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Ionesco

Definition: Ionesco

Ionesco

Noun

1. French dramatist (born in Romania) who was a leading exponent of the theater of the absurd (1912-1994).

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


Synonym: Ionesco

Synonym: Eugene Ionesco (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ionesco

English words defined with "Ionesco": Eugene Ionescotheater of the absurd. (references)

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Modern Usage: Ionesco

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Eva Ionesco - ...nur ein Kinderstar? (2002)

Voix et silences Eugène Ionesco (1987)

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

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Commercial Usage: Ionesco

DomainTitle

Books

  • "La Cantatrice chauve", "La Leðcon", d'Eugáene Ionesco (reference)

  • Le Labyrinthe de la Cite Radieuse. Les peregrinations de Berenger chez Ionesco. (reference)

  • Eug`Ene Ionesco (reference)

  • The cross and the cries of human need; messages for Lent and every season. The meaning of the cross for human problems portrayed in six selections from the plays of Arthur Miller, John Osborne, Edward Albee, Frank D. Gilroy, Eugene Ionesco (reference)

  • Qu'attendent Eugáene Ionesco et Samuel Beckett? et qu'en pensent : Jean Louis Barrault, Jacques Mauclair, Marcel Marâechal, Paul Vernois, Terence Brown, August Grodzicki, Roger Benski, Alvin Epstein, Rosette Lamont, Richard Schechner? (entretiens) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Familiar Quotations: Ionesco

AuthorQuotation

Eugene Ionesco

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichTs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Ionesco

"Ionesco" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ionesco" is used about 4 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 (proper)100%4175,879

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

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Expression: Ionesco

Expression using "Ionesco": Eugene Ionesco. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ionesco

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

eva ionesco

400

eugène ionesco

3

ionesco

81

the bald soprano and eugene ionesco

3

irina ionesco

67

bourboulon ionesco

3

eugene ionesco

56

eugène ionesco rhinocéros

3

eva gallery ionesco

23

cantatrice chauve ionesco la

3

ionesco rhinoceros

19

ionesco le meurt roi se

3

eva ionesco picture

15

eva gallery ionesco irina

3

eva ionesco preteens

10

foursome ionesco

3

eva ionesco photo

9

bbs eva ionesco

3

eva ionesco pic

8

eugaene ionesco

2

eva free ionesco

5

eva ionesco lara wendel

2

gallery ionesco irina

4

bald ionesco soprano

2

eva ionesco maladolescenza

4

by eugene ionesco rhinoceros

2

eva ionesco spermula

4

de eugène ionesco texte

2

eugene ionesco rhinoceros

3

eva ionesco preteen

2

eugène ionesco la leçon

3

eva ionesco preteen

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

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Anagrams: Ionesco

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-n-o-o-s"

-1 letter: conies, cosine, icones, oscine.

-2 letters: cines, cions, coins, cones, coons, cosie, eosin, icons, noise, noose, onces, scion, scone, since, sonic.

-3 letters: cine, cion, coin, cone, coni, cons, coon, coos, eons, ices, icon, ions, nice, noes, nose, once, ones, sice, sine, sone, soon.

-4 letters: cis, con, coo, cos, ens, eon, ice, ins, ion, noo, nos.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-n-o-o-s"
 

+1 letter: cohesion, colonies, colonise, conioses, coonties, eclosion.

 

+2 letters: cloisonne, coercions, cohesions, colonised, colonises, colonizes, cortisone, eclosions, economics, economies, economise, economist, enzootics, isochrone, isooctane, monecious, monoecies, monoecism, pecorinos, semicolon.

 

+3 letters: biocenoses, biocenosis, censorious, cloisonnes, coenobites, coinvestor, colonizers, concession, confession, confiteors, congestion, coniferous, connexions, conominees, consociate, conversion, coprisoner, coronaries, cortisones, cosmogenic, creosoting, decoctions, diseconomy, economised, economises, economists, economizes, eicosanoid, elocutions, endoscopic, ergonomics, evocations, iconoscope, incommodes, indecorous, isochrones, isooctanes, microtones, monoclines, monoecious, monoecisms, monostelic, necropolis, neotropics, novocaines, objections, occasioned, octonaries, oncologies, osteogenic, picosecond, procession, rechoosing, resorcinol, rhinoceros, semicolons, semicolony, solonetzic, sporogenic, stenotopic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ionesco


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

49 6F 6E 65 73 63 6F

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)

01001001 01101111 01101110 01100101 01110011 01100011 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#111 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#99 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006F 006E 0065 0073 0063 006F

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

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

43818071856981

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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