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Definition: Savonarola |
SavonarolaNoun1. Italian religious and political reformer; a Dominican friar in Florence who preached against sin and corruption and gained a large following; he expelled the Medici from Florence but was later excommunicated and executed for criticizing the Pope (1452-1498). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Savonarola" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | SAVONAROLA, a reformer of Florence, Italy, who succeeded in closing the cafe's, theatres, and dance halls. He was popular with the masses until election day. When the opposition returned they made it hot for him. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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Synonym: SavonarolaSynonym: Girolamo Savonarola (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Savonarola |
| English words defined with "Savonarola": Girolamo Savonarola. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Savonarola": Rising in the Air. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Firenze - R. Museo di S. Marco--Piazza della Signoria col supplizio del Savonarola et suoi compagni (Ignoto Fiorentino, XVI secolo ?) / Ed. Alinari.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Savonarola" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Savonarola" is used about 4 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) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
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Expression using "Savonarola": Girolamo Savonarola. 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 |
savonarola | 29 |
chair savonarola | 8 |
girolamo savonarola | 7 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-l-n-o-o-r-s-v" | |
-4 letters: larvas, lorans, navars, saloon, salvor, solano, sovran, valors, varnas. | |
-5 letters: alans, anlas, anoas, arson, arval, arvos, asana, larva, lavas, loans, loons, loran, nasal, naval, navar, nolos, novas, orals, ovals, roans, salon, salvo, saran, savor, snarl, snool, solan, solar, solon, sonar, valor, varas, varna, vasal, volar. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 76 6F 6E 61 72 6F 6C 61 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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)01010011 01100001 01110110 01101111 01101110 01100001 01110010 01101111 01101100 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a v o n a r o l a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0076 006F 006E 0061 0072 006F 006C 0061 |
| 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)53678881806784817867 |
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