Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Usurper |
UsurperNoun1. One who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "usurper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are a usurper, foretells you will have trouble in establishing a good title to property. If others are trying to usurp your rights, there will be a struggle between you and your competitors, but you will eventually win. For a young woman to have this dream, she will be a party to a spicy rivalry, in which she will win. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: UsurperSynonym: supplanter (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Undueness | Usurper, pretender. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Usurper |
| Specialty definitions using "usurper": Banquo ♦ Hafed ♦ Pharaoh who Knew not Joseph ♦ soul. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Usurper" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (usurp). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Usurper (1919) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Nor can such an usurper, or any deriving from him, ever have a title, till the people are both at liberty to consent, and have actually consented to allow, and confirm in him the power he hath till then usurped. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers. Plato himself was a philosopher. The souls that had least contemplated divine truth animated the bodies of usurpers and despots. Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad- browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot. Plato, doubtless, was not the first to construct a system of philosophy that could be quoted against his enemies; certainly he was not the last. "Concerning the nature of the soul," saith the renowned author of Diversiones Sanctorum, "there hath been hardly more argument than that of its place in the body. Mine own belief is that the soul hath her seat in the abdomen -- in which faith we may discern and interpret a truth hitherto unintelligible, namely that the glutton is of all men most devout. He is said in the Scripture to 'make a god of his belly' -- why, then, should he not be pious, having ever his Deity with him to freshen his faith? Who so well as he can know the might and majesty that he shrines? Truly and soberly, the soul and the stomach are one Divine Entity; and such was the belief of Promasius, who nevertheless erred in denying it immortality. He had observed that its visible and material substance failed and decayed with the rest of the body after death, but of its immaterial essence he knew nothing. This is what we call the Appetite, and it survives the wreck and reek of mortality, to be rewarded or punished in another world, according to what it hath demanded in the flesh. The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below. Such is my religious faith, though I grieve to confess that neither His Holiness the Pope nor His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (whom I equally and profoundly revere) will assent to its dissemination." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Usurper" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Usurper" is used about 59 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% | 59 | 44,010 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "usurper": brother-usurper. | |
| 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 |
usurper | 25 |
mainpage usurper | 9 |
necrocult.com usurper | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "usurper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | uzurpues, uzurpator. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مغتصب سلطة أو عرشة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | узурпатор (intruder), грабител (depredator, extortionist, grabber, harpy, plunderer, reaver, reiver, robber, spoiler, spoliator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | uchvatitel (captor, invader). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | غاصب (Impostor, Violator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vallananastaja, anastaja. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | usurpateur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Thronräuber. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σφετεριστήσ (appropriator, embezzler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מ של (dispossessor), תופס שלטון בכח. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bitorló (usurping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | usurpatore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 僭主 (tyrant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せ"しゅ (bow, earning the first, former master, late master, player, preoccupation, shipowner, slender hand, team, tyrant, usurpation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urperusay usurpador (arrogator, intruder, invader). (various references) uzurpator (intruder, invader). (various references) узурпатор, захватчик (invader, seizer, skyjacker). (various references) uzurpator, otimač (plunderer, reaver, reiver). (various references) usurpador (appropriator). (various references) inkräktare (intruder, invader, trespasser). (various references) zorla alan kimse, tahta hile ile geçen kimse, gaspçı (grabber, hijacker). (various references) узурпатор. (various references) người chiếm đoạt, người cướp ngôi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "usurper": usurpers. (additional references) | |
| |
"Usurper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unsurper, usurpe. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "usurper" (pronounced 'U*surp"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pursuer. | |
| Words within the letters "e-p-r-r-s-u-u" | |
-1 letter: purser, pursue, usurer. | |
-2 letters: purer, purrs, purse, ruers, sprue, super, surer, usurp. | |
-3 letters: errs, pure, purr, purs, reps, ruer, rues, ruse, spue, spur, suer, supe, sure, urus, user. | |
-4 letters: err, ers, per, pes, pur, pus, rep, res, rue, ser, sue, sup, ups, use. | |
-5 letters: er, es, pe, re, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-p-r-r-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: purpures, pursuers, repursue, ruptures, usurpers. | |
+2 letters: repursued, repursues. | |
+3 letters: perjurious, prurituses, repursuing, supergroup, superlunar. | |
+4 letters: acupressure, crepuscular, cupriferous, superchurch, supergroups, superlunary, superluxury, supernature, supersedure, unpressured, unsurprised. | |
+5 letters: acupressures, jurisprudent, neuropterous, perjuriously, prestructure, seropurulent, supercluster, supercurrent, supernatural, supernatures, superpremium, supersedures, superstratum, supersurgeon, unprosperous. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Historic 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
