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Rodin

Definition: Rodin

Rodin

Noun

1. French sculptor noted for his renderings of the human form (1840-1917).

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

Date "Rodin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1910. (references)

"Rodin" is a common misspelling or typo for: ordain, radian, radon, riding, robin, rode, rodent, rosin, ruin.


Specialty Definitions: Rodin

DomainDefinitions

Biographical Satire

RODIN, August, a Frenchman who did his utmost to fill European and American galleries with statues at a price which would have made Mike Angelo a billionaire. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

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

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Synonyms: Rodin

Synonyms: Auguste Rodin (n), Francois Auguste Rene Rodin (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Rodin

English words defined with "Rodin": Auguste RodinFrancois Auguste Rene Rodin. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Rodin": RODIN. (references)

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Modern Usage: Rodin

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Gates of Hell Rodin (1981)

Rodin mis en vie (1976)

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

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Commercial Usage: Rodin

DomainTitle

Books

  • Guide du Musée Rodin : à l'Hôtel Biron (reference)

  • La Caritas : une oeuvre de Gaudier-Brzeska : de Rodin à l'abstraction (reference)

  • Rodin, les mains du génie (reference)

  • The Rodin Museum, Seoul (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Rodin

Photos:
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Photo Album: Rodin

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Rodin Studios, New York, N.Y.; column, capital, entablature, and cornice details. Credit: Library of Congress.

Auguste Rodin, half-length portrait. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Familiar Quotations: Rodin

AuthorQuotation

Auguste Rodin

I invent nothing, I rediscover.
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Rodin

"Rodin" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 73.81% of the time. "Rodin" is used about 42 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 (proper)73.81%3162,296
Noun (singular)26.19%11106,044
                    Total100.00%42N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Rodin

The following table summarizes the usage of "Rodin" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
RodinLast name20031,244
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Rodin

Expressions using "Rodin": a sculpture after rodin auguste Rodin Francois Auguste Rene Rodin. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Rodin": rodin-like.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rodin

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

rodin

389

artist rodin

4

auguste rodin

117

aguste rodin

4

rodin thinker

44

august rodin

4

rodin sculpture

34

musée rodin

3

rodin museum

25

age bronze rodin

3

rodin the kiss

21

auguste kiss rodin

3

gate hell rodin

14

god hand rodin

3

musee rodin

13

burgher calais rodin

3

penseur rodin

12

sculptor rodin

3

judith rodin

9

picture rodin thinker

3

auguste rodin thinker

7

de pensador rodin

3

museum philadelphia rodin

6

by gate hell rodin

3

auguste biography rodin

6

auguste rodin sculpture

3

de el pensador rodin

6

de le penseur rodin

3

rodin biography

5

el pensador rodin

3

the thinker by rodin

4

balzac rodin

2

called cathedral chartres famous rodin th which world

4

reproduction rodin

2

rodin statue thinker

4

rodin art

2

rodin museum paris

4

rob rodin

2

fondation rodin

4

rodin statue

2
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Modern Translations: Rodin

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

Swedish

  

en skulptur i rodins stil (a sculpture after rodin). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Rodin

Derivations

Words containing "Rodin": corroding, eroding, noncorroding, noncorrodings. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Rodin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-i-n-o-r"

-1 letter: inro, iron, nodi, noir, nori, rind.

-2 letters: din, don, dor, ion, nod, nor, rid, rin, rod.

-3 letters: do, id, in, no, od, on, or.

 Words containing the letters "d-i-n-o-r"
 

+1 letter: dinero, diuron, dormin, durion, indoor, inroad, ironed, nimrod, nordic, ordain.

 

+2 letters: adoring, andiron, android, aneroid, bridoon, cording, crinoid, diatron, dineros, dinitro, diurons, dormins, dornick, dourine, downier, droning, dronish, droving, durions, eroding, fording, groined, hordein, hording, ignored, inboard, indoors, indorse, inroads, joinder, lording, midiron, minored, negroid, neuroid, nimrods, ordains, ordinal, ordines, padroni, poniard, redoing, rodding, rosined, sadiron, sordine, sordini, sordino, windrow, wording.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Rodin


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

52 6F 64 69 6E

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    ---    -..    ..    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010010 01101111 01100100 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#111 &#100 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 006F 0064 0069 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

5281707580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Derivations
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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