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Stage-struck

Definition: Stage-struck

Stage-struck

Adjective

1. Infatuated with or enthralled by the theater especially the desire to act.

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

Date "stage-struck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)


Modern Usage: Stage-struck

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Stage-Struck Sally (1913)

The Stage-Struck Daughter (1908)

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

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Usage Frequency: Stage-struck

"Stage-struck" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stage-struck" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Stage-struck

Language Translations for "stage-struck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

силно увлечен по театъра. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

阶段触击. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

teatterilla on teatterikärpänen (is stage-struck). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

színházrajongó. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

무대 치". (various references)

   

Manx

  

goit ec yn ardan. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

age-struckstay

   

Russian 

  

ушибленный театром (stagestruck). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

teaterbiten. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ซึ่งประทับผู้ชมมาก. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thích đóng kịch, mê sân khấu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Stage-struck

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: stagestruck.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-k-r-s-s-t-t-u"

-2 letters: truckages.

-3 letters: cutgrass, cuttages, restacks, scatters, scutages, scutters, stackers, starkest, statures, truckage.

-4 letters: actress, acutest, arcuses, arguses, caestus, caskets, casters, catguts, causers, cesuras, crusets, cuestas, curates, curtate, curtest, cuttage, cutters, gaskets, gasters, gutters, rackets, recasts, restack, retacks, sackers, saucers, saugers, scatter, screaks, scutage, scutate, scutter, skaters, stacker, stactes, stagers, starets, staters, statues, stature.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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