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Definition: Oscar Wilde |
Oscar WildeNoun1. Irish writer and wit (1854-1900). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Oscar WildeSynonyms: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (n), Wilde (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Oscar Wilde |
| English words defined with "Oscar Wilde": saturnine ♦ unsullied. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He's a disco-dancin', Oscar Wilde readin' friend of Dorothy. (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.) | |
Clever | Time is waste of money. (references; author: Oscar Wilde) Who, being loved, is poor? (references; author: Oscar Wilde) I am dying beyond my means. (references; author: Oscar Wilde) A kiss may ruin a human life. (references; author: Oscar Wilde) Bad manners make a journalist. (references; author: Oscar Wilde) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Oscar Wilde (1971) The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) Oscar Wilde (1960) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Oscar Wilde on our cast-iron stoves. Another American institution sat down on / Th. Nast. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A portrait of Richard Milhous, with apologies to Oscar Wilde and Dorian Gray. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Oscar Wilde | Time is waste of money. |
| Who, being loved, is poor? | |
| I am dying beyond my means. | |
| A kiss may ruin a human life. | |
| Bad manners make a journalist. | |
| Nothing succeeds like success. | |
| Life would be dull without them. | |
| Only the shallow know themselves. | |
| Alas, I am dying beyond my means. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-l-o-r-s-w" | |
-2 letters: calories, carioles, clowders, cordials, crowdies, darioles, decrials, idocrase, radicels, radicles, scleroid, scrawled. | |
-3 letters: calorie, cariole, caroled, celosia, claries, claroes, clawers, clerids, clowder, coalers, coalier, codeias, coilers, coleads, cordial, cowards, cowries, cradles, crawled, crowdie, dariole, declaws, decrial, derails, dialers, dowries, eclairs, escolar, isolead, loaders, loricae, oracles, ordeals, radicel, radices, radicle, recoals, recoils, redials. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-l-o-r-s-w" | |
+2 letters: cowardliness. | |
+4 letters: cowardlinesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 73 63 61 72 57 69 6C 64 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110011 01100011 01100001 01110010 00100000 01010111 01101001 01101100 01100100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O s c a r   W i l d e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0073 0063 0061 0072 0057 0069 006C 0064 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)498569678425775787071 |
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