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Definition: DULCINEA |
DULCINEANoun1. A mistress; a sweetheart. |
Date "DULCINEA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Etymology: Dulcinea \Dul*cin"e*a\, noun. [Spanish expression, from Dulcinea del Toboso the mistress of the affections of Don Quixote.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Dulcinea A lady-love. Taken from Don Quixote's amie du coeur. Her real name was Aldonza Lorenzo, but the knight dubbed her Dulcinea del Toboso. "I must ever have some Dulcinea in my head - it harmonises the soul." - Sterne. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Also known as:
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Love | Inamorata, ladylove, idol, darling, duck, Dulcinea, angel, goddess, cara sposa. |
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Crosswords: DULCINEA |
| Specialty definitions using "DULCINEA": Giants. (references) |
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Screenplays | Never deny that thou art Dulcinea! (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman) That I may dedicate each victory to her and call upon her in defeat, and if at last I give my life, I give it in the sacred name of Dulcinea! (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dulcinea del Toboso (1964) Una Tal Dulcinea (1963) Dulcinea (1947) | |
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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 |
dulcinea | 42 |
dulcinea lyrics | 4 |
dulcinea in search | 4 |
del dulcinea toboso | 3 |
don dulcinea quixote | 3 |
dulcinea hostal | 2 |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DULCINEA": dulcineas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-l-n-u" | |
-1 letter: aliunde, cauline, include, incudal, inlaced, nuclide, unideal, unlaced. | |
-2 letters: aculei, alined, audile, candle, caudle, cedula, cuneal, denial, induce, inlace, lacune, lanced, launce, leucin, nailed, nuclei, unciae, uncial, unclad, unlace, unlade, unlaid, unlead. | |
-3 letters: acned, adieu, adunc, ailed, alcid, alien, aline, anile, aulic, caned, canid, cauld, clade, clean, cline, clued, dance, decal, ducal, dulia. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-l-n-u" | |
+1 letter: acidulent, dulcineas, euclidean, euclidian, unclaimed. | |
+2 letters: culminated, includable, inculcated, inculpated, ineducable, inoculated, uncalcined, unciliated, vulcanised, vulcanized. | |
+3 letters: binucleated, calumniated, denticulate, educational, elucidating, elucidation, geniculated, inosculated, radiolucent, reductional, uncalcified, unclarified, undecidable, unlocalized, unreclaimed. | |
+4 letters: appendicular, clairaudient, communalized, conduplicate, denticulated, denuclearize, discountable, edulcorating, elucidations, hallucinated, masculinised, masculinized, mendaciously, nucleocapsid, nucleotidase, radiolucency, radionuclide, reinoculated, unacclimated, uncalibrated, uncirculated, unclassified, uncultivated, unduplicated, uninoculated, unsocialized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 55 4C 43 49 4E 45 41 |
| 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 01010101 01001100 01000011 01001001 01001110 01000101 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D U L C I N E A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0055 004C 0043 0049 004E 0045 0041 |
| 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)3855463743483935 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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