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Definition: Rubens |
RubensNoun1. Prolific Flemish baroque painter; knighted by Charles I of England (1577-1640). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Rubens" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
"Rubens" is a common misspelling or typo for: rubies. |
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Biographical Satire | RUBENS, P. P., an artist who realized styles frequently changed, and therefore painted fat people without their clothes. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: RubensSynonyms: Peter Paul Rubens (n), Sir Peter Paul Rubens (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Rubens |
| English words defined with "Rubens": But-thorn ♦ Peter Paul Rubens, Picea rubens, Pinxit ♦ Sir Peter Paul Rubens. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Rubens": DOG IN A DOUBLET ♦ Flemish School ♦ Painters and Artists ♦ RUBENS ♦ TINTORETTO. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Rubens (1949) La Mitología en el Prado: Rubens (1948) Schilder en diplomaat Rubens (1977) Rubens (1976) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Ignatius von Loyola Besessene und Kranke heilend. / Von Peter Paul Rubens. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Rubens / engraved by J. Posselwhite. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | John Rubens Smith, self-portrait, three-quarter length, seated, facing left. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Economic History | Belgium | Flemish painting--from Van Eyck and Breugel to Rubens and Van Dyck--became the most prized in Europe. (references) |
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| "Rubens" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.43% of the time. "Rubens" is used about 121 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) | 88.43% | 107 | 31,463 |
| Noun (plural) | 11.57% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 121 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Rubens" 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 |
| Rubens | Last name | 300 | 27,186 |
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| France | Regina Rubens |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Rubens": Asterias rubens ♦ Peter Paul Rubens ♦ Picea rubens ♦ Sir Peter Paul Rubens. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-n-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: brens, burns, burse, nurse, rebus, rubes, runes, suber. | |
-2 letters: bens, bren, buns, burn, burs, erns, nebs, nubs, rebs, rube, rubs, rues, rune, runs, ruse, snub, suer, sure, unbe, urbs, urns, user. | |
-3 letters: ben, bun, bur, bus, ens, ern, ers, neb, nub, nus, reb, res, rub, rue, run, sen, ser, sub, sue, sun, uns. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-n-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: bournes, brunets, bunkers, bunters, burdens, burners, burnets, burnies, numbers, snubber, suberin, subrent, unbears, unrobes, unsober. | |
+2 letters: blunders, blungers, bouncers, bounders, brucines, brunches, bundlers, bunglers, burgeons, burnoose, burstone, burthens, rebounds, snubbers, snubbier, subentry, suberins, subgenre, suborned, suborner, subrents, subtrend, tribunes, turbines, unbraces, unbrakes, urbanest, urbanise. | |
+3 letters: becursing, bourgeons, braunites, breadnuts, brunettes, brunizems, buhrstone, burdeners, burgonets, burliness, burnables, burnished, burnisher, burnishes, burnoosed, burnooses, burnouses, burnsides, burrstone, burstones, buttoners, curbstone, debunkers, disburden, encumbers, greenbugs, husbander, incumbers, insurable, numberers, overburns, penumbras, rebuttons, renumbers, sideburns, subaltern, subcenter, subgenera, subgenres, submarine, suborners, subregion, subtrends, sunbather, sunburned, superbank, tenebrous, unbridles, unbruised, unbrushed, unburdens, underbids, underboss, underbuds, underbuys, unlimbers, unstabler, urbanised, urbanises, urbanites, urbanizes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 75 62 65 6E 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. ..- -... . -. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01110101 01100010 01100101 01101110 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R u b e n s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0075 0062 0065 006E 0073 |
| 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)528768718085 |
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