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SOMNAMBULE

Definition: SOMNAMBULE

SOMNAMBULE

Noun

1. A somnambulist.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SOMNAMBULE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)

Etymology: Somnambule \Som*nam"bule\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: SOMNAMBULE

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

French (sleepwalker, somnambulist, somnambulistic), German (somnambulist).

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Modern Usage: SOMNAMBULE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Boniface Somnambule (1951)

Bébé somnambule (1912)

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

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Commercial Usage: SOMNAMBULE

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SOMNAMBULE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

somnambule

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Rhyming with "SOMNAMBULE"

Words rhyming with "SOMNAMBULE" (pronounced 'Som*nam"bule'): Barbule, Bulbule, tubule. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SOMNAMBULE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: summonable.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-m-m-n-o-s-u"

-2 letters: albumens, albumose, bluesman, melanous, nelumbos, summable.

-3 letters: albumen, almsmen, ambones, bemoans, embalms, embolus, mamboes, mumbles, nebulas, nelumbo, nombles, numbles, solanum, sunbeam, umbonal, umbones.

-4 letters: albums, ambles, amoles, anoles, beanos, bemoan, blames, blouse, blumes, boules, busman, busmen, embalm, ensoul, lanose, lemans, lemmas, lemons, lumens, mambos, melons, mensal, mumble, nebula, nobles, obelus, oleums, omasum, salmon.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-m-m-n-o-s-u"
 

+2 letters: membranously, somnambulate.

 

+3 letters: commensurable, commensurably, somnambulated, somnambulates.

 

+5 letters: immunoassayable, incommensurable, incommensurably, uncompromisable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SOMNAMBULE


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

53 4F 4D 4E 41 4D 42 55 4C 45

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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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 01001111 01001101 01001110 01000001 01001101 01000010 01010101 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#79 &#77 &#78 &#65 &#77 &#66 &#85 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004F 004D 004E 0041 004D 0042 0055 004C 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

53494748354736554639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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