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QUASIMODO

Definition: QUASIMODO

QUASIMODO

Noun

1. The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "QUASIMODO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references)


Specialty Definition: QUASIMODO

DomainDefinition

Literature

Quasimodo A foundling, hideously deformed, but of amazing strength, in Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Modern Usage: QUASIMODO

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Now Quasimodo, listen to me (The Hunchback of Notre Dame; writing credit: Victor Hugo; Irene Mecchi)

If it isn't Prince Charming and Quasimodo. (Roswell; writing credit: Ronald D. Moore; Gretchen J. Berg)

Movie/TV Titles

Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999)

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

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Commercial Usage: QUASIMODO

DomainTitle

Books

  • From Quasimodo to Scarlett O'Hara: A National Board of Review Anthology, 1920-1940 (reference)

  • Italian Poetry a Selection: From St. Francis of Assisi to Salvatore Quasimodo (reference)

  • Italian poetry: a selection from St. Francis of Assisi to Salvatore Quasimodo, in Italian with English translation (reference)

  • Poeti e politici da Dante a Quasimodo : saggi e letture (reference)

  • Quasimodo Mouse (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: QUASIMODO

Computer Images:
QUASIMODO

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Photo Album: QUASIMODO

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Salvatore Quasimodo, half-length portrait, facing left, looking at book. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: QUASIMODO

"QUASIMODO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "QUASIMODO" is used about 3 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 (singular)100%3202,518

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

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Expression: QUASIMODO

Expression using "QUASIMODO": quasimodo sunday. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: QUASIMODO

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

quasimodo

86

salvatore quasimodo

15

dzwonnik quasimodo

10

dame hunchback notre picture quasimodo

6

picture quasimodo

5

lifehouse lyrics quasimodo

4

disney quasimodo

2

pic quasimodo

2

dame notre quasimodo

2

de molendreef quasimodo van

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: QUASIMODO

Language Translations for "QUASIMODO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

фомино воскресенье. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

domingo de cuasimodo (quasimodo sunday). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "QUASIMODO"

Words rhyming with "QUASIMODO" (pronounced 'Quas`i*mo"do'): Accelerando, Adelantado, Albedo, Alcedo, Ambuscado, Amido, Amontillado, Armado, Aviado, Avocado, Barricado, Barrigudo, Bocardo, Bravado, Calando, Cardo, Colorado, Commando, Credo, Crusado, Cruzado, Dado, Decrescendo, Forzando, Glissando, Hirudo, Hirundo, Ido, innuendo, Lentando, mikado, Morendo, Nondo, Pardo, Peludo, Poynado, Privado, Procedendo, Rallentando, Reconcentrado, Reformado, Renegado, Rinforzando, ritardando, Rodomontado, Rotundo, Scherzando, Scudo, secondo, Soldo. (additional references)

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Anagrams: QUASIMODO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-i-m-o-o-q-s-u"

-3 letters: audios, doumas, duomos, iodous, maquis, miaous, odious, odiums, sodium, umiaqs.

-4 letters: adios, amido, amids, audio, dooms, douma, doums, dumas, duomi, duomo, maids, maqui, mauds, miaou, misdo, modus, moods, odium, qaids, quads, quais, quasi, quids, quods, sodom, squad, squid, umiaq.

-5 letters: ados, aids, aims, amid, amis, amus, dais, dams, dims, doms, doom, doum, duma.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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