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Definition: Munchausen |
MunchausenNoun1. German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Munchausen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | MUNCHAUSEN, Baron, traveler, explorer. While many of his books, lectures, and newspaper interviews have been questioned by scientific men, he is held in high regard due to his failure to claim the discovery of the north pole. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Munchausen (Baron). The hero of a volume of travels, who meets with the most marvellous adventures. The incidents have been compiled from various sources, and the name is said to have pointed to Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen, a German officer in the Russian army, noted for his marvellous stories (1720-1797). It is a satire either on Baron de Tott, or on Bruce, whose Travels in Abyssinia were looked upon as mythical when they first appeared. The author is Rudolf Erich Raspe, and the sources from which the adventures were compiled, are Bebel's Facetiæ, Castiglione's Cortegiano, Bildermann's Utopia, and some of the baron's own stories. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: MunchausenSynonyms: Baron Munchausen (n), Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchhausen (n), Munchhausen (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Exaggeration | Noun: exaggeration; expansion; hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura; extravagance; (nonsense); Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Munchausen |
| Specialty definitions using "Munchausen": Frozen Words. (references) |
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Screenplays | Munchausen By Proxy. (The Division; writing credit: Guglielmo Enea; Marcello Fois) | |
Lyrics | Goin' through public housin' systems, victim of Munchausen Syndrome (Cleanin' Out My Closet; performing artist: Eminem) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) Les Fabuleuses aventures du legendaire Baron de Munchausen (1979) | |
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| "Munchausen" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Munchausen" is used about 14 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) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Munchausen": Baron Munchausen ♦ Munchausen Syndrome ♦ Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Munchausen": Munchausen-by-proxy. | |
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| 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 |
munchausen syndrome | 149 |
munchausen | 123 |
by munchausen proxy | 78 |
munchausen syndrome by proxy | 61 |
baron munchausen | 29 |
adventure of baron munchausen | 21 |
against mother munchausen | 13 |
disease munchausen | 11 |
de munchausen syndrome | 5 |
baron von munchausen | 5 |
biproxy munchausen | 4 |
munchausen proxy syndrome | 3 |
by munchausen proxy surveillance video | 3 |
disorder munchausen | 2 |
munchausen proxy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-m-n-n-s-u-u" | |
-3 letters: acumens, eunuchs, manches, munches, nuances, unhuman, usaunce. | |
-4 letters: acumen, ashmen, encash, eunuch, hances, hausen, hennas, humane, humans, maches, manche, mensch, muches, muscae, naches, nances, nuance, nuchae, sachem, samech, schema, sumach, sunnah, uncase, unmans, unmesh, unseam, usance. | |
-5 letters: aches, acmes, acnes, amens, amuse, ashen, cames, canes, cause, chams, chase, chasm, chums, haems, hames, hance. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 75 6E 63 68 61 75 73 65 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- ..- -. -.-. .... .- ..- ... . -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01110101 01101110 01100011 01101000 01100001 01110101 01110011 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M u n c h a u s e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0075 006E 0063 0068 0061 0075 0073 0065 006E |
| 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)47878069746787857180 |
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