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Fauvism

Definitions: Fauvism

Fauvism

Noun

1. An art movement launched in 1905 whose work was characterized by bright and non-natural colors and simple forms; influenced the expressionists.

2. A genre of painting characterized by vivid colors and simplified forms that gave a decorative effect.

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

 

Crosswords: Fauvism

English words defined with "Fauvism": Adnre DerainDerainFauve, fauvistHenri Emile Benoit Matisse, Henri MatisseMatisse, Maurice de VlaminckVlaminck. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Fauvism

DomainTitle

Books

  • From Fauvism to Impressionism: Albert Amrquet: An Exhibition from the Centre Pompidou in Paris (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Fauvism

"Fauvism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fauvism" is used about 15 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%1590,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fauvism

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

fauvism

142

characteristic fauvism

5

fauvism franc marc

3

artist fauvism

3

fauvism art

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fauvism

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

Japanese Kanji 

  

野獣派 (the Fauvists). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

やじゅうは (the Fauvists). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

auvismfay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Fauvism

Derivations

Words beginning with "Fauvism": fauvisms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Fauvism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: faicism, Faivish, favism, fluviis, Fukuvi, Saivism. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Fauvism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-i-m-s-u-v"

-1 letter: favism.

-2 letters: favus, mavis.

-3 letters: aims, amis, amus, sima, vaus, vims, visa.

-4 letters: aim, ais, ami, amu, fas, ifs, ism, mas, mis, mus, sau, sim, sum, vas, vau, via, vim, vis.

-5 letters: ai, am, as, fa, if, is, ma, mi, mu, si, um, us.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-i-m-s-u-v"
 

+1 letter: fauvisms.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Fauvism


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

46 61 75 76 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)

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

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

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

01000110 01100001 01110101 01110110 01101001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#117 &#118 &#105 &#115 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0075 0076 0069 0073 006D

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

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

40678788758579

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INDEX

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


  

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