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Definition: DROIT |
DROITNoun1. A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right. |
Date "DROIT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
Etymology: Droit \Droit\, noun. [French expression See Direct.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Compulsion | Force; brute force, main force, physical force; the sword, ultima ratio; club law, lynch law, mob law, arguementum baculinum, le droit du plus fort, martial law. |
Defense | Phrase: defense not defiance; Dieu defend le droit; fidei defensor. |
Illegality | Mob law, lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law; coup d'etat; le droit du plus fort; argumentum |
Legality | Equity, common law; lex, lex nonscripta; law of nations, droit des gens, international law, jus gentium; jus civile; civil law, canon law, crown law, criminal law, statute law, ecclesiastical law, administrative law; lex mercatoria. |
Right | Phrase: Dieu et mon droit;" in equal scale weighing delight and dole "; justitia cuum cuique distribuit; justitiae soror incorrupta fides; justitia virtutem regina; " thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just ". |
Adverb: rightly; Adjective: _ bon droit, au bon droit, in justice, in equity, in reason. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DROIT |
| Specialty definitions using "DROIT": common law wife ♦ Dieu ♦ Isidorian Decretals ♦ meal card. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DROIT": Adroit. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "DROIT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (direct, due, duty, faithful, fee, law, loyal, right, right-angle, righteous, righthand, square, straight, title, upright, upstanding), French Canadian (straight). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Le Droit d'aimer (1972) Droit de visite (1965) Le Droit de l'enfant (1948) Notre droit Santé (1931) Le Droit de tuer (1920) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Où allons nous? -- Toujours tout droit. / Pigal. Lith. de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Emprunt National 1918. Pour achever la croisade du droit souscrivez!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Société Generale. Pour la victoire du droit. Souscrivez au 4e Emprunt de la Défense Nationale. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Emprunt National 1918. Pour achever la croisade du droit souscrivez!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Société Generale. Pour la victoire du droit. Souscrivez au 4e Emprunt de la Défense Nationale. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This bar was called the Rue Droit Mur. |
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Economic History | Morocco | The Moroccan Bureau of Copyrights (Bureau marocain de droit d'auteur) in Rabat registers copyrights for literary and artistic works, including software. (references) |
Eq. Guinea | However, the recently implemented Organisation pour l'Harmonisation du Droit des Affaires en Afrique (OHADA) treaty offers some hope for more objectivity in the judiciary. (references) | |
Trade | Cote D'ivoire | The agreement known as OHADA (Organization pour l'Harmonization en Afrique du Droit des Affaires) harmonizes a broad range of legal systems which previously covered a wide disparity in business law, codes, rules, regulations and local conventions affecting business. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DROIT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "DROIT" is used about 42 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 (singular) | 83.33% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.29% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "DROIT": _ bon droit ♦ au bon droit ♦ dieu defend le droit ♦ dieu et mon droit ♦ Droit d'aubaine ♦ le droit du plus fort. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DROIT": droits. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "DROIT": adroit, maladroit. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DROIT": adroiter, adroitest, adroitly, adroitness, adroitnesses, chondroitin, chondroitins, maladroitly, maladroitness, maladroitnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: dirt, doit, riot, roti, tiro, tori, trio, trod. | |
-2 letters: dit, dor, dot, ort, rid, rod, rot, tod, tor. | |
-3 letters: do, id, it, od, or, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: adroit, dotier, droits, editor, rioted, toroid, torpid, torrid, triode, tripod. | |
+2 letters: auditor, carotid, cordite, deorbit, diatron, dilator, dilutor, dinitro, diopter, dioptre, diorite, disport, disroot, distort, dottier, editors, orbited, outride, parotid, peridot, proteid, ridotto, sortied, steroid, storied, stridor, theroid, thyroid, toroids, torpids, trifold, triodes, trioxid, tripods, tripody. | |
+3 letters: additory, adroiter, adroitly, antidora, arointed, asteroid, auditors, auditory, birdshot, botryoid, carotids, centroid, ceratoid, codirect, coeditor, cordites, creditor, deorbits, depictor, deviator, diatrons, dicrotal, dicrotic, dictator, digestor, dilators, dilatory, dilutors, diopters, dioptral, dioptres, dioptric, diorites, dioritic, dipteron, director, disports, disroots, distorts, doctrine, dolerite, dorkiest, dormient, drypoint, duration, elytroid, erotized, grodiest, hidrotic, idolater, idolator, idolatry, imported, indentor, indictor, inductor, intorted, intrados, keratoid, loitered, lordotic, mediator, microdot, midstory, morticed, mortised, ordinate, oribatid, oriented, outcried, outdrink, outdrive, outfired, outrider, outrides, outsider, overedit, parodist, parotids, parotoid, peridots, piedfort, podiatry, profited, proteide, proteids, protoxid, radiator, rationed, retinoid, ridottos, riposted, rowdiest, sarodist, sistroid, steroids, stodgier, stolider, stridors, tailored, tandoori, teratoid, tetroxid, thyreoid, thyroids, thyrsoid, topsider, tornadic, toroidal, torpidly, torrider, torridly, traditor, trichoid, trilobed, trinodal, trioxide, trioxids, triploid, tripodal, tripodic, trochoid, trollied, trophied, tuberoid, utilidor, wordiest, worrited. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 52 4F 49 54 |
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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 01010010 01001111 01001001 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D R O I T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0052 004F 0049 0054 |
| 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)3852494354 |
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