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Definitions: Hussein |
HusseinNoun1. Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran and who invaded Kuwait (born in 1937). 2. King of Jordan credited with creating stability at home and seeking peace with Israel (1935-1999). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Hussein" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "good", "beautiful", "be good". |
Date "Hussein" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
Synonym: HusseinSynonym: ibn Talal Hussein (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hussein |
| English words defined with "Hussein": ibn Talal Hussein ♦ King Hussein ♦ Saddam bin Hussein at-Takriti, Saddam Hussein. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Hussein": fedayeen. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We think it was Saddam Hussein, but he had a British accent, so we're not sure. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) You just described Saddam Hussein. (The Naked Truth; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hussein il pirata (1913) The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein (2001) His Majesty King Hussein (1999) El Gandalla Hussein (1991) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Hussein : we shall not forget. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Iraq | In September Uday Hussein reportedly had assumed control of the satellite television service. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza are prohibited from using the Sheikh Hussein or Arava crossings. (references) | |
Iraq | The Government, the Ba'th Party, or persons close to Saddam Hussein own all print and broadcast media, and operate them as propaganda outlets. (references) | |
Economic History | Jordan | King Hussein ended martial law in 1991 and legalized political parties in 1992. (references) |
Syria | Robert MULKI: 61 Hussein Street, Abou Roumaneh, P.O. Box 446; tel: 963-11-333-3974. Citizen of the SAR. (references) | |
Jordan | Jordan has built new customs posts at the border with Syria and at the Sheikh Hussein Bridge crossing with Israel. (references) | |
Human Rights | Somalia | On May 11, 80 persons were killed during a clash between clan militiamen loyal to the TNG and forces of warlord Hussein Aideed. (references) |
Gambia | On October 30, soldiers shot and killed Hussein Wasni, a Lebanese visitor, at a checkpoint on the Kombo Coastal Road for failing to stop his vehicle. (references) | |
Iraq | In 2000 government agents reportedly killed Safiyah Hassan, who allegedly criticized publicly the Government for killing her husband and two sons, Hussein and Saddam Kamal. (references) | |
Minorities | Jordan | In 1995 then-King Hussein announced that West Bank residents without other travel documentation would be eligible to receive 5-year Jordanian passports. (references) |
Political Economy | Iraq | Saddam Hussein and his inner circle of supporters continued to impose arbitrary rule. (references) |
Iraq | Political power in Iraq1 lies exclusively in a repressive one-party apparatus dominated by Saddam Hussein and members of his extended family. (references) | |
Political Rights | Iraq | President Saddam Hussein heads the council. (references) |
Iraq | Out of the 250 seats, members of the Ba'th reportedly won 165 seats, independents won 55, and 30 were appointed by Saddam Hussein to represent the northern provinces. (references) | |
Iraq | In 1999 various media published articles claiming that Saddam Hussein instructed officials in October 1999 to consider the formation of new political parties, a state council, and a new constitution. (references) | |
Travel | Israel | International crossing points are now in operation between Israel and Jordan at the Arava crossing (Wadi Al-Arabah) in the South (near Eilat), and the Jordan River crossing (Sheikh Hussein Bridge) in the North (near Beit Shean). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Chuck Hagel | Bob, I think you always must take the worst-case scenario in a situation like this, and you must always just assume the worst, especially with Saddam Hussein. |
Dan Rather | None of them feels the country will rise up against Saddam Hussein. All of them believe that war is inevitable and will be catastrophic. |
John McCain | Saddam Hussein is developing weapons of mass destruction as quickly as he can. The Czech government has revealed meetings, contacts between Iraqi intelligence and Mohamed Atta. The evidence is very clear. |
Porter Goss | Oh, absolutely. And there's a difference, of course, a distinction between the nuclear capability and the other aspects of threat posed by Saddam Hussein, not necessarily the Iraqi people. I think those are important distinctions. |
Robert Novak | President Bush this weekend reaffirmed that he considers Saddam Hussein in Iraq an enemy of the American people. |
Rush Limbaugh | Whatever the answer, it is clear that the relationship between Chirac and Hussein is long and complex, and not altogether easy to understand. |
Yitzhak Rabin | I am healthy. I wish all my colleagues to the peace process to be healthy. I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time. I appreciate the Chairman Arafat for his courage to take the decision to enter into negotiations with us. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | But time and again Saddam Hussein flatly rejected the path of diplomacy and peace. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Now Saddam Hussein wants to stop them from completing their mission. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein. |
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| "Hussein" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.66% of the time. "Hussein" is used about 872 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) | 99.66% | 869 | 8,159 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 0.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 872 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Hussein" 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 |
| Hussein | Last name | 400 | 22,190 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Hussein" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "good", "beautiful", "be good". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Hussein." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Hasan | Male | Arabic | N/A |
| Hassan | Male | Arabic | Hasan |
| Hisein | Male | Arabic | Hussein |
| Husain | Male | Arabic | Hussein |
| Husayn | Male | Arabic | Hussein |
| Hussain | Male | Arabic | Hussein |
| Hussein | Male | Arabic | Hasan |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Hussein": ibn Talal Hussein ♦ king Hussein ♦ Saddam Hussein. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Hussein": Hussein-arafat, hussein-type. | |
Ending with "Hussein": al-hussein, Assad-hussein. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Hussein"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 薩"姆侯賽 (Saddam Hussein). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | usseinhay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Hussein" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hassen, Hassoun, Hessey, Heussen, Hosayn, Hosein, Hoseyn, Hossan, Hssein, hulsean, Husen, Huseyin, Hussaid, Hussaini, Hussan, Hussayn, Hussenot, hussien. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-n-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: shines. | |
-2 letters: issue, nisus, shies, shine, shins, shuns, sines, sinhs, sinus, sushi. | |
-3 letters: hens, hies, hins, hisn, hiss, hues, huns, ness, seis, shes, shin, shun, sine, sinh, sins, sues, suns, uses. | |
-4 letters: ens, ess, hen, hes, hie, hin, his, hue, hun, ins, nus, sei, sen, she, sin, sis, sue, sun, uns, use. | |
-5 letters: eh, en. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-n-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: inrushes, punishes, sunshine, unwishes. | |
+2 letters: anguishes, burnishes, bushiness, fuchsines, furnishes, gushiness, huffiness, humanises, huskiness, mushiness, nourishes, outshines, punishers, pushiness, shunpikes, squinches, subniches, sunfishes, sunshines, tundishes, unselfish. | |
+3 letters: bluishness, burnishers, chubbiness, chumminess, dianthuses, enthusiasm, enthusiast, eunuchisms, euthenists, furnishers, hungriness, languishes, lungfishes, mulishness, nourishers, numbfishes, plushiness, queenships, shunpikers, slushiness, touchiness, tunesmiths, unholiness, unstitches, uppishness, vanquishes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 75 73 73 65 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... ..- ... ... . .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01110101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H u s s e i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0075 0073 0073 0065 0069 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42878585717580 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Derivations 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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