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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Great Men (Social status of). ÆSOP, a manumitted slave. ARKWRIGHT (Sir Richard), a barber. BEACONSFIELD (Lord), a solicitor's clerk. BLOOMFIELD, a cobbler, son of a tailor. BUNYAN, a travelling tinker. BURNS, a gauger, son of a ploughman. CÆDMON, a cowherd. CERVANTES, a common soldier. CLARE, a ploughman, son of a farm labourer. CLAUDE LORRAINE, a pastrycook. COLUMBUS, son of a weaver. COOK (Captain), son of a husbandman. CROMWELL, son of a brewer. CUNNINGHAM (Allan), a stonemason, son of a peasant. DEFOE, a hosier, son of a butcher. DEMOSTHENES, son of a cutler. DICKENS, a, newspaper reporter; father the same. ELDON (Lord), son of a coal-broker. FARADAY (Michael), a bookbinder. FERGUSON (James), the astronomer, son of a day-labourer. FRANKLIN, a journeyman printer, son of a tallow-chandler. HARGREAVES, the machinist, a poor weaver. HOGG, a shepherd, son of a Scotch peasant. HOMER, a farmer's son (said to have begged his bread). HORACE, son of a manumitted slave. HOWARD (John), a grocer's apprentice, son of a tradesman. KEAN (Edmund), son of a stage-carpenter in a minor theatre. JONSON (Ben), a bricklayer. LATIMER, Bishop of Worcester, son of a small farmer. LUCIAN, a sculptor, son of a poor tradesman. MONK (General), a volunteer. OPIE (John), son of a poor carpenter in Cornwall. PAINE (Thomas), a stay-maker, son of a Quaker. PORSON (Richard), son of a parish clerk in Norfolk. RICHARDSON, a bookseller and printer, son of a joiner. SHAKESPEARE, son of a wool-stapler. STEPHENSON (George), son of a fireman at a colliery. VIRGIL, son of a porter. WATT (James), improver of the steam engine, son of a block-maker. WASHINGTON, a farmer. WOLSEY, son of a butcher. And hundreds more. Great Men (Wives of). (See under Wives .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: GREAT MEN |
| English words defined with "GREAT MEN": hero worship. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GREAT MEN": Kings have Long Hands ♦ NAPOLEON ♦ Status of Great Men, Stimulants of Great Men. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet. (The Gallant Hours; writing credit: Frank D. Gilroy; Beirne Lay Jr.) | |
Lyrics | All of the things that our great men have said (Simple Game; performing artist: The Moody Blues) | |
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 | Some of our great men at Washington. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Twelve great men in history. How many have you got?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. |
Francois De La Rochefoucauld | The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it. |
George Herbert | There would be no great men if there were no little ones. |
Jean De La BruyFre | Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller. |
John Ruskin | An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. |
Orson Squire Fowler | The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | All great men come out of the middle classes. |
Sydney Smith | Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. |
Walt Whitman | Produce great men, the rest follows. |
Walter Savage Landor | Great men always pay deference to greater. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He would have dreaded those sublimities from which some very great men even, like Swedenborg and Pascal, have glided into insanity. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | These are great men. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Great nations like great men must keep their word. |
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| Language | Translations for "GREAT MEN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 英霊 (spirits of war dead). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | えいれい (spirits of war dead). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eatgray enmay | ||||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Doma anqrwpou emplatunei auton kai para dunastaiV kaqizanei auton |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Donum hominis dilatat viam eius et ante principes spatium ei facit |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The free yifte of a man spredeth abrod his weie; and befor princis space to hym maketh. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 18, Verse 16 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang hatag sa usa ka tawo magahimo ug dapit alang kaniya, Ug magadala kaniya sa atubangan sa mga dagkung tawo. |
| Chinese | 人 的 禮 物 、 為 他 開 路 、 引 他 到 高 位 的 人 面 前 。 |
| Croatian | Dar èovjeku otvara put i vodi ga pred velikaše. |
| Danish | Gaver åbner et Menneske Vej og fører ham hen til de store. |
| Dutch | De gift des mensen maakt hem ruimte, en zij geleidt hem voor het aangezicht der groten. |
| Finnish | Lahja avartaa alat ihmiselle ja vie hänet isoisten pariin. |
| French | Les présents d`un homme lui élargissent la voie, Et lui donnent accès auprès des grands. |
| German | Das Geschenk des Menschen macht ihm Raum und bringt ihn vor die großen Herren. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Kado ou fè louvri chemen pou ou toupatou, ata chemen ki mennen lakay grannèg. |
| Hungarian | Az embernek ajándéka szabad útat szerez néki, és a nagyoknak orczája elé viszi õt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Hadiah membuka jalan dan mengantar orang kepada orang-orang besar. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa hadiah seorang memberi tempat akan dia serta membawa akan dia ke hadapan orang besar-besar. |
| Italian | Il dono fa largo all'uomo e lo introduce alla presenza dei grandi. |
| Maori | ¶ Ma te mea tuku noa a te tangata ka watea ai he wahi mona, ka kawea hoki ia e tera ki te aroaro o nga tangata nunui. |
| Norwegian | Et menneskes gave gir ham rum og fører ham frem for store herrer. |
| Portuguese | O presente do homem alarga-lhe o caminho, e leva-o presença dos grandes. |
| Rumanian | Darurile unui om ki fac loc, wi -i deschid intrarea knaintea celor mari. - |
| Russian | рП"БТПЛ Х ЮЕМПЧЕЛБ "БЕФ ЕНХ ТПУФПТ Й "П ЧЕМШНПЦ "ПЧЕ"ЕФ ЕЗП. |
| Spanish | El dar regalos le abre camino a un hombre, y le conduce a la presencia de los grandes. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-m-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: garment, gatemen, germane, grantee, greaten, margent, negater, reagent. | |
-2 letters: argent, engram, enrage, entera, ergate, gamete, garnet, genera, gerent, german, germen, magnet, manege, manger, marten, meager, meagre, meaner, menage, metage, neater, negate, ragmen, regent, remate, rename, reteam, tegmen. | |
-3 letters: agene, agent, agree, ameer, ament, anger, antre, arete, armet, eager, eagre, eaten, eater, egret, enate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-m-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: agreement, augmenter, garmented, germinate, margented, reteaming. | |
+2 letters: agreements, antimerger, augmenters, dermatogen, emarginate, ergotamine, fragmented, germinated, germinates, hatemonger, impregnate, magnetizer, permeating, ravagement, reargument, regimental, segmentary, steamering. | |
+3 letters: abridgement, argumentive, arrangement, attempering, derangement, dermatogens, engraftment, enlargement, enumerating, ergotamines, ferrimagnet, ferromagnet, fragmentate, fragmentize, germinative, hatemongers, impregnated, impregnates, magnetizers, overgarment, pomegranate, ravagements, realignment, rearguments, regimentals, remarketing, remastering, remediating. | |
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