Oeuvre

Definition: Oeuvre

Oeuvre

Noun

1. The total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it); "he studied the entire Wagnerian oeuvre"; "Picasso's work can be divided into periods".

Synonyms: Oeuvre

Synonyms: body of work (n), work (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Oeuvre

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Production	Spontaneous generation; archegenesis, archebiosis; biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis; authorship, publication; works, opus, oeuvre.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Oeuvre

Specialty definitions using "oeuvre": Eric Conspiracy. (references)

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

Dutch (works), French (work).

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Modern Usage: Oeuvre

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Sa vie et son oeuvre Jules Renard (1972)

L' Oeuvre (1967)

Son oeuvre Regard Jonathan/Jean Louvet (1983)

L' Oeuvre et la vie de Woody Allen (1982)

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

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Commercial Usage: Oeuvre

Domain	Title
Books	Dans la lumière de l'amour infini : Louise-Marguerite Claret de La Touche, 1868-1915 : sa vie, ses écrits, son oeuvre (reference) La Caritas : une oeuvre de Gaudier-Brzeska : de Rodin à l'abstraction (reference) Cosimo De' Medici and the Florentine Renaissance: The Patron's Oeuvre (reference) Politique et logement : mise en oeuvre d'une politique fédérale d'incitation à la construction de logements sociaux (reference) Pouvoir Choisir: UN Examen Du Financement Individualise Et Du Courtage De Services Tels Que Mis En Oeuvre Par LA Community Living Society (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Oeuvre (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Oeuvre

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Vie Et Oeuvre De Pasteur : centenaire du vaccin contre la rage.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Cathédrale de Tolédo. Statuette de St. François, oeuvre d'Alonso Cano.Credit: Library of Congress.
	L'Aisne dévastée. Oeuvre de guerre pour la reconstitution des foyers détruits.Credit: Library of Congress.		Oeuvre du soldat ardennais . . . vente de charité avec matinée artistique.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Oeuvre du soldat ardennais . . . vente de charité avec matinée artistique.Credit: Library of Congress.		Oeuvre du fusilier marin et du soldat Breton.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Les Blessés au travail. Oeuvre pour les soldats convalescents ou réformés.Credit: Library of Congress.		L'Aisne dévastée. Oeuvre de guerre pour la reconstitution des foyers détruits.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Le vêtement du prisonnier de guerre. Oeuvre rattachée à la [Croix-Rouge] Française.Credit: Library of Congress.		Oeuvre du soldat belge.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Oeuvre

"Oeuvre" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Oeuvre" is used about 73 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%	73	39,105

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Oeuvre

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
hors d oeuvre	35	oeuvre sous	3
hors d oeuvre recipe	13	alpes maison maitre oeuvre	3
bois d oeuvre	9	en mise oeuvre projet	2
oeuvre	7	gros maçonnerie oeuvre	2
adhesion afip amiral apparel argentiques army asa astuces attaché auteurs bas biographie business carte carte charente chat chirac cliche cognac consommateur cotisations courante de defense dicod ficelles flash fonds forum gestion homme info infos integrale jacques lettres litteraire loi lumiere manifestation manuscrit manuscrit meeting ministre ministres missions montures musees national numeriques oeuvre passifs patrice photographie pratiques president presse presse prises publier publique ra	6	batiment machine oeuvre portatives second	2
d oeuvre	6	au film l noir oeuvre	2
art d oeuvre	5	d hor oeuvre	2
d en firewall mise oeuvre un	4	oeuvre posthume	2
d main oeuvre	4	d hor oeuvre recipe	2
d formation main oeuvre	3	d maitrise oeuvre	2
		d maitre oeuvre	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Oeuvre

Language		Translations for "oeuvre"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		作品. (various references)

French		œuvre. (various references)

Hungarian		életmű. (various references)

Pig Latin		oeuvreay

Spanish		obra (building lot, building site, danger, doing, effort, example, exemplar, handiwork, hearth, opus, piece, play, production, quick work, work, workmanship). (various references)

Thai		ผลงานทางศิลปะ (โดยเฉพาะงานของศิลปินเดี่ยว). (various references)

Ukranian		труди письменника, творчість письменника, твори письменника. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Oeuvre

Derivations
	Words beginning with "oeuvre": oeuvres. (additional references)
	Words ending with "oeuvre": manoeuvre. (additional references)
	Words containing "oeuvre": manoeuvred, manoeuvres. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Oeuvre" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Feuvre, leurve, oeivre, oervue, oeurve, oever, oevre, oevure, Okeover, Ooever, openvue, ouerve, ouevre, ouverte, ouvre, Ouvrie, Ouvrier. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Oeuvre"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "oeuvre" (pronounced uw"vru or er"v)
4	uw" v r u	Louvre.
2	er" v	conserve, curve, deserve, nerve, observe, preserve, reserve, serve, swerve, unnerve, verve.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Oeuvre

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-o-r-u-v"
	-1 letter: revue.
	-2 letters: euro, ever, over, roue, rove, veer.
	-3 letters: ere, eve, ore, our, ree, rev, roe, rue, vee, voe.
	-4 letters: er, oe, or, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-o-r-u-v"
	+1 letter: oeuvres, overdue, overuse.
	+2 letters: devoured, devourer, devouter, feverous, louvered, outserve, overcure, overrude, overrule, oversure, overture, overurge, overused, overuses, revolute, trouvere, truelove.
	+3 letters: coverture, devourers, endeavour, manoeuvre, ourselves, outserved, outserves, overcured, overcures, overissue, overruled, overrules, oversauce, overtured, overtures, overurged, overurges, overvalue, trouveres, trueloves, uncovered, verrucose, volumeter, volunteer, vouchered.
	+4 letters: covertures, endeavours, manoeuvred, manoeuvres, mavourneen, outdeliver, overblouse, overburden, overburned, overdubbed, overfunded, overhauled, overhunted, overinsure, overissued, overissues, overmature, overmuches, overpluses, overpumped, overruffed, oversauced, oversauces, oversubtle, oversudsed, oversudses, oversupped, overturned, overvalued, overvalues, rendezvous, reoviruses, supernovae, travelogue, turtledove, uncoercive, undercover, unlovelier, unobserved, unresolved, vitreouses, volumeters, volunteers, yourselves.
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