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Immortelle

Definition: Immortelle

Immortelle

Noun

1. Mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers having usually purple flowers; southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere.

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

Date "immortelle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)

Etymology: Immortelle \Im`mor*telle"\, noun; plural Immortelles. [French expression See Immortal.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Immortelle

Synonym: Xeranthemum annuum (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Immortelle

English words defined with "immortelle": EnerlastingImmortelles. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Immortelle" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (everlasting, immortal).

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Modern Usage: Immortelle

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

L' Immortelle (1963)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Immortelle

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

l ame immortelle

17

immortelle

6

lame immortelle

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Immortelle

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

Bulgarian 

  

безсмъртниче. (various references)

   

Czech

  

slamìnka. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vasvirág (zinnia). (various references)

   

Manx

  

blaa beayn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

immortelleay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

tornar imortal. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

иммортель. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

smilje (xeranhtemum). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

siempreviva. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

evighetsblomma, eternell (everlasting). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kurutulduğunda rengi bozulmayan çiçek. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

безсмертник (everlasting). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Immortelle

Derivations

Words beginning with "immortelle": immortelles. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Immortelle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Immortale, immortel. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Immortelle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-l-m-m-o-r-t"

-3 letters: melilot, morelle, motlier, trommel.

-4 letters: elmier, emoter, etoile, limmer, loiter, melter, memoir, merlot, meteor, metier, miller, millet, milter, moiler, mollie, molter, motile, omelet, reemit, remelt, remote, retell, retile, retime, rillet, teller, telome, tiller, toiler, toller.

-5 letters: elemi, elite, emmer, emmet, emote, iller, lirot, liter, litre, merit, merle, meter, metre, metro, miler, mille, mimeo, mimer, miter, mitre, moire, morel, motel, oiler, oriel, relet, relit, remet, remit, reoil, retem, retie, rille, teloi, tiler, timer, toile, trill, triol, troll.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-l-m-m-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: immortelles.

 

+3 letters: multiemployer.

 

+5 letters: complementarily.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Immortelle


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

49 6D 6D 6F 72 74 65 6C 6C 65

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)

..    --    --    ---    .-.    -    .    .-..    .-..    .

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

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

01001001 01101101 01101101 01101111 01110010 01110100 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#109 &#109 &#111 &#114 &#116 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006D 006D 006F 0072 0074 0065 006C 006C 0065

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

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

43797981848671787871

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INDEX

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


  

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