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Liszt

Definition: Liszt

Liszt

Noun

1. Hungarian composer and piano virtuoso (1811-1886).

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

Date "Liszt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1910. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Liszt

DomainDefinitions

Computing

Liszt A Franz Lisp compiler in C which emits C, by Jeff W. Dalton . Mailing list: franz-friends-request@berkeley.edu. (1994-10-20). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Biographical Satire

LISZT, Frank, a piano player who wore long hair, wrote music, and played the piano. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

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

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Synonym: Liszt

Synonym: Franz Liszt (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Liszt

English words defined with "Liszt": CzernyFranz LisztKarl Czerny. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Liszt": Franz LispLISZT. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Liszt" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Hungarian (Farina, flour, meal, whole wheat).

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Modern Usage: Liszt

DomainUsage

Clever

A note left for a pianist from his wife: "Gone Chopin, have Liszt, Bach in a Minuet. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Monsieur Liszt (1981)

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Commercial Usage: Liszt

DomainTitle

Books

  • Analecta III: Liszt and the Birth of Modern Europe: Music As a Mirror of Religious, Political, Social and Aesthetic Transformation (Franz Liszt studi (reference)

  • Liszt Totentanz (Danse Macabre) (reference)

  • Lisztian Keyboard Energy: An Essay on the Pianism of Franz Liszt: Liszt Et LA Pedagogie Du Piano (reference)

  • A Compendium of Essays: Purcell, Hogarth and Handel, Beethoven, Liszt, Debussy, and Andrew Lloyd Webber (reference)

  • Liszt, Carolyne, and the Vatican: The Story of a Thwarted Marriage As It Emerges from the Original Church Documents (American Listz Society Studies s (reference)

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Music

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Image Slideshow: Liszt

Illustrations:
Liszt

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Photo Album: Liszt

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Franz Liszt.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Familiar Quotations: Liszt

AuthorQuotation

Franz Liszt

The most poetic musician who ever lived.

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Usage Frequency: Liszt

"Liszt" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Liszt" is used about 39 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)66.67%2668,323
Noun (singular)23.08%9117,287
Lexical Verb (base form)10.26%4175,879
                    Total100.00%39N/A

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

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Expressions: Liszt

Expression using "Liszt": Franz Liszt. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Liszt": Liszt-thalberg.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Liszt

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
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per Day

  liszt franz

115

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3

  liszt

108

  2 hungarian liszt no rhapsody

2

  liszt midi

7

  biography liszt

2

  liszt the mailing list directory

7

  frans liszt

2

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5

  consolation liszt

2

  horowitz kuleshov liszt march mendelssohn wedding

5

  liszt piano

2

  liszt mp3

4

  frank liszt

2

  franz liszt picture

4

  liebestraum liszt

2

  ferenc liszt

3

  franz liszt midi

2

  liszt peter wolf

3

  liszt sheet music

2

  franz liszt composer

3

  campanella la liszt

2

  liszt transcription

3

  biografia de franz liszt

2
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Anagrams: Liszt

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-l-s-t-z"

-1 letter: list, lits, silt, slit, tils, zits.

-2 letters: its, lis, lit, sit, til, tis, zit.

-3 letters: is, it, li, si, ti.

 Words containing the letters "i-l-s-t-z"
 

+2 letters: blitzes, glitzes, laziest, stylize, zloties.

 

+3 letters: blintzes, glaziest, stylized, stylizer, stylizes, thiazols, utilizes, zeolites.

 

+4 letters: blowziest, glitziest, hylozoist, klutziest, laterizes, latinizes, lazulites, lazurites, metalizes, multisize, schnitzel, sleaziest, slivovitz, stabilize, sterilize, stylizers, stylizing, subtilize, thiazoles, totalizes, triazoles, utilizers, vitalizes, zoologist.

 

+5 letters: absolutize, actualizes, bestialize, brutalizes, cartelizes, crystalize, dialyzates, drizzliest, fertilizes, frizzliest, grizzliest, hylozoists, italicizes, klutziness, luteinizes, metallizes, mutualizes, palletizes, pelletizes, plasticize, platinizes, reutilizes, ritualizes, schnitzels, shmaltzier, solonetzic, stabilized, stabilizer, stabilizes, sterilized, sterilizer, sterilizes, subtilized, subtilizes, tantalizes, totalizers, zealotries, zoolatries, zoologists.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Liszt


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

4C 69 73 7A 74

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "Liszt"


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