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Definition: PRUDHOMME |
PRUDHOMMENoun1. A trustworthy citizen; a skilled workman. See Citation under 3d Commune, 1. |
Date "PRUDHOMME" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Etymology: Prudhomme \Prud*homme"\, noun. [French expression prud'homme. Compare to Prude.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Prudhomme A Mons. Prud'homme. A man of experience and great prudence, of estimable character and practical good sense. Your Mons. Prudhomme is never a man of genius and originality, but what we in England should term a "Quaker of the old school." The council of prud'hommes. A council of arbiters to settle disputes between masters and workmen. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PRUDHOMME |
| Specialty definitions using "PRUDHOMME": Burd. (references) |
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![]() | John Pym / J.F.E. Prudhomme sc. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Ouverture des Etats-généraux á Versailles (5 Mai 1789) / peint par Couder ; gravé par Prudhomme ; dessiné par Landoz ; digraphe et pantographe-gavard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I have read Prudhomme, I know the Contrat Social, I know my Constitution of the year Two by heart. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following table summarizes the usage of "PRUDHOMME" 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 |
| Prudhomme | Last name | 1,000 | 12,974 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| 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 |
paul prudhomme | 69 |
chef paul prudhomme | 52 |
prudhomme | 42 |
don prudhomme | 16 |
paul prudhomme recipe | 9 |
sully prudhomme | 4 |
don prudhomme snake | 3 |
chef prudhomme | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-m-m-o-p-r-u" | |
-2 letters: humored, morphed. | |
-3 letters: dumper, hummed, hummer, humped, mumped, mumper, poured, romped, rouped, uphroe. | |
-4 letters: demur, doper, drupe, duper, ephod, ephor, homed, homer, hoped, hoper, horde, humor, modem, mohur, moped, moper, morph, mured, odeum, ouphe, pedro, perdu, pored, proem, proud, prude, rheum, roped, umped, uredo. | |
-5 letters: demo, derm, doer, dome, dope, dore, dorm, dorp, doum. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-m-m-o-p-r-u" | |
+5 letters: pseudomorphism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 52 55 44 48 4F 4D 4D 45 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. ..- -.. .... --- -- -- . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01010010 01010101 01000100 01001000 01001111 01001101 01001101 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P R U D H O M M E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0052 0055 0044 0048 004F 004D 004D 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)505255384249474739 |
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