Volte-face

Definition: Volte-face

Volte-face

Noun

1. A reversal in attitude or principle or point of view: "an about-face on foreign policy".

Date "volte-face" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Synonyms: Volte-face

Synonyms: about-face (n), policy change (n), reversal (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Regression	Refluence, reflux; backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return; resilience reflection, reflexion (recoil); flip-flop, volte-face.
Tergiversation	Coquetry; vacillation; backsliding; volte-face.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Volte-face

Non-English Usage: "Volte-face" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (about face, about turn, turnabout, volte-face).

"Volte-face" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "Volte-face" is used about 24 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)	91.67%	22	74,468
Noun (proper)	4.17%	1	339,140
Adjective (general or positive)	4.17%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	24	N/A

Language		Translations for "volte-face"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ndryshim qëndrimi, kthesë (bend, bow, circumvolution, crook, curve, elbow, flexure, jar, offset, oxbow, sinuosity, slew, switch, turn, turn round, turnabout, twist, wheel, wheeling, wind). (various references)

Arabic		‏تغيير موقفه كليا. (various references)

Bulgarian		волтфас, обръщане на 180 градуса, пълен обрат. (various references)

Czech		obrat èelem vzad. (various references)

French		volte-face, faire volte-face. (various references)

Hungarian		szembefordulás, hirtelen fordulat (quirk, revulsion). (various references)

Italian		voltafaccia (about turn). (various references)

Pig Latin		olte-facevay

Portuguese		reviravolta (about face, overturn, reverse, revulsion). (various references)

Russian		резкая перемена, поворот кругом (about face, about turn). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		preokret (reversal, shift, switch, turn over, turnover, upheaval, vicissitude), poluobrt. (various references)

Spanish		viraje (scumming, swerve, toning, turn, turning), revocación de opinión. (various references)

Swedish		helomvändning (about turn, aboutface, about-turn, turnabout, u turn, U-turn). (various references)

Turkish		yüz seksen derece dönme (about face, about turn), ani değişim. (various references)

Ukranian		крутий поворот, поворот кругом (about face). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự trở mặt, sự quay trở lại (countermarch). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-l-o-t-v"
	-2 letters: foveate.
	-3 letters: alcove, avocet, cleave, coatee, coeval, facete, foetal, folate, foveae, foveal, locate, octave, oleate, velate, veloce.
	-4 letters: aloft, calve, clave, cleat, cleft, clove, covet, eclat, elate, elect, facet, fecal, fetal, fleet, float, flota, focal, fovea, laevo, leave, lovat, octal, ovate, telae, valet, vocal, volta, volte.
	-5 letters: alec, alee, alef, aloe, alto, cafe, calf.
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