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Duellist

Definition: Duellist

Duellist

Noun

1. A person who fights duels.

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

Date "duellist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)


Synonyms: Duellist

Synonyms: dueler (n), duelist (n), dueller (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Duellist

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Paulus chantant Duellist marsellais (1897)

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

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Usage Frequency: Duellist

"Duellist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Duellist" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Duellist

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

duellist

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

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Modern Translation: Duellist

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

Albanian

  

dyluftues. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

участник в дуел. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μονομάχοσ (gladiator). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

párbajozó (duelist, dueller). (various references)

   

Italian

  

duellante (duelist). (various references)

   

Manx

  

caggeyder (fighter, gladiator, protagonist). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uellistday

   

Portuguese

  

duelista. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

duelist (combatant). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

участник дуэли. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

duelista. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

duelista (duelist). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

duellant (principal). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

дуелянт (duelist). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Duellist

Derivations

Words beginning with "duellist": duellists. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Duellist

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-l-s-t-u"

-1 letter: dilutes, duelist, dullest, stilled, sullied, tuilles.

-2 letters: delist, dilute, duelli, duties, idlest, illest, lilted, listed, listel, lusted, silted, suited, tildes, tilled, tuille, tulles.

-3 letters: deils, deist, delis, dells, delts, diets, dills, dites, duels, duets, duits, dulls, dulse, edits, etuis, idles, ileus, isled, islet, istle, leuds, lieus, lilts, lisle, ludes, luted, lutes, sidle, sited.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-l-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: duellists, loudliest.

 

+2 letters: tellurides.

 

+3 letters: bullshitted, desultorily, dissolutely, illustrated.

 

+4 letters: despitefully, multiskilled.

 

+5 letters: andouillettes, deleteriously, distastefully, distressfully, illiquidities, miscalculated.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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