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Pre-Raphaelite

Definition: Pre-Raphaelite

Pre-Raphaelite

Adjective

1. Of or relating to or characteristic of the pre-Raphaelites; "the Pre-Raphaelite painters".

Noun

1. A painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals.

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


Synonyms within Context: Pre-Raphaelite

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Oldness

Prime; primitive, primeval, primigenous; paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic, paleolithic; primordial, primordinate; aboriginal; (beginning); diluvian, antediluvian; protohistoric; prehistoric; antebellum, colonial, precolumbian; patriarchal, preadamite; paleocrystic; fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial, antemundane; archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter.

The Past

Audator temporis acti; medievalist, Pre-Raphaelite; antiquary, antiquarian; archmologist; Oldbuck, Dryasdust.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Pre-Raphaelite

English words defined with "Pre-Raphaelite": Holman Hunt, HuntMillaisSir John Everett MillaisWilliam Holman Hunt. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Pre-Raphaelite

DomainTitle

Books

  • An Anthology of Pre-Raphaelite Writings (reference)

  • Artists' Jewellery Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts (reference)

  • Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite (reference)

  • Jane Morris: The Pre-Raphaelite Model of Beauty (reference)

  • John Everett Millais: Beyond the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Image Slideshow: Pre-Raphaelite

Illustrations:
Pre-Raphaelite

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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Pre-Raphaelite

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

A Pre-Raphaelite collection / DGR. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Pre-Raphaelite

"Pre-Raphaelite" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.44% of the time. "Pre-Raphaelite" is used about 39 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
Adjective (general or positive)97.44%3855,818
Noun (singular)2.56%1339,140
                    Total100.00%39N/A

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

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Modern Translation: Pre-Raphaelite

Language Translations for "Pre-Raphaelite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

художник прерафаелит, от школата на прарафаелитите. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pre-rafaelita. (various references)

   

Italian

  

preraffaellita. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

e-raphaelitepray

   

Portuguese

  

pré-rafaelita. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prerafailovski, prerafailovac. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

prerrafaelista. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pre-Raphaelite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-e-h-i-l-p-p-r-r-t"

-3 letters: peripheral.

-4 letters: earthlier, papeterie, preheater.

-5 letters: appealer, arterial, earthier, earthpea, ethereal, heartier, hetaerae, latherer, palterer, paltrier, parhelia, parietal, pearlier, pearlite, peripter, phratral, pretrial, rapparee, reappear, reheater, repartee, repealer, repeater, rerepeat, retailer, tarpaper, threaper.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Pre-Raphaelite


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

50 72 65 2D 52 61 70 68 61 65 6C 69 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01100101 00101101 01010010 01100001 01110000 01101000 01100001 01100101 01101100 01101001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#114 &#101 &#45 &#82 &#97 &#112 &#104 &#97 &#101 &#108 &#105 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 002D 0052 0061 0070 0068 0061 0065 006C 0069 0074 0065

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

5084711552678274677178758671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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