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Valse

Definition: Valse

Valse

Noun

1. A ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat.

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

Date "valse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

 

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Valse

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

VALSE

EnglishValuation for Sustainable EnvironmentsEnvironment

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

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Synonym: Valse

Synonym: waltz (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Valse

Non-English Usage: "Valse" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (waltz), French (valse, waltz), Manx (waltz).

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Modern Usage: Valse

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Valse à trois (1974)

De Valse noot (1963)

La Valse du gorille (1959)

Valse brillante (1948)

La Valse blanche (1943)

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

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Commercial Usage: Valse

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ardele Ou/ la Marguerite Suivi de la Valse des Toreadors (reference)

  • Faure 4 Valse Cap. Op. 30, 38, 59, 6" (reference)

  • LA Valse & Foreign (Suny Series, Women Writers in Translation) (reference)

  • LA Valse in Full Score (reference)

  • La valse inachevée : roman (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Cologne Music Triennale - Britten Serenade, Debussy Nocturnes, Ravel La Valse, Rihm In Doppelter Tiefe / Abbado, Berlin Philharmonic (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Usage Frequency: Valse

"Valse" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Valse" is used about 5 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
Noun (proper)60%3202,518
Noun (singular)40%2245,945
                    Total100.00%5N/A

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

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Expression: Valse

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "valse": valse-scherzo.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Valse

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

valse

16

triste valse

4

diploma valse

4

amelie d la valse

3

dernière la valse

3

brillante grande valse

3

identiteitskaart valse

2

amélie d la valse

2

des la lilas valse

2

la valse

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

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Modern Translations: Valse

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

Bulgarian 

  

Ð'алÑ. (various references)

   

French

  

projet Evaluation pour des environnements durables (project VALuation for Sustainable Environments), Evaluation pour des environnements durables (Valuation for Sustainable Environments). (various references)

   

German

  

Waltz. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χοÏεÏω (dance, jig, waltz), Î'άλσ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

progetto Valutazione per ambienti sostenibili (project VALuation for Sustainable Environments). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alsevay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

proyecto Valuación para ambientes sostenibles (project VALuation for Sustainable Environments). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Valse

Derivations

Words beginning with "valse": valses. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Valse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: laves, salve, selva, slave, vales, veals.

Words within the letters "a-e-l-s-v"

-1 letter: ales, aves, lase, lave, lavs, leas, leva, sale, save, seal, vale, vase, veal, vela.

-2 letters: ale, als, ave, els, las, lav, lea, lev, sae, sal, sea, sel, vas.

-3 letters: ae, al, as, el, es, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-s-v"
 

+1 letter: avulse, calves, claves, gavels, halves, lavers, leaves, loaves, navels, ravels, salved, salver, salves, selvas, serval, silvae, slaved, slaver, slaves, slavey, sleave, sylvae, valets, valise, valses, values, valves, velars, versal, vestal.

 

+2 letters: absolve, alcoves, alevins, avulsed, avulses, carvels, clavers, cleaves, coevals, devisal, enslave, estival, favelas, glaives, gravels, halvers, lavages, laveers, leavens, leavers, lekvars, levants, lovages, maglevs, marvels, reveals, revisal, salvage, salvers, salvoed, salvoes, savable, saveloy, selvage, servals, several, slavers, slavery, slaveys, sleaved, sleaves, solvate, suavely, travels, vakeels, valines, valises, valleys, valuers, varlets, vealers, verbals, verglas, vesical, vestals, vestral.

 

+3 letters: aasvogel, absolved, absolver, absolves, aestival, alewives, allovers, allusive, alveolus, aversely, behalves, beslaved, bivalves, caravels, cavilers, cervelas, claviers, cleavers, coaevals, deleaves, devalues, devisals, disvalue, elatives, elevates, enclaves, enslaved, enslaver, enslaves, evangels, exclaves, favellas, festival, flavines, flavones, foveolas, haverels, javelins, juvenals, klaverns, lavaboes, lavished, lavisher, lavishes, layovers, leaviest, leavings, levators, loveseat, misvalue, movables, novellas, ovalness, overalls, overlaps, overlays, oversale, oversalt, ovulates, palavers, plausive, prevails, ravelers, ravelins, reavails, removals, revalues, reversal, revisals, revivals, salivate, salvable, salvaged, salvagee, salvager, salvages, savagely, saveable, saveloys, selvaged, selvages, servable, severals, shavable, shrieval, slavered, slaverer, sleaving, solvable, solvated, solvates, unravels, vacuoles, valances, valences, valguses, valorise, valuates, valvules, varioles, vaselike, vaulters, vealiest, vedalias, ventails, ventrals, vesicula, vesperal, vestally, vestural, vilayets, villages, violates, virelais, virelays, visceral, vitalise, vocables, vocalise, voltages, vorlages, vulgates, waveless, wavelets, zelkovas.

 

+4 letters: aasvogels, ablatives, absolvers, abusively, acervulus, adversely, advisable, advisedly, aliveness, almsgiver, alveolars, aventails, bivalents, bloviates, bolivares, calvaries, cavaleros, cavaliers, cavallies, cavalries, cavillers, cervelats, chevalets, clavicles, cleavages, conclaves, coveralls, crevalles, deprivals, devisable, disvalued, disvalues, dovetails, elevateds, elevators, eluviates, endleaves, enslavers, enslaving, evaluates, evasively, evenfalls, festivals, flashover, flavorers, flyleaves, galvanise, gavelocks, graveless, halflives, havelocks, illatives, intervals, javelinas, kalewives, ladyloves, lavaliers, lavenders, laverocks, lavishers, lavishest, lawgivers, laxatives, levanters, levatores, leverages, levigates, levirates, levitates, levodopas, lifesaver, livetraps, locatives, loveseats, marvelous, massively, medievals, megavolts, misvalued, misvalues, moveables, movieolas, outvalues, ovalities, ovarioles, overcalls, overhauls, overlades, overlands, overleaps, overloads, overplans, overplays, oversales, oversalts, overscale, overtalks, overzeals, palsgrave, passively, ravelings, ravellers, relatives, reprovals, revealers, reversals, reviewals, revisable, rivalries, salivated, salivates, salvagees, salvagers, savorless, severable, severally, severalty, shaveling, shavetail, slaverers, slaveries, slavering, suasively, sylvanite, travelers, travelogs, traversal, trivalves, univalves, universal, upheavals, valencias, valencies, valerates, valerians, valiances, validates, valkyries, valorised, valorises, valorizes, valuables, valueless, valveless, valvelets, vandalise, variables, varietals, vassalage, vaultiest, velarizes, vendables, verbalism, verbalist, verglases, vernacles, versatile, versional, verticals, vesiculae, vesicular, vesperals, vestigial, vigesimal, villagers, violaters, visitable, visualise, visualize, vitalised, vitalises, vitalizes, vocalised, vocalises, vocalizes, volatiles, volcanoes, volplanes, vulcanise, vulgarest, vulgarise, walkovers.

 

+5 letters: aardwolves, abrasively, absolutive, adhesively, adverbials, afterlives, alleviates, allusively, almsgivers, antinovels, assaultive, autoclaves, avalanches, aversively, boulevards, calmatives, calvadoses, canvaslike, cavalcades, cervelases, champleves, chevaliers, chivalries, clavierist, convalesce, covalences, cowlstaves, cultivates, curveballs, daredevils, devaluates, elevations, evaluators, evangelism, evangelist, everglades, flagstaves, flashovers, flavanones, flavorless, flavorsome, galvanised, galvanises, galvanizes, gavelkinds, immovables, insolvable, intervales, invasively, investable, jovialties, larvicides, lavalieres, lavatories, lavishness, leavenings, leviathans, lifesavers, lifesaving, lixiviates, longleaves, marvellous, meatloaves, mediaevals, mooncalves, observable, observably, olivaceous, ovalnesses, overclaims, overcleans, overclears, overglazes, overlabors, overlavish, overlearns, overpedals, overplaids, overplants, oversalted, overscaled, overslaugh, overvalues, paloverdes, palsgraves, prevalents, ravellings, ravelments, ravenously, relativism, relativist, relevances, reprievals, reservable, resolvable, retrievals, revaluates, revelators, revictuals, revitalise, revivalism, revivalist, salverform, shavelings, shavetails, shinleaves, shrievalty, silverback, silverware, simulative, starveling, survivable, sylvanites, televisual, transvalue, travellers, traversals, trivialise, univalents, universals, unsolvable, vacillates, vagilities, valentines, valiancies, validities, vandalised, vandalises, vandalizes, varicellas, varletries, vassalages, vegetables, venalities, venialness, ventilates, verapamils, verbalisms, verbalists, verbalizes, vernalizes, versicular, vesiculate, vestibular, vestmental, victualers, videolands, vigilances, vigilantes, villainess, villainies, villenages, violaceous, viscerally, visualised, visualises, visualized, visualizer, visualizes, vitalities, vocalities, vocalizers, volatilise, vulcanised, vulcanises, vulcanizes, vulgarised, vulgarises, vulgarizes, wavelessly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Valse


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

56 61 6C 73 65

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    .-    .-..    ...    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010110 01100001 01101100 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#97 &#108 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 006C 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

5667788571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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