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William Tell

Definition: William Tell

William Tell

Noun

1. A Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: William Tell

Synonym: Tell (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: William Tell (opera)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

William Tell is an opera by Gioacchino Rossini. The libretto was written by Etienne de Jou and Hippolyte Bis based on Friedrich Schiller's Wilhelm Tell. It was first performed in Paris in 1829. The original version was in French but it is often performed in Italian.

William Tell is part of the standard operatic repertoire. There are a several recordings of it, but due to its length and casting requirements it is not regularly performed.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "William Tell (opera)."

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Crosswords: William Tell

Specialty definitions using "William Tell": WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH. (references)

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Modern Usage: William Tell

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Mean Moe Tells William Tell (1963)

William Tell (1958)

Overture to William Tell (1947)

Popeye Meets William Tell (1940)

William Tell (1934)

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Commercial Usage: William Tell

DomainTitle

Books

  • My Name Is William Tell (reference)

  • The Abandoned Doll. Young Billy Tell Historia De Una Muneca Abandonada. El Unico Hijo De William Tell (Estreno: Contemporary Spanish Plays Series) (reference)

  • William Tell (reference)

  • William Tell and His Son (reference)

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Theater & Movies

  • Gioachino Rossini - William Tell / Luca Ronconi Riccardo Muti G. Zancanaro C. Merritt Teatro alla Scala (reference)

  • New Adventures of William Tell (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: William Tell

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: William Tell

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B>F-15s from Kadena Air Base, Japan, arrive for William Tell competition.

William Tell -- will not surrender or bow to the old hat. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: William Tell

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

william tell

114

william tell overture

70

william tell overature

6

the legend of william tell

4
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Anagrams: William Tell

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-i-l-l-l-l-m-t-w"

-5 letters: illite, mallei, mallet, millet, taille, telial, wallet, wallie, willet.

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

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Alternative Orthography: William Tell


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

57 69 6C 6C 69 61 6D      54 65 6C 6C

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

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01101001 01101100 01101100 01101001 01100001 01101101 00100000 01010100 01100101 01101100 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#105 &#108 &#108 &#105 &#97 &#109 &#32 &#84 &#101 &#108 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0069 006C 006C 0069 0061 006D      0054 0065 006C 006C

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

57757878756779254717878

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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