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Dunkerque

Definition: Dunkerque

Dunkerque

Noun

1. A city in northern France on the North Sea where in World War II (1940) 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Dunkerque

Synonym: Dunkirk (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dunkerque

Non-English Usage: "Dunkerque" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (Dunkirk), Hungarian (Dunkirk).

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Modern Usage: Dunkerque

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Da Dunkerque alla vittoria (1979)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Dunkerque

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "Dunkerque": dover-dunkerque.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dunkerque

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dunkerque france

54

dunkerque

42

dunkerque hotel

12

de dunkerque ville

8

dunkerque ville

3

de dunkerque port

3

2003 dunkerque frankrijk muziekfestival

3

bonjour de dunkerque

2

carnival de dunkerque

2

camping dunkerque

2

dunkerque gratuit nord rencontre

2

bienvenue de dunkerque la sur ville

2
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Anagrams: Dunkerque

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-k-n-q-r-u-u"

-3 letters: dunker, endure, enured, kerned, queued, queuer.

-4 letters: drunk, ender, endue, enure, kerne, kneed, nuder, nuked, queen, queer, quern, queue, undee, under, undue.

-5 letters: deer, deke, dene, dere, dree, drek, duke, dune, dunk, dure, durn, eked, erne, keen, kern, knee, knur, kudu, kune, kuru, need, nerd, neuk, nude, nuke, nurd, rede, reed, reek, rend.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dunkerque


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 75 6E 6B 65 72 71 75 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..-    -.    -.-    .    .-.    --.-    ..-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01110101 01101110 01101011 01100101 01110010 01110001 01110101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#117 &#110 &#107 &#101 &#114 &#113 &#117 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0075 006E 006B 0065 0072 0071 0075 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

388780777184838771

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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