Schiller

Definition: Schiller

Schiller

Noun

1. German romantic writer (1759-1805).

Date "Schiller" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

Etymology: Schiller \Schil"ler\, noun. [German expression, play of colors.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Schiller

Domain	Definitions
Chemistry	Deuteric change in certain minerals, e. g. felspars, pyroxenes, olivines, etc. , leading to the development, along certain planes within the crystals, of tabular, bacillar, or stellar enclosures which, at certain angles, reflects the light falling upon them and give rise to the peculiar phenomenon termed "schiller" Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A phenomenon related to sheen; an almost metallic iridescent shimmer or play of color seen just below the surface in certain varieties of pyroxene, feldspar, etc. Etymol: German. See also:adularescence;schillerization. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Schiller

Synonym: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Schiller

English words defined with "Schiller": Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller ♦ Schilerization, Schiller spar, Storm-and-stress period. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Schiller": 60176 ♦ aventurescence ♦ Dalgetty ♦ schiller obsidian, schiller-fels. (references)

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

German (rose wine, shimmer).

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Modern Usage: Schiller

Domain	Usage
Clever	Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce. (references; author: Schiller) Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion. (references; author: Schiller) We often tremble at an empty terror, yet the false fancy brings a real misery. (references; author: Schiller) What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment. (references; author: Schiller) Ever building to the clouds, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy, tottering column. (references; author: Schiller)
Movie/TV Titles	Friedrich Schiller - Der Triumph eines Genies (1940) Hier irrt Schiller (1932)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Schiller

Domain	Title
Books	Biographies of Shakespeare, Pope, Goethe, and Schiller, and on the Political Parties of Modern England (reference) Coleridge, Schiller and Aesthetic Education (reference) Comparison of the Philosophies of F.C.S. Schiller and John Dewey (reference) Friedrich von Schiller and the Drama of Human Existence: (Contributions to the Study of World Literature) (reference) Narrating Community After Kant: Schiller, Goethe, and Holderlin (Kritik (Detroit, Mich.).) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Schiller

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Photo Album: Schiller

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	"Morning" by Schiller.Credit: Library of Congress.		Stuttgard. Palace--statue Schiller.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Schiller statue, City Park, Columbus, O[hio].Credit: Library of Congress.		Rustic bridge, Schiller Park, Columbus, O[hio], The.Credit: Library of Congress.
	New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Maintenance site looking north, Schiller St., Elizabeth, New Jersey.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Schiller

Author	Quotation
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller	Appearance rules the world.
	To save all we must risk all.
	Great souls endure in silence.
	I am better than my reputation.
	Freedom exists only with power.
	The will of man is his happiness.
	Will it, and set to work briskly.
	Speech is always bolder than action.
	Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
	Votes should be weighed not counted.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Schiller

"Schiller" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 78.00% of the time. "Schiller" is used about 50 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)	78%	39	55,036
Noun (singular)	22%	11	106,044
Total	100.00%	50	N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Schiller

The following table summarizes the usage of "Schiller" 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
Schiller	Last name	3,000	4,466
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Schiller

Expressions using "Schiller": Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller ♦ Schiller Park ♦ schiller spar ♦ Schiller test. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "Schiller": Strauss-schiller.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Schiller

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
schiller park illinois	121
schiller	88
schiller international university	32
friedrich schiller	26
estate real schiller	22
schiller park	19
boies schiller	19
schiller university	16
friedrich von schiller	11
lawrence schiller	9
schiller hotel	8
lynn schiller	7
piano schiller	6
dan schiller	6
nh schiller	6
amsterdam hotel schiller	6
columbus ohio park schiller	5
robert schiller	4
carlos don schiller	4
institute schiller	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Schiller

Language		Translations for "Schiller"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		Schiller's jodproeve (Schiller iodine test). (various references)

Dutch		splinter (chips, schillerization, sliver, splinter). (various references)

Finnish		schillerisointi (schillerization). (various references)

French		schillérisation (schillerization), éclat schillérisant (schillerization). (various references)

German		Schiller (rose wine, schillerization, shimmer). (various references)

Italian		schillerizzazione (schillerization), gioco di colore (schillerization). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		シュタイナー学� � (a shop, chauvinism, chemise, chocolate, Chopin, crying, displaywindow, line drive to the shortstop, liquor, mall, Schmidt camera, Schottky diode, serial, serial printer, serialize, series, serious, serious drama, shawl, shock, shock absorber, shock theory, shocker, shocking, shockwave, shop in shop, shopping, shopping bag, shopping bag lady, shopping cart, shopping centre, shopping mall, shoran, shordarvision, shore radar television, short, short bound, short circuit, short cut, short hair, short hole, short iron, short order, short pants, short relief, short short, short skirt, short stay, short story, short time, shortcake, short-circuit appeal, shortening, short-range navigation aid, shorts, short-scale, shortstop, shot, shotgun, shotgun bride, shotgun marriage, shotgun wedding, shoulder, shoulder bag, shoulder pad, shovel, show, show biz, show business, show girl, showboat, showcase, showman, showmanship, showroom, shredder, shrimp, Shroedinger, sleeping bag, snorkel, sound like a steam engine, Steiner school, stem turn in skiing, Sturm und Drang, syllable, Syria, temporary care, trace, weeping). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		シラー . (various references)

Pig Latin		illerschay

Portuguese		schiller (schillerization), brilho iridescente (schillerization). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		šiler. (various references)

Spanish		efecto cambiante (schillerization), brillo cambiante (schillerization). (various references)

Swedish		skiller (schillerization). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Schiller

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Schiller": schillers. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Schiller"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Schiller" (pronounced shi"ler)
3	-i" l er	biller, chiller, distiller, driller, filler, Giller, Hiller, killer, Miller, pillar, Siller, Spiller, stiller, thriller, tiller, Willer.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Schiller

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: chillers.
	Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-l-l-r-s"
	-1 letter: chiller, hillers.
	-2 letters: chiels, chiles, chills, chisel, hiller, hirsel, hirsle, liches, relics, relish, riches, rilles, shrill, siller, slicer.
	-3 letters: ceils, celli, cells, chiel, chile, chill, cires, cries, heils, heirs, hells, herls, hills, hires, iller, lehrs, liers, lisle, relic, rices, riels, riles, rille, rills, shell, shiel, shier, shill, shire, slice, slier.
	-4 letters: ceil, cell, cels, chis, cire, cris, elhi, ells, heil, heir, hell, herl, hers, hies, hill, hire, ices, ichs, ills, ires, isle, lech, lehr, leis, lice, lich, lier, lies, lire, recs, reis, resh, rice, rich, riel, rile, rill, rise, sell, shri, sice, sill, sire.
	-5 letters: cel, chi, cis, ell, els, ers, her, hes, hic, hie, his, ice, ich, ill, ire, lei, lie, lis, rec, rei, res, sec, sei, sel, ser, she, sic, sir, sri.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-l-l-r-s"
	+1 letter: chiseller, hillcrest, prechills, schillers.
	+2 letters: chisellers, hillcrests, overchills.
	+3 letters: lickerishly, spherically.
	+4 letters: hemerocallis, hysterically, seraphically, superhelical.
	+5 letters: calligraphers, calligraphies, chancelleries, chancellories, collectorship, electrophiles, heuristically, policyholders.
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