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Definition: Mademoiselle |
MademoiselleNoun1. Small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mademoiselle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
Etymology: Mademoiselle \Ma`de*moi`selle"\, noun; plural Mesdemoiselles. [French expression, from ma my, f. of mon demoiselle young lady. See Damsel.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Mademoiselle (4 syl.). The daughter of Philippe, Duc de Chartres, grandson of Philippe, Duc d'Orléans, brother of Louis XIV. La Grande Mademoiselle. The Duchesse de Montpensier, cousin to Louis XIV., and daughter of Gaston. Duc d'Orléns. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: MademoiselleSynonym: silver perch (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Mademoiselle |
| English words defined with "mademoiselle": Mesdemoiselles. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mademoiselle": Ms.. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mademoiselle" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (maid, Miss, ms., sister), French Canadian (Miss), Swedish (Mademoiselle). |
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Screenplays | How sad, mademoiselle. (Death on the Nile; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Anthony Shaffer) Mademoiselle, will we be very happy? (Jane Eyre; writing credit: Hugh Whitemore) Bonjour, mademoiselle. Je suis américain! (The Longest Day; writing credit: Romain Gary; James Jones) At your service, mademoiselle. (Suez; writing credit: Sam Duncan; Philip Dunne) Enchante, mademoiselle. I'm Devon, and this growth on my neck is Cornwall. (Quest for Camelot; writing credit: Vera Chapman; Kirk De Micco) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tribunal de l'impossible: La double vie de Mademoiselle de la Faye (1974) Mademoiselle Julie (1973) Casse-cou Mademoiselle (1955) Le Père de Mademoiselle (1953) Bon voyage mademoiselle (1951) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Mademoiselle fait ses dents? ... Monsieur perd les siennes! / [Edouard de Beaumont].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Theodore Roosevelt | In all his sickness Archie remembered that to-day was Mademoiselle's birthday, and sent her his love and congratulationswhich promptly reduced good Mademoiselle to tears. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | When M. Myriel came to D__ he was accompanied by an old lady, Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, ten years younger than himself. |
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| "Mademoiselle" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 54.07% of the time. "Mademoiselle" is used about 209 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) | 54.07% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Noun (singular) | 45.93% | 96 | 33,456 |
| Total | 100.00% | 209 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
mademoiselle | 91 |
mademoiselle magazine | 35 |
coco mademoiselle | 27 |
mademoiselle spa | 12 |
chanel coco mademoiselle | 12 |
fitness mademoiselle | 5 |
chanel mademoiselle | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mademoiselle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Vajzë E Pamartuar, Guvernante (duenna, governess). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Французка "увернантка. (various references) | |
Czech | Paní (lady, madam, mistress, mrs, Mrs., ms, woman). (various references) | |
German | Fra.ulein. (various references) | |
Greek | "εσποινίσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Madmazel. (various references) | |
Italian | madamigella. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | マトリックス力学 (enthusiasm, enthusiast, madeleine, madonna, Madras, Madras check, Madrid, madrigal, mania, maniac, manicure, manierisme, manifesto, Manila, manipulate, manipulation, manipulator, Manitoba, manners, mannish, mannish look, manual, manual manipulator, manufacture, manuscript, matrix dynamics, minutia, muddler, mutton, sailor). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | マドモアゼル . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ademoisellemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Madeirense. (various references) | |
Russian | Мадемуазель, "увернантка-француженка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gospođica (damsel, demoiselle, miss, missy). (various references) | |
Spanish | Señorita (demoiselle, madam, Miss, missy, Mrs., ms.). (various references) | |
Swedish | Mademoiselle, Fröken (madam, Miss, ms., spinster, teacher, unmarried woman, waitress, young lady). (various references) | |
Thai | คำเรียกผู้หญิงที่ยังไม่แต่งงานอย่างสุ าพ (คำย่อคือ Mlle, Mdlle). (various references) | |
Turkish | Matmazel (Miss). (various references) | |
Ukranian | Мадемуазель. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mademoiselle": mademoiselles. (additional references) | |
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"Mademoiselle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Madamoiselle, Mademosielle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mademoiselle" (pronounced ma'dumuze"l) |
| 4 | -u z e" l | gazelle. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-i-l-l-m-m-o-s" | |
-2 letters: demoiselle. | |
-3 letters: oeillades. | |
-4 letters: dilemmas, limeades, melodias, melodies, melodise, milldams, oeillade, semidome, slalomed, somedeal. | |
-5 letters: aediles, allseed, amidols, dallies, damosel, delimes, dellies, dilemma, dollies, elodeas, emailed, isolead, limeade, mallees, mealies, measled, medials, melamed, melisma, melodia, meloids, midsole, milldam, mimeoed, misdeal, misdeem, mislead, mismade, mollies, oedemas, oilseed, sallied, slammed, slimmed, smelled. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-e-i-l-l-m-m-o-s" | |
+1 letter: mademoiselles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 64 65 6D 6F 69 73 65 6C 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -.. . -- --- .. ... . .-.. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01100100 01100101 01101101 01101111 01101001 01110011 01100101 01101100 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a d e m o i s e l l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0064 0065 006D 006F 0069 0073 0065 006C 006C 0065 |
| 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)476770717981758571787871 |
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