Savoyard

Definitions: Savoyard

Savoyard

Noun

1. A person who performs in the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan.

2. A resident of Savoy.

Date "Savoyard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Savoyard \Sav`oy*ard"\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Savoyard

Specialty definitions using "Savoyard": Jean de la Suie. (references)

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

French (Savoyard).

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Modern Usage: Savoyard

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Le Garçon savoyard (1967)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Savoyard

Domain	Title
Books	All Our Yesterdays: A Brief History of Detroit (A Savoyard Book) (reference) Bab Ballads, With Which Are Included Songs Of A Savoyard, The (BCL1-PR English Literature) (reference) Histoire passionnante de la vie d'un petit ramoneur savoyard (reference) Le parler savoyard : mots et expressions du terroir (reference) Napoleonic Imperialism and the Savoyard Monarchy 1773-1821: State Building in Piedmont (Studies in French Civilization, Vol 12) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Art of Savoyard Singers Who Worked with Gilbert & Sullivan (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Savoyard

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Use in Literature: Savoyard

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	And then there is the affair of the little Savoyard, who I hope will be found.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Savoyard

"Savoyard" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Savoyard" is used about 8 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)	87.5%	7	133,076
Noun (singular)	12.5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Savoyard

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
savoyard	11
company savoyard	8
savoyard washington	3
chalet savoyard	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Savoyard

Language		Translations for "Savoyard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Savojar. (various references)

Arabic		‏بقل عطر. (various references)

Bulgarian		Савоец. (various references)

Czech		Savojský Rodák. (various references)

French		Savoyard. (various references)

Hungarian		Savoy Palace-ban Menedéket Talált Ember. (various references)

Pig Latin		avoyardsay

Portuguese		Saboiano. (various references)

Russian		Савояр. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		savojac. (various references)

Spanish		Saboyano. (various references)

Swedish		Savojen (savoy). (various references)

Ukranian		Уродженець Савойї. (various references)

Vietnamese		người vùng Xa-voa đo� n viên gánh hát Xa-voa. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Savoyard

Misspellings
	"Savoyard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aveyard, savoyarde. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Savoyard

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-o-r-s-v-y"
	-2 letters: savory.
	-3 letters: arvos, dorsa, drays, ovary, rayas, roads, sarod, savor, savoy, varas, yards.
	-4 letters: ados, arvo, avos, davy, days, dors, dory, dray, drys, oars, orad, osar, rads, raya, rays, road, rods, rosy, ryas, sard, soar, soda, sora, sord, soya, vara, vars, vary, vasa, yard, yods.
	-5 letters: aas, ado, ads, ars, ava, avo, ays, day, dor, dos, dry, oar, ods, ora, ors, ova, rad, ras, ray, rod, rya, sad, say, sod, soy, var, vas, yar, yod.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-o-r-s-v-y"
	+4 letters: cadaverously.
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