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Middlebrow

Definition: Middlebrow

Middlebrow

Noun

1. (informal) someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow.

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


Commercial Usage: Middlebrow

DomainTitle

Books

  • Chinese Middlebrow Fiction (reference)

  • Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 (reference)

  • Merchants of Hope: British Middlebrow Writers and the First World War, 1919-1939 (The Legacy of the Great War) (reference)

  • Middlebrow Moderns: Popular American Women Writers of the 1920s (reference)

  • Music on the Frontline: Nicolas Nabokov's Struggle Against Communism and Middlebrow Culture (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Middlebrow

"Middlebrow" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Middlebrow" is used about 5 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)80%4175,879
Lexical Verb (infinitive)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

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

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Modern Translations: Middlebrow

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

German

  

für den normalverbraucher, für den geistigen normalverbraucher, durchschnitts-, des normalverbrauchers. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iddlebrowmay

   

Swedish

  

medelsvensson. (various references)

   

Thai

  

สามัญ, ซึ่งเป็นที่ยอมรับกันทั่วไป. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sıradan zevkleri olan, az kültürlü. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Middlebrow

Derivations

Words beginning with "middlebrow": middlebrows. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Middlebrow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Middlesbro. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Middlebrow

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-i-l-m-o-r-w"

-1 letter: demiworld.

-3 letters: blowier, bowlder, bridled, broiled, bromide, dermoid, dowdier, embroil, imbower, lowbred, middler, moldier, wimbled, wombier.

-4 letters: bedrid, beworm, bidder, birded, birled, blowed, blower, bodied, boiled, boiler, bolder, bolide, bordel, boride, bowled, bowler, bridle, bromid, browed, deworm, dildoe, dirled, doiled, dormie, dreidl, emboli, limbed, limber, lorded, meloid, middle, milder, mildew, milord, mobile, mobled.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-d-e-i-l-m-o-r-w"
 

+1 letter: middlebrows.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Middlebrow


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

4D 69 64 64 6C 65 62 72 6F 77

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)

01001101 01101001 01100100 01100100 01101100 01100101 01100010 01110010 01101111 01110111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#100 &#100 &#108 &#101 &#98 &#114 &#111 &#119

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 0064 0064 006C 0065 0062 0072 006F 0077

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

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

47757070787168848189

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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