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The Living Dead

Definition: The Living Dead

The Living Dead

Noun

1. A dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force.

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

Synonyms: The Living Dead

Synonyms: zombi (n), zombie (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: The Living Dead

English words defined with "the living dead": Formed materialHysterophytemediumspiritualistTriangle spider, Triple-tailVis viva. (references)
Specialty definitions using "the living dead": allochthonous coalDeadFemaleHaideeJacobitesMezentiusPrimate. (references)

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Modern Usage: The Living Dead

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm one of the living dead! (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; writing credit: Robert Louis Stevenson; Samuel Hoffenstein)

It's the living dead! Observe. (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi)

Vampires are the living dead. (House of Dark Shadows; writing credit: Sam Hall; Gordon Russell)

Movie/TV Titles

House of the Living Dead (1973)

Crypt of the Living Dead (1973)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Return of the Living Dead 4: Rave from the Grave (2003)

Hell Rats of the Living Dead (2002)

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

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Commercial Usage: The Living Dead

DomainTitle

Theater & Movies

  • Night of the Living Dead (Millennium Edition) (reference)

  • Horror Classics Triple Feature, Vol. 10 (Night of the Living Dead / Revolt of the Zombies / Dementia 13) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: The Living Dead

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

  night of the living dead

240

  city of the living dead

16

  return of the living dead 2

15

  night of the living dead dvd

8

  night of the living dead 1968

7

  night of the living dead movie

6

  night of the living dead poster

6

  the return of the living dead picture

5

  crypt of the living dead

5

  house of the living dead

3

  premutos lord of the living dead

3

  night of the living dead t shirt

3

  raider of the living dead

2

  night of the living dead 30th anniversary edition

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

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Anagrams: The Living Dead

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-g-h-i-i-l-n-t-v"

-3 letters: evidential.

-4 letters: datelined, deadlight, deleading, deleaving, delighted, detailing, deviating, elevating, genitival, headlined, hiddenite, invalided, inveighed, inveigled, levigated, lightened, negatived, vigilante.

-5 letters: additive, agentive, alighted, atheling, danegeld, dateline, deadline, delating, deleting, dentiled, detailed, detained, develing, deviated, deviling, dilating, dilative, diligent, divalent, engilded, entailed, galenite, gelatine, genitive, gilthead, gliadine, headline, ideating, ideative, inedited, inveigle, legatine.

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

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Alternative Orthography: The Living Dead


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

54 68 65      4C 69 76 69 6E 67      44 65 61 64

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

        

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

01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01001100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000100 01100101 01100001 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#104 &#101 &#32 &#76 &#105 &#118 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#68 &#101 &#97 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0068 0065      004C 0069 0076 0069 006E 0067      0044 0065 0061 0064

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

5474712467588758073238716770

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INDEX

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


  

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