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Definition: Ionesco |
IonescoNoun1. 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: IonescoSynonym: Eugene Ionesco (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ionesco |
| English words defined with "Ionesco": Eugene Ionesco ♦ theater of the absurd. (references) |
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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. | |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Ionesco": Eugene Ionesco. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6F 6E 65 73 63 6F |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. --- -. . ... -.-. --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101111 01101110 01100101 01110011 01100011 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I o n e s c o |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43818071856981 |
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