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Definition: Michelangelo |
MichelangeloNoun1. Florentine sculptor and painter and architect; one of the outstanding figures of the Renaissance (1475-1564). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Michelangelo" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "Who is like God?". |
Date "Michelangelo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
Synonym: MichelangeloSynonym: Michelangelo Buonarroti (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Michelangelo |
| English words defined with "Michelangelo": Lorenzo de Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent ♦ Michelangelesque, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Michelangelo" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (Michelangelo), Italian (Michelangelo). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. (The Third Man; writing credit: Graham Greene; Alexander Korda) Not supposed to, Michelangelo said it. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird) | |
Clever | Genius is eternal patience. (references; author: Michelangelo) I live and love in God's peculiar light. (references; author: Michelangelo) A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. (references; author: Michelangelo) Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. (references; author: Michelangelo) Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. (references; author: Michelangelo) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Michelangelo Antonioni storia di un autore (1966) Vita di Michelangelo (1964) The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950) Michelangelo (1938) Waiting for Michelangelo (1996) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Statue by Michelangelo Buonarotti of the Virgin Mary holding dead body of Jesus Christ. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Michelangelo | Genius is eternal patience. |
| I live and love in God's peculiar light. | |
| A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. | |
| Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. | |
| Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. | |
| If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Italy | Literary achievements--such as the poetry of Petrarch, Tasso, and Ariosto and the prose of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and Castiglione--exerted a tremendous and lasting influence on the subsequent development of Western civilization, as did the painting, sculpture, and architecture contributed by giants such as da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, and Michelangelo. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | You'll see the images of opulence in the Michelangelo Hotel and the wackos attending, juxtaposed with those of nearby people living in utter and total squalor. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Michelangelo" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Michelangelo" is used about 125 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% | 125 | 28,650 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Michelangelo" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "Who is like God?". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Michelangelo." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Mikel | Male | Basque | Michael |
| Mitxel | Male | Basque | Michael |
| Michael | Male | Biblical | N/A |
| Miquel | Male | Catalan | Michael |
| Myghal | Male | Cornish | Michael |
| Michael | Male | Czech | N/A |
| Michaela | Female | Czech | Michael |
| Michal | Male | Czech | Michael |
| Michael | Male | English | N/A |
| Michaela | Female | English | Michael |
| Micheal | Male | English | Michael |
| Michelle | Female | English | Michael |
| Mick | Male | English | Michael |
| Mike | Male | English | Michael |
| Miles | Male | English | Michael |
| Mitchell | Male | English | Michael |
| Michjo | Male | Esperanto | Michael |
| Mihhaelo | Male | Esperanto | Michael |
| Mikelo | Male | Esperanto | Michael |
| Mikko | Male | Finnish | Michael |
| Michèle | Female | French | Michael |
| Michel | Male | French | Michael |
| Micheline | Female | French | Michael |
| Michelle | Female | French | Michael |
| Michael | Male | German | N/A |
| Michaela | Female | German | Michael |
| Michel | Male | German | Michael |
| Mikala | Male | Hawaiian | Michael |
| Mihály | Male | Hungarian | Michael |
| Mícheál | Male | Irish | Michael |
| Micaela | Female | Italian | Michael |
| Michela | Female | Italian | Michael |
| Michelangelo | Male | Italian | Michael |
| Michele | Male | Italian | Michael |
| Michelina | Female | Italian | Michael |
| Mykolas | Male | Lithuanian | Michael |
| Michal | Male | Polish | Michael |
| Michalina | Female | Polish | Michael |
| Miguel | Male | Portuguese | Michael |
| Mihaela | Female | Romanian | Michael |
| Mihai | Male | Romanian | Michael |
| Mihaita | Male | Romanian | Michael |
| Mikhail | Male | Russian | Michael |
| Mikhaila | Female | Russian | Michael |
| Misha | Male, Female | Russian | Michael |
| Mikael | Male | Scandinavian | Michael |
| Mikaela | Female | Scandinavian | Michael |
| Mikkel | Male | Scandinavian | Michael |
| Mìcheal | Male | Scottish | Michael |
| Micheil | Male | Scottish | Michael |
| Mihael | Male | Slovene | Michael |
| Miguel | Male | Spanish | Michael |
| Mikayla | Female | Ukrainian | Michael |
| Mikhailo | Male | Ukrainian | Michael |
| Meical | Male | Welsh | Michael |
| Mihangel | Male | Welsh | Michael |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Michelangelo": Michelangelo Buonarroti ♦ Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Michelangelo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Michelangelo-initiatief (Michelangelo Initiative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Initiative Michel Ange (Michelangelo Initiative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Michelangelo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | michelangelo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | マ行 (a mummy, Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "mu", follower of each new fad, mass, meal, means test, meat, meat sauce, media, meet, meeting, me-ism, micro, microcosm, micrometer, micron, Micronesia, MIG, mir, missile, mixed, mixer, mixing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ミケランジェロ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ichelangelomay mikelanđelo. (various references) จิตรกรชื่อ"ังของอิตาลี. (various references) Mikelanj. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Michelangelo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Michelagniolo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-h-i-l-l-m-n-o" | |
-2 letters: allogeneic. | |
-3 letters: allogenic, challenge, chameleon, collegian, halocline, hegemonic. | |
-4 letters: cameoing, chenille, collagen, collegia, comingle, gnomical, halloing, helloing, hollaing, inchmeal, leaching, leeching, liegeman, megillah, micellae. | |
-5 letters: allonge, angelic, anglice, calling, calming, calomel, celling, challie, chalone, choline, cineole, coaling, coaming, coinage, collage, colleen, college, congeal, echelon, echoing, elegiac, elenchi, encomia, galenic, galilee, gallein, galleon, geminal, genomic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-g-h-i-l-l-m-n-o" | |
+4 letters: phenomenological. | |
+5 letters: morphogenetically. | |
| 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 68 65 6C 61 6E 67 65 6C 6F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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 01101000 01100101 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01101100 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M i c h e l a n g e l o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0069 0063 0068 0065 006C 0061 006E 0067 0065 006C 006F |
| 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)477569747178678073717881 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Spoken 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Derived from | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Derivations | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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