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Definition: FIGURANT |
FIGURANTMasculine noun1. One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part. |
Etymology: Figurant \Fig"u*rant`\, noun. Masculine. [French, properly personal pronoun of figurer figure, represent, make a figure.]. (references) |
Crosswords: FIGURANT |
| English words defined with "FIGURANT": Figurante. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "FIGURANT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (super, supernumerary), Dutch (bit-player, extra, supporting actor), French (dummy, extra, figuring, supernumerary), Romanian (cipher, dummy, extra, mute, super, supernumerary), Swedish (figurant). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
figurant | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FIGURANT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | фигурант (figurehead, mute, walk on, walking gentleman), балетист (ballet dancer, dancer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | statiszta (dummy, mute, procession man, super, supernumerary). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | igurantfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | figurante (actor, movie extra, showgirl, supporting actor). (various references) | |
Romanian | baletist, balerin (dancer). (various references) | |
Russian | артист кордебалета. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | baletan (ballet dancer). (various references) | |
Spanish | figurante (extra, supernumerary). (various references) | |
Swedish | figurant. (various references) | |
Turkish | figüran (extra, figurante, super, supernumerary, walk on, walker on, walking gentleman, walking lady), bale dansörü. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | статист (mute, super, supernumerary, walk on). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FIGURANT": figurants. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-i-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: antifur, ingraft, rafting, turfing. | |
-2 letters: faring, fating, gratin, guitar, nutria, rating, taring, truing, unfair, ungirt. | |
-3 letters: afrit, fagin, faint, fruit, fungi, furan, garni, gaunt, giant, graft, grain, grant, grift, grunt, infra, riant, ruing, rutin, tragi, train, unfit, unrig. | |
-4 letters: agin, airn, airt, anti, aunt, fain, fair, fang, faun, fiar, fiat, firn, frag, frat, frig. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-g-i-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: featuring, figurants, furcating. | |
+2 letters: figuration, fracturing, fraughting. | |
+3 letters: bifurcating, centrifugal, cofeaturing, figurations, formulating, frustrating, fulgurating, fulguration, infuriating, transfigure, transfusing, unfaltering. | |
+4 letters: autografting, centrifugals, fluoridating, fluorinating, fulgurations, transfigured, transfigures, trifurcating, unflattering. | |
+5 letters: argentiferous, centrifugally, configuration, configurative, frustratingly, garnetiferous, infuriatingly, manufacturing, nonfigurative, prefiguration, reformulating, transfiguring, understaffing, unfalteringly. | |
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