Sang-froid

Definition: Sang-froid

Sang-froid

Noun

1. Great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool".

Date "sang-froid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1811. (references)

Etymology: Sang-froid \Sang`-froid"\, noun. [French expression, cold blood.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Sang-froid

Synonyms: aplomb (n), assuredness (n), cool (n), poise (n), self-possession (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Sang-froid

Non-English Usage: "Sang-froid" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (calmness, poise, self control, self possession, unconcern).

Domain	Title
Books	La chamade électrique : [poèmes de sang-froid (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Sang-froid" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Sang-froid" is used about 9 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)	88.89%	8	124,375
Adjective (general or positive)	11.11%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	9	N/A

Language		Translations for "sang-froid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		lélekjelenlét (composure, presence of mind), higgadtság (aplomb, calmness, composure, demureness, equilibrium, evenness, imperturbation, level-headedness, moderation, poise, presence of mind, self possession, self-command, self-possession, serenity, staidness, stoicism), hidegvér (aplomb, imperturbability, phlegm, sang froid, self control, self-command, self-control). (various references)

Pig Latin		ang-froidsay.(various references)

Russian		хладнокровный (coldblooded, cold-blooded, cold-eyed, collected, cool, cool-headed, self possessed, self-collected, self-possessed, sober-blooded). (various references)

Swedish		kallblodighet (composure, equanimity). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự bình tĩnh (calmness, composure, imperturbation, self-control, self-possession, steadiness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: sangfroid.
	Words within the letters "a-d-f-g-i-n-o-r-s"
	-2 letters: adoring, darings, dragons, fadings, farding, fording, ganoids, gradins, inroads, insofar, ordains, origans, sadiron, signora, soaring.
	-3 letters: adonis, adorns, argons, aroids, arsino, danios, daring, dinars, doings, dongas, dosing, dragon, drains, fading, fagins, faring, fiords, fronds, ganofs, ganoid, girons, gonads, gonifs, gradin, grains, grands, grinds, grison, groans, groins, inroad, nadirs, norias, oaring, onagri, orangs, ordain, organs, origan, radios, radons, ranids, rasing, rosing, sarong, signor, soring.
	-4 letters: adios, adorn, agios, agons, airns, argon, aroid, arson, dagos, dangs, danio, darns, dinar, dingo, dings, doing, donas, donga, dongs, dorsa, drags, drain, fados, fagin, fairs, fangs, fanos, fards, faros, fiars, fidos, finds, finos, fiord, firns, foins, fonds, fords, frags, frigs, frogs, frond, frons, gadis, gains, ganof, garni, girds, girns, giron, giros, gnars, goads, gonad, gonia, gonif, grads, grain, grand, grans, grids, grind, grins, groan, groin, infos, infra, irons, nadir, naifs, nards, naris, noirs, noria, noris, orang, organ, ornis, radio, radon, ragis, raids, rains, rands, ranid, ranis, rinds, rings, roads, roans, rosin, sarin, sarod, sofar, sonar.
	-5 letters: ados, agin, agio, agon, aids, ains, airn, airs, ands, anis, arfs, arid, dago, dags, dais, dang, darn, digs, ding, dins, dogs, dona, dong, dons, dors, drag, fado, fads, fags, fain, fair, fang, fano, fans, fard, faro, fiar, fido, fids, figs, find, fino, fins, firn, firs, fogs, foin, fond, fons, fora, ford, frag, frig, frog, gadi, gads, gain, gars, gids, gins, gird, girn, giro, gnar, goad, goas, gods, grad, gran, grid, grin, info, inro, ions, iron, nags, naif, naoi, naos, nard, nodi, nods, nogs, noir, nori, oafs, oars, orad, osar, rads, ragi, rags, raid, rain, rand, rang, rani, rias, rids, rifs, rigs, rind, ring, rins, road, roan, rods, sadi, sago, said, sain, sand, sang, sard, sari, sign, sing, snag, snog, soar, soda, sofa, song, sora, sord, sori, sorn.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-f-g-i-n-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: sangfroids.
	+2 letters: disfavoring, dragonflies, fairgrounds.
	+3 letters: fingerboards, grandifloras, surfboarding.
	+4 letters: deflagrations, foreshadowing.
	+5 letters: transmogrified.
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