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"JACQUES" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the heel holder", "a supplanter". |
Date "JACQUES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Jacques A generic name for the poor artisan class in France. Jacques is a sort of cotton waistcoat without sleeves. "Jacques, il me faut troubler ton somme; Dans le village, un gros huissier Röde et court, suivi du messier: Cest pour I impôt, las! mon pauvre homme. Löve-toi, Jacques, leve-toi, Voici venir l'huissier du roi." Beranger (1831). Pauvre Jacques. Said to a maiden when she is lackadaisical (French). Marie Antoinette had at the Little Trianon an artificial Swiss village, which she called her "Petite Suisse, " and actually sent to Switzerland for a peasant girl to assist in milking the cows. The Swiss maiden was one day overheard sighing for "Pauvre Jacques, " and the queen sent for the distant and had the lovers married. To finish this absurd romance, the Marchioness de Travanet wrote an ode on the event, which was for a time wonderfully popular. "Pauvre Jacques, quand j'etais prés de toi, Je ne sentais pas ma misere: Mais a présent que tu vis loin de mol. Je manque de tout sur la terre." Marquise de Travanet. Jacques (1 syl.). A morose cynical moraliser in Shakespeare's As You Like It. It is much disputed whether the word is a monosyllable or not. Charles Lamb makes it a dissyllable - "Where Jaquës fed in solitary vein;" but Sir Walter Scott uses it as a monosyllable - "Whom humorous Jacques with envy viewed." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: JACQUES |
| English words defined with "JACQUES": Francois Jacob ♦ Jacob, Jacquerie, Joliet, Jolliet, Josef Michel Montgolfier ♦ Louis Joliet, Louis Jolliet ♦ Montgolfier. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "JACQUES": Barber Poet ♦ Dominicans, Duchesne, Dufarge ♦ Hebertists ♦ Jacobins, Jacques Bonhomme ♦ Last of the Troubadours, Legenda Aurea ♦ Melancholy Jacques ♦ Pere Duchene, poverty passport. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "JACQUES" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (Jack, Jacob, James). |
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Screenplays | I've performed the autopsy on Jacques Renault. (Twin Peaks; writing credit: G. William Jones) Leo Johnson was shot, Jacques Reneau was strangled, the mill burned, Shelly and Pete got smoke inhalation, Catherine and Josie are missing, Nadine is in a coma from taking sleeping pills. (Twin Peaks; writing credit: G. William Jones) Leo was shot, Jacques Renault was strangled, the mill burned, Pete and Shelly have smoke inhalation, Catherine and Josie are missing and Nadine is in a coma from taking sleeping pills. (Twin Peaks; writing credit: G. William Jones) Let them make one for Pesquet, or Jacques! That kid of Lefèvre's he'd appreciate a gesture. (The Train; writing credit: Rose Vall; Franklin Coen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Vive les Jacques (1972) Jacques Grandmaison (1968) Cinéma de notre temps: Jacques Becker (1967) | |
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![]() | Title page to: A physical dissertation, concerning the cause of the variation of the barometer ...., by Jacques de Roubaix. Printed in 1721. Check out note concerning "that it is impossible to find out the longitude"! Library Call Number QC891 .R85 1721. Credit: Treasures of the Library. | ![]() | Ascent of Jacques Charles at the Tuileries, December 1, 1783 in: "Histoire des Ballons et des Aeronautes Celebres," by Gaston Tissandier, 1887, p. 31. Library Call Number TL616 .T57 1887. This was the first manned hydrogen balloon ascent. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
![]() | Lieutenant Don Walsh, USN, and Jacques Piccard in the bathyscaphe TRIESTE. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Figure 48. A sea bottom dredge designed by Jacques Picard in 1961 at the Marseille Marine Station and first used in the Bay of Marseille. This was meant to sample the fauna living in the sediments covering the seafloor. This instrument is similar to a box dredge or deep sea anchor dredge. It was first tested in 1961 in the Bay of Marseille. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | Caption: Recording at the Edison Studio, 79 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Jacques Urlus Singing, Sodero Conducting; New York, NY; March 30, 1916; {29.430/6} (jpg). | ![]() | [Medical Curiosities] / Jacques Callot. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Naissance de St. Jean. : D'Apres le Tableau de Jacques Tintoret, qui est dans le Cabinet de Mr. Crozat. / [Tintoretto] gravé par Frederic Horthemels. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | For a few seconds Monsieur Jacques smoked on --. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | "Prix Ruinart", 2nd crossing of the English-Channel, Jacques de] Lesseps crosses the English Channel, May 21, 1910] / photo, France-Reportage. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Geneva. Monument Jean Jacques Rousseau. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Jacques Delille | Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends. |
Jacques Du Lauren | I do not attack fools, but foolishness. |
Jacques Pierre Brissot | Exclusive property is a theft against nature. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau | A feeble body weakens the mind. |
| Childhood is the sleep of reason. | |
| Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. | |
| Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. | |
| Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken. | |
| Base souls have no faith in great individuals. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They went to the least frequented walk of the Luxembourg, and every Sunday to mass, always at Saint Jacques du Haut Pas, because it was quite distant. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Jacques Dessange and Franck Provost are also benefiting from the current growth of this sector. (references) | |
Economic History | Haiti | Eventually, in December 1998, Jacques Alexis was confirmed as Prime Minister. (references) |
Monaco | Its Oceanographic Museum, formerly directed by Jacques Cousteau, is one of the most renowned institutions of its kind in the world. (references) | |
Syria | Jacques HAKIM: Victoria Bridge, Mardam building, P.O. Box 5788; tel: 963-11-222-3577, 371-0554; fax: 963-11-224-4370. Citizen of the SAR. (references) | |
Human Rights | Cameroon | On May 17, police arrested on undisclosed charges and tortured Jacques Zoua, a member of a Maroua-based human rights NGO. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | On January 31, 10 gendarmes arrested former Minister Jean Jacques Bechio, an advisor for diplomatic affairs to Alassane Ouattara, at his home in Abidjan. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | During the year, several RDR members arrested in 2000 were released from the MACA on provisional liberty: On April 26, RDR spokesperson Ally Coulibaly and RDR national secretary Kafana Kone were released following 145 days of detention; on April 28, Camarah Yerefe was released; on May 2, Henriette Diabate's son, Jean Philippe Kabore, driver Coulibaly Seydou, and other 3 RDR members were released; on May 29, Jean Jacques Bechio was released; however, 39 RDR members still were in jail in Abidjan and in the north at year's end. (references) | |
Political Economy | France | Currently, center-right President Jacques Chirac "cohabits" with a government of the center-left that was elected in June 1997. The Socialist-led coalition includes representatives of the Communist and Green parties and is headed by Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, who ran unsuccessfully against Jacques Chirac in the 1995 presidential elections. (references) |
Worker Rights | Haiti | They were given ultimatums to rally behind the FL. Jacques Pierre, Secretary General of the Confederation of Haitian Workers (KOTA), and his family abandoned their home and spent much of the year avoiding FL militants. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "JACQUES" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.80% of the time. "JACQUES" is used about 998 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) | 99.8% | 996 | 7,382 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.2% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 998 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "JACQUES" 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 |
| Jacques | First name Male | 8,000 | 763 |
| Jacques | Last name | 6,000 | 2,204 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "JACQUES" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the heel holder", "a supplanter". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "JACQUES." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Coby | Male | N/A | Jacob |
| Jacobina | Female | N/A | Jacob |
| James | Male | Biblical | Jacob |
| Jago | Male | Cornish | Jacob |
| Jakov | Male | Croatian | Jacob |
| Jakub | Male | Czech | Jacob |
| Ib | Male | Danish | Jacob |
| Jacobine | Female | Danish | Jacob |
| Jaap | Male | Dutch | Jacob |
| Jacob | Male | Dutch | N/A |
| Jacoba | Female | Dutch | Jacob |
| Jacobine | Female | Dutch | Jacob |
| Jacob | Male | English | N/A |
| Jacquette | Female | English | Jacques |
| James | Male | English | Jacob |
| Jaycob | Male | English | Jacob |
| Jeb | Male | English | Jacob |
| Jaakko | Male | Finnish | Jacob |
| Jouko | Male | Finnish | Jacob |
| Jacqueline | Female | French | Jacques |
| Jacques | Male | French | Jacob |
| Jakob | Male | German | Jacob |
| Iakopa | Male | Hawaiian | Jacob |
| Jákob | Male | Hungarian | Jacob |
| Jakab | Male | Hungarian | Jacob |
| Giacobbe | Male | Italian | Jacob |
| Jacopo | Male | Italian | Jacob |
| Kapel | Male | Jewish | Jacob |
| Koppel | Male | Jewish | Jacob |
| Yakov | Male | Jewish | Jacob |
| Yankel | Male | Jewish | Jacob |
| Jacobine | Female | Norwegian | Jacob |
| Jakub | Male | Polish | Jacob |
| Kuba | Male | Polish | Jacob |
| Yakov | Male | Russian | Jacob |
| Jacob | Male | Scandinavian | N/A |
| Jakob | Male | Scandinavian | Jacob |
| Jaka | Male | Slovene | Jacob |
| Iago | Male | Spanish | Jacob |
| Jacobo | Male | Spanish | Jacob |
| Iago | Male | Welsh | Jacob |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| France | JACQUES BOGART | United Kingdom | Jacques Vert Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "JACQUES": Anne Robert Jacques Turgot ♦ Georges Jacques Danton ♦ Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles ♦ Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault ♦ Jacques Bernoulli ♦ Jacques Cartier ♦ Jacques Charles ♦ Jacques Costeau ♦ Jacques Derrida ♦ Jacques Etienne Montgolfier ♦ Jacques Francois Fromental Elie Halevy ♦ Jacques Lipchitz ♦ Jacques Loeb ♦ Jacques Louis David ♦ Jacques Lucien Monod ♦ Jacques Marquette ♦ Jacques Monod ♦ Jacques Offenbach ♦ Jacques Tati ♦ Jacques Tatischeff ♦ Jacques Yves Costeau ♦ Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre ♦ Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre ♦ Pere Jacques Marquette. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "JACQUES": Jacques-antoine, Jacques-ass, jacques-augustin-catherine, jacques-emile, jacques-laurent, Jacques-louis, Jacques-marie, Jacques-nicolas, Jacques-roger, Jacques-solomon, Jacques-yves. | |
Ending with "JACQUES": Saint-jacques. | |
Containing "JACQUES": Jean-Jacques Rousseau. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
jacques villeneuve | 236 | jacques dutronc | 30 |
jacques cartier | 230 | jacques whitford | 29 |
jean jacques rousseau | 227 | jacques callot | 28 |
bourboulon jacques | 193 | frere jacques | 28 |
jacques cousteau | 176 | duval jacques | 26 |
jacques | 174 | offenbach jacques | 25 |
jacques brel | 166 | jacques ketant | 25 |
jean jacques goldman | 162 | jacques lemans | 24 |
jacques chirac | 121 | jacques plante | 23 |
jacques louis david | 119 | cantani jacques | 22 |
brian jacques | 112 | cousteau jacques yves | 21 |
jacques pepin | 61 | composer french jacques | 20 |
jacques torres | 55 | jacques tati | 20 |
jacques locat | 48 | jean jacques rosseau | 19 |
prevert jacques | 45 | anna hospital jacques | 19 |
jacques lacan | 41 | bourboulon gallery jacques | 18 |
jacques derrida | 40 | de jacques molay | 18 |
charles jacques | 39 | compostelle de jacques saint | 18 |
jacques dessange | 34 | jacques mayol | 17 |
cap jacques st | 31 | coquille jacques st | 16 |
jacques cartier picture | 16 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Misspellings | |
"JACQUES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gicquel, Jacksey, Jacqes, Jacquot, Jaque, Jaqui, jusque, Pacque, Pacques. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-j-q-s-u" | |
-1 letter: casque, sacque. | |
-2 letters: cause, sauce. | |
-3 letters: aces, case, cues, ecus. | |
-4 letters: ace, cue, eau, ecu, jeu, jus, qua, sac, sae, sau, sea, sec, sue, suq, use. | |
-5 letters: ae, as, es, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-j-q-s-u" | |
+3 letters: jacqueries. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 41 43 51 55 45 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in 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)01001010 01000001 01000011 01010001 01010101 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J A C Q U E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 0041 0043 0051 0055 0045 0053 |
| 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)44353751553953 |
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