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Definition: Fils |
FilsNoun1. A fractional monetary unit in Bahrain and Iraq and Jordan and Kuwait and Southern Yemen and Yemen; equal to one thousandth of a dinar. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fils" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
Etymology: Fils \Fils\, noun. [French expression, from the Latin expression filius. See Filial.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Intention | Phrase: acierta errando; dextro tempore; "fearful concatenation of circumstances"; "fortuitous combination of circumstances"; le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespoir; "the happy combination of fortuitous circumstances"; "the fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms"; "God does not play dice with the universe". |
Similarity | Phrase: et sic de similibus; tel maitre tel valet; tel pere tel fils; like master, like servant; like father, like son; the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree; a chip off the old block |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fils |
| English words defined with "fils": Bahrain dinar ♦ dinar, dirham ♦ Iraqi dinar ♦ Jordanian dinar ♦ Kuwaiti dinar, Kuwaiti dirham ♦ United Arab Emirate dirham ♦ Yemeni dinar. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fils": Barbe ♦ Domisellus ♦ Information Resource Management. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "fils": Fitz. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fils" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (boy, child, kid, lad, son). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fils de son père Picou (1974) Le Fils (1973) Et du fils (1972) Mon fils (1971) Un fils unique (1969) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 80. Peha, chef du district D'Opoulou. Le fils de peha. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842.Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | Mon fils mulatre!! / Charles Philipon, Inv.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
| Mon fils mulatre!! / Charles Philipon, Inv.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | La Peste Dans La Ville De Marseille En 1720 / Peint par J.B. De Troy fils. Grave par S. Thomassin.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Baron. / Deveria del. Couché fils dir. Pigeot fils sculp.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Hy. Ls. Duhamel Sgr. du Monceau / Peint par Drouais fils. Gravé par Ambroise Tardieu.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Fils" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 61.54% of the time. "Fils" is used about 13 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 (proper) | 61.54% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (plural) | 30.77% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 7.69% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "fils" 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 |
| Fils | Last name | 400 | 22,286 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Greece | Benrubi (H) & Fils SA |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "fils": le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespoir ♦ tel pere tel fils. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fils": Fils-aime. | |
| 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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fils": filses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "fils": fulfils, monofils. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-l-s" | |
-1 letter: fil, ifs, lis. | |
-2 letters: if, is, li, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-l-s" | |
+1 letter: alifs, fails, files, fills, films, filos, flics, flies, flips, flits, foils, fusil, lifts. | |
+2 letters: califs, cliffs, clifts, elfins, elfish, falsie, felids, fields, filers, filets, filles, fillos, filose, filses, filths, finals, fiscal, flails, flairs, flicks, fliers, fliest, flimsy, flings, flints, flirts, flites, fluids, folios, follis, fossil, frails, frills, fusile, fusils, fuzils, gliffs, itself, kalifs, lifers, pilafs, rifles, salify, sinful, spliff, stifle, sulfid. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 6C 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. .-.. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01101100 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i l s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 006C 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40757885 |
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