Mussolini

Definition: Mussolini

Mussolini

Noun

1. Italian Fascist dictator (1883-1945).

Date "Mussolini" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1930. (references)

Synonyms: Mussolini

Synonyms: Benito Mussolini (n), Il Duce (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Mussolini

English words defined with "Mussolini": Achille Ratti, Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti ♦ Pius XI ♦ Victor Emanuel III. (references)

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Modern Usage: Mussolini

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You'd think nobody was ever compared to Mussolini before? (Crimes and Misdemeanors; writing credit: Woody Allen)
Movie/TV Titles	Men of Our Time: Mussolini (1970) Benito Mussolini (1962) Mussolini in Deutschland (1937) Tea with Mussolini (1999) Il Giovane Mussolini (1993)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mussolini

Domain	Title
Books	Benito Mussolini (Critical Lives) (reference) Benito Mussolini (World Leaders Past and Present) (reference) Duce! the rise and fall of Benito Mussolini (reference) Mussolini (reference) Phoenix: Mussolini Memoirs (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Tea With Mussolini (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Tea With Mussolini (1999 Film) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Mussolini

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Photo Album: Mussolini

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	United Nations wallop punching Hitler and Mussolini from Tunisia. Credit: Library of Congress.		American people watching Vladimir Lenin and Benito Mussolini. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Tojo courting Hitler while Mussolini sits in front of a dog house. Credit: Library of Congress.		Benito Mussolini. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini saluting from balcony during Hitler's visit to Venice, June 14-16, 1934. Credit: Library of Congress.		Mussolini addresses woman suffrage in Rome. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Caricature, in six of clubs playing card motif, showing Emperor of Japan Hirohito, Benito Mussolini, and Adolf Hitler standing, full-length] / Arias Bernal. Credit: Library of Congress.		War production drive poster. The labor-management committee at Wallace Silversmiths in Wallingford, Connecticut staged a public hanging of three effigies that looked like Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito but were named Lost Time, Inefficiency, and Accident. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Herr Adolf Hitler and Huey S. ("Hooey") Long versus Josef Stalin and Benito Mussolini. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mussolini

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Italy	Following the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943, the King dismissed Mussolini and appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio as Premier. (references)
	Italy	The Badoglio government declared war on Germany, which quickly occupied most of the country and freed Mussolini, who led a brief-lived regime in the north. (references)
	Italy	In 1922, Benito Mussolini came to power and, over the next few years, eliminated political parties, curtailed personal liberties, and installed a fascist dictatorship termed the Corporate State. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Mussolini

"Mussolini" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mussolini" is used about 276 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%	276	17,631

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

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Expressions: Mussolini

Expression using "Mussolini": Benito Mussolini. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Mussolini": Mussolini-meets-foghorn.
	Ending with "Mussolini": Chamberlain-mussolini, pro-mussolini.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mussolini

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
mussolini	437	benito doctrine fascism mussolini political social	4
benito mussolini	290	benito mussolini quote	4
alessandra mussolini	29	benito mussolini pic	4
mussolini symbol	28	mussolini power rise	4
mussolini picture	27	benito de discurso el mussolini	3
benito mussolini picture	26	romano mussolini	3
tea with mussolini	23	benito biografia mussolini	3
benito biography mussolini	17	mussolini rise	3
hitler mussolini	11	corpse mussolini	3
biography mussolini	10	italy mussolini	3
death mussolini	10	biografia de mussolini	2
mussolini and fascism	10	alexandra mussolini	2
mussolini quote	7	allesandra mussolini	2
benito biografia de mussolini	6	essay mussolini	2
mussolini speech	5	ales mussolini	2
mussolini photo	5	der mussolini	2
mussolini pic	5	adolf benito hitler mussolini	2
mussolini propaganda	5	hitler mussolini stalin	2
benito mussolini photo	4	benito death mussolini	2
line mussolini time	4	benito life mussolini	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Mussolini

Language		Translations for "Mussolini"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		� コ多糖類 (badger, maker, maker option, meuniere, monsieur, mucopolysaccharide, mulatto, mustang, mutton, sheep, thick illustrated publication on a single topic printed to look like a magazine). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		� ッソリーニ . (various references)

Pig Latin		ussolinimay

Russian		муссолини. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Mussolini

Misspellings
	"Mussolini" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Masolini, Massimino, Mazzolini, Messalina, Moussalli, Muscoli, Mussolimini, Mussolinis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Mussolini

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "i-i-l-m-n-o-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: insouls, ioniums, mission, moulins, muslins, nimious, simious, simlins.
	-3 letters: insoul, ionium, linums, lissom, miosis, moulin, muslin, simlin, solums.
	-4 letters: ilium, imino, limns, limos, linos, linum, lions, loins, louis, milos, minis, minus, misos, moils, munis, muons, nisus, noils, onium, silos, sinus, slims, slums, soils, solum, solus, souls, sumos.
	-5 letters: ions, isms, limn, limo, lino, lins.
	Words containing the letters "i-i-l-m-n-o-s-s-u"
	+1 letter: impulsions, limousines.
	+2 letters: illusionism, simulations.
	+3 letters: illusionisms, luminosities, stimulations, sublimations.
	+4 letters: connubialisms, dissimulation, evolutionisms, immunologists, maliciousness, pusillanimous.
	+5 letters: dissimulations, feuilletonisms, functionalisms, incombustibles, misevaluations, parsimoniously, restimulations, somnambulistic, subnormalities, ventriloquisms, voluminosities.
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