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Definition: Secret Agent |
Secret AgentNoun1. A person secretly employed in espionage for a government. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Secret AgentSynonyms: intelligence agent (n), intelligence officer (n), operative (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Gielgud plays a British officer in World War I who is sent to Switzerland on a secret mission. Carroll plays a woman who pretends to be his wife. They meet Lorre who is their contact in Switzerland.
The British spy series Danger Man was shown in the United States under the title Secret Agent.
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A secret agent is a person involved in espionage. The term is synonymous with spy and covert operative.
Real-life secret agents:
Since not much is publicly known about real-life secret agents, the popular conception of the secret agent has been formed largely by 20th and 21st literature and cinema. Similar to the character of the private eye, the secret agent is usually a loner, sometimes amoral, an existential hero operating outside the everyday constraints of society.
Mention Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
Fictional secret agents:
See also:
Real-Life Secret Agents
Fictional Secret Agents
Parodies of secrent agents:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Secret Agent."
Crosswords: Secret Agent |
| English words defined with "secret agent": agent provocateur ♦ Fleming ♦ Ian Fleming, Ian Lancaster Fleming ♦ spy ♦ To commit, To commit to memory, To go between ♦ undercover agent. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "secret agent": Iron Mask. (references) |
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Screenplays | Oh, you could go with full black secret agent look. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Charming, sophisticated secret agent. Shaken by not stirred. (GoldenEye; writing credit: Ian Fleming; Michael France) I'm a secret agent. (Cats & Dogs; writing credit: John Requa; Glenn Ficarra) Hey! You're that english secret agent! From England! (The Man with the Golden Gun; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) Well, when you rent an apartment to a secret agent, you've got to expect those things. (Get Smart; writing credit: Shinichi Sekizawa; Futaro Yamada) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Golden Eyes Secret Agent 077 (1968) Secret Agent Woody Woodpecker (1967) The Secret Agent (1984) | |
Song Titles | Secret Agent Man (performing artist: Johnny Rivers) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Secret Agent X-9. As Marlowe's plane speeds blindly westward toward the Mask's trap ...Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| 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 |
secret agent | 141 |
secret agent man | 68 |
barbie secret agent | 8 |
secret agent x 9 | 4 |
johnny river secret agent man | 3 |
secret agent game | 3 |
secret agent software | 3 |
secret agent camp | 3 |
spoon secret agent man | 3 |
secret agent training | 2 |
secret agent watch | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "secret agent"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عميل سري (agent, cooperative, operative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | шпионин (intelligencer, lurcher, nark, nose, spy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 暗探 (detective). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vakoilija (spy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | agent secret. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Geheimagent. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μυστικόσ πράκτορασ (undercover agent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | titkos ügynök (intelligencer, undercover man), hírszerző. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 回し者 (spy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | まわしもの (spy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ecretsay agentay тайный агент (intelligencer). (various references) obaveštajac (agent, intelligencer). (various references) hemlig agent (operative). (various references) gizli ajan (confidential agent), ajan (agent, courier, gumshoe, infiltrator, intelligencer, spook, spy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-g-n-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: etceteras, generates, recentest, teenagers. | |
-3 letters: centares, eagerest, entreats, estrange, etageres, etcetera, generate, genettes, grantees, greatens, greatest, greenest, negaters, ratteens, reagents, reascent, reenacts, sarcenet, serenate, sergeant, steerage, teenager, tentages, transect. | |
-4 letters: argents, canters, careens, carnets, caserne, casette, centare, centers, centres, cerates, cetanes, creates, crenate, earnest, eastern, ecartes, encages, enrages, entreat, entrees, ergates, estreat, etagere. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-g-n-r-s-t-t" | |
+3 letters: electromagnets. | |
+5 letters: electromagnetism, teratogenicities. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 63 72 65 74 41 67 65 6E 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100011 01110010 01100101 01110100 00100000 01000001 01100111 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e c r e t   A g e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0063 0072 0065 0074 0041 0067 0065 006E 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53716984718623573718086 |
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