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Definition: MONDE |
MONDENoun1. The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. |
Date "MONDE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: MONDE |
| English words defined with "MONDE": Le beau monde. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MONDE": Association for Progressive Communications ♦ Demi-monde ♦ George, Mark, John, Gueux ♦ Mettre 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). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | L' Homme qui voulait violer le monde (1974) Juste pour partir le monde (1974) La Tour du monde de Colargol (1974) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | 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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| "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. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 90.41% | 245 | 19,065 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.59% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Total | 100.00% | 271 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MONDE": mondes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "MONDE": demimonde. (additional references) | |
Words containing "MONDE": demimondes, diamonded. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "MONDE" (pronounced mÄ"nd) |
| 3 | -Ä" n d | beyond, blond, blonde, bond, conned, correspond, donned, fond, frond, pond, respond, wand. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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