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Definition: Symbolist |
SymbolistNoun1. 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: SymbolistSynonyms: symboliser (n), symbolizer (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Symbolist |
| English words defined with "symbolist": Mallarme ♦ Paul Verlaine ♦ Stephane Mallarme ♦ Verlaine. (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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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 73.33% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 26.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "symbolist": proto-symbolist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
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. | |
| 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 simbolista. (various references) simbolist (symbolistic, symbolistical). (various references) символист. (various references) simbolist. (various references) simbolista. (various references) symbolist. (various references) simgeci, sembolist. (various references) символіст. (various references) người theo trường phái tượng trưng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "symbolist": symbolistic, symbolists. (additional references) | |
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"Symbolist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: siebenlist, symbolise, symbolus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| 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) |
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. 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. | |
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