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Moselle

Definition: Moselle

Moselle

Noun

1. German white wine from the Moselle valley or a similar wine made elsewhere.

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

Date "Moselle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references)


Crosswords: Moselle

English words defined with "Moselle": May wine. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Moselle": Foods and Wines. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Moselle" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (Moselle).

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Specialty Definition: Moselle

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Moselle is a French département, named after the Moselle River.

Moselle
Region Lorraine
Number 57
Préfecture Metz
Sous-préfectures Boulay Moselle, Château Salins, Forbach, Sarrebourg, Sarreguemines, Thionville
Area
 - Total
 - % water

xx,xxx km²
xx%
Population
 - Total (Year)
 - Density

xxx,xxx
xxx/km²

History

Geography

Economy

Demographics

Culture

Miscellaneous topics

External link

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Moselle."

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Commercial Usage: Moselle

DomainTitle

Books

  • La guerre des paysans d'Alsace et de Moselle : avril-mai 1525 (reference)

  • La sigillée de Boucheporn, Moselle (reference)

  • Lorraine : Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Vosges (reference)

  • Michelin France Moselle #4057 (reference)

  • Michelin Map. No. 307 Meuse, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Moselle, Bar-le-Duc, Nancy, Metz (France) and Surrounding Area Scale 1:175,000 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Moselle

Illustrations:
Moselle

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Historic Usage: Moselle

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The regulations concerning the control of the Rhine and of the Moselle are laid down in Part XII (Ports, Waterways and Railways) of the present Treaty. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Moselle

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Luxembourg

Vineyards in the Moselle Valley annually produce about 15 million liters of dry white wine, most of which is consumed locally. (references)

Luxembourg

Waterways have been developed to link the Grand Duchy to the Rhine, the North Sea, and the rest of Europe through the now canalized Moselle River. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: Moselle

"Moselle" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Moselle" is used about 8 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)100%8124,375

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Moselle

The following table summarizes the usage of "Moselle" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
MoselleLast name17042,762
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Moselle


1. Moselle, MS
Zip Code(s): 39459
Country: USA

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Expression: Moselle

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Moselle": Moselle-saar-ruwer.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Moselle

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

moselle

34

conception internet moselle site

7

moselle ms

6

et meurthe moselle

6

fishing fly moselle

6

moselle river

5

capital moselle

3

conseil de general la moselle

3

france moselle

2

en moselle sortie

2

en les moselle pendant travailler vacances

2

courir en moselle

2

kayak moselle

2

cci moselle

2

cruise moselle river

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

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Modern Translation: Moselle

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

Albanian

  

verë (bottle, cup, summer, wine). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

мозелско бяло вино. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

摩泽". (various references)

   

Danish

  

konventionen af 27.oktober 1956 mellem storhertugdoemmet Luxembourg,Forbundsrepublikken Tyskland og Den franske Republik om kanaliseringen af Mosel (Convention of 27 October 1956 between the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the canalization of the Moselle). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Moezel. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

mozelvino, Mozelo. (various references)

   

French

  

Moselle. (various references)

   

German

  

Mosel. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

Σύμβαση της 27ης Οκτωβρίου 1956 μεταξύ Μεγάλου "ουκάτου του Λουξεμβούργου,Ομοσπονδιακής "ημοκρατίας της "ερμανίας και "αλλικής "ημοκρατίας (the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the canalization of the Moselle). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

moseli bor. (various references)

   

Italian

  

mosella. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

osellemay

   

Portuguese

  

mosela. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

мозельвейн. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mozel. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Mosela. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

moselvin, mosel. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

alman sek beyaz şarabı. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

мозельвейн. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

rượu vang môzen. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Moselle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-l-l-m-o-s"

-2 letters: losel, mells, moles, molls, selle, smell.

-3 letters: eels, ells, elms, else, emes, lees, lose, mell, mels, mole, moll, mols, oles, seel, seem, sell, seme, sloe, sole, some.

-4 letters: eel, ell, elm, els, eme, ems, lee, mel, mol, mos, oes, ole, oms, ose, see, sel, sol, som.

-5 letters: el, em, es, lo, me, mo, oe.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-l-l-m-o-s"
 

+1 letter: morelles.

 

+2 letters: mellowest, modellers, molecules, morselled.

 

+3 letters: demoiselle, emollients, glomerules, lonesomely, mellowness, movelessly, romeldales.

 

+4 letters: allometries, demoiselles, employables, enrollments, fellmongers, immortelles, mellophones, mesothelial, misenrolled, phelloderms, salmonellae, steamrolled, steamroller, wholesomely.

 

+5 letters: balletomanes, biomolecules, blithesomely, hemerocallis, mademoiselle, malevolences, melancholies, mellownesses, motivelessly, remorsefully, splenomegaly, steamrollers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Moselle


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

4D 6F 73 65 6C 6C 65

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 01101111 01110011 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#115 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 0073 0065 006C 006C 0065

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

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

47818571787871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Quotations: Historic
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Cities
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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