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Definition: Visage |
VisageNoun1. The human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face'; `phiz' is British). 2. The appearance conveyed by a person's face; "a pleasant countenance"; "a stern visage". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "visage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Visage \Vis"age\, transitive verb. To face. [Obsolete]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Visage was a New Romantic band that began life in 1978 in the London, England nightclub Billy's. Initially, the band comprised Steve Strange, a former member of the punk band the Moors Murderers, as well as DJ Rusty Egan, who had worked previously with Midge Ure as the drummer with the Rich Kids.Midge Ure was interested in working with Strange and Egan, and the trio recorded a demo which included their version of the Zager and Evans hit "In The Year 2525".
With the addition of Ultravox's Billy Currie, and three members of Magazine—bassist Barry Adamson, guitarist John McGeoch, and keyboard player Dave Formula—Visage signed to Radar Records and released "Tar" in September 1979.
The following year saw the release of their self-titled debut album. The album contained the song "Fade to Grey" which quickly became a huge club hit, and went to number one in 21 countries. When the song hit the UK chart it was the beginning of an imminent commercial breakthrough for electronic music and the whole New Romantic movement.
A Top-40 hit, "Mind of a Toy" followed (complete with a video produced by 10cc's Godley and Creme), but the 1982 release of "The Anvil" saw disappointing sales and Visage began to disintegrate.
A remix of "Fade to Grey" was a UK Top-40 hit during the early 1990s, and Visage performed on the "Here and Now Xmas Tour"—a revival of 80s musicians—in 2002.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Visage."
Synonyms: VisageSynonyms: countenance (n), kisser (n), mug (n), phiz (n), physiognomy (n), smiler (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Front | Brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mut; rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore, jib. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Visage |
| English words defined with "visage": Lantern jaws ♦ visaged. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "visage": Hagan of Trony. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "visage": Visor. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Visage" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (countenance, face, visage), German (dial, face, mug, Phiz). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Si j'étais aveugle, je passerais mon temps à caresser ton visage. Ton corps aussi (Sirène du Mississippi, La; writing credit: François Truffaut) | |
Lyrics | Les yeux sans visage eyes without a face (EYES WITHOUT A FACE; performing artist: Billy Idol) Mon visage sera toi (Humana; performing artist: Fabian) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Un tout autre visage (1964) Les Yeux sans visage (1959) L' Ennemi sans visage (1946) La Voix sans visage (1933) Visage d'aieule (1926) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Scorpionfish's ugly visage allows it to hide in northern seaweed beds. Scorpaena plumieri. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
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| "Gold Buddha" by Ric Shreves Commentary: "Wooden carved Buddha visage with gold applied. ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Thomas Fuller | He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | He was small in stature, with a furrowed visage, which, as yet, could hardly be termed aged |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | His visage was meager, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Visage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.10% of the time. "Visage" is used about 31 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 87.1% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.68% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "visage" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Visage | Last name | 170 | 41,710 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "visage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pamje (air, aspect, face, landscape, likeness, look, make, mien, mode, outlook, outside, physiognomy, presence, prospect, rig, scene, scenery, semblance, shape, sight, spectacle, view, vista), fytyrë (countenance, face, front, name, Phiz, physiognomy), aspekt (aspect, bearing, complexion, facet, light). (various references) | |
Arabic | محيا (countenance, phiz), مظهر (air, appearance, aspect, exhibitory, exterior, face, figure, form, guise, look, manifestation, mien, phase, presentation, semblance, shape, show, showing), وجه (aim, aspect, boss, change, control, countenance, cox, destine, direct, engineer, face, guide, maw, mug, mush, officer, orient oneself, orientate, pan, phiz, point, preside, rein, shepherd, snout, steer), سيماء (brow, countenance, mien), طلعة (aspect, brow, countenance, mien, presence, sally). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | образ (effigy, face, figure, form, guise, idol, image, likeness, obverse, picture, representation, semblance, similitude, simulacrum, type), лице (appearance, bod, countenance, face, features, figurehead, front, front view, frontage, individual, kisser, map, person, persona, personage, physiognomy, puss, sentry), лик (effigy, face, guise). (various references) | |
Czech | vzhled (air, appearance, aspect, look, looks, outward), tvář (cheek, face, front), oblièej (face, feature). (various references) | |
Farsi | منظر (Appearance, Aspect, Face, Hue, Image, Leer, Phantom, Phase, Spectrum, Wraith), نما (Air, Diagram, Front, Hue, Index, Louver, Surface), چهره (Face, Feature, Puss), لقا, سیما (Air, Appearance, Aspect, Brow, Countenance, Expression, Feature, Mien), صورت (Aspect, Effigy, Face, Figure, Hue, Invoice, List, Medal, Phase, Roll, Roster, Schedule, Shape, Sign), رو (Face, Top, Uppermost), رخسار (Face), رخ (Cleavage, Countenance, Face). (various references) | |
French | visage. (various references) | |
Greek | όψη (aspect, complexion, countenance, face, facet, guise, look, obverse, semblance, sight, view), πρόσωπο (face, figure, party, person, personage, puss, role). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קלסתר פנים (countenance, mien, physiognomy), פרצוף (character, face), פנים (appearance, countenance, expression, face, front, outside, physiognomy, surface), צורה (appearance, countenance, face, fashion, form, guise, image, mode, mould, pattern, shape, type). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tekintet (beetle brows, bend, countenance, coup d'oeil, eye, faraway look, frown, glaze, gloat, leer, look, regard, sight), ábrázat (face, face as long as a fiddle, kisser, pan, physiognomy). (various references) | |
Italian | viso (countenance, face). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 音容 (voice and countenance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おんよう (cosmic dual forces, kindly face, voice and countenance, yin and yang). (various references) | |
Manx | grooish (countenance). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isagevay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | rosto (countenance, face, feature, frontispiece, mug, muz, phiz, proboscis, trunk), fisionomia (countenance, expression, physiognomy), cara (appearance, expression, face, guy, phiz), aspecto (air, aspect, blush, cast, complexion, feature, fettle, garb, guise, light, look, make, mien, outlook, presence, riskiness, sight, stalking-horse, view). (various references) | |
Romanian | figurã (aspect, chessman, effigy, face, figure, form, image, inset, look, mug, picture card, shape, snout, type), faţã (appearance, aspect, complexion, countenance, face, forefront, foreground, front, head, index, look, mug, Phiz, Snoot, surface). (various references) | |
Russian | выражение лица (countenance, face, facial expression), вид (air, appearance, aspect, complexion, description, figuration, form, genue, genus, guise, hang, kind, look, look out, make, mien, mode, outlook, prospect, shape, show, sight, sort, species, spp., variety, view, vision, vista), лицо (affirmant, alienee, arrester, caster of accounts, chiropodist, decision-maker, dedicatee, deputy sheriff, disorderly person, disseisee, donatory, draft dodger, earner, face, fat cat, front, kisser, licensee, misdemeanant, negotiator, obligor, person, persons, phiz, pollster, promisee, promisor, public servant, socialite, warrantee, warrantor). (various references) | |
Scottish | gnoimh, aodann (face, surface). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vidljiva površina, lice (character, countenance, face, front, kisser, pan, person, puss), izgled (appearance, complexion, fashion, guise, leer, look, looks, perspective, prospect, show), fizionomija. (various references) | |
Spanish | visaje (grimace), rostro (countenance, face), gesto (face, gesture, grimace, sign). (various references) | |
Swedish | anlete (countenance, face). (various references) | |
Turkish | yüz (c, cast of features, countenance, dial, face, facial, front, frontispiece, hecto-, hundred, kisser, mien, obverse, one hundred, Phiz, physiognomy, puss, Snoot), sima (cast of features, face, front), çehre (aspect, face, lineas, physiognomy). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | обличчя (countenance, face, leer), лицьовий бік. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vẻ mặt (look), sắc mặt (countenance), nét mặt (look, phiz, physiognomy). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwep (grimace). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | facies, visio, visus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 52, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | On tropon eksthsontai epi se polloi outwV adoxhsei apo anqrwpwn to eidoV sou kai h doxa sou apo twn anqrwpwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sicut obstipuerunt super te multi sic inglorius erit inter viros aspectus eius et forma eius inter filios hominum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | As stoneyeden vp on hym manye, so vnglorious shal ben among men his siyte, and the foorme of hym among the sonus of men. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | As many were astonished at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | As peoples were surprised at him, And his face was not beautiful, so as to be desired: his face was so changed by disease as to be unlike that of a man, and his form was no longer that of the sons of men. |
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| Language | Isaiah Chapter 52, Verse 14 |
| Croatian | Kao što se mnogi užasnuše vidjevši ga - tako mu je lice bilo neljudski iznakaženo te oblièjem više nije nalièio na èovjeka - |
| Danish | Som mange blev målløse over ham, så umenneskelig ussel så han ud, han ligned ej Menneskenes Børn |
| Dutch | Gelijk als velen zich over u ontzet hebben, alzo verdorven was Zijn gelaat, meer dan van iemand, en Zijn gedaante, meer dan van andere mensenkinderen; |
| Finnish | Niinkuin monet kauhistuivat häntä - sillä niin runneltu, ei enää ihmisenkaltainen, oli hänen muotonsa, hänen hahmonsa ei ollut ihmislasten hahmo - |
| French | De même qu`il a été pour plusieurs un sujet d`effroi, -Tant son visage était défiguré, Tant son aspect différait de celui des fils de l`homme, - |
| German | Gleichwie sich viele an dir ärgern werden, weil seine Gestalt häßlicher ist denn anderer Leute und sein Ansehen denn der Menschenkinder, |
| Haitian Creole | Menm jan anpil moun te pran sezisman lè yo te wè l', sitèlman li te defigire, sitèlman figi l' pa t' sanble menm ak figi moun, |
| Hungarian | Miképen eliszonyodtak tõled sokan, oly rút, nem emberi volt ábrázatja, és alakja sem ember fiaié volt: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Dahulu banyak orang terkejut melihat dia, rupanya dirusak sehingga tidak seperti manusia lagi. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Seperti tercengang-cenganglah banyak orang akan dia, sebab begitu buruk mukanya, terlebih pula dari pada barang seorang, dan rupanyapun terlebih pula dari pada segala anak Adam; |
| Italian | Come molti si stupirono di lui - tanto era sfigurato per essere d'uomo il suo aspetto e diversa la sua forma da quella dei figli dell'uomo - |
| Maori | Pera i te tini i miharo ki a koe; i kino iho hoki tona kanohi i to te tangata, tona ahua i to nga tama a te tangata: |
| Norwegian | Likesom mange blev forferdet over ham - så ille tilredt var han at han ikke så ut som et menneske, og hans skikkelse ikke var som andre menneskebarns - |
| Rumanian | Dupq cum pentru mulyi a fost o pricinq de groazq-atkt de schimonositq Ki era faya, wi atkt de mult se deosebea knfqyiwarea Lui de a fiilor oamenilor- |
| Spanish | De la manera que muchos se asombraron de él, así fue desfigurada su apariencia, más que la de cualquier hombre; y su aspecto, más que el de los seres humanos. |
| Swedish | Såsom många häpnade över honom, därför att hans utseende var vanställt mer än andra människors och hans gestalt oansenligare än andra människobarns, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "visage": visaged, visages. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "visage": envisage. (additional references) | |
Words containing "visage": envisaged, envisages. (additional references) | |
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"Visage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: evisage, Gisanga, Vahaji, viag, viaggio, viago, vieage, virage, Visagie, visago, visate, visiage, visige, visuag, vitage, vowage, Vsafe, vuage. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-s-v" | |
-1 letter: aegis, gives, vigas. | |
-2 letters: ages, aves, egis, gaes, gave, gies, give, sage, save, vagi, vase, vies, viga, vigs, visa, vise. | |
-3 letters: age, ais, ave, gae, gas, gie, sae, sag, sea, seg, sei, vas, veg, via, vie, vig, vis. | |
-4 letters: ae, ag, ai, as, es, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-s-v" | |
+1 letter: glaives, gravies, misgave, rivages, visaged, visages. | |
+2 letters: envisage, leavings, sheaving, sleaving, vagaries, veganism, vestigia, villages, vinegars, vintages, viragoes, virgates. | |
+3 letters: agentives, aggrieves, almsgiver, divagates, enslaving, envisaged, envisages, galvanise, giveaways, givebacks, graveside, gravities, grievants, lawgivers, levigates, navigates, negatives, ravelings, ravenings, ravigotes, reshaving, shaveling, slavering, veganisms, verbiages, vestigial, vicarages, vicinages, vigesimal, villagers, vintagers, vulgarise. | |
+4 letters: aggressive, almsgivers, caregivers, crevassing, engravings, envisaging, estivating, evanescing, evangelism, evangelist, evanishing, galvanised, galvanises, galvanizes, gavelkinds, grapevines, gravesides, gravitases, gravitates, grievances, harvesting, leavenings, lifesaving, negativism, negativist, oversaving, purgatives, ravellings, savageries, scavenging, shavelings, starveling, stravaiged, timesaving, traversing, vagilities, vagotomies, vagrancies, variegates, vernissage, vesicating, vigilances, vigilantes, villenages, vinegarish, vulgarised, vulgarises, vulgarizes, waveguides. | |
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