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Definition: Bijou |
BijouAdjective1. Small and elegant; "bijou villas"; "can Americans be persuaded to pay out dollars for bijou cars?". Noun1. A small and delicately worked piece. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bijou" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Etymology: Bijou \Bi*jou"\, noun; plural Bijoux. [French expression; of uncertain origin.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Pea butterfly; garden; flower of, pink of; bijou; jewel; (ornament); work of art. |
Inexpedience | Tidbit; gem, gem of the first water; bijou, precious stone, jewel, pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure; good thing; rara avis, one in a thousand. |
Jewelry | Noun: jewel, jewelry, jewellery; bijoutry; bijou, bijouterie; trinket;fine jewelry; costume jewelry, junk jewelry; gem, gemstone, precious stone. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bijou |
| English words defined with "bijou": Bijoux. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "bijou": Bijoutry. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bijou" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (bijou, brooch, jewel). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Bijou (1972) Le Bijou (1946) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Bijou. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Bijou" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.30% of the time. "Bijou" is used about 23 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) | 91.3% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bijou" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bijou | Last name | 170 | 41,317 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Germany | Bijou Brigitte Modische Accessoires A.S. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "bijou"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | si xhevahir, si diamant, gur i çmuar (bijoux, carbuncle, gem, jewel, precious stone, rock, stone, tiger's eye). (various references) | |
Arabic | جوهرة (gem, jewel, precious stone), أنيق (chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | малък (light, little, measurable, paltry, piccolo, pocket, remote, slight, slim, small, tiddly, toy, venial, young), бижу, изящен (artistic, artistical, delicate, delicious, distinguished, minikin, neat, nice, peachy, svelte, sylph-like). (various references) | |
Farsi | جواهر (Gem, Jewel, Ouch, Treasure). (various references) | |
French | bijou. (various references) | |
Greek | κόσμημα (adornment, flourish, gem, jewel, ornament), κομψόσ (chic, comely, dainty, dapper, debonair, dressy, elegant, fancy, fine, jaunty, natty, neat, nifty, posh, pretty, prim, quaint, rakish, smart, spark plug, sparkish, spiffy, stylish, trig, trim, well groomed), στολίδι (adornment, gaud, jewel, ornament, tog). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bizsu (doodad, trinket), tetszetõs (pleasing, showy, sightly, specious). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ijoubay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bijuteria (imitation jewelry), refinado (chic, cultivated, hulled, ladylike, precious, refined, wiredrawn), precioso (gold, golden, orient, orientate, precious, rare, unpriced, valuable), perfeito (absolute, accomplished, classic, classical, clean, close, consummate, crowned, exact, finished, flawless, handsome, impeccable, masterly, perfect, precious, sculpturesque, sound, thorough, thoroughpaced, throughly, unalloyed, undeniable, unexceptionable, unmitigated), jóia (gem, jewel, jewellery, jewelry), completo (absolute, all out, all-around, all-out, all-round, arrant, clean, complete, completed, done, downright, dyed-in-the, egregious, entire, exhaustive, freehearted, full, fullbodied, outright, plenary, plumb, precious, round, run-down, sheer, sweeping, teetotal, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, thru, total, unabridged, unalloyed, unmitigated, utter, whole), afetado (affected, conceited, coxcombical, dandified, dollish, far-fetched, finical, foppish, forced, fulsome, mannered, miminy-piminy, niminy-piminy, pompous, precious, pretentious, prim, scenic, scenical, smug, stilted, theatrical, wiredrawn). (various references) | |
Russian | маленький и изящный, безделушка (bagatelle, bauble, bric-a-brac, doodad, falderal, gadget, gewgaw, kickshaw, knick knack, knickknack, knick-knack, Nick nack, rattletrap, trinket, whatnot), драгоценный (precious). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dragulj (gem, jewel). (various references) | |
Spanish | bibelot, elegante (chic, courtly, dainty, debonair, dressy, elegant, fashionable, Flossy, fragrant, genteel, graceful, handsome, ladylike, natty, neat, nifty, Nobby, posh, rakish, refined, silk stocking, smart, snazzy, sporty, stylish, trim). (various references) | |
Swedish | småsak (bauble, fluff, knick knack, knick-knack, Nick nack, trifle). (various references) | |
Thai | เพชร (rock). (various references) | |
Turkish | küçük ve güzel, küçük ama mükemmel. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | коштовність (jewel), витончений (airy, attic, choice, curious, dainty, delicate, elegant, fastidious, fine, lepid, nice, rarefied, refined, slender, slinky, subtile, subtle, super, twee, zing), майстерний (curious, daedal, dedal, dexterous, handicraft, masterful, masterly, natty, neat-handed, shrewd, skilful, skillful, technical, workmanlike), прикраса (adornment, apparel, attire, beauty, decking, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, fallal, garnish, garniture, Nick nack, ornament, outset, pretty, quip, set off). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhỏ xinh (bijoux, toy), nhỏ v đẹp (bijoux). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bijou": bijous, bijouterie, bijouteries, bijoux. (additional references) | |
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"Bijou" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bacou, bagou, bajo, bavou, beaujo, Bedou, bije, biji, bijju, Bijnor, bijol, bijon, bijour, Bijur, Bilou, bioa, Bitoo, biyo, biyou, Bizjak, bojo, boojum, byou, Dijoud, Jigoku, tijou, Tiju. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-j-o-u" | |
-2 letters: bio, jib, job, obi. | |
-3 letters: bi, bo, jo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-j-o-u" | |
+1 letter: bijous, bijoux. | |
+2 letters: subjoin. | |
+3 letters: bijugous, subjoins. | |
+4 letters: subjoined. | |
+5 letters: abjuration, bijouterie, jubilation, subjection, subjoining. | |
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