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Definition: Micawber |
MicawberNoun1. Fictional character created by Charles Dickens; an eternal optimist. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Micawber" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Micawber (Mr. Wilkins). A great speechifier and letter-writer, projector of bubble schemes sure to lead to fortune, but always ending in grief. Notwithstanding his ill success, he never despaired, but felt certain that something would "turn up" to make his fortune. Having failed in every adventure in the old country, he emigrated to Australia, where he became a magnate. (Dickens: David Copperfield.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: MicawberSynonym: Wilkins Micawber (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Neglect | Trifler, waiter on Providence; Micawber. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Micawber |
| English words defined with "Micawber": Wilkins Micawber. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Micawber (2001) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Micawber" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "Micawber" is used about 20 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) | 95% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (singular) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Micawber": Wilkins Micawber. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Micawber": micawber-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
micawber | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Micawber": micawbers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-m-r-w" | |
-2 letters: amebic, barmie, camber, caribe, crambe. | |
-3 letters: acerb, aimer, amber, amice, areic, baric, brace, bream, caber, ceiba, ceria, cream, crime, embar, erica, macer, mbira, micra, rabic, ramie. | |
-4 letters: abri, acme, acre, amie, amir, bare, barm, beam, bear, bema, berm, bice, bier, bima, brae, braw, brew, brie, brim, came, carb, care, cire, crab, cram, craw. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i-m-r-w" | |
+1 letter: micawbers. | |
+4 letters: microwavable. | |
+5 letters: microwaveable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 69 63 61 77 62 65 72 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .. -.-. .- .--. -... . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110111 01100010 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M i c a w b e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0069 0063 0061 0077 0062 0065 0072 |
| 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)4775696789687184 |
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