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Marrakesh

Definition: Marrakesh

Marrakesh

Noun

1. A city in western Morocco; tourist center.

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

Synonym: Marrakesh

Synonym: Marrakech (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: Marrakesh Protocol (business, economics), Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (international organizations).

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Modern Usage: Marrakesh

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You have muddled everything from the start, taking that child with you from Marrakesh. Don't you realise that Americans dislike having their children stolen? (The Man Who Knew Too Much; writing credit: Charles Bennett; D.B. Wyndham-Lewis)

Movie/TV Titles

L' Homme de Marrakesh (1966)

Our Man in Marrakesh (1966)

Marrakesh (1965)

Song Titles

MARRAKESH EXPRESS (performing artist: Stills & Nash Crosby)

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

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Commercial Usage: Marrakesh

DomainTitle

Books

  • Living in Morocco: Design from Casablanca to Marrakesh (reference)

  • Protocol on the Accession of the People's Republic of China to the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization: Volume 1 : Done at Doha 10 November 2001 (reference)

  • Marrakesh Fez Rabat (Marrakesh Fez Rabat (Cadogan Guides), 1st Ed) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

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

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Photo Album: Marrakesh

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

New! : blended Marrakesh hash.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Marrakesh

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

Spain

Spain has adhered to the GATT code since 1963. In December 1994, Spain ratified adherence to the Marrakesh accord, which concluded the Uruguay Round of international trade negotiations and established the World Trade Organization. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Marrakesh

"Marrakesh" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 40.00% of the time. "Marrakesh" is used about 10 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)40%4175,879
Lexical Verb (infinitive)30%3202,518
Noun (singular)20%2245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)10%1339,140
                    Total100.00%10N/A

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

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Expression: Marrakesh

Expression using "Marrakesh": Marrakesh Protocol. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Marrakesh

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

  marrakesh

142

  marrakesh hotel

78

  marrakesh restaurant

14

  marrakesh morocco

11

  dc marrakesh washington

4

  comforter marrakesh

4

  dc marrakesh

4

  marrakesh philadelphia restaurant

3

  cheap flight marrakesh

3

  marrakesh thomasville

3

  express marrakesh

3

  dc marrakesh restaurant

3

  dc marrakesh restaurant washington

3

  marrakesh philadelphia

3

  bedding marrakesh

2

  riad marrakesh

2

  marrakesh picture

2

  hotel in marrakesh

2

  by marrakesh thomasville

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Marrakesh

Language Translations for "Marrakesh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

MP (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994, Module Processor, Northern Marianas), Protocol van Marrakesh bij de Algemene Overeenkomst inzake Tarieven en Handel (Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994), PM (Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994, phase modulation, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Territorial collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon). (various references)

   

French

  

MP (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Marketing Postal Services Main Division, Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994, Northern Marianas), Protocole de Marrakech annexé à l'Accord général sur les tarifs douaniers et le commerce de 1994 (Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994). (various references)

   

German

  

MP (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Marketing Postal Services Main Division, Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994, Northern Marianas, sub-machine gun), Protokoll von Marrakesch zum Allgemeinen Zoll-und Handelsabkommen 1994 (Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994). (various references)

   

Italian

  

MP (Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Marketing Postal Services Main Division, Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994, Medium Pressure, Northern Marianas), Protocollo di Marrakech dell'Accordo generale sulle tariffe doganali e sul commercio 1994 (Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arrakeshmay

   

Spanish

  

marakech. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Marrakesh

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-k-m-r-r-s"

-1 letter: earmarks.

-2 letters: earmark, harmers, markers, remarks, seamark, sharker.

-3 letters: armers, ashram, harems, harmer, karmas, kasher, makars, makers, marker, masher, masker, rakers, rasher, rearms, remark, samekh, shaker, sharer, shmear.

-4 letters: amahs, araks, areas, armer, arras, asker, eskar, haars, haems, hakes, hames, harem, hares, harks, harms, hears, herma, herms, kames, karma, kasha, maars, makar, maker, makes.

-5 letters: aahs.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-h-k-m-r-r-s"
 

+2 letters: phrasemaker.

 

+3 letters: phrasemakers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Marrakesh


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

4D 61 72 72 61 6B 65 73 68

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 01110010 01100001 01101011 01100101 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#114 &#114 &#97 &#107 &#101 &#115 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0072 0072 0061 006B 0065 0073 0068

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

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

476784846777718574

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INDEX

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


  

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