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Lao-tse

Definition: Lao-tse

Lao-tse

Noun

1. Chinese philosopher regarded as the founder of Taoism (6th century BC).

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

Date "Lao-tse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references)

Synonyms: Lao-tse

Synonyms: Lao-tzu (n), Lao-zi (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Lao-tse

English words defined with "Lao-tse": Shen-pao, Spiritual JewelTaoist. (references)

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Modern Usage: Lao-tse

DomainUsage

Clever

The truest sayings are paradoxical. (references; author: Lao-tse)

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

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Commercial Usage: Lao-tse

DomainTitle

Books

  • Augenblicke in der Ewigkeit : Buddha, Epikur und Lao-tse als Weisheitslehrer (reference)

  • Echoes from the Orient; wisdom of Lao-Tse with parallels in Western thought (reference)

  • Het soevereine Ik : het individualisme van Lao-tse tot Friedrich Nietzsche (reference)

  • Lao-Tse (reference)

  • Lao-tse et le taosme (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Familiar Quotations: Lao-tse

AuthorQuotation

Lao-tse

The truest sayings are paradoxical.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Lao-tse

"Lao-tse" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lao-tse" is used about 2 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%2245,945

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

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Modern Translations: Lao-tse

Language Translations for "Lao-tse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

老子 (Lao-tzu). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ろうし (capital and labor, capitalists and laborers, die of old age, dying in prison, labour and management, Lao-tzu, old priest, sage, teacher, wax paper). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ao-tselay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Lao-tse

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: osteal, solate.

Words within the letters "a-e-l-o-s-t"

-1 letter: aloes, altos, least, lotas, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, stoae, stole, taels, tales, teals, telos, tesla, toeas, tolas, toles.

-2 letters: ales, aloe, also, alto, alts, ates, east, eats, etas, lase, last, late, lats, leas, lest, lets, lose, lost, lota, lots, oast, oats, olea, oles, sale, salt, sate, seal, seat, seta, slat, sloe, slot, sola, sole, stoa, tael, tale, taos, teal, teas, tela, tels, toea, toes, tola, tole.

-3 letters: ale, als, alt, ate, eat, els, eta, las, lat, lea, let, lot, oat, oes, ole, ose, sae, sal, sat, sea, sel, set, sol, sot, tae, tao, tas, tea, tel, toe.

-4 letters: ae, al, as, at, el, es, et, la, lo, oe, os, so, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: apostle, boatels, etalons, folates, gelatos, isolate, lactose, legatos, loathes, locates, maltose, oblates, oleates, pelotas, skatole, solated, solates, solvate, talcose, tolanes, zealots.

 

+2 letters: absolute, acolytes, anethols, anolytes, apostles, autolyse, bestowal, bloaters, calottes, cataloes, cholates, coaliest, coatless, collates, delators, desolate, diastole, elations, eschalot, ethanols, falsetto, floatels, floaters, flotages, foliates, forestal, gloaters, insolate, isolated, isolates, keitloas, lacteous, lactones, lactoses, latigoes, legators, leotards, levators, loamiest, loathers, locaters, locustae, lodestar, loveseat, loyalest, maltoses, matelots, notables, oatmeals, obstacle, oleaster, osculate, otalgies, outleaps, oversalt, ovulates, oxalates, paletots, petalous, petrosal, polecats, polentas, polestar, potables, ratholes, reallots, realtors, refloats, relators, restoral, rostella, rosulate, sectoral, shoalest, skatoles, societal, sodalite, solvated, solvates, sortable, spoliate, stonable, storable, stowable, tadpoles, tangelos, tapholes, teabowls, toadless, toenails, tollages, toluates, totalise, violates, voltages, wastelot.

 

+3 letters: absoluter, absolutes, acetoxyls, acrolects, aerolites, aeroliths, allocates, allostery, allottees, allotters, allotypes, amitroles, anetholes, antelopes, antipoles, apetalous, apholates, astrolabe, autolysed, autolyses, autolyzes, ballonets, balloters, bestowals, bloviates, bluecoats, boltheads, bootlaces, brocatels, callowest, calotypes, cassoulet, catechols, cattaloes, chelators, chlorates, clodpates, coastline, collarets, colocates, conepatls, conflates, constable, consulate, copulates, corelates, deadbolts, deflators, delations, desolated, desolater, desolates, desolator, diastoles, dislocate, dovetails, ectoplasm, elastomer, elevators, elongates, emulators, endosteal, escalator, eschalots, estradiol, etiolates, falconets, falsettos, fellatios, fellators, flagstone, flameouts, fleaworts, floatages, floatiest, folktales, fontanels, forestall, forestial, galactose, gallstone, gantlopes, gatefolds, gelations, gladstone, hailstone, halftones, halitoses, heliostat, helotages, horsetail, idolaters, immolates, insolated, insolates, isohyetal, keelboats, laborites, lakeports, langouste, latewoods, leadworts, legations, levatores, lifeboats, loadstone, loathness, loathsome, localites, locatives, lodestars, loricates, loveseats, loyalties, maelstrom, marlstone, martellos, matelotes, megavolts, mestranol, methanols, mislocate, modulates, mulattoes, nanotesla, nonmetals, obligates, obstacles, octangles, oleasters, oppilates, oralities, orientals, oscillate, osculated, osculates, outblazes, outbleats, outfables, outglares, outlasted, outlearns, outsailed, outvalues, ovalities, oversalts, overtalks, palmettos, pantofles, pastorale, pectorals, pentanols, pilotages, plethoras, plottages, polestars, populates, portables, postulate, potlaches, preallots, relations, relocates, restorals, retailors, rolamites, roseately, rostellar, royalties, sallowest, salometer, saltboxes, saprolite, scapolite, sclerotia, sectional, sectorial, semitonal, serotinal, shoaliest, socialite, sodalites, soleplate, solitaire, spoliated, spoliates, sporulate, spottable, steamroll, steroidal, stomodeal, stonewall, stoppable, storables, strobilae, stylobate, sulfonate, tabletops, tabooleys, tailbones, teetotals, telamones, telophase, telotaxes, telotaxis, temporals, tensional, teocallis, thiazoles, toeplates, tolerates, tollgates, tomalleys, toolheads, totalised, totalises, totalizes, travelogs, trehalose, triazoles, trochleas, violaters, volatiles, wastelots, waterlogs, waterloos, zoolaters.

 

+4 letters: absolutely, absolutest, absolutive, absolutize, actionless, adolescent, adulterous, afterglows, alienators, allegorist, allosteric, allotments, allotropes, allotypies, alpenstock, ameloblast, anthelions, antilogies, antinovels, apostolate, appositely, arterioles, assoilment, asteroidal, astrolabes, astrologer, autoclaves, autolysate, betrothals, blastocoel, blastoderm, blastomere, blastopore, bookplates, bracteoles, cabriolets, cacomistle, cassoulets, catalogers, catalogues, catchpoles, charlottes, chelations, chocolates, clearstory, coagulates, coalescent, coastlines, cobaltines, cobaltites, cockatiels, coelomates, colligates, collimates, collocates, constables, consulates, correlates, cowlstaves, dealations, deathblows, decathlons, decollates, deflations, defoliants, defoliates, delegators, desolately, desolaters, desolating, desolation, desolators, deutoplasm, diplomates, dislocated, dislocates, doorplates, ectoplasms, editorials, egoistical, elaborates, elastomers, elevations, emulations, epilations, epistolary, escalation, escalators, escalatory, estradiols, evaluators, exfoliates, facecloths, fathomless, fellations, flageolets, flagstones, floodgates, forecastle, forestalls, forestland, formulates, fortalices, galactoses, gallstones, gantelopes, gelatinous, gladsomest, gladstones, gluconates, hailstones, halogetons, halophytes, halothanes, haplotypes, harlotries, heliostats, horsetails, hospitable, houseplant, idolatries, inoculates, inosculate, isolatable, isothermal, jovialties, kaolinites, lakefronts, langoustes, lanosities, larghettos, latecomers, lavatories, lazarettos, legislator, leucoplast, liberators, lineations, linoleates, literators, loadmaster, loadstones, lobsterman, localities, maelstroms, marlstones, meatloaves, melatonins, meliorates, mesothelia, mestranols, metabolism, metalloids, metalworks, mislocated, mislocates, modalities, molalities, molarities, molybdates, montadales, moralities, mortarless, myeloblast, nanoteslas, natrolites, neoplastic, neorealist, nodalities, nonelastic, nucleators, obeisantly, oblateness, opalescent, orchestral, orthoclase, oscillated, oscillates, osteoblast, osteoclast, outclassed, outclasses, outdazzles, outlanders, outlawries, outsparkle, overplants, oversalted, palmettoes, pantalones, papillotes, pastorales, patrollers, peculators, percolates, periosteal, personalty, petalodies, phenolates, planetoids, pleonastic, polarities, pollinates, polywaters, postulated, postulates, potentials, potlatches, pulmonates, pyrolysate, rationales, reflations, regulators, relocatees, resonantly, restorable, revelators, sacerdotal, sailboater, salometers, saltarello, sandlotter, saprolites, scapolites, schoolmate, scleromata, sclerotial, sectionals, semipostal, senatorial, shallowest, socialites, societally, sodalities, softballer, solacement, soleplates, solitaires, solitaries, somersault, speculator, sporulated, sporulates, starflower, staurolite, steamrolls, stomodaeal, stonewalls, stylobates, subtotaled, sulfonated, sulfonates, tabboulehs, tablespoon, teleostean, telophases, thimerosal, toadflaxes, tolerances, tolerators, tonalities, toolmakers, totalities, totalizers, tracheoles, trehaloses, trialogues, trochlears, vocalities, volatilise, waterfowls, whaleboats, womanliest, worktables, wyliecoats, zealotries, zoolatries.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Lao-tse


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

4C 61 6F 2D 74 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01101111 00101101 01110100 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#111 &#45 &#116 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 006F 002D 0074 0073 0065

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

46678115868571

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INDEX

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


  

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