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ICONOCLASTS

"ICONOCLASTS" is a plural of: iconoclast.

Date "ICONOCLASTS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references)


Specialty Definition: ICONOCLASTS

DomainDefinition

Literature

Iconoclasts (Greek, "image breakers"). Reformers who rose in the eighth century, especially averse to the employment of pictures, statues, emblems, and all visible representations of sacred objects. The crusade against these things began in 726 with the Emperor Leo III., and continued for one hundred and twenty years. (Greek, ikon, an image; klao, I break.)
"The eighth century, the age of the Iconoclasts, had not been favourable to literature." - Isaac Taylor: The Alphabet, vol, ii. chap. viii. p. 159. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Commercial Usage: ICONOCLASTS

DomainTitle

Books

  • American Mavericks: Musical Visionaries, Pioneers, Iconoclasts (reference)

  • Go to: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Scientists and Iconoclasts who were the Hero Programmers of the Software Revolution (reference)

  • Headed Upstream: Interviews With Iconoclasts (reference)

  • Iconoclasts and Their Motives (reference)

  • Iconoclasts; a book of dramatists: Ibsen, Strindberg, Becque, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Hervieu, Gorky, Duse and D'Annunzio, Maeterlinck and Bernard Shaw (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: ICONOCLASTS

"ICONOCLASTS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 84.62% of the time. "ICONOCLASTS" is used about 13 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 (plural)84.62%11106,044
Lexical Verb (-s form)15.38%2245,945
                    Total100.00%13N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ICONOCLASTS

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

iconoclasts

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ICONOCLASTS

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

German

  

Bilderstürmern. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iconoclastsay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: ICONOCLASTS

Misspellings

"ICONOCLASTS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eikonoklastes, iconaclast, iconclast, iconnoclast, iconoclas, iconoclass, iconoclasst, iconoclaste, iconoclat, iconolast, iconoplast, inconoclast. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: ICONOCLASTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-l-n-o-o-s-s-t"

-1 letter: iconoclast.

-2 letters: coactions, colonists, locations, occasions, solations.

-3 letters: classico, clastics, coaction, colonics, colonist, coolants, lactonic, location, occasion, octanols, solation, solitons, stolonic.

-4 letters: accosts, actions, alnicos, atonics, caisson, calicos, casinos, cassino, cations, catlins, citolas, classic, clastic, cocains, colonic, colossi, conical, consist, consols, coolant, instals, laconic, latinos, lotions, nostocs, octanol, oilcans, saloons, santols, scotias, socials, solanos.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ICONOCLASTS


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

49 43 4F 4E 4F 43 4C 41 53 54 53

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)

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

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

01001001 01000011 01001111 01001110 01001111 01000011 01001100 01000001 01010011 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#67 &#79 &#78 &#79 &#67 &#76 &#65 &#83 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0043 004F 004E 004F 0043 004C 0041 0053 0054 0053

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

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

4337494849374635535453

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INDEX

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


  

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