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Definition: Revue |
RevueNoun1. A variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "revue" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Synonym: RevueSynonym: review (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Revue |
| English words defined with "revue": follies. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "revue": director, dance. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Revue" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (review, revue), Dutch (magazine, periodical, revue), French (journal, magazine, parade, periodical, review, revue, survey), German (magazine, periodical, review, revue). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Sonny Comedy Revue (1974) New Zoo Revue (1972) The Reg Varney Revue (1972) Revue pre jeden a pol orchestra (1965) The Golden Horseshoe Revue (1962) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Periodicals |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Revue retrospective. / [Sulpice Gavarni].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Crewmen participating in the ship's revue, while she was serving with the Sixth Battle Squadron in British waters, 1918.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Second International Pageant of Pulchritude and Eighth Annual Bathing Girl Revue, May 21, 22, 23, Galveston, Texas, 1927.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Third International Pageant of Pulchritude and Ninth Annual Bathing Girl Revue, June 3, 4, 5, 1928, Galveston, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fifth International Pageant of Pulchritude and Eleventh Annual Bathing Girl Revue, Galveston, Texas, August 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1930.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Contestants Bathing Girl Revue, Galveston, Tex., May 13, 1923.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Psychologie du militaire professionnel En vente au bureau de la Revue Socialiste [...] / / Imp. Parisienne, Mson Émile Lévy, Paris.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | La Revue Comique par Jehan Testevuide, no. 5-8.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The world famous self-liberator, Houdini the supreme ruler of mystery will present a grand magical revue in which he will prove himself to be the greatest mystifier that history chronicles which will be seen for the third time on any stage.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Revue" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.54% of the time. "Revue" is used about 83 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) | 85.54% | 71 | 39,674 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.43% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.61% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 2.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 83 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "revue": revue artist ♦ revue song. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "revue": revue-style. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
male revue | 99 | commerce revue | 10 |
royal crown revue | 64 | automobile revue | 10 |
revue | 58 | blues revue | 10 |
the new zoo revue | 38 | cool revue | 9 |
revue thommen | 36 | auto revue technique | 9 |
automobile revue technique | 31 | nieuwe revue | 9 |
artistic kid revue | 26 | revue show | 9 |
revue technique | 25 | 2003 mountain revue rocky | 9 |
book revue | 24 | protegez revue vous | 8 |
mountain revue rocky | 23 | la revue | 7 |
prvention revue sant | 22 | revue showcase | 7 |
medicine revue sant | 22 | du la liban revue | 7 |
revue de presse | 16 | maxim revue | 7 |
all american male revue | 14 | reverie revue sound | 7 |
fiduciaire revue | 13 | the chicago musical revue | 6 |
have love revue travel will | 12 | cine revue tele | 6 |
book huntington revue | 11 | revue tattoo | 6 |
moto revue technique | 11 | aujourd d filles hui revue | 6 |
moto revue | 11 | in male pa revue | 5 |
revue thommen watch | 10 | flug revue | 5 |
neue revue | 5 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "revue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | tydskrift (magazine, periodical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shfaqje estrade (vaudeville), pasqyrë (digest, glass, looking glass, mirror, reflector, review). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عمل مسرحي ساخر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ревю. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Catalan | revista (magazine, periodical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 讽刺时事的滑稽剧. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | revue (review). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tidskrift (magazine, periodical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | revue (magazine, periodical), periodiek (magazine, periodical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | revuo (magazine, periodical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | yvirlit (account book, index, magazine, periodical, record, register, table, tablet, tabulation), tíðarrit (magazine, periodical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | نمایشنامه انتقادی , جنگ نمایش . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | aikakauslehti (magazine, periodical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | revue (review). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Revue (magazine, periodical, review). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επιθεώρηση (inspection, muster, review, visitation), θεατρική επιθεώρηση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תסקורת (review). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | revü (vaudeville), zenés táncos előadás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rivista (journal, magazine, parade, periodical, review, show). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | レバレッジ効果 (left, left wing, leverage effect, referee, referee's position, reference, reference book, reference service, reflector, reflex camera, repertoire, repertory, repertory system, review, reviewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | レビュー (review). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | revieu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | tidsskrift (gazette, magazine, periodical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | revista (magazine, periodical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | evueray rewia (magazine, periodical), czasopismo (magazine, periodical). (various references) revista (inspection, journal, magazine, muster, periodical, review, roll call). (various references) revistå (magazine, periodical), revistã (fortnighty, journal, magazine, periodical, review, weekly). (various references) ревю, обозрение (notice, review). (various references) revija (journal, review). (various references) revista (inspection, journal, mag, magazine, muster, parade, periodical, review). (various references) revy (follies, review, variety). (various references) revü (follies, review, show), varyete (variety, variety show), danslı gösteri. (various references) ревю (review), огляд (checkup, conspectus, examination, exploring, inspection, notice, overlook, recension, review, survey, visit). (various references) kịch thời sự. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "revue": revues. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "revue": prevue. (additional references) | |
Words containing "revue": prevued, prevues. (additional references) | |
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"Revue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prevue, Radue, ravie, recue, redue, renue, requ, reque, requi, rerue, reuo, Reuven, Revah, reve, revee, reveu, reveue, Reveur, revew, revixe, revle, revnue, revo, Revoe, revre, revu, revued, revul, rivie, rivue. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "revue" (pronounced rivyuw") |
| 3 | -v y uw" | review, view. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-r-u-v" | |
-1 letter: ever, veer. | |
-2 letters: ere, eve, ree, rev, rue, vee. | |
-3 letters: er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-r-u-v" | |
+1 letter: oeuvre, prevue, revues, velure. | |
+2 letters: decurve, nervule, nervure, oeuvres, overdue, overuse, prevued, prevues, recurve, revalue, revenue, unnerve, unreeve, velured, velures, venture, verdure, vesture. | |
+3 letters: curveted, decurved, decurves, devoured, devourer, devouter, eruptive, feverous, louvered, maneuver, nervules, nervures, outserve, overcure, overrude, overrule, oversure, overture, overurge, overused, overuses, parvenue, purveyed, quavered, quaverer, quivered, quiverer, recurved, recurves, resurvey, revalued, revalues, revenual, revenued, revenuer, revenues, revolute, revulsed, subserve, surveyed, trouvere, truelove, unevener, universe, unnerved, unnerves, unreeved, unreeves, unserved, unversed, upheaver, ventured, venturer, ventures, verdured, verdures, verecund, verjuice, verrucae, vestured, vestures. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 76 75 65 |
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