Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Faust |
FaustNoun1. An alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Faust" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biographical Satire | FAUST, chemist, traveler. A gay old man who fell in love during his second young manhood, traveled in a warm country, and sang his way to fame. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Faust (1 syl.). The grandest of all Goethe's dramas. Faust makes a compact with Mephistopheles, who on one occasion provides him with a cloak, by means of which he is wafted through the air whithersoever he chooses. "All that is weird, mysterious, and magical groups round this story." An English dramatic version has been made by Bayle Bernard. Dr. Faustus, a tragedy by Marlow; Faust and Marguerite, by Boucicault; Faust e Margherito, an opera by Gounod, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The tale has some basis in history. Dr. Johann Georg Faust (approx. 1480 - 1540) was a German alchemist who lived in the village of Staufen, in the Breisgau in southern Germany. He was accused of practicing black magic and put to death in 1540. A German chapbook about his sins was translated into English in 1587, where it came to the attention of Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, in turn, was studied by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and as such the fictional Faust came to overshadow the historical Faust, about whom little is known.
Works which retell or allude to the Faust tale include:
Drama
Prose
Faust EricPoetry
Opera
Music
Movies
Musicals
External links
Faust is also the name of a German krautrock band. See Faust (band). Faust is also the German word for fist, although the name "Faust" may be related to Italian "Fausto" rather than the German word.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Faust."
Synonym: FaustSynonym: Faustus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Faust |
| English words defined with "Faust": Faustian ♦ Mephistopheles. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Faust": Barbe ♦ Che sara, sara ♦ Devil and Dr. Faustus ♦ FAUST ♦ Mephistopheles, Mephistophilis, Mephostophilus ♦ Science Persecuted. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Faust" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (fist). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Faust XX (1966) La Leggenda di Faust (1948) Faust (1934) La Damnation de Faust (1925) Faust (1923) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books | |||
Theater & Movies | |||
Music |
| ||
High Tech |
| ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Frankfort. Monument Guttenberg, Faust & Schöfer.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lewis Morrison's magnificent Faust.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Faust.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Morrison's original production of Faust.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Morrison's original production of Faust.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Morrison's original production of Faust.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Morrison's original production of Faust.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He apostrophised, as he leaped across a brook, a portress with a beard fit to meet Faust upon the Brocken, who had her broom in her hand. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Faust" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 56.52% of the time. "Faust" is used about 23 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) | 56.52% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (singular) | 34.78% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Faust" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Faust | Last name | 6,000 | 2,068 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
Misspellings | |
"Faust" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Faesch, Faguet, Falusi, foust, fuast, Fusata, Fusato, Paust. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tufas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: fast, fats, taus, tufa, utas. | |
-2 letters: aft, fas, fat, sat, sau, tas, tau, uta, uts. | |
-3 letters: as, at, fa, ta, us, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: faults, flatus, frusta. | |
+2 letters: fatuous, faucets, fauvist, fistula, flaunts, fractus, fugatos, fustian, hatfuls, hatsful, outfast, sfumato, sulfate, sunfast, upwafts, vatfuls. | |
+3 letters: afflatus, boastful, boatfuls, defaults, fabulist, factious, factures, fadeouts, faitours, fallouts, fastuous, fatigues, fauvists, feastful, features, fistulae, fistular, fistulas, flatuses, flautist, fracturs, frakturs, fraughts, furcates, fustians, futharcs, futharks, ghastful, hasteful, mudflats, outfaces, outfalls, outfasts, outfawns, outfeast, refutals, sfumatos, stageful, subshaft, sufflate, sulfated, sulfates, surfboat, tankfuls, tartufes, tasteful, trayfuls, unfaiths, unfasten, unsafety, updrafts, waftures, wasteful. | |
| 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)46 61 75 73 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| 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)01000110 01100001 01110101 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a u s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0075 0073 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4067878586 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Names: Frequency 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
