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Definition: SELF-OPINION |
SELF-OPINIONNoun1. Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. |
Date "SELF-OPINION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 opinião própria. (various references) înfumurare (arrogance, pragmatism, pride, self esteem, self-importance, vanity). (various references) sự cứng đầu cứng cổ (obduracy, self-will), sự cố chấp, sự bảo thủ ý kiến của mình. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "SELF-OPINION" (pronounced 'Self`-o*pin"ion'): Parhelion, Pommelion, Postilion, Prefixion, Preopinion, Pumpion, Self-communion, Selion. (additional references) |
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. | |
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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)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000101 01001100 01000110 00101101 01001111 01010000 01001001 01001110 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S E L F - O P I N I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0045 004C 0046 002D 004F 0050 0049 004E 0049 004F 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)533946401549504348434948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Familiar 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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