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Paderewski

Definition: Paderewski

Paderewski

Noun

1. Polish pianist who in 1919 served as the first Prime Minister of independent Poland (1860-1941).

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

 

Specialty Definition: Paderewski

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Biographical Satire

PADEREWSKI, Ignace Jan, another farewell-concert giver, who wore long red hair, a soulful expression, insured his fingers, and broke pianos. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

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

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Synonym: Paderewski

Synonym: Ignace Jan Paderewski (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Paderewski

Specialty definitions using "Paderewski": ARTIST. (references)

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Modern Usage: Paderewski

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Screenplays

And you, I take it, are the Paderewski who plays his concerto on me, the piano (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

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Image Slideshow: Paderewski

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Paderewski

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Paderewski. Credit: Library of Congress.

Portrait photograph of Ignace Paderewski. Credit: Library of Congress.

Paderewski, Ignace, portrait painting. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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Usage Frequency: Paderewski

"Paderewski" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Paderewski" is used about 5 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)80%4175,879
Adjective (general or positive)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

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

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Expression: Paderewski

Expression using "Paderewski": Ignace Jan Paderewski. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Paderewski

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

paderewski

16

ignace paderewski

3
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Anagrams: Paderewski

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-k-p-r-s-w"

-2 letters: airspeed, weakside.

-3 letters: aperies, aspired, daikers, dearies, dekares, despair, diapers, drawees, pawkier, peakier, peskier, praised, preside, readies, resawed, respade, respeak, rewaked, rewakes, skiwear, sparked, speaker, speared, speired, spiered, waspier, wearied, wearies, wreaked.

-4 letters: aeried, aeries, aiders, aspire, daiker, deairs, dearie, dekare, desire, dewars, dewier, diaper, dikers, drakes, drapes, drawee, easier, eiders, erased, espied.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Paderewski


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

50 61 64 65 72 65 77 73 6B 69

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)

01010000 01100001 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100101 01110111 01110011 01101011 01101001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#100 &#101 &#114 &#101 &#119 &#115 &#107 &#105

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0064 0065 0072 0065 0077 0073 006B 0069

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

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

50677071847189857775

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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