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Symbolist

Definition: Symbolist

Symbolist

Noun

1. A member of an artistic movement that expressed ideas indirectly via symbols.

2. Someone skilled in the interpretation of symbols.

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


Synonyms: Symbolist

Synonyms: symboliser (n), symbolizer (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Symbolist

English words defined with "symbolist": MallarmePaul VerlaineStephane MallarmeVerlaine. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Symbolist" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (symbolist), Swedish (symbolist).

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Commercial Usage: Symbolist

DomainTitle

Books

  • French Symbolist Poetry (reference)

  • Oliver Sheppard (1865-1941: Symbolist Sculptor of the Irish Cultural Revival (reference)

  • Russian Opera and the Symbolist Movement (reference)

  • Russian symbolism; a study of Vyacheslav Ivanov and the Russian symbolist aesthetic (reference)

  • Symbolist Art (World of Art) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Symbolist

"Symbolist" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 73.33% of the time. "Symbolist" is used about 15 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)73.33%11106,044
Noun (singular)26.67%4175,879
                    Total100.00%15N/A

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

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Expression: Symbolist

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "symbolist": proto-symbolist.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Symbolist

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

symbolist art

4

painting symbolist

4

symbolist

4

art even symbolist

4

art present symbolist

3

art green symbolist yellow

2

french poet symbolist

2

art dream symbolist

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

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Modern Translation: Symbolist

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

Albanian

  

simbolist. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الرمزى مستخدم الرموز. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

символист. (various references)

   

French

  

symboliste. (various references)

   

German

  

symbolistisch (symbolistic), symbolist. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συμβολιστήσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szimbolista. (various references)

   

Italian

  

simbolista. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

シンフェイン党 (banner, simple, simplicity, simplify, Sinn Fein, symbol, symbol color, symbolic, symbolic link, Symbolics, symbolism, symbolize, symphonic jazz, symphonic poem, symphony), サンプリング周波数 (sample, sample book, sample selling system, sampling frequency, self-defence, SUG, Sun Microsystems, sun music, Sun User Group, Sunbelt, sunroof, sunroom, symbolism, Yves Saint-Laurent). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

シンボリスト , サンボリスト . (various references)

   

Manx

  

cosoylee. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ymbolistsay

   

Portuguese

  

simbolista. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

simbolist (symbolistic, symbolistical). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

символист. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

simbolist. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

simbolista. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

symbolist. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

simgeci, sembolist. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

символіст. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

người theo trường phái tượng trưng. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Symbolist

Derivations

Words beginning with "symbolist": symbolistic, symbolists. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Symbolist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: siebenlist, symbolise, symbolus. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Symbolist"

Words rhyming with "symbolist" (pronounced 'Sym"bol*ist'): Abacist, Abaist, Abiogenist, Abolitionist, Abortionist, Absist, Abstractionist, Academist, Accompanist, Accordionist, Acephalist, Acolothist, Acolythist, Acosmist, Acquist, Actualist, Adeptist, Adiaphorist, Adonist, Adoptionist, Adventist, Aerologist, Aeroplanist, Affectationist, Agamist, Agist, Agonist, Agrammatist, Agricolist, Agriculturalist, Agriculturist, Agriologist, Agronomist, Agrostologist, Aladinist, Alarmist, Alchemist, Alcoranist, Algebraist, Algologist, Alienist, Alkoranist, Allegorist, Allodialist, Allopathist, Alopecist, Alpinist, Altarist, Altruist, Ambitionist. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Symbolist

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-i-l-m-o-s-s-t-y"

-1 letter: symbiots.

-2 letters: bossily, moistly, symbiot, symbols.

-3 letters: limbos, lissom, mostly, myosis, mysost, sibyls, slimsy, smolts, symbol.

-4 letters: bitsy, blimy, bliss, blots, boils, bolts, bossy, byssi, limbo, limbs, limby, limos, lists, lossy, lysis, milos, milts, milty, misos, missy, mists, misty, moils, moist, molts, mossy, mosts, obits, omits, sibyl, silos, silts, silty, slims, slimy, slits, slobs.

 Words containing the letters "b-i-l-m-o-s-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: symbolists.

 

+2 letters: symbolistic.

 

+3 letters: abstemiously.

 

+4 letters: blastomycosis, embryologists, impossibility, rumbustiously.

 

+5 letters: symbolizations.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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