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MONDE

Definition: MONDE

MONDE

Noun

1. The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MONDE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: MONDE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Fashion

Noun: fashion, style, ton, bon ton, society; good society, polite society; monde; drawing-room, civilized life, civilization, town, beau monde, high life, court; world; fashionable world, gay world; Vanity Fair; show; (ostentation).

Nobility

High life, haute monde; upper classes, upper ten thousand; the four hundred; elite, aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world; (fashion).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: MONDE

English words defined with "MONDE": Le beau monde. (references)
Specialty definitions using "MONDE": Association for Progressive CommunicationsDemi-mondeGeorge, Mark, John, GueuxMettre de la Paille dans ses Souliers, Moses' Rod. (references)
Etymologies containing "MONDE": mundane. (references)
Non-English Usage: "MONDE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (earth, kingdom, people, realm, world), German (moons).

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Modern Usage: MONDE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

L' Homme qui voulait violer le monde (1974)

Juste pour partir le monde (1974)

La Tour du monde de Colargol (1974)

Prenez la queue comme tout monde (1973)

Le Monde était plein de couleurs (1973)

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

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Commercial Usage: MONDE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Chez Nous: Branche sur le monde francophone (reference)

  • H.P. Lovecraft-Contre Le Monde Contre LA Vie (reference)

  • Invitation: Au Monde Francophone (reference)

  • Le Monde Perdu (reference)

  • Literatures En Contexte Le Monde Francophone/Book and Cassette (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: MONDE

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Photo Album: MONDE

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Voyage et conduite d'un moribond pour l'autre monde. / C. Naudet fecit. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

J't'ai déjà dit d'examiner le monde... / J. Grandville Lith de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Copies of French and English magazines. Monde libre magazine I. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pour la liberté du monde. Souscrivez á l'emprunt national á la Banque Nationale de Crédit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Souscrivez au IVéme Emprunt et le drapeau tricolore, á Strasbourg, annonçera au monde le règne de la paix, de la liberté, de la justice. Credit: Library of Congress.

Au tribunal de la Haye, la menthe-pastille - passione le monde!! / Ogé. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Nuit et jour" on emploie les plaques Jougla dans le monde entier / Affiches Artistiques Étabts. Minot, Paris. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pour la liberté du monde. Souscrivez á l'emprunt national á la Banque Nationale de Crédit. Credit: Library of Congress.

Souscrivez au IVéme Emprunt et le drapeau tricolore, á Strasbourg, annonçera au monde le règne de la paix, de la liberté, de la justice. Credit: Library of Congress.

Pour un monde plus humain, soyez croix-rouge -- adherez. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: MONDE
 

"Institut du Monde Arabe" by Pedro Valdeolmillos
Commentary: "A window of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, France."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: MONDE

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Tunisia

For example, issues of Jeune Afrique were banned throughout the year and issues of Le Monde were banned in January, April and July. (references)

Tunisia

There were no results during the year of the Government's investigation into the May 2000 shooting of Le Monde journalist Riadh Ben Fadhl. (references)

Tunisia

An April edition of Le Monde and an October edition of Le Monde Diplomatique were delayed because of articles on human rights in the country. (references)

Economic History

Lebanon

A weekly Middle-East edition of the French newspaper Le Monde began publishing in Lebanon. (references)

Tunisia

IMPORTANT PERIODICALS INCLUDE: THE GOVERNMENT-OWNED FRENCH LANGUAGE DAILY LA PRESSE (DAILY PRINT RUN - 42,000), LE TEMPS (PRIVATE, FRENCH; 20,000), LE QUOTIDIEN (NEW PRIVATE FRENCH LANGUAGE DAILY, LAUNCHED SPRING 2001); L'ECONOMISTE MAGHREBIN (FRENCH; BI-MONTHLY, 15,000), RÉALITÉS (FRENCH AND ARABIC; WEEKLY, 20,000), L'OBSERVATEUR (FRENCH AND ARABIC; WEEKLY, 14,000), TUNISIA NEWS (ENGLISH; WEEKLY, 15,000), ASH-SHURUQ (PRIVATE, ARABIC; 80,000), AND AS-SABAH (ARABIC; 53,000). SELECTED FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING THE FRENCH DAILY LE MONDE, ARE ALSO GENERALLY AVAILABLE IN TUNISIA, ALTHOUGH INDIVIDUAL ISSUES ARE SOMETIMES WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC SALE IF THEY CONTAIN "UNACCEPTABLE" MATERIAL. (references)

Human Rights

Morocco

The authorities detained Adib after he spoke out against military corruption and harassment to a journalist from the French newspaper Le Monde. (references)

Worker Rights

France

In August the newspaper Le Monde reported that there was an increase in prostitution in the country specifically during the summer months. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: MONDE

"MONDE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.41% of the time. "MONDE" is used about 271 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)90.41%24519,065
Noun (singular)9.59%2668,323
                    Total100.00%271N/A

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

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Expression: MONDE

Expressions using "MONDE": beau monde Demi monde Le beau monde Medecins du Monde. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "MONDE": anti-monde.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MONDE

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

le monde

1,637

miss monde

18

carte du monde

166

du monde saveurs

18

diplomatique le monde

133

canada jeunesse monde

17

cafe du monde

123

beau monde seasoning

15

le monde.fr

95

du monde nouveau theater

15

fr le monde

65

arab du institut monde

15

le monde journal

56

voyageurs du monde

14

monde

52

nouveau monde

14

beau monde

40

cartes du monde

14

diplomatique monde

36

carte monde

13

monde petit

28

belle du femmes les monde plus

13

du les monde rois

25

cafe du monde new orleans

13

citation du monde

22

english le monde

12

le monde newspaper

22

athlete des monde super

12

du monde tour

22

alex le monde

12

en le monde parle tout

20

tote le monde

12

la monde

20

drapeaux du monde

11

france le monde

19

coupe de du monde rugby

11

de gigi le monde

19

du monde saveur

11

map monde

19

cuisine du monde

11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MONDE

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

Danish

  

Medecins du Monde (Medecins du Monde). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Médécins du Monde (Medecins du Monde). (various references)

   

French

  

Médecins du Monde (Medecins du Monde). (various references)

   

German

  

Médecins du Monde(Ärzte der Welt) (Medecins du Monde). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Γιατροί του κόσμου (Medecins du Monde). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

előkelő társaság (high life, rank and fashion). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Médecins du Monde (Medecins du Monde). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ルミノール試験 (free loader, lake, laser, laser disk, laser printer, laserknife, Laserwriter, LD, Le Monde, loafer, luminol test, lung, racer, rake, rumba, tramp, unemployed person). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ルモンド (Le Monde). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ondemay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

Médicos do Mundo (Medecins du Monde). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Médicos del Mundo (Medecins du Monde). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Médecins du Monde (Medecins du Monde). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Dünya (world), Çevre (Vicinage). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thế giới xa hội giới sang trọng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: MONDE

Derivations

Words beginning with "MONDE": mondes. (additional references)

Words ending with "MONDE": demimonde. (additional references)

Words containing "MONDE": demimondes, diamonded. (additional references)


Misspellings

"MONDE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Imunde, mandie, mando, Mandu, mende, mendi, menodge, minde, mindeg, mnbdo, Mnda, Mndo, Mnod, mohde, Molndal, mond, monda, Mondal, Mondee, mondem, Mondes, mondex, mondo, monds, mone, Moneda, moneo, monge, monid, monie, Monje, monke, monnie, monref, monse, montee, monten, monti, montre, Moondah, morde, morned, Munde, Mundee, Munden, Mundie, mundum, ngonde, nnode. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "MONDE"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "MONDE" (pronounced mÄ"nd)
3-Ä" n dbeyond, blond, blonde, bond, conned, correspond, donned, fond, frond, pond, respond, wand.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: MONDE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: demon.

Words within the letters "d-e-m-n-o"

-1 letter: demo, dome, done, mend, meno, mode, node, nome, omen.

-2 letters: den, doe, dom, don, end, eon, med, men, mod, mon, nod, nom, ode, one.

-3 letters: de, do, ed, em, en, me, mo, ne, no, od, oe, om, on.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-m-n-o"
 

+1 letter: daemon, demons, dolmen, domine, emodin, moaned, modern, mondes, monied, mooned, normed, omened, rodmen.

 

+2 letters: abdomen, adenoma, amidone, bondmen, commend, compend, condemn, daemons, demeton, demoing, demonic, demount, dolmens, domines, dominie, doormen, emodins, endmost, eudemon, goodmen, imponed, madrone, masoned, mendigo, minored, misdone, moderne, moderns, monades, moneyed, mordent, mounded, mounted, mourned, oddment, rodsmen, unmoved, venomed, womaned, woodmen.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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