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Definition: Megalomaniac |
MegalomaniacNoun1. A pathological egotist. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "megalomaniac" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
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Lyrics | Quintessential Megalomaniac (Freakin It; performing artist: Will Smith) | |
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| "Megalomaniac" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Megalomaniac" is used about 29 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% | 29 | 64,444 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "megalomaniac": oriental-megalomaniac. | |
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| 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 |
megalomaniac | 19 |
kmfdm lyrics megalomaniac | 3 |
lyrics megalomaniac | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "megalomaniac"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | megalomaniak. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | suuruudenhullu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mégalomane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | megaloman, größenwahnsinnige, größenwahnsinnig. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεγαλομανήσ (stuffy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | megalomane. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | egalomaniacmay megalomania (megalomania). (various references) megaloman, grandoman. (various references) страдающий манией величия, человек (a man of great worship, April-fool, bodybuilder, contrarian, diarist, dieter, digamist, diner-out, fruitarian, fugleman, globe-trotter, good-timer, haemophiliac, hipster, hobbyist, hot stuff, human, human being, insomniac, interloper, irrepatriable, Job's post, kibitzer, killjoy, lawman, leading light, leaker, leaky vessel, left-winger, man, man set in authority, middle-of-the-roader, name-child, Nosey Parker, nothingarian, pallbearer, person, prevaricator, prizeman, pseud, raver, returner, shopaholic, spoilsport, weather forecaster, wight 1, workaholic, worldling). (various references) megalómano. (various references) เกี่ยวกับ megalomania (megalomaniacal, megalomanic). (various references) mắc chứng hoang tưởng tự đại, thích làm lớn, người thích làm lớn, người hoang tưởng tự đại. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "megalomaniac": megalomaniacal, megalomaniacally, megalomaniacs. (additional references) | |
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"Megalomaniac" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: megaiomania, megalamania, megalmaniac, megalomaniacal, megalomedia, megalommania, megaomaniac, meglomania, meglomaniac. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "megalomaniac" (pronounced me'gulōmā"nēa'k) |
| 6 | -m ā" n ē a' k | maniac, nymphomaniac. |
| 4 | -n ē a' k | insomniac. |
| 3 | -ē a' k | amnesiac, cardiac, zodiac. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-g-i-l-m-m-n-o" | |
-1 letter: egomaniacal, megalomania, megalomanic. | |
-2 letters: ammoniacal. | |
-3 letters: commingle, egomaniac. | |
-4 letters: ammoniac, analcime, analemma, analogic, angelica, calamine, cameoing, camomile, clamming, comanage, comingle, egomania, gnomical, magnolia, mamaliga, maniacal, melanoma. | |
-5 letters: aeolian, almanac, amalgam, ammonal, ammonia, ammonic, anaemia, anaemic, analgia, angelic, angioma, anglice, calming, camelia, coaling, coaming, coinage, congeal, encomia, galenic, gamelan, geminal, genomic, laminae, lamming, lemming, limacon, loaming. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-e-g-i-l-m-m-n-o" | |
+1 letter: megalomaniacs. | |
+2 letters: megalomaniacal. | |
+4 letters: megalomaniacally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 65 67 61 6C 6F 6D 61 6E 69 61 63 |
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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