrefied, unfreedom. | |
+5 letters: afforested, barefooted, bedfellows, beflowered, beforehand, centerfold, cofeatured, coinferred, confederal, confidence, defecation, defections, deflection, deflectors, deflowered, deflowerer, defocussed, defocusses, defoliated, defoliates, deforested, deformable, defrosters, detoxified, detoxifies, dolefuller, eisteddfod, exfoliated, federation, feedstocks, ferredoxin, fieldstone, firebombed, floundered, flowerbeds, fluoresced, fondnesses, foreboders, forebodies, forecaddie, forecasted, foreclosed, foredoomed, forefended, forehanded, forejudged, forejudges, foreladies, forelocked, forepassed, foreshowed, foretasted, forewarned, fortressed, freeboards, freebooted, freedwoman, freedwomen, freeholder, freeloaded, freeloader, furbelowed, furosemide, nondefense, nonfederal, outfeasted, outfielder, overfeared, overfilled, overfished, overflowed, overfunded, overruffed, perforated, prefocused, recodified, recodifies, reenforced, reflowered, refocussed, reforested, reinforced, reinformed, remodified, remodifies, renotified, retrofired, sheepfolds, softheaded, surefooted, tenderfoot, undeformed, unenforced, unforested, unfreedoms, unreformed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 66 6F 65 |
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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 01100101 01100110 01101111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e f o e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0066 006F 0065 |
| 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)3871728171 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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