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SELF-OPINION

Definition: SELF-OPINION

SELF-OPINION

Noun

1. Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SELF-OPINION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Familiar Quotations: SELF-OPINION

AuthorQuotation

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: SELF-OPINION

"SELF-OPINION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SELF-OPINION" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Modern Translations: SELF-OPINION

Language Translations for "SELF-OPINION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

自已观点. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

각자 의견 (Self-estimation). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

elf-opinionsay

   

Portuguese

  

opinião própria. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

înfumurare (arrogance, pragmatism, pride, self esteem, self-importance, vanity). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự cứng đầu cứng cổ (obduracy, self-will), sự cố chấp, sự bảo thủ ý kiến của mình. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SELF-OPINION"

Words rhyming with "SELF-OPINION" (pronounced 'Self`-o*pin"ion'): Parhelion, Pommelion, Postilion, Prefixion, Preopinion, Pumpion, Self-communion, Selion. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SELF-OPINION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-i-i-l-n-n-o-o-p-s"

-3 letters: opinions, sinfonie.

-4 letters: elision, epsilon, floosie, foliose, ionones, isoline, lionise, loonies, nonlife, nonself, nonslip, olefins, opinion, opsonin, pension, pinions, pinnies, pinoles, pinones, plosion, sinopie, splenii.

-5 letters: elfins, eloins, felons, filose, flooie, foison, folios, inions, insole, ionise, ionone, lesion, linens, linins, lipins, looies, loosen, nelson, olefin, oleins, onions, online, opines, pennis, pensil, pilose, pinion.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-i-i-l-n-n-o-o-p-s"
 

+4 letters: nonsaponifiable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SELF-OPINION


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

53 45 4C 46 2D 4F 50 49 4E 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

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

01010011 01000101 01001100 01000110 00101101 01001111 01010000 01001001 01001110 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#69 &#76 &#70 &#45 &#79 &#80 &#73 &#78 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0045 004C 0046 002D 004F 0050 0049 004E 0049 004F 004E

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

533946401549504348434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Familiar
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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