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Definition: Lachaise |
LachaiseNoun1. United States sculptor (born in France) noted for his large nude figures (1882-1935). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Lachaise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biographical Satire | LACHAISE, Pere, confessor of Louis XIV for thirty-four years. He was such an attentive listener and heard so much that the leading cemetery in Paris was named in his honor. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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Synonym: LachaiseSynonym: Gaston Lachaise (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lachaise |
| English words defined with "Lachaise": Gaston Lachaise. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Pere Lachaise is very fine! |
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| "Lachaise" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Lachaise" is used about 3 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) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Lachaise": Gaston Lachaise. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
pere lachaise | 34 |
gaston lachaise | 7 |
lachaise | 6 |
cimetiere du pere lachaise | 4 |
lachaise père | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lachaise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | achaiselay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-s" | |
-2 letters: aecial, calash, calesa, chaise, chelas, chiels, chiles, chisel, heliac, laches, laichs, liches, sheila. | |
-3 letters: aches, aecia, aisle, alecs, alias, ceils, chase, chela, chias, chiel, chile, clash, hails, hales, heals, heils, ileac, laces, laich, laics, leach, leash, saice, salic, scale, selah, shale, sheal, shiel, slice. | |
-4 letters: aahs, aals, aces, ache, ails, alae, alas, alec, ales, asci, asea, casa, case, cash, ceil, cels, chia, chis, each, elhi, haes, hail, hale, heal, heil, hies, hila, ices, ichs, ilea, isle, lace, lacs, laic, lase, lash, leas, lech, leis, lice, lich, lies, sail, sale, seal, shea, sial, sice. | |
-5 letters: aah, aal, aas, ace, aha, ail, ais, ala, ale, als, ash, cel, chi, cis, els, hae, has, hes, hic, hie, his, ice, ich, lac, las, lea, lei, lie, lis, sac, sae, sal, sea, sec, sei, sel, sha, she, sic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-s" | |
+1 letter: achilleas, selachian. | |
+2 letters: alkahestic, aspherical, calipashes, caliphates, charladies, chatelains, echolalias, enchiladas, malachites, selachians. | |
+3 letters: aesthetical, atheistical, catechismal, chatelaines, hemiacetals, icosahedral, marshalcies, mechanicals, thalassemic, theatricals. | |
+4 letters: archesporial, archipelagos, catholicates, chamberlains, chaplaincies, chartularies, hallucinates, hexadecimals, melancholias, metaphysical, seraphically, thalassemics. | |
+5 letters: aesthetically, agrichemicals, agrochemicals, alchemistical, alphanumerics, analphabetics, anencephalies, archaeologies, archaeologist, archipelagoes, atheistically, autocephalies, calligraphers, calligraphies, charlatanries, dischargeable, hypocalcemias, melancholiacs, pantheistical, schematically, scholasticate, straightlaced, theatricalism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 63 68 61 69 73 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -.-. .... .- .. ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100011 01101000 01100001 01101001 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a c h a i s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0063 0068 0061 0069 0073 0065 |
| 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)4667697467758571 |
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