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Definitions: Defiance |
DefianceNoun1. Intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude. 2. A hostile challenge. 3. A defiant act. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "defiance" was first used: 13th century. (references) |
Synonym: DefianceSynonym: rebelliousness (n). (additional references) |
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Defiance is a city located in Defiance County, Ohio. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 16,465. It is the county seat of Defiance County6.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Defiance, Iowa."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Courage | Noun: courage, bravery, valor; resoluteness, boldness; Adjective: spirit, daring, gallantry, intrepidity; contempt of danger, defiance of danger; derring-do; audacity; rashness; dash; defiance; confidence, self-reliance. |
Defense | Phrase: defense not defiance; Dieu defend le droit; fidei defensor. |
Defiance | Verb: defy, dare, beard; brave; (courage); bid defiance to; set at defiance, set at naught; hurl defiance at; dance the war dance, beat the war drums; snap the fingers at, laugh to scorn; disobey. |
Noun: defiance; daring & Verb:; dare; challenge, cartel; threat; war cry, war whoop. | |
Adverb: in defiance of, in the teeth of; under one's very nose. | |
Disagreement | Adverb: in defiance, in contempt,in spite of; discordantly; Adjective: a tort et a travers. |
Disobedience | Verb: disobey, violate, infringe; shirk; set at defiance; (defy); set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of; take the law into one's own hands; kick over the traces. |
Revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute; riot, tumult; (disorder); strike;(resistance); barring out; defiance. | |
Illegality | Verb: offend against the law; violate the law, infringe the law, break the law; set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute; ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands. |
Opposition | In spite, in despite, in defiance; in the way, in the teeth of, in the face of; across; athwart, overthwart; where the shoe pinches; in spite of one's teeth. |
Pride | A duke's revenues on her back; " disdains the shadow which he treads on at noon"; "pride in their port, defiance in their eye". |
Threat | Noun: threat, menace; defiance; abuse, minacity, intimidation; denunciation; fulmination; commination; (curse); gathering clouds; (warning). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Defiance |
| English words defined with "defiance": Black flag, brazen, brazenness, Brustle ♦ Dareful, Defiatory, Despite ♦ In despite, In despite of, In spite of, In spite of the teeth, In your despite, insubordinate, insubordination ♦ lawlessness ♦ obstreperousness, outlawry ♦ resistant, resistive ♦ shamelessness, Spite of ♦ To bid defiance to, To bristle up, To fling down, To one's beard, To sprunt up. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "defiance": 24437 ♦ 43512 ♦ 63341 ♦ Gueux ♦ HELTER SKELTER ♦ King's Keys ♦ Mushroom ♦ Scythian Defiance, Strike Amain. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "defiance": Dareful. (references) |
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Screenplays | That's because he deals with man's inclination towards sin, in defiance of God's will. (Volcano; writing credit: Jerome Armstrong) Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt and any thing that may not misbecome the mighty sender, doth he prize you at. Thus says my king. (Henry V; writing credit: Kenneth Branagh; William Shakespeare) I see a whole army of my country men, here, in defiance of tyranny. (Braveheart; writing credit: Randall Wallace) | |
Lyrics | Me, I'm a fool spent from defiance, yeah you got me but ("Blinded (When I See You)"; performing artist: THIRD EYE BLIND) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Defiance of Good (1974) Fort Defiance (1951) Defiance (1917) Her Defiance (1916) In Defiance of the Law (1914) | |
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 | Looking over the spit at Gig Harbor to a fog-enshrouded Point Defiance.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | A mid-summer sunrise at Gig Harbor. The sun is rising to the left of Point Defiance. Mt. Rainier can be seen to the right.Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A view of Tacoma and Point Defiance from the spit at Gig Harbor. Debris lines on beach mark the extent of tides in the area. The ferry boat is proceeding from Tacoma to Vashon Island.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Officers' quarters at Ft. Defiance / Simeon Schwemberger, St. Michaels, Ariz.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Students of Athens University parading through streets for Greek National Independence Day, in defiance of Axis troops.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Fort Ticonderoga and vicinity from Mt. Defiance.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ft. Defiance, Arizona.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | An insane, but heroic defiance, for this old Faubourg is a hero. |
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Business | The latter figure reflects the fact that many parents are willing to send their young children abroad in defiance of a government regulation that requires students to be over 17 to study abroad. (references) | |
Economic History | Libya | Continued Libyan defiance led to passage of UNSC Resolution 883--a limited assets freeze and an embargo on selected oil equipment--in November 1993. (references) |
Namibia | South Africa agreed to cooperate in achieving the implementation of Resolution 435. Nonetheless, in December 1978, in defiance of the UN proposal, it unilaterally held elections in Namibia which were boycotted by SWAPO and a few other political parties. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bangladesh | After convincing his party to return to Parliament in defiance of the opposition alliance's almost 3-year boycott, Ershad was finally granted bail and released. (references) |
Political Economy | Haiti | Prisoners with valid release orders continued to be held in defiance of these orders. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Complaints have been received that persons residing within the United States have taken on themselves to arm merchant vessels and to force a commerce into certain ports and countries in defiance of the laws of those countries. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | But that will not be possible so long as Iran continues to hold Americans hostages, in defiance of the world community and civilized behavior. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | The entire world has witnessed Iraq's eleven-year history of defiance, deception, and bad faith. |
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| "Defiance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.52% of the time. "Defiance" is used about 405 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) | 98.52% | 399 | 14,004 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.48% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 405 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | First Defiance Financial Corp. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Defiance, IA (city, FIPS 19585) 2. Defiance, MO 3. Defiance, OH (city, FIPS 21308) |
Expressions using "defiance": act of defiance ♦ bid defiance ♦ bid defiance to ♦ defense not defiance ♦ Defiance County ♦ defiance of ♦ Fort Defiance ♦ in defiance of ♦ in defiance of common sense ♦ in defiance of smth. ♦ set smb. at defiance ♦ To bid defiance ♦ To bid defiance to ♦ To set at defiance. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "defiance": part-defiance. | |
| 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 |
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defiance point | 60 |
defiance crescent news | 40 |
defiance point uss | 32 |
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| Language | Translations for "defiance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sjellje provokuese, sfidë (challenge, dare), mosbindje (contumacy, disobedience, insubordination, recalcitrance), kundërshtim i hapur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مواجهة (confrontation, encounter, facing, meeting, obverse), تحد (challenge, dare, defy, gauntlet, provocation, stump), جموح (disobedience, lawlessness, recalcitrance, stubborn), إستخفاف بالمعارضة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | явно пренебрежение, открито неподчинение, незачитане (disregard, impiety, inconsideration, oblivion, slight), предизвикване (provocation), предизвикателство (challenge, dare, provocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 反抗 (Defiant, Revolted, revolting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vzpurnost, vzdor (spite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | pubertetstrods (pubertal defiance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | trots (defiantly, despite, in spite of, notwithstanding, pride, proud, spite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | spito (spite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | treiskni (spite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مقاومت (Opposition, Resistance), مخالفت (Aversion, Gainsay, Objection, Opposition, Remonstrance, Repugnance, Resistance), مبارزه طلبی , اعتراض (Exception, Objection, Protest, Remonstrance), دعوت به جنگ , بی اعتناءی (Inattention, Scorn, Slight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | uhmamieli, uhmailu, uhma, uhka (hazard, menace, risk, spite, threat), uhittelu (bravado). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | défi, résistance, acte de défi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | trotz (contrariness, defiantly, despite, for, in spite of, notwithstanding, with), Herausforderung (act of defiance, challenge, provocation, pugnacity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρόκληση (challenge, dare, provocation), περιφρόνηση (contempt, contumely, scorn), αψήφηση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "מרי" (contumacy, disobedience, rebelliousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ellenszegülés (recalcitrance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tentangan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sfida (challenge, dare), provocazione (provocation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 挑戦 (challenge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぼうじゃくぶじ" (arrogance, audacity, insolence, outrageously as though there were no one around, overbearing), は""うてき (rebelliousness), は""う (circulation, clan school, counteroffensive, crime, criminal act, daimyo, distribution, feudal lord, han school, hostility, insubordination, offence, opposition, printing, promulgation, publishing, rebellion, resistance, sealling), ちょうせ" (catgut, challenge, Korea, sheepgut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 도 (Challenge, Challenging, DARE, Defy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lane fo, doolane (challenge, dare, gauntlet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | trass. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | efianceday desafio (bravado, challenge, dare, Gage, tournament), provocação (challenge, inducement, irritant, provocation). (various references) desconsiderare (disdain, neglect, opprobrium), sfruntare, sfidare, provocare (challenge, instigation, provocation). (various references) вызов (call, call-in, challenge, curtain call, dare, daresay, evocation, invocation, process, ringing), неповиновение (contumacy, disobedience, recusancy). (various references) dùbhlan (a challenge, challenge). (various references) prkos (purslane, spite, truculence), nedostatak (blemish, defect, deficiency, demerit, failing, failure, fault, imperfection, lack, minus, shortage, want), manjak (deficiency, deficit, shortage, shortfall, short-fall, shortness, wantage). (various references) desafío (challenge, dare, daring, duel). (various references) utmaning (challenge, challenging, Gage), trots (defiantly, despite, in spite of, in the face of, inspite, notwithstandig, notwithstanding, obstinacy, regardless of, scorn, with). (various references) saygısızlık (discourtesy, disrespect, flippancy, impertinence, impiety, impudence, inconsiderateness, indignity, insolence, irreverence, liberty, sauciness, slight), muhalefet (contrariety, dissension, dissent, dissidence, hostility, opposition, oppositional, out, the outs), meydan okuma (bravado, challenge), karşı koyma (counteraction, deprecation, despite, opposition, resistance). (various references) виклик (call, call up, calling, challenge, citation, dare, defy, provocation, ringing, summons), визивна поведінка, повна зневага, демонстративна непокора. (various references) sự thách thức sự bất chấp, sự không tuân theo bất chấp, sự coi thường (contempt, profanation, slight, undervaluation), mặc kệ thách thức coi thường, không tuân theo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | defiance. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "defiance": defiances. (additional references) | |
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"Defiance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: defeance, defeence, defence, defiace, defiancwe, defience, definance, Definicil, degiance, diffence, effiency, Efibanca. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "defiance" (pronounced dufī"uns) |
| 4 | -ī" u n s | alliance, appliance, compliance, noncompliance, pseudoscience, reliance, science. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-f-i-n" | |
-1 letter: enfaced, faciend, faience, fancied, fiancee. | |
-2 letters: aedine, deafen, decane, deface, define, edenic, enface, fadein, fenced, fiance. | |
-3 letters: acned, caned, canid, dance, decaf, deice, diene, faced, fence, fiend, fined, nicad, niece. | |
-4 letters: aced, acid, acne, aide, cade, cadi, cafe, caid, cain, cane, cede, cedi, cine, dace, deaf, dean, defi, dene, deni, dice, dine, eide, face, fade, fain, fane, feed, fend, fice, find, fine, iced, idea, naif, need, neif, nice, nide. | |
-5 letters: ace, aid, ain, and, ane, ani, cad, can, cee, dee, den, die, din, end, fad, fan, fed, fee, fen, fid, fie, fin, ice, nae, nee. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-f-i-n" | |
+1 letter: defiances. | |
+2 letters: defecating, defecation, interfaced, refinanced. | |
+3 letters: affectioned, caffeinated, defecations, prefinanced. | |
+4 letters: beneficiated, candlefishes, decaffeinate, enfranchised, ferricyanide, ferrocyanide, fianchettoed, handkerchief. | |
+5 letters: confederacies, confederating, confederation, confederative, decaffeinated, decaffeinates, dieffenbachia, ferricyanides, ferrocyanides, handkerchiefs, presanctified, underfinanced. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 66 69 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . ..-. .. .- -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100110 01101001 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e f i a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0066 0069 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3871727567806971 |
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