Dostoevsky

Definition: Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky

Noun

1. Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881).

Date "Dostoevsky" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references)

Synonyms: Dostoevsky

Synonyms: Dostoevski (n), Dostoyevsky (n), Feodor Dostoevski (n), Feodor Dostoevsky (n), Feodor Dostoyevsky (n), Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski (n), Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (n), Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (n), Fyodor Dostoevski (n), Fyodor Dostoevsky (n), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (n), Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski (n), Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (n), Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Dostoevsky

Domain	Title
Books	Dostoevsky (reference) Dostoevsky and the Jews (reference) Dostoevsky the Thinker (reference) Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881 (Dostoevsky. (Frank, Joseph)) (reference) Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre (reference) (more book examples)
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Familiar Quotations: Dostoevsky

Author	Quotation
Fyodor Dostoevsky	The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Dostoevsky

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Russia	As the language of writers such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekov, Pushkin, and Solzhenitsyn, it has great importance in world literature. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Dostoevsky

"Dostoevsky" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dostoevsky" is used about 215 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%	215	20,643

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Dostoevsky

Expressions using "Dostoevsky": Feodor Dostoevsky ♦ Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky ♦ Fyodor Dostoevsky ♦ Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dostoevsky

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
dostoevsky	367	bibliography dostoevsky	4
dostoevsky novel	158	dostoevsky gambler	4
fyodor dostoevsky	67	dostoevsky from fyodor note underground	3
crime and punishment dostoevsky	15	dostoevsky grand inquisitor	3
dostoevsky the idiot	13	dostoevsky montblanc	3
dostoevsky quote	11	by dostoevsky novel	3
dostoevsky biography	9	dostoevsky list novel	3
feodor dostoevsky	8	biography dostoevsky fyodor	2
fyodor dostoevsky crime punishment	8	dostoevsky double	2
dostoevsky possessed	7	dostoevsky el jugador	2
crime and punishment by fyodor dostoevsky	5	crime punishment by dostoevsky	2
dostoevsky works	5	book by dostoevsky	2
fedor dostoevsky	4	dead dostoevsky house	2
dostoevsky from note underground	4	dostoevsky fyodor quote	2
book dostoevsky	4	by dostoevsky quote	2
dostoevsky nihilism	4
		by dostoevsky quote	2
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Anagrams: Dostoevsky

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-k-o-o-s-s-t-v-y"
	-3 letters: skydove, stooked.
	-4 letters: sooted, stoked, stokes, stooks, stoves, tossed.
	-5 letters: desks, doest, doses, dotes, doves, dykes, kotos, kytes, skyed, sokes, sooey, sooks, soots, sooty, stoke, stood, stook, stove, styed, styes, sykes, toked, tokes, toyed, toyos, tsked, tykes, vests, voted, votes, yoked, yokes.
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