Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: SIEUR |
SIEURNoun1. Sir; -- a title of respect used by the French. |
Date "SIEUR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Sieur \Sieur\, noun. [French expression, abbrev. from seigneur. Compare to Monsieur, Seignior.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: SIEUR |
| English words defined with "SIEUR": Sieur de LaSalle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SIEUR": Boucan ♦ Chalks ♦ Roman des Romans. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SIEUR": Monsieur. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | the sieur Hunks espouses the lady Catchpenny. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "SIEUR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "SIEUR" 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 (singular) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "SIEUR": sieur de LaSalle. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
de la salle sieur | 7 |
de roberval sieur | 2 |
de lasalle sieur | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SIEUR": sieurs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "SIEUR": monsieur. (additional references) | |
Words containing "SIEUR": messieurs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: ires, reis, rise, rues, ruse, sire, suer, sure, user. | |
-2 letters: ers, ire, rei, res, rue, sei, ser, sir, sri, sue, use. | |
-3 letters: er, es, is, re, si, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: bruise, buries, busier, cruise, curies, furies, insure, inures, issuer, juries, quires, regius, risque, rubies, rusine, sieurs, squire, suiter, uprise, urines, ursine. | |
+2 letters: bruised, bruiser, bruises, burdies, buriers, burnies, bushier, bustier, ceriums, cirques, cruised, cruiser, cruises, curites, curries, cursive, cushier, duikers, durries, duskier, dustier, erbiums, esquire, euripus, figures, fissure, fixures, friseur, fubsier, fussier, fustier, grushie, guiders, gurries, gushier, gustier, gutsier, hirsute, hurdies, hurlies, hurries, huskier, icterus, imbrues, immures, infuser, injures, insured, insurer, insures, issuers, juicers, kauries, leisure, ligures, lousier, lustier, misrule, misuser, mousier, mureins, murices, murines, murries, mushier, muskier, mussier, mustier, nutsier, ourebis, purines, pursier, pushier, pussier, queries, querist, quivers, reissue, requins, residua, residue, reusing, revuist, risuses, rubiest, rugbies, ruiners, ruliest, rummies, rushier, rustier, rutiles, saucier, sauries, seisure, seizure, serious, soilure, soupier, spumier, squired, squires, stourie, studier, stuiver, suberic, suberin, sudsier, suiters, sulkier, sunnier, sunrise, surfeit, surfier, surlier, surmise, surveil, survive, suspire, triunes, umpires, uniters, unrisen, unwiser, updries, upraise, uprisen, upriser, uprises, ureides, uremias, urinose, usuries, virtues, viruses, wussier. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 49 45 55 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)... .. . ..- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001001 01000101 01010101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S I E U R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0049 0045 0055 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5343395552 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
