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Definition: Caviare |
CaviareNoun1. Salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish; usually served as an hors d'oeuvre. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "caviare" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
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Literature | Caviare (3 syl.). Caviare to the general. Above the taste or comprehension of ordinary people. Caviare is a kind of pickle made from the roe of sturgeons, much esteemed in Muscovy. It is a dish for the great, but beyond the reach of the general public. (Hamlet, ii. 2.) "All popular talk about lacustrine villages and flint implements ... is caviare to the multitude."- Pall Mall Gazette. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: CaviareSynonym: caviar (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Condiment | Salt; mustard, grey poupon mustard; pepper, black pepper, white pepper, peppercorn, curry, sauce piquante; caviare, onion, garlic, pickle; achar, allspice; bell pepper, Jamaica pepper, green pepper; chutney; cubeb, pimento. |
Pungency | Mustard, cayenne, caviare; seasoning. (condiment); niter, saltpeter, brine (saltiness) a; carbonate of ammonia; sal ammoniac, sal volatile, smelling salts; hartshorn (acridity) a. |
Taste | Caviare to the general. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Caviare |
| English words defined with "caviare": Sandre, Sterlet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "caviare": soul. (references) |
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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." |
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| "Caviare" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "Caviare" is used about 27 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) | 96.3% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "caviare": caviare to the general. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "caviare": caviare-eyed. | |
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| Language | Translations for "caviare"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | havjar (caviar, Roe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 鱼子酱 (Caviar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kaviár (caviar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kaviár (caviar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aviarecay caviar (caviar), icre (caviar, Roe, spawn). (various references) кетовый (caviar). (various references) kavijar (caviar), ikra (caviar, roe, spawn). (various references) caviar (caviar). (various references) kaviar (caviar). (various references) ไข่ปลาคาร์เวียร์ (caviar). (various references) havyar (caviar). (various references) ікра (caviar, Roe, spawn). (various references) caviar trứng cá muối đ n gảy tải trâu (caviar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "caviare": caviares. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: avarice. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-r-v" | |
-1 letter: caviar. | |
-2 letters: acari, aecia, aiver, areca, areic, carve, caver, cavie, ceria, crave, erica, varia, vicar. | |
-3 letters: acre, area, aria, aver, care, cave, cire, race, raia, rave, rice, rive, vair, vara, vera, vice, vier. | |
-4 letters: ace, air, arc, are, ava, ave, car, ear, era, ice, ire, rec, rei, rev, ria, vac, var, via, vie. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-r-v" | |
+1 letter: avarices, cavalier, caviares, variance, vicarage, vicarate. | |
+2 letters: cadaveric, calvaries, cavaliers, cavalries, variances, varicella, vicarages, vicarates, vicariate. | |
+3 letters: architrave, attractive, aviatrices, cadaverine, cavaliered, cavalierly, covariance, divaricate, invariance, lacerative, reactivate, vacationer, vagrancies, varicellas, vicariance, vicariates. | |
+4 letters: abstractive, acriflavine, affricative, architraves, cadaverines, carminative, cavaliering, cavalierism, comparative, covariances, deactivator, declarative, divaricated, divaricates, invariances, prevaricate, radioactive, reactivated, reactivates, revaccinate, vacationers, vicariances. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 76 69 61 72 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- ...- .. .- .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110110 01101001 01100001 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a v i a r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0076 0069 0061 0072 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678875678471 |
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