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RENCONTRE

Definition: RENCONTRE

RENCONTRE

Noun

1. Same as Rencounter, n.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "RENCONTRE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonyms within Context: RENCONTRE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Contention

Conflict, skirmish; rencounter, encounter; rencontre, collision, affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement, joust, tournament; tilt, tilting; tournay, list; pitched battle.

Contiguity

Noun: contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal, juxtaposition; abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence; adhesion; touching; Verb: (see touch ).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: RENCONTRE

Non-English Usage: "RENCONTRE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (appointment, assignation, concourse, conference, confluence, date, encounter, encounters, fixture, get together, match, meeting, rendezvous).

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Modern Usage: RENCONTRE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Rencontre (1968)

À la rencontre de Jean-Sébastien Bach (1959)

Rencontre Paris (1956)

La Rencontre (1914)

Rencontre avec le dragon (2003)

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

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Commercial Usage: RENCONTRE

DomainTitle

Books

  • A LA Rencontre De Philippe/Student Activities Workbook (reference)

  • Gluons and Heavy Flavours: Proceedings of the Hadronic Session of the Eighteenth Rencontre de Moriond, La Plagne-Savoie-France, January 23-29, 19 (reference)

  • La libre circulation des collections d'objets d'art : actes d'une rencontre organisée le 14 septembre 1992 = The free circulation of art collections (reference)

  • La rencontre de Santa-Cruz : roman (reference)

  • Le Rencontre De Philippe (An Interactive Video Program for the Macintosh) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: RENCONTRE

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

A la rencontre des Francais avec Jacques Chirac et le RPR.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RENCONTRE

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

  rencontre

236

  rencontre sex

18

  agence de rencontre

96

  club rencontre

14

  site de rencontre

89

  agence rencontre

11

  chat rencontre

59

  rencontre site

11

  rencontre sexe

58

  lesbian rencontre

10

  rencontre montreal

49

  belgique rencontre

10

  rencontre femme

41

  couple rencontre

10

  gratuit rencontre

38

  dialogue rencontre

10

  rencontre quebec

38

  2000 rencontre

9

  announce rencontre

38

  rencontre sexuelle

8

  coquine rencontre

34

  rencontre mariage

8

  rencontre reseau

34

  cam rencontre web

7

  amour rencontre

32

  announce petites rencontre

7

  rencontre gay

32

  club de rencontre sex

7

  club de rencontre

29

  amoureuse rencontre

7

  rencontre amitie

25

  announce rencontre sexe

6

  adulte rencontre

23

  lorraine rencontre

6

  club internet rencontre

21

  québec rencontre

6

  gratuite rencontre

21

  de gratuit rencontre site

6

  rencontre libertine

19

  femmes rencontre thailandaise

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: RENCONTRE

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

Albanian

  

takim i rastit (rencounter), dyluftim (duel, meeting, rencounter, tournament, tourney). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

срещам случайно (bump into, come across, fall in with, happen on, happen upon, meet up with, rub up against, run across, run against, run into), схватка (clash, encounter, rencounter, scuffle, skirmish), случайна среща (encounter), дуел (duel, encounter), двубой (duel). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συνάντηση (appointment, competition, encounter, fixture, meeting, rencounter, rendezvous). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

összecsapás (clash, collision, cope, encounter, rencounter, scrimmage, scrum, set-to, shock). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

encontreray

   

Portuguese

  

peleja (action, combat, game, joust, rencounter, scuffle, struggle, tussle), encontro casual (rencounter), encontro (abutment, appointment, chunking, clash, encounter, impact, meeting, rencounter, rendezvous), duelo (duel, encounter, rencounter), disputar (argue, Bicker, contest, disagree, dispute, fight, passage, put up with, quarrel, rencounter, run, spar), defrontar (confront, face, front, rencounter), combate (action, battle, brush, combat, engaging, fight, fighting, fray, joust, rencounter, scuffle, set to, struggle), chocar-se (rencounter). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

случайная встреча (rencounter), дуэль (duel, meeting, rencounter). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sukob (affair, brush, clash, conflict, fray, jar), kob (fate, hap, portent), dvoboj (duel). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

entrar en choque (rencounter), encuentro casual (rencounter), encontrarse casualmente (rencounter). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tillfälligt möte (rencounter). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

rastlama (encounter), düello (duel, single combat), çatışma (battle, brush, clash, coincidence, collision, conflict, disagreement, run in, scrimmage, skirmish), çarpışma (action, bump, clash, collision, combat, conflict, encounter, engagement, foul, impact, scrimmage, scrum, scrummage, set to, skirmish, smash, smash up). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сутичка (affair, affront, bump, bustle, clash, collision, conflict, encounter, fight, fighting, fray, impingement, jostle, mix in, rencounter, scramble, scrimmage, scrummage, shock, skirmish, tilt), дуель (duel, encounter, rencounter). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: RENCONTRE

Derivations

Words beginning with "RENCONTRE": rencontres. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "RENCONTRE"

Words rhyming with "RENCONTRE" (pronounced 'Ren*con"tre'): Antre, Aplustre, Arrastre, Aventre, Dioptre, Divinistre, Estre, goiter, goitre, Idolastre, Montre, Petre, Piastre, Quatre, Terrestre. (additional references)

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Anagrams: RENCONTRE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-n-o-r-r-t"

-1 letter: cretonne.

-2 letters: centner, enteron, erector, tenoner.

-3 letters: cenote, center, centre, conner, corner, cornet, encore, nocent, recent, rector, rennet, renter, retore, retorn, tenner, tenrec, tonner.

-4 letters: cento, conte, corer, crone, crore, enter, erect, nonce, nonet, noter, recon, recto, rente, retro, tenon, tenor, terce, terne, toner, tonne, treen, trone.

-5 letters: cent, cere, cero, cete, cone, conn, core.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-n-o-r-r-t"
 

+1 letter: rencontres, rencounter.

 

+2 letters: archenteron, contravener, cornerstone, nonsecretor, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reencounter, rencounters.

 

+3 letters: archenterons, contraveners, cornerstones, countertenor, countertrend, interconvert, nonrecurrent, nonsecretors, nonsecretory, reconnoiters, reconnoitred, reconnoitres, reconverting, reencounters, remonstrance, rencountered.

 

+4 letters: correspondent, countersniper, countertenors, countertrends, incorrectness, interconverts, interelectron, nonrestricted, nonretractile, preconcerting, reconcentrate, reconnoitered, reencountered, reinforcement, remonstrances, rencountering.

 

+5 letters: contrarinesses, correspondents, countercurrent, counterpuncher, countersnipers, interconverted, neurosecretion, nitroglycerine, nonintercourse, nonrestrictive, nonretroactive, nonsecretories, reconcentrated, reconcentrates, reconnoitering, reconsecrating, reconsecration, reencountering, reinforcements, serotoninergic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RENCONTRE


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

52 45 4E 43 4F 4E 54 52 45

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)

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

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

01010010 01000101 01001110 01000011 01001111 01001110 01010100 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#78 &#67 &#79 &#78 &#84 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 004E 0043 004F 004E 0054 0052 0045

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

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

523948374948545239

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INDEX

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


  

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