Paladin

Definition: Paladin

Paladin

Noun

1. Someone who fights for a cause.

Date "paladin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Etymology: Paladin \Pal"a*din\, noun. [French expression, fr.Italian paladino, from the Latin expression palatinus an officer of the palace. See Palatine.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Paladin

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Paladin An officer of the Palatium or Byzantine palace, a high dignitary. Paladins. The knights of King Charlemagne. The most noted are Allory de l'Estoc; Astolfo; Basin de Genevois; Fierambras or Ferumbras; Florismart; Ganelon, the traitor; Geoffroy, Seigneur de Bordelois, and Geoffroy de Frises; Guerin, Duc de Lorraine; Guillaume de l'Estoc, brother of Allory; Guy de Bourgogne; Ho�, Comte de Nantes; Lambert, Prince de Bruxelles; Malagigi; Nami or Nayme de Bavièe; Ogier or Oger the Dane; Olivier, son of Regnier, Comte de Gennes, Orlando (see Roland); Otu�; Richard, Duc de Normandie; Rinaldo; Riol du Mans; Roland, Comte de Cenouta, son of Milon and Dame Berthe, Charlemagne's sister, Samson, Duc de Bourgogne; and Thiry or Thiery d'Ardaine. Of these, twelve at a time seemed to have formed the coterie of the king. (Latin, palatimus, one of the palace.) "Who bear the bows were knights in Arthur's Reign, Twelve they, and twelve the peers of Charlemain." Dryden: The Flower and the Leaf. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Paladin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A paladin is the prototypical knight in shining armour, a hero of sterling character and courage, who rights wrongs and defends the weak and oppressed.

The word comes from Latin palatinus, "attached to the palace." The original paladins of legend were the heroes of the Chanson de Roland and the other romances of chivalry told about the legendary court of King Charlemagne. There were originally twelve paladins attached to Charlemagne's court. The best known list comes from the Italian epics of Tasso and Ariosto and their successors; it includes:

Astolpho, descended from Charles Martel, handsome and swaggering; he was Roland's cousin, and went to the moon to fetch back Roland's brains when he went mad, as told in Orlando Furioso.
Ferumbras the Saracen who became a Christian.
Florismart, friend of Orlando
Ganelon the betrayer, who appears in the Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Maugris the sorcerer
Namo
Ogier the Dane, in more recent years the subject of a story by Poul Anderson
Oliver, rival to Roland
Otuel, another converted Saracen
Rinaldo
Roland, called Orlando in Italian, the chief hero among the paladins. He was Charlemagne’s nephew.
Guy de Bourgogne

A different and much earlier listing of the twelve peers of France is contained in the Chanson de Roland; this list names:

Roland
Olivier
Gérin
Gérier
Bérengier
Otton
Samson
Engelier
Ivon
Ivoire
Anséis
Girard

Tales of the paladins of Charlemagne once rivalled the stories of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table in popularity. Ludovico Ariosto and Torquato Tasso, whose works were once as widely read and respected as Shakespeare's, were the principal poets who wrote tales of the epic deeds of the paladins. The tales that were told of the paladins revolved around the wars between the Franks and the Moors during the Islamic conquests of Spain and their invasion of southern France. Their adventures were known as the "Matter of Charlemagne" or "Matter of France," even as the adventures of King Arthur and his knights were known as the "Matter of Britain."

The late nineteenth century Celtic revival benefitted the Arthurian material and caused it to be reworked and recirculated. No such aura of latter-day romance could assist the Charlemagne material, which was strongly Christian and triumphalist in its presentation. As a result, in the twentieth century Arthur and his Camelot are well known while the paladins of Charlemagne, who once enjoyed equal renown, are mostly forgotten.

The paladin was recently been revived in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game as the archetype of a heroic knight devoted to a sacred order.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Paladin."

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Synonyms: Paladin

Synonyms: champion (n), fighter (n), hero (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Paladin

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Combatant	Noun: combatant; disputant, controversialist, polemic, litigant, belligerent; competitor, rival, corrival; fighter, assailant; champion, Paladin; mosstrooper, swashbuckler fire eater, duelist, bully, bludgeon man, rough.
Defense	Garrison, picket, piquet; defender, protector; guardian; (safety); bodyguard, champion; knight-errant, Paladin; propugner.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Paladin

Specialty definitions using "paladin": Breche de Roland ♦ Dirlos ♦ Marsiglio ♦ Orlando Innamorato ♦ Roland ♦ SIMPL-T ♦ Ulania. (references)

Etymologies containing "paladin": Palace. (references)

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

French (paladin), German (henchman, paladin, satellite), Romanian (knight errant, paladin), Serbo-Croatian (paladin), Swedish (paladin).

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Modern Usage: Paladin

Domain	Usage
Song Titles	Ballad of Paladin, The (performing artist: Western Johnny)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Paladin

Domain	Title
References	Paladin Commercial Trust: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Paladin Industrial Trust: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Paladin Resources PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Dark Paladin (reference) Painting the Dream: The Shamanic Life and Art of David Chethlahe Paladin (reference) The Paladin (reference) The Paladin of Steelvaer (reference) The Paladin of the Night (reference) (more book examples)

High Tech	Paladin Data/Voice Pro Tool Kit (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
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Use in Literature: Paladin

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	There was in Tholomyes an attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin.
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Usage Frequency: Paladin

"Paladin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Paladin" is used about 27 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%	27	66,962

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Paladin

The following table summarizes the usage of "paladin" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Paladin	Last name	130	69,358
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Paladin

Country	Name	Country	Name
Australia	Paladin Commercial Trust	United Kingdom	Paladin Resources PLC
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Paladin

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
paladin	423
paladin press	174
ever quest paladin	54
paladin tool	43
black paladin	32
paladin press.com	21
eq paladin	16
2 diablo paladin	16
dark paladin	13
paladin picture	12
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Modern Translations: Paladin

Language		Translations for "paladin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏البلادن نصير لأحد الأمراء. (various references)

Bulgarian		храбрец (brave), верен рицар, паладин. (various references)

French		paladin. (various references)

German		Beschützer (buckler, bucklers, guardian, protector). (various references)

Greek		ιππότησ (cavalier, knight, thane, thegn), παλαδίνοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		levente. (various references)

Italian		paladino. (various references)

Manx		reejerey (cavalier, chevalier, king, knight). (various references)

Pig Latin		aladinpay.(various references)

Portuguese		palácios. (various references)

Romanian		paladin (knight errant), cavaler (admirer, bachelor, beau, cavalier, escort, gallant, generous, gentleman, horseman, knight, squire). (various references)

Russian		паладин. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		paladin. (various references)

Spanish		paladín (campaigner, champion). (various references)

Swedish		paladin, förkämpe (abolitionist, advocate, campaigner, champion, crusader, evangelist, protagonist). (various references)

Turkish		şarlman'ın maiyetindeki asilzadelerden biri, şövalye (knight). (various references)

Ukranian		паладин. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Paladin

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	palatinus. (various references)
Middle French	1400-1600	paladin. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Paladin

Derivations
	Words beginning with "paladin": paladins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Paladin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aladin, Pahadia, Pahlevi, paladdin, Palade, paladian, paladim, paladine, paladino, paladio, Palagi, Palagio, palardin, palatan, palatin, palladin, Palladino, Pallady, pallasii, pallidin, paludrine, papain, Paradjik, Pataudi, Pavarini, Pavlidis, Peladan, Pelado, pelagian, pelagin, Pildinny, Piliavin, Pilsden, Pilsdon, pladin, Poldauf, Pollaidh, Saladene. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Paladin"

Words rhyming with "paladin" (pronounced 'Pal"a*din'): Amidin, Biliverdin, Cantharidin, Elaidin, Eleidin, Emodin, Gliadin, Hesperidin, Ichthidin, Indin, Juglandin, morindin, Mucedin, Muscardin, Neuridin, ODIN, Ricinelaidin, Thermodin, Tuberculocidin, Turacoverdin, Urrhodin, Verdin. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Paladin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-l-n-p"
	-2 letters: aland, apian, lanai, lapin, liana, naiad, nidal, panda, plaid, plain.
	-3 letters: alan, anal, anil, dial, laid, lain, land, lipa, nada, nail, nipa, padi, paid, pail, pain, pial, pian, pina, plan.
	-4 letters: aal, aid, ail, ain, ala, alp, ana, and, ani, dal, dap, din, dip, lad, lap, lid, lin, lip, nap, nil, nip, pad, pal, pan, pia, pin.
	-5 letters: aa, ad, ai, al, an, id, in, la, li, na, pa, pi.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-i-l-n-p"
	+1 letter: paladins, prandial.
	+2 letters: antipodal.
	+3 letters: antipodals, applauding, lapidarian, lapidating, palisading, paranoidal, placarding, sailplaned.
	+4 letters: anadiploses, anadiplosis, aptitudinal, diencephala, landscaping, landscapist, manipulated, panhandling, planetoidal, plantigrade, preprandial.
	+5 letters: adaptational, appendicular, backpedaling, cardinalship, clapboarding, diaphanously, dilapidating, dilapidation, landscapists, pedantically, plantigrades, platitudinal, postprandial.
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