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Marat

Definition: Marat

Marat

Noun

1. French revolutionary leader (born in Switzerland) who was a leader in overthrowing the Girondists and was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday (1743-1793).

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

Date "Marat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1796. (references)

"Marat" is a common misspelling or typo for: carat, karat, Mara, mare, mart, marts, meat, merit.



Specialty Definitions: Marat

DomainDefinitions

Biographical Satire

MARAT, one of the fathers of the French Revolution, who could rule a city, but not a woman. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

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Synonym: Marat

Synonym: Jean Paul Marat (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Marat

English words defined with "Marat": Charlotte Corday, Corday, CordelierJean Paul MaratMarie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Marat": CordeliersDying Sayings. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Marat" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Hungarian (cauterize, to bite, bit, bitten, to veer).

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Modern Usage: Marat

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Movie/TV Titles

Marat (1989)

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Commercial Usage: Marat

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Books

  • Jean Paul Marat, Hero and Anti-Hero of the French Revolution (reference)

  • The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of The Marquis de Sade (or Marat Sade) (reference)

  • The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Ghandi and Others (reference)

  • Marat Sade (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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Image Slideshow: Marat

Illustrations:
Marat

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Photo Album: Marat

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Assassinat de J. P. Marat, le 13 Juillet 1793, ou 25 Messidor, An 1er. de la République / Swebach Desfontaines inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp.Credit: Library of Congress.

Jean Paul Marat, né à Genève l'an 1743, député du dépt. de Paris à la Convention nationale / dessine par F. Boneville ; gravé par Sandoz.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Use in Literature: Marat

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Marat, like Jesus, forgets himself.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Marat

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Human Rights

Uzbekistan

Its leader, Marat Zakhidov, engages in progovernment propaganda and has written reports that appear aimed at inflaming tensions between other human rights advocates. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Marat

"Marat" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Marat" is used about 7 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)57.14%4175,879
Noun (singular)28.57%2245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)14.29%1339,140
                    Total100.00%7N/A

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

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Expressions: Marat

Expression using "Marat": Jean Paul Marat. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Marat": Marat-sade, Marat-sur-nive.

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Derivations: Marat

Derivations

Words beginning with "Marat": marathon, marathoner, marathoners, marathoning, marathonings, marathons. (additional references)

Words containing "Marat": fumarate, fumarates, ultramarathon, ultramarathoner, ultramarathoners, ultramarathons. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Marat

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-m-r-t"

-1 letter: atma, maar, mart, tram.

-2 letters: ama, arm, art, mar, mat, ram, rat, tam, tar.

-3 letters: aa, am, ar, at, ma, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-m-r-t"
 

+1 letter: amrita, amtrac, mantra, ramate, tamari, tarama, tarmac, trauma.

 

+2 letters: amateur, amatory, amirate, amreeta, amritas, amtrack, amtracs, fermata, mantrap, mantras, maranta, marcato, marital, martial, martian, matador, matrass, patamar, ramenta, rampant, rampart, regmata, tamarao, tamarau, tamarin, tamaris, tambura, tangram, taramas, tarmacs, timarau, tramcar, tramway, trangam, traumas, trymata.

 

+3 letters: achromat, ageratum, alarmist, amaranth, amaretti, amaretto, amateurs, ameerate, amirates, amreetas, amtracks, animater, animator, armament, armature, aromatic, arythmia, atheroma, bregmata, crabmeat, dramatic, earthman, emanator, fermatas, fumarate, hamartia, hatmaker, keratoma, macerate, malapert, maltreat, mandator, mantraps, marabout, marantas, marathon, marinate, martagon, martians, matadors, material, maternal, matronal, mattrass, maturate, megastar, parament, pastrami, patamars, pattamar, primatal, racemate, raftsman, rambutan, ramparts, sarmenta, smartass, stramash, stromata, tamarack, tamaraos, tamaraus, tamarind, tamarins, tamarisk, tamboura, tamburas, tangrams, teamaker, teratoma, timaraus, trachoma, trackman, trainman, tramcars, tramroad, tramways, trangams, trashman, traumata, trimaran, waterman.

 

+4 letters: achromats, admiralty, adumbrate, aftermath, ageratums, airstream, alarmists, amaranths, amarettos, amaurotic, ameerates, ametropia, amorality, animaters, animators, apartment, argumenta, armaments, armatured, armatures, aromatics, aromatize, artemisia, arythmias, aspartame, atemporal, atheromas, automaker, campcraft, carbamate, catamaran, crabmeats, craftsman, damnatory, daydreamt, demarcate, diametral, draftsman, dramatics, dramatise, dramatist, dramatize, dramaturg, emanators, farmstead, fibromata, fumarates, grantsman, hamartias, harmattan, hatmakers, hematuria, impartial, inamorata, keratomas, kerygmata, laminator, macerated, macerates, macerator, magistral, maladroit, malaperts, maltreats, mandatary, mandators, mandatory, marabouts, marathons, marcasite, margarita, margarite, marginate, marinated, marinates, maritally, marrowfat, martagons, martially, materials, matrasses, matriarch, maturated, maturates, mayoralty, megastars, mercaptan, metacarpi, metalmark, metalware, metatarsi, militaria, moratoria, neuromata, pantryman, paramenta, paraments, parameter, paramount, pastramis, patrolman, pattamars, paymaster, pentagram, pragmatic, primatals, primatial, prosomata, ptarmigan, racemates, rambutans, rampantly, ramparted, reanimate, rhizomata, sacrament, samaritan, sarcomata, spermatia, stratagem, tamaracks, tamarillo, tamarinds, tamarisks, tambouras, tarantism, teamakers, teratomas, termagant, trachomas, trademark, tradesman, tramroads, traumatic, trimarans, tularemia, watermark.

 

+5 letters: abominator, achromatic, admiration, adumbrated, adumbrates, afterimage, aftermaths, airstreams, alimentary, amateurish, amateurism, ambulatory, ameliorate, amendatory, ametropias, animadvert, antimarket, antimatter, antiracism, apartments, armaturing, aromatized, aromatizes, arrhythmia, artemisias, aspartames, atheromata, automakers, bacteremia, bandmaster, camorrista, campcrafts, campestral, camphorate, carbamates, catamarans, charismata, comparator, crematoria, defamatory, demarcated, demarcates, dermatomal, dramatised, dramatises, dramatists, dramatized, dramatizes, dramaturge, dramaturgs, dramaturgy, emarginate, extramural, farmsteads, fragmental, harassment, harmattans, harvestman, headmaster, headstream, hematurias, immaterial, inamoratas, intramural, intravitam, keratomata, lacrimator, laminators, laparotomy, laundromat, loadmaster, macerating, maceration, macerators, machinator, magistracy, magistrate, mainstream, maintainer, malapertly, malefactor, maltreated, maltreater, manservant, marathoner, marcasites, margaritas, margarites, marginated, marginates, margravate, marinating, marination, marketable, marquisate, marrowfats, martingale, masticator, masturbate, matchboard, matchmaker, materially, maternally, matriarchs, matriarchy, matricidal, mattrasses, maturating, maturation, mercaptans, metacarpal, metacarpus, metalmarks, metalwares, metaphrase, metatarsal, metatarsus, metathorax, montagnard, morganatic, mortadella, natatorium, naturalism, nonmarital, ornamental, pancratium, paramagnet, parameters, parametric, paramounts, parasitism, parliament, paymasters, pentagrams, pharmacist, platemaker, pragmatics, pragmatism, pragmatist, premarital, prodromata, ptarmigans, ramparting, ravagement, razzmatazz, reanimated, reanimates, rearmament, sacraments, samaritans, samarskite, sanatorium, sanitarium, scleromata, separatism, smaragdite, smartasses, spermatial, sterigmata, stramashes, stratagems, tamarillos, tarantisms, tarmacadam, taskmaster, tastemaker, teratomata, termagants, termitaria, trademarks, tramontane, traumatise, traumatism, traumatize, trawlerman, tularemias, ultrahuman, ultramafic, ultrasmall, ultrasmart, undramatic, watchmaker, watermarks, weatherman, yardmaster.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Marat


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

4D 61 72 61 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)

--    .-    .-.    .-    -

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

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

01001101 01100001 01110010 01100001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#114 &#97 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0072 0061 0074

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

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

4767846786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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