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Kurosawa

Definition: Kurosawa

Kurosawa

Noun

1. Japanese filmmaker noted for blending Japanese folklore with Western styles of acting (1910-1998).

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


Synonym: Kurosawa

Synonym: Akira Kurosawa (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Kurosawa

English words defined with "Kurosawa": Akira Kurosawa. (references)

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Modern Usage: Kurosawa

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Like Kurosawa I make mad films (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

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

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Commercial Usage: Kurosawa

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune (reference)

  • The Films of Akira Kurosawa (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Kurosawa DVD Collection (Individually Numbered Limited Edition) (Amazon.com Exclusive) (reference)

  • Akira Kurosawa - 4 Samurai Classics (Seven Samurai / The Hidden Fortress / Yojimbo / Sanjuro) - Criterion Collection (reference)

  • Rare Kurosawa (Drunken Angel/ Scandal/ I Live In Fear) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Kurosawa

"Kurosawa" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Kurosawa" is used about 8 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%8124,375

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

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Expression: Kurosawa

Expression using "Kurosawa": Akira Kurosawa. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Kurosawa

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

ai kurosawa

165

kurosawa linn

3

akira kurosawa

103

ai gallery kurosawa

3

kurosawa

95

akira kurosawa dream

3

kurosawa film

38

blood kurosawa mifune throne toshirô

3

ayumi kurosawa

11

akira kurosawa art

2

director kurosawa

8

kiyoshi kurosawa

2

akira kurosawa ran

6

film kurosawa ra

2

kurosawa ran

6

ai kurosawa movie

2

dream kurosawa

5

akira kurosawa film

2

kurosawa movie

3

classic drama japanese kurosawa

2

hiromi kurosawa

3

kurosawa mifune

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

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Modern Translation: Kurosawa

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

Japanese Kanji 

  

陰武者  (Kagemusha shadow warrior in Kurosawa film). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urosawakay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Kurosawa

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-k-o-r-s-u-w"

-3 letters: araks, auras, okras, sowar, warks, wauks, works.

-4 letters: arak, arks, auks, aura, kaas, koas, kors, oaks, oars, okas, okra, osar, ours, raws, rows, rusk, sark, skua, soak, soar, sora, souk, sour, sura, ursa, wark, wars, wauk, waur, woks, work.

-5 letters: aas, ark, ars, ask, auk, awa, kas, koa, kor, kos, oak, oar, oka.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Kurosawa


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

4B 75 72 6F 73 61 77 61

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)

01001011 01110101 01110010 01101111 01110011 01100001 01110111 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#117 &#114 &#111 &#115 &#97 &#119 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0075 0072 006F 0073 0061 0077 0061

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

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

4587848185678967

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Kurosawa"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Japanese Kanji

è¾­å…¸ , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デãƒ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶
 


INDEX

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


  

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