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Role Model

Definition: Role Model

Role Model

Noun

1. Someone worthy of imitation; "every child needs a role model".

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


Synonym: Role Model

Synonym: model (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Role Model

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Prototype

Verb: be an example, be a role model, set an example; set a copy. Phrase: a precedent embalms a principle; exempla sunt odiosa.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Role Model

Specialty definitions using "role model": MENTAL-RETARDATION AIDEReal Programmers Don't Use Pascal, resident care aide. (references)

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Modern Usage: Role Model

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I need a father who's a role model, not some horny geek-boy who's gonna spray his shorts every time I bring a girlfriend home from school. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Except for socially, you're my role model. (Broadcast News; writing credit: James L. Brooks.)

She is my personal role model. (Vanilla Sky; writing credit: Alejandro Amenábar; Mateo Gil)

If you do not shut up vermin you shall be my role model. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

A role model. (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

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

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Commercial Usage: Role Model

DomainTitle

Books

  • How to Be a Chicana Role Model (reference)

  • The Influence of a Father: How You Can Be the Role Model and Mentor Your Children Need (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Role Model

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

As a role model, your decision to not use marijuana and other illegal drugs will reinforce your message to your children. (references)

Economic History

Slovenia

The Slovenian Government is well-positioned to be an influential role model for other southeast European governments at different stages of reform and integration. (references)

Tajikistan

The current Tajik Republic hearkens back to the Samanid Empire (A.D. 875-999), that ruled what is now Tajikistan as well as territory to the south and west, as their role model and name for their currency. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Role Model

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

role model

145

athlete as role model

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Role Model

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-1 letter: modeller.

-2 letters: modeler, morelle, morello, remodel.

-3 letters: doolee, emerod, loomed, melder, melled, molder, moored, remold, rolled, roomed.

-4 letters: dolor, droll, drool, elder, erode, looed, merde, merle, model, mooed, morel, older, rodeo, romeo.

-5 letters: deem, deer, dele, dell, deme, demo, dere, derm, doer, dole, doll, dome, doom, door, dore, dorm, dree, leer, lode, loom, lord, lore.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Role Model


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

52 6F 6C 65      4D 6F 64 65 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01101111 01101100 01100101 00100000 01001101 01101111 01100100 01100101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#111 &#108 &#101 &#32 &#77 &#111 &#100 &#101 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 006F 006C 0065      004D 006F 0064 0065 006C

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

5281787124781707178

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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