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Variety Show

Definition: Variety Show

Variety Show

Noun

1. A show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances.

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

Synonym: Variety Show

Synonym: variety (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Variety show

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A variety show is a show with a variety of acts, often including music and comedy skits. Variety shows are arguably developed from the Vaudeville musical comedy which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Variety show."

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Crosswords: Variety Show

English words defined with "variety show": Ed Sullivan, Edward Vincent Sullivanmusic hallreview, revueSullivanvaudeville. (references)
Specialty definitions using "variety show": ACROBATIC RIGGER, Antiphospholipid SyndromeBIOLOGY SPECIMEN TECHNICIAN, box clothCIRCUS LABORER, cookie beardevelopment mechanicEXPERIMENTAL MECHANICInterferonsspieler. (references)

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Modern Usage: Variety Show

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Royal Variety Show (1986)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Variety Show

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

variety show

23

v ultimate variety show

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Variety Show

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

Albanian

  

estradë (burlesque). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حفلة منوعات (variety). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(irresolute, not serious). (various references)

   

Czech

  

varieté (music hall, variety, vaudeville), kabaret (cabaret, cabaret show), estrádní pásmo. (various references)

   

French

  

spectacle de variété (variety entertainment, vaudeville). (various references)

   

German

  

varietevorführung (vaudeville show), unterhaltungssendung, fernsehshow. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

バベルの" (balalaika, balance, balance of power, balance sheet, balcony, ballade, ballast, balloon, Baltic, balun, barber's clippers, Barcelona, baritone, barium, barracks, barreled wine, barricade, barrier, Barriquand et Marre, bawm bawm, Brahman, bulk carrier, bulk line, bulk storage, bulky, bulky sweater, impediment removal, Tower of Babel, value, value analysis, value engineering, variable condensor, variant, variation, variety, variety store, varistor, vulcanized fiber, vulcanized rubber). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

バラエティーショー . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arietyvay owshay

   

Romanian

  

spectacol de varietãţi (vaudeville), spectacol de estradã. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

варьете (floor show, vaudeville). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

variete (variety, variety theatre, vaudeville). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

varyete (revue, variety). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nhạc (music, variety entertainment), múa (variety entertainment). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Variety Show

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-o-r-s-t-v-w-y"

-2 letters: overhasty, seaworthy, shortwave.

-3 letters: haywires, hoariest, hysteria, overstay, tovarish, travoise, vestiary, viatores, votaries, waterish, worthies, yeshivot.

-4 letters: avowers, earshot, harvest, hastier, haviors, haywire, heriots, history, hoister, hosiery, isohyet, ostiary, ovaries, oversaw, reavows, shivery, shortia, shortie, showery, showier, swarthy, swather, swither, thawers, thorias, thraves, thrives, travois, trishaw, variety, varsity, vastier, veritas, viators, waister, waiters, waivers, wariest, washier, wastery, wastrie, waviest, wearish, wharves, whiteys, withers, wraiths, wreaths, wreathy, writhes, yeshiva.

-5 letters: ahorse, airest, airths, aivers, aorist, ariose, aristo, ashier, ashore, averts, avoset, avower, earths, earthy, estray, haters, havers, havior, hawser, hayers, hearts, hearty, heriot, hoarse, horsey, horste, hosier, hovers, oaters, orates, others, oyster, ratios, ravish, rawest, rawish, reavow, reshot, reshow, rewash, rivets, rowths, saithe, satire, satori, savior, savory, sawyer, shaver, shavie, shirty, shiver, shorty, shover, shower, shrive, shrove, sortie, soviet, starve, stayer, stiver, storey, stover, strawy, striae, strive, strove, swarth, swarty, swathe, swayer, sweaty, swithe, swivet, tawers, terais, thawer, theirs, theory, thoria, thrave, thraws, thrive, throes, throve, throws, thyrse, thyrsi, torahs, tories, towers, towery, towies, toyers, toyish, trashy, traves, triose, troves, twiers, twyers, varies, vaster, verist, verity, vestry, viator, vireos, votary, voters, vowers, waiter, waiver, waives, washer, waster, wastry, waters, watery, wavers, wavery, waveys, wavier, wavies, wharve, wheats, whiter, whites, whitey, whores, whorts, wisher, wither, withes, wivers, worset, worths, worthy, wraith, wraths, wrathy, wreath, wriest, wristy, writes, writhe, wryest, yarest, yirths, yowies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Variety Show


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

56 61 72 69 65 74 79      53 68 6F 77

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

    

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

01010110 01100001 01110010 01101001 01100101 01110100 01111001 00100000 01010011 01101000 01101111 01110111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#97 &#114 &#105 &#101 &#116 &#121 &#32 &#83 &#104 &#111 &#119

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 0072 0069 0065 0074 0079      0053 0068 006F 0077

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

56678475718691253748189

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INDEX

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


  

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