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Definition: Stendhal |
StendhalNoun1. French writer whose novels were the first to feature psychological analysis of the character (1783-1842). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Stendhal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
Synonym: StendhalSynonym: Marie Henri Beyle (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: Stendhal prize (fine arts, european union). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | I have a bad memory for facts. (references; author: Stendhal) | |
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Books |
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Theater & Movies | |||
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| Author | Quotation |
Henri B. Stendhal | To describe happiness is to diminish it. |
| A novel is a mirror carried along a main road. | |
| A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. | |
| The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. | |
| I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase. | |
| In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. | |
Stendhal | I have a bad memory for facts. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Stendhal" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "Stendhal" is used about 19 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) | 94.74% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
stendhal | 53 |
stendhal syndrome | 7 |
negro rojo stendhal y | 7 |
stendhal rouge et le noir | 3 |
the red and the black stendhal | 3 |
le rouge et le noir stendhal | 3 |
stendhal cosmetic | 3 |
da ponte stendhal | 2 |
essay stendhal | 2 |
stendhal hotel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: shetland. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-l-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: daleths, dentals, handles, handsel, handset, hantles, slanted. | |
-2 letters: daleth, deaths, deltas, dental, desalt, elands, halest, halted, handle, hansel, hanted, hantle, haslet, hasted, hasten, ladens, lashed, lasted, latens, lathed, lathes, naleds, salted, sendal, shaled, shelta, slated, snathe, staled, staned, thanes, thenal. | |
-3 letters: anted, antes, ashed, ashen, dahls, dales, dates, deals, dealt, deans, deash, death. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-l-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: shetlands. | |
+2 letters: decathlons, disenthral, heartlands, heathlands. | |
+3 letters: disenthrall, disenthrals, fatherlands, heulandites, hinterlands, lanthanides, motherlands, stickhandle. | |
+4 letters: blandishment, candlelights, dilettantish, disenthralls, neanderthals, stickhandled, stickhandler, stickhandles, stranglehold, stringhalted, thunderclaps. | |
+5 letters: blandishments, deathlessness, dechlorinates, disenthralled, endotheliomas, lymphadenitis, nearsightedly, stickhandlers, strangleholds, unestablished. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 74 65 6E 64 68 61 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... - . -. -.. .... .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01110100 01100101 01101110 01100100 01101000 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S t e n d h a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0074 0065 006E 0064 0068 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5386718070746778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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