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Definition: Rabelais |
RabelaisNoun1. Author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Rabelais" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
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Literature | Rabelais The English Rabelais. Swift, Sterne, and Thomas Amory have been so called. Voltaire so calls Swift. The modern Rabelais. William Maginn (1794-1842). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: RabelaisSynonym: Francois Rabelais (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Rabelais |
| English words defined with "Rabelais": Francois Rabelais ♦ Rabelaisian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Rabelais": Alcofribas, Amaurot, Amphigons ♦ Cure de Meudon ♦ Dandin, Devil to Pay and no Pitch Hot, Dying Sayings ♦ Garagantua, Gargamelle, Gemmagog, Giants, Great Perhaps ♦ Hypocrites' Isle ♦ Ice Saints ♦ Leap in the Dark, Legem Pone, Lerna, Long Words, Lynchnobians ♦ Macreons ♦ Oracle of the Holy Bottle, Bacbuc ♦ Pantagruel', Philosopher with the Golden Thigh, Ponoerates ♦ Queen Quintessence ♦ Rabelais' Dodge, Rabelaisian Licence, Ryparographer ♦ St. Stephen's Loaves. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Rabelais": gargantuan ♦ Pantagruelism. (references) |
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Clever | A woman that is neither fair nor good, to what use serves she? To make a nun of, said Gargantua. Yea, said the monk, to make shirts and smocks. (references; author: Rabelais) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Francois Rabelais | Do what thou wilt. |
| Plain as a nose in a man's face. | |
| Speak the truth and shame the Devil. | |
| We will take the good will for the deed. | |
| So much is a man worth as he esteems himself. | |
| Break the bone and suck out the substantific marrow. | |
| The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps. | |
Frantois Rabelais | Tell the truth and shame the devil. |
| Draw the curtain, the fraud is over. | |
| When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink. | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The (r)gamin of Paris is an urchin Rabelais. |
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| "Rabelais" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Rabelais" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Rabelais": Francois Rabelais. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
rabelais | 53 |
francois rabelais | 28 |
pantagruel rabelais | 6 |
rabelais gargantua | 4 |
akira ching i rabelais | 2 |
rabelais xvi | 2 |
francisco rabelais | 2 |
françois rabelais | 2 |
et humanisme rabelais | 2 |
gargantua image rabelais | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "rabelais"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | abelaisray.(various references) | |
Russian | рабле. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: raisable. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-i-l-r-s" | |
-1 letter: abelias, aerials, arables, bailers, basilar. | |
-2 letters: abaser, abelia, abseil, aerial, arable, ariels, bailer, balers, birles, blares, blears, brails, braise, brasil, libers, librae, libras, rabies, realia, resail, sailer, serail, serial. | |
-3 letters: abase, abler, ables, abris, aisle, albas, alias, areal, areas, arias, ariel, arils, arise, arles, baals, bails, balas, baler, bales, balsa, bares, basal, baser, basil, bears, biers, biles, birle, birls, birse, blare, blase, blear, braes, brail, bries, earls, laari, labia, labra, lairs, lares, laris, laser, lears, liars, liber, libra, liers, liras, raias, rails, raise, rales, reals, rials, ribes, riels, riles, saber, sabir, sable, sabra, sabre, serai, seral, slier. | |
-4 letters: aals, abas, able, abri, ails, airs, alae, alar, alas, alba, albs, ales, arbs, area, ares, aria, aril, arse, asea, baal, baas, bail, bale, bals, bare, bars, base, bear, bels, bias, bier, bile, birl, bise, blae, brae, bras, brie, bris, earl, ears, eras, ilea, ires, isba, isle, labs, lair, lari, lars, lase, lear, leas, leis, liar, libs, lier, lies, lira, lire, raia, rail, rale, rase, real, rebs, reis, rial, rias, ribs, riel, rile, rise, sabe, sail, sale, sari, seal, sear, sera, sial, sire, slab. | |
-5 letters: aal, aas, aba, abs, ail, air, ais, ala, alb, ale, als, arb, are, ars, baa, bal, bar, bas, bel, bis, bra, ear, els, era, ers, ire, lab, lar, las, lea, lei, lib, lie, lis, ras, reb, rei, res, ria, rib, sab, sae, sal, sea, sei, sel, ser, sib, sir, sri. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-e-i-l-r-s" | |
+1 letter: subaerial, variables. | |
+2 letters: abrasively, adverbials, algebraist, ascribable, balladries, ballerinas, calibrates, jailbreaks, lamebrains, sailboater. | |
+3 letters: alabastrine, algebraists, arabilities, banderillas, berascaling, discardable, erasability, increasable, inseparable, inseparably, invariables, labiovelars, radiolabels, sailboaters, satirizable, subaerially, syllabaries, tarnishable. | |
+4 letters: ambulatories, antiliberals, ballcarriers, bardolatries, bicameralism, bilateralism, bilharziases, biomaterials, blackmailers, chamberlains, disagreeable, disagreeably, distractable, distrainable, elaborations, immeasurable, immeasurably, inseparables, laboratories, labradorites, lawbreakings, libertarians, rattlebrains, recalibrates, restrainable, secobarbital, semiarboreal, separability, shareability, summarizable, talebearings, trailblazers, variableness, vocabularies. | |
+5 letters: abnormalities, administrable, admirableness, adorabilities, alphabetizers, ascertainable, bearabilities, bicameralisms, bilateralisms, dischargeable, drapabilities, erasabilities, hexobarbitals, measurability, microbalances, observational, readabilities, reasonability, rehabilitants, rehabilitates, roadabilities, secobarbitals, spreadability, trailbreakers, transmittable, turbellarians, ultraliberals, variabilities, wearabilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 62 65 6C 61 69 73 |
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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)01010010 01100001 01100010 01100101 01101100 01100001 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a b e l a i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0062 0065 006C 0061 0069 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)5267687178677585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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