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Definition: Paderewski |
PaderewskiNoun1. 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. |
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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. |
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Synonym: PaderewskiSynonym: Ignace Jan Paderewski (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Paderewski |
| Specialty definitions using "Paderewski": ARTIST. (references) |
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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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![]() | 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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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Paderewski": Ignace Jan Paderewski. Additional references. | |
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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 |
paderewski | 16 |
ignace paderewski | 3 |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 64 65 72 65 77 73 6B 69 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- -.. . .-. . .--. ... -.- .. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100101 01110111 01110011 01101011 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a d e r e w s k i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0064 0065 0072 0065 0077 0073 006B 0069 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50677071847189857775 |
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