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Definitions: Pantaloon |
PantaloonNoun1. A buffoon in modern pantomimes; the butt of jokes. 2. A character in the commedia dell'arte; portrayed as a foolish old man. 3. Trousers worn in former times. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Pantaloon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references) |
Etymology: Pantaloon \Pan`ta*loon"\, noun. [French expression pantalon, from Italian pantalone, masked character in the Italian comedy, who wore breeches and stockings that were all of one piece, from Pantaleone, the patron saint of Venice, which, as baptismal name, is very frequent among the Venetians, and is applied to them by the other Italians as nickname, from the Greek expression, literally, all lion, Greek personal name.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Pantaloon A feeble-minded old man, the foil of the clown, whom he aids and abets in all his knavery. The word is derived from the dress he used to wear, a loose suit down to the heels. "That Licentio that comes a-wooing is my man Tramo bearing my port, that we might beguile the old pantaloon."- Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, iii. 1. Pantaloon. Lord Byron says the Venetians were called the Planters of the Lion- i.e. the Lion of St. Mark, the standard of the republic; and further tells us that the character of "pantaloon," being Venetian, was called Piantaleone (Planter of the Lion). (Childe Harold, bk. iv. stanza 14, note 9.) Playing Pantaloon. Playing second fiddle, being the cat's-paw of another; servilely imitating. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Humorist | Buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown; wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley; motley fool; pantaloon, gypsy; jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy; wiseacre, wise guy, smartass; fool. |
The Drama | Actor, thespian, player; method actor; stage player, strolling player; stager, performer; mime, mimer; artists; comedian, tragedian; tragedienne, Roscius; star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol; supporting actor, supporting cast; ham, hamfatter; masker. pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo, buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine; punchinello; pulcinello, pulcinella; extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo appearance; mute, figurante, general utility; super, supernumerary. |
Veteran | Noun: veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard; grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon; sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Pantaloon |
| English words defined with "Pantaloon": Pantaloonery. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Pantaloon": Pantalet. (references) |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It would be easier for them to hobble to town with a broken leg than with a broken pantaloon. |
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| 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 |
pantaloon | 49 |
pantaloon valance | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Pantaloon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | klloun pantallone. (various references) | |
Arabic | فرجة ديكور, لباس يغطي من الوسط إلى اسفل الجسم, سروال (dungarees, pants, slacks, trousers). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | втори клоун. (various references) | |
Farsi | پیرمردعینکی شلواراویخته , نوعی شلواروجوراب سرهم وچسبان , شلوار (Britches, Gaskin, Pants), دلقک (Buffoon, Fool, Jester, Stooge). (various references) | |
French | pantalon (pants), culotte (panties, pants, short pants). (various references) | |
German | Hose (breeches, hose, pants, slacks, trouser, trousers). (various references) | |
Greek | παλιάτσοσ (buffoon, clown). (various references) | |
Hungarian | hosszúnadrág (bags, slacks). (various references) | |
Italian | pantaloni (bag, pantaloons, pants, slacks, trousers). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antaloonpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pantalonas (pantaloons), pantalão, suspirar por (crave, hankering), calças (corduroys, galligaskins, knickers, long trousers for babies, panties, pants, trousers, underpants), bobo (buffoon, clown, droll, fool, goof, gull, half wit, idiot, imbecile, jerk, jester, lout, merry andrew, ninny, ninny-hammer, scaramouch, silly, stupid, zany), arlequim (buffoon, harlequin, jester). (various references) | |
Romanian | pantaloni (breeches, continuation, nether garments, pair of bags, pants, trousers, unmentionables), clovn (buffoon, clown, fool, harlequin, mime), bufon (antic, buffoon, butt, cut up, fool, harlequin, jester, merry andrew, mugger, zany). (various references) | |
Russian | второй клоун. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lakrdijaš (buffoon, jester, macaroon, pierrot, punchinello, zany). (various references) | |
Spanish | segundo payaso. (various references) | |
Swedish | clown (clown, merry andrew). (various references) | |
Turkish | komik ihtiyar bunak. (various references) | |
Ukranian | другий клоун. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Pantaloon": pantaloons. (additional references) | |
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"Pantaloon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nanstallon, Pangaion, Pantaleon, Pantaleone, pantalon, pantaloona, pantalooned, Pentelikon, Peptavlon, plantaloon, portaloo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-n-n-o-o-p-t" | |
-2 letters: platoon. | |
-3 letters: atonal, platan, ponton, tapalo. | |
-4 letters: alant, annal, natal, nopal, notal, panto, plant, talon, tolan, tonal. | |
-5 letters: alan, alto, anal, anna, anoa, anon, anta, atap, atop, loan, loon, loop, loot, lota, naan, nana, nolo, nona, noon, nota, onto, opal, pant, plan, plat, plot, polo, pool, poon, tala, tapa, tola, tool, toon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-n-n-o-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: pantaloons. | |
+3 letters: postneonatal. | |
+4 letters: nannoplankton. | |
+5 letters: compensational, conspirational, homotransplant, nannoplanktons, nonexplanatory, nonoperational, preconsonantal. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 6E 74 61 6C 6F 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- -. - .- .-.. --- --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101111 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a n t a l o o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 006E 0074 0061 006C 006F 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506780866778818180 |
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