Leitmotiv

Definition: Leitmotiv

Leitmotiv

Noun

1. A melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in Wagner's operas).

Date "leitmotiv" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1930. (references)

Synonym: Leitmotiv

Synonym: leitmotif (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Leitmotiv

Non-English Usage: "Leitmotiv" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (leitmotif, leitmotiv), French (leitmotif, leitmotiv, motif), German (key note, leitmotif, motif, theme), Spanish (leitmotiv).

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Modern Usage: Leitmotiv

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Leitmotiv (1983)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Leitmotiv

Domain	Title
Books	Das Literarische Leitmotiv Und Seine Funktionen in Romanen Von Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, Und James Joyce (reference) Die Vollmacht Jesu : Traditions- und redaktionsgeschichtliche Analysen zu einem Leitmotiv markinischer Christologie (reference) Gottes Gegenwart in Lateinamerika : Inkarnation als Leitmotiv der Befreiungstheologie (reference) Leitmotiv and Drama: Wagner, Brecht, and the Limits of Epic Theatre (reference) Umweltbewusst produzieren : praxisgerechte Lösungen für ein Leitmotiv der 90er Jahre : 23. IPA-Arbeitstagung, 6. und 7. März 1990 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Leitmotiv

"Leitmotiv" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Leitmotiv" is used about 15 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)	100%	15	90,616

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Leitmotiv

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
leitmotiv	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Leitmotiv

Language		Translations for "leitmotiv"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		laitmotiv (leitmotif), temë kryesore (leitmotif, motif). (various references)

Bulgarian		лайтмотив (leitmotif). (various references)

Dutch		Leitmotiv (leitmotif). (various references)

Esperanto		gvida ideo (leitmotif). (various references)

French		leitmotiv (leitmotif). (various references)

Hungarian		vezérmotívum (leitmotif). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ライトミドル級 (light middleweight). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ライトモチーフ . (various references)

Pig Latin		eitmotivlay

Russian		лейтмотив (leitmotif, leit-motif, leit-motiv, motif). (various references)

Spanish		leitmotiv. (various references)

Swedish		ledmotiv (leitmotif, theme). (various references)

Turkish		tema (leitmotif, plot, subject, theme, topic), nakarat (burden, chorus, leitmotif, refrain, repeat), ana motif (leitmotif). (various references)

Ukranian		лейтмотив (keynote, motif, motive). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Leitmotiv

Derivations
	Words beginning with "leitmotiv": leitmotivs. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Leitmotiv

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-m-o-t-t-v"
	-3 letters: iolite, motile, motive, mottle, toilet, violet, vittle.
	-4 letters: limit, lotte, motel, motet, motte, movie, olive, teloi, title, toile, totem, voile, volte, volti, vomit.
	-5 letters: emit, evil, item, levo, lime, limo, lite, live, loti, love, melt, mile, milo, milt, mite, mitt, moil, mole, molt, mote, mott, move, omit, tile, tilt, time, titi, toil, toit.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-m-o-t-t-v"
	+1 letter: leitmotivs.
	+3 letters: multivoltine.
	+4 letters: competitively.
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