Picasso

Definition: Picasso

Picasso

Noun

1. Prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973).

Synonym: Picasso

Synonym: Pablo Picasso (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Picasso

English words defined with "Picasso": Pablo Picasso. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Picasso" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (Picasso).

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Modern Usage: Picasso

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Look, I'm Picasso! (Toy Story; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton) Well, I'm no Picasso, but do you like it? (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Sam Hamm) Did they tell Picasso 'No brush'? (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) Hemingway was an abusive alcoholic who squandered his life hanging around Picasso trying to nail his leftovers. (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith) I don't know the difference between Picasso and a car crash. (Bean; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Robin Driscoll)
Lyrics	If I knew Picasso (Mr. Jones; performing artist: Counting Crows)
Movie/TV Titles	Picasso entre nosotros (1973) The Picasso Summer (1969) Le Regard Picasso (1967) Picasso (1967) Le Mystère Picasso (1956)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Picasso

Domain	Title
Books	Life With Picasso (reference) Matisse Picasso (reference) Picasso (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	13 Days in the Life of Picasso (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Balls to Picasso (reference) Rodeo & Picasso (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: Picasso

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Non-Fiction Usage: Picasso

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Nissan followed with the Almera Tino, to take advantage of the trend and Citroen and even Chrysler have introduced compact vans, notably the Picasso and the Cruiser. (references)
		The Russian perfume market is almost fully dominated by leading French, Italian, U.S. and German brands such as Christian Dior, Lancome, Jacomo, Jean Couturier, Charles Jourdan, Dolce&Gabana, Coty, Cacharel, Paco Rabanne, Evaflor, Melfleurs, Parfume Parour, Estee Lauder, Clinique, Aramis, Tommy Hilfiger, Nina Ricci, Chanel, Gucci, Rochas, Givenchy, Kenzo, Guerlain, Lancome, Cacharel, Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, Paloma Picasso, Guy Laroche, Boucheron, Lancaster, Gianfranco Ferre, Byblos and many others. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Picasso

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	Even among TV families, you'll find more unconventional arrangements than in a flower shop owned by Picasso.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Picasso

"Picasso" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Picasso" is used about 819 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%	819	8,544

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Picasso

The following table summarizes the usage of "Picasso" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Picasso	Last name	200	35,003
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Picasso

Expression using "Picasso": Pablo Picasso. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Picasso": picasso-influenced, picasso-like, picasso-style.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Picasso

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
picasso	3,199	matisse and picasso	23
pablo picasso	1,553	picasso sculpture	22
picasso painting	201	art picasso warhol	22
pablo picasso biography	143	picasso restaurant	20
picasso guernica	103	xsara picasso	20
pablo picasso quot quot	97	pablo picasso cubism	20
picasso biography	94	picasso museum	19
paloma picasso	80	picasso wallpaper	19
pablo picasso painting	61	picasso drawing	18
picasso blue period	57	biografia de pablo picasso	18
citroen picasso	50	agile lapin picasso	17
picasso picture	47	obras de picasso	17
picasso print	46	picasso poster	17
cubism picasso	45	picasso trigger	17
pablo picasso picture	44	picasso portrait	16
picasso art	39	life of picasso	16
picasso travel	39	picasso gallery	14
pablo ruiz picasso	31	picasso dove	14
pablo picasso guernica	28	information on picasso	13
citroen xsara picasso	25	pablo picasso life	13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Picasso

Language		Translations for "Picasso"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		Picasso. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ピアノ線 (atomic bomb, clown, piano wire, picador, picaresque, piccata, piggyback, pioneer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ピカソ . (various references)

Pig Latin		icassopay

Russian		пикассо. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pikaso. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Picasso

Misspellings
	"Picasso" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: picaso, piccasso, pikasso. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Picasso

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-o-p-s-s"
	-1 letter: aspics, piscos, spicas.
	-2 letters: apsis, aspic, aspis, capos, oasis, ossia, picas, pisco, pisos, psoai, psoas, scops, soaps, spica, spics.
	-3 letters: asci, asps, capo, caps, ciao, cops, coss, ocas, ossa, pacs, pass, pias, pica, pics, piso, piss, pois, psis, sacs, saps, scop, sics, sips, soap, sops, spas, spic.
	-4 letters: ais, asp, ass, cap, cis, cop.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-o-p-s-s"
	+1 letter: isopachs, potassic, spacious.
	+2 letters: caryopsis, piscators, scaphoids, scotopias, spasmodic, spiccatos, spondaics.
	+3 letters: apostacies, ascosporic, auspicious, caespitose, campesinos, caparisons, compassing, compassion, pasticcios, pistachios, psoriatics, scapolites, sociopaths, spaciously.
	+4 letters: acropolises, aeciospores, archbishops, ascriptions, captionless, caryopsides, comparisons, compassions, constipates, episcopates, factorships, hagioscopes, hippocrases, hopsackings, kiloparsecs, kilopascals, miscaptions, nonplastics, pillowcases, postclassic, psittacoses, psittacosis, scallopinis, scaloppines, schizocarps, scholarship, scorpaenids, scyphistoma, sophistical, spasmolytic, speciations, symposiarch, vasospastic.
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