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Dejeuner

Definitions: Dejeuner

Dejeuner

Noun

1. A midday meal.

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

Date "dejeuner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Dejeuner

DomainDefinitions

Satire

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced. Source: Devil's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms: Dejeuner

Synonyms: lunch (n), luncheon (n), tiffin (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Dejeuner

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Food

Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Dejeuner

English words defined with "dejeuner": Dejeunepetit dejeuner. (references)
Specialty definitions using "dejeuner": D'ejeuner. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Dejeuner

DomainTitle

Books

  • Breakfast at Tiffany's / Petit Dejeuner chez Tiffany (Bilingual French and English Edition) (reference)

  • Le Dejeuner (reference)

  • Les Recettes Du Petit Dejeuner (reference)

  • Manet: Le dejeuner sur l'herbe (reference)

  • Monet: Le dejeuner sur l'herbe (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Dejeuner

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Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Dejeuner

Expression using "dejeuner": petit dejeuner. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dejeuner

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

dejeuner lit petit

21

dejeuner

15

cora dejeuner

7

affair dejeuner

6

dejeuner sur l herbe

5

dejeuner petit

5

cheque dejeuner

3

dejeuner le petit

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Dejeuner

Language Translations for "dejeuner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

парадный или официальный завтрак. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Dejeuner

Derivations

Words beginning with "dejeuner": dejeuners. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Dejeuner

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-j-n-r-u"

-2 letters: endure, enured, jeered, jereed, needer.

-3 letters: ender, endue, enure, nuder, undee, under.

-4 letters: deer, dene, dere, dree, dune, dure, durn, erne, jeed, jeer, need, nerd, nude, nurd, rede, reed, rend, rude, rued, rune, unde.

-5 letters: dee, den, due, dun, end, ere, ern, jee, jeu, jun, nee, red, ree, rue, run, urd, urn.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-j-n-r-u"
 

+1 letter: dejeuners.

 

+3 letters: rejuvenated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Dejeuner


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

44 65 6A 65 75 6E 65 72

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000100 01100101 01101010 01100101 01110101 01101110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#101 &#106 &#101 &#117 &#110 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0065 006A 0065 0075 006E 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

3871767187807184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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