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Scarlet Letter

Definition: Scarlet Letter

Scarlet Letter

Noun

1. The letter A in red; Puritans required adulterers to wear it.

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

Modern Usage: Scarlet Letter

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Scarlet Letter (1950)

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

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Commercial Usage: Scarlet Letter

DomainTitle

Books

  • Scarlet Letter (reference)

  • The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Paperback Classics) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • A Farewell to Arms (1932) / A Star Is Born (1937) / The Scarlet Letter (reference)

  • Scarlet Letter (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Use in Literature: Scarlet Letter

TitleAuthorQuote

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

My eyes fastened themselves upon the old scarlet letter, and would not be turned aside.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scarlet Letter

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

scarlet letter

477

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16

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15

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14

scarlet letter theme

13

scarlet letter movie

10

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10

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9

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8

symbolism in the scarlet letter

7

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5

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4

hawthornes the scarlet letter

4

spark note the scarlet letter

3

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3

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3

nathaniel hawthornes the scarlet letter

3

scarlet letter text

2

free essay scarlet letter

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Scarlet Letter

Language Translations for "scarlet letter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hebrew 

  

אות "ש י. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arletscay etterlay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Scarlet Letter

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-l-l-r-r-s-t-t-t"

-2 letters: cellarettes.

-3 letters: cellarette, clatterers, craterlets, telecaster.

-4 letters: cellarers, cellarets, clatterer, craterlet, electrets, etceteras, letterers, raclettes, recallers, recreates, reletters, scatterer, streetcar, tercelets, terrellas.

-5 letters: alertest, alterers, arrestee, attester, carrells, caterers, cellarer, cellaret, clatters, clearers, clearest, electret, erecters, etcetera, letterer, raclette, rattlers, realters, recaller, recrates, recreate, reelects, reerects, relaters, releaser, reletter, reseller, resetter, resettle, retraces, retracts, retreats, secreter, startler, stellate, tartlets, tattlers, teaseler, telecast, tercelet, terraces, terrella, treacles, treaters.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Scarlet Letter


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

53 63 61 72 6C 65 74      4C 65 74 74 65 72

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

    

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

01010011 01100011 01100001 01110010 01101100 01100101 01110100 00100000 01001100 01100101 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#97 &#114 &#108 &#101 &#116 &#32 &#76 &#101 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0061 0072 006C 0065 0074      004C 0065 0074 0074 0065 0072

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

536967847871862467186867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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