Thoreau

Definition: Thoreau

Thoreau

Noun

1. United States writer and social critic (1817-1862).

Date "Thoreau" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)

Synonym: Thoreau

Synonym: Henry David Thoreau (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Thoreau

English words defined with "Thoreau": Henry David Thoreau ♦ Thoreauvian ♦ used to ♦ wont to. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Henry David Thoreau (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)
Movie/TV Titles	Talking with Thoreau (1971)
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Domain	Title
Books	CliffsNotes^TM Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism (reference) No Man's Garden: Thoreau and a New Vision for Civilization and Nature (reference) The Portable Thoreau (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Brian Fennelly: A Thoreau Symphony, on Civil Disobedience (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Title page of Henry D. Thoreau, Walden; or life in the woods, 1854, showing Thoreau's hut at Walden Pond, Massachusetts.Credit: Library of Congress.		At Walden Pond, haunt of Thoreau, Concord, Massachusetts.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Thoreau, New Mexico. On the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad enroute to Gallup.Credit: Library of Congress.		Thoreau, New Mexico. A train stopping at a siding along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Thoreau, New Mexico. Indian woman crossing the tracks as the conductor gives the highball along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress.		Thoreau, New Mexico. Section crew coming in after a day's work on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Thoreau, New Mexico. The diesel streamliner "Super Chief" going west along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress.		Thoreau, New Mexico. Section crew coming in after a day's work along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Belen and Gallup, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Thoreau, New Mexico. Conductor C.W. Tevis, with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad for thirty-two years.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Henry David Thoreau	I say, break the law.
	The only wealth is life.
	Things do not change, we do.
	Being is the great explainer.
	The sun is but a morning star.
	To regret deeply is to live afresh.
	Law never made men a whit more just.
	A man sits as many risks as he runs.
	Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Travel	Italy	Carnets are sold in the United States by the U.S. Council for International Business at the following locations: 1212 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, (212) 354-4480+ADs- 3345 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90010, (213) 386-0767+ADs- and 1930 Thoreau Drive, +ACM-101, Schaumburg, IL 60173. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Thoreau" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.95% of the time. "Thoreau" is used about 21 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)	80.95%	17	85,106
Noun (singular)	19.05%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	21	N/A

1. Thoreau, NM
Zip Code(s): 87323
Country: USA

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Expression: Thoreau

Expression using "Thoreau": Henry David Thoreau. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thoreau

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
henry david thoreau	352	d h thoreau	6
thoreau	198	thoreau quotation	5
thoreau quote	49	camp thoreau	5
henry david thoreau quote	34	poem by henry david thoreau	5
civil disobedience thoreau	20	thoreau society	5
the night thoreau spent in jail	18	walden by thoreau	5
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thoreau and walden	14	club concord thoreau	5
thoreau nm	12	thoreau poetry	5
henry david thoreau walden	11	thoreau walking	4
emerson and thoreau	10	thoreau new mexico	4
henry david thoreau and civil disobedience	10	walden by henry david thoreau	4
thoreau walden pond	10	thoreau poem	4
david thoreau	9	institute thoreau	4
club thoreau	9	h.d thoreau	3
middle school thoreau	8	emerson thoreau versus	3
david henry poem thoreau	7	camp in thoreau vermont	3
biography of thoreau	7	by quote thoreau	3
in jail night spent summary thoreau	6	house thoreau	3
henry david thoreau picture	6	thoreau transcendentalism	3
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Misspellings: Thoreau

Misspellings
	"Thoreau" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Horeau, Hurteau, Tahoeraa, Thiebaud, Thorleif. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Thoreau

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: outhear.
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-o-r-t-u"
	-1 letter: author.
	-2 letters: earth, hater, haute, heart, oater, orate, other, outer, outre, rathe, route, routh, throe, torah, urate.
	-3 letters: aero, auto, eath, euro, haet, hare, hart, hate, haut, hear, heat, hero, hoar, hoer, hora, hour, hurt, oath, rate, rath, rato, rhea, rota, rote, roue, rout, ruth, tahr, tare, taro, tear, thae, thou, thro, thru.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-o-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: authored, outheard, outhears, outreach, thiourea.
	+2 letters: authoress, authorise, authorize, cartouche, hereabout, outcharge, outpreach, thioureas.
	+3 letters: authorised, authorises, authorized, authorizer, authorizes, cartouches, coauthored, earthbound, euphoriant, hereabouts, housetrain, largemouth, neuropathy, outcharged, outcharges, outcharmed, outhearing, outmarched, outmarches, outreached, outreaches, rheumatoid, thereabout, whereabout.
	+4 letters: authoresses, authorities, authorizers, autographed, champertous, dreadnought, euchromatic, euchromatin, euphoriants, goddaughter, hardmouthed, heteroauxin, houseboater, housefather, housemaster, houseparent, housetrains, largemouths, neuropathic, outpreached, outpreaches, outreaching, reauthorize, southeaster, thereabouts, treacherous, unseaworthy, urochordate, whereabouts.
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