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Fabianism

Definition: Fabianism

Fabianism

Noun

1. (British) socialism to be established by gradual reforms within the law.

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



Specialty Definitions: Fabianism

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Fabianism The system called Collectivism. (See Collectivists .)
"It must be evident that the Fabian Society has a really gigantic task before it, the difficulties of which will not be lightened when the working classes come to understand that small ownership ... and small savings ... are just as strongly condemned by Collectivists as large estates and colossal fortunes." - Nineteenth Century (November, 1892, p. 686. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Crosswords: Fabianism

English words defined with "Fabianism": Fabian. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Fabianism

"Fabianism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fabianism" is used about 20 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2078,262

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fabianism

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

fabianism

2
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Modern Translations: Fabianism

Language Translations for "Fabianism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

フェノール類 (10^-15, feminine, feminine look, feminism, feminist, femto-, Ferrari, gentleman, man who indulges women, phenol, phenomenon). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

フェãƒ"アニズム. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abianismfay.(various references)

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Anagrams: Fabianism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-f-i-i-m-n-s"

-3 letters: animas, animis, mafias, manias, saimin, simian.

-4 letters: amain, amias, amins, amnia, anima, animi, basin, bimas, finis, iambi, iambs, mafia, mains, manas, mania, minas, minis, nabis, naifs, nimbi, sabin, samba.

-5 letters: abas, aims, ains, amas, amia, amin, amis, anas, anis, ansa, baas, bams, bani, bans, bias, bima, bins, fain, fans, fibs, fins, iamb, ibis, inia, isba, main, mana, mans, mibs, mina, mini, nabs, naif, nibs, nims, nisi, sain, sima, snib.

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Alternative Orthography: Fabianism


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

46 61 62 69 61 6E 69 73 6D

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)

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

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

01000110 01100001 01100010 01101001 01100001 01101110 01101001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#98 &#105 &#97 &#110 &#105 &#115 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0062 0069 0061 006E 0069 0073 006D

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

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

406768756780758579

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INDEX

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


  

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