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Definition: Madder |
MadderNoun1. Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin. Verb1. Color a moderate to strong red. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "madder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Madder \Mad"der\, noun. [Old English mader, Anglo-Saxon m[ae]dere; akin to Icelandic.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Madder has been used since ancient times as a red dye. The chemical name for the pigment is alizarin.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Madder."
Synonym: MadderSynonym: Rubia tinctorum (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Madder |
| English words defined with "madder": Alizari, Asperula tinctoria ♦ Buttonweed ♦ dyer's woodruff ♦ Erythrozyme ♦ family Rubiaceae, Field madder ♦ Garancin ♦ madder family, Maroon lake, Mather, Munjistin ♦ Pink salt, Purpurin ♦ Ruberythrinic, Rubiaceae, Rubiaceous, Rubiacin, Rubian, Rubiretin ♦ Turkey red ♦ Warence ♦ Xanthin. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "madder": Rubian. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; writing credit: Tom Stoppard;) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mad Scientist Gets Madder (1963) | |
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Books | |
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| "Pumpkin 2" by Csaba Magyar Commentary: "Madder pumpkin." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Otway | Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself |
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| "Madder" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 90.16% of the time. "Madder" is used about 61 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 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 90.16% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.84% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 61 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "madder": Field madder ♦ indian madder ♦ madder family ♦ madder red ♦ madder yellow ♦ rose madder ♦ white madder ♦ wild madder. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "madder": madder-coloured. | |
Ending with "madder": rose-madder. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
madder | 30 |
madder root | 22 |
madder rose | 18 |
madder mortem | 7 |
donald madder | 2 |
stephen king rose madder | 2 |
madder seed | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "madder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الفوة نبات صبغي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ализарин (alizarin), брош (spurwort). (various references) | |
Chinese | 茜草属植物, 藘 . (various references) | |
Danish | kraproedt (garancine), krap (garancine, Turkey red). (various references) | |
Dutch | meekrap (Turkey red), garancine (garancine). (various references) | |
French | garancine, garance. (various references) | |
German | krapp (Turkey red), verrückter (battier, buggier, crazier, dafter, furioso, kookier, loonier, madman, screwier, wackier, weirdo). (various references) | |
Greek | ερυθρόδανο (Turkey red), αλιζαρίνη (alizarin). (various references) | |
Hungarian | festõbuzér. (various references) | |
Italian | robbia (Turkey red). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 茜 (honey, nectar). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あかね. (various references) | |
Korean | 꼭두서니. (various references) | |
Manx | maddyr (field madder). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | addermay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | garança (Turkey red). (various references) | |
Romanian | roibã. (various references) | |
Russian | марена. (various references) | |
Scottish | màdar. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | crvena boja (gules), broć. (various references) | |
Spanish | rubia (blonde). (various references) | |
Swedish | krapprot. (various references) | |
Thai | ต้นไม้จำพวก Rubia. (various references) | |
Turkish | kök boya, kızılkök. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | марена (mahseer). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Rubia tinctorum. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "madder": madders. (additional references) | |
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"Madder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jadder, Madadayo, Madar, maddar, madde, Maddern, Madderty, Madec, maded, madeg, mader, madey, Madida, madir, madr, madre, Mamdudur, marder, Mazdoor, Mcdyer, meader, medar, Meder, midder, modred, mudda, mudder, mudeer, mudre, Naddair, nadder, padder, Qaddur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "madder" (pronounced ma"der) |
| 3 | -a" d er | adder, bladder, ladder, sadder. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-m-r" | |
-1 letter: adder, armed, dared, derma, dread, dream, madre, readd. | |
-2 letters: dame, dare, dead, dear, derm, dram, made, mare, mead, read, ream, redd. | |
-3 letters: add, are, arm, dad, dam, ear, era, mad, mae, mar, med, rad, ram, red, rem. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, am, ar, de, ed, em, er, ma, me, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-m-r" | |
+1 letter: admired, dramedy, drammed, dreamed, madders. | |
+2 letters: damneder, daydream, demander, demarked, disarmed, drumhead, marauded, redemand, remanded. | |
+3 letters: andromeda, bombarded, coadmired, daydreams, daydreamt, demanders, diagramed, dramedies, dreamland, dromedary, drumheads, mansarded, marinaded, maundered, meandered, misgraded, moderated, mordanted, oddsmaker, pyramided, ramrodded, readymade, redamaged, redemands, redreamed, unadmired, undreamed. | |
+4 letters: admeasured, adumbrated, andromedas, bridesmaid, daydreamed, daydreamer, demarcated, dendrogram, diagrammed, doomsdayer, dramatised, dramatized, dreamlands, dreamworld, endodermal, misaddress, misawarded, misbranded, motorcaded, oddsmakers, outdreamed, promenaded, randomized, readmitted, readymades, redemanded, remediated. | |
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