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Definitions: MATIN |
MATINAdjective1. Of or pertaining to the morning, or to matins; used in the morning; matutinal. Noun1. Time of morning service; the first canonical hour in the Roman Catholic Church. 2. Morning worship or service; morning prayers or songs. 3. Morning. |
Date "MATIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Morning | Adjective: matin, matutinal; vernal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: MATIN |
| Specialty definitions using "MATIN": Chirping Cup ♦ Geneva Bible ♦ Ringing Island. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "MATIN": matutinal. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "MATIN" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (morn, morning, morrow), French Canadian (morning), Occitan (morning, morrow), Provencal (morning). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Un matin de juin 40 (1974) Déjeuner du matin (1974) Le Petit matin (1971) Par un beau matin d'été (1965) L' Espace d'un matin (1961) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Pour avoir bu de grand matin La rosee a meme le thym, Deux moineaux etaient en ribote. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Cote d'Ivoire | The Fraternite Matin newspaper reported in 2000 that the number of street children in the country was 200,000, of which 50,000 were in Abidjan. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Cote d'Ivoire | The two government-owned daily newspapers, Fraternite Matin and Ivoir' Soir, offer little criticism of government policy. (references) |
Morocco | The Government also supports two semiofficial dailies, the French-language Le Matin and the Arabic-language Assahra Al Maghribia. (references) | |
Economic History | Cote D'ivoire | Among them, the most widely-read daily papers are "Fraternite Matin," controlled by the Ivoirian government and weeklies "Gbitch," a social satiric weekly magazine, and "Top Visage", a weekly specialized in show business and women's issues. (references) |
Senegal | The major popular independent newspapers include "Sud Quotidien," "Walf Fadjri," the satirical "Cafard Libéré," "Le Témoin," "Le Matin," and the economic weekly "Le Journal de l'Economie." National newspapers are in French with an occasional insert in ethnic languages. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "MATIN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 82.35% of the time. "MATIN" is used about 17 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 (proper) | 82.35% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 17.65% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "MATIN" 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 |
| Matin | Last name | 200 | 39,953 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "MATIN": Abidjan-matin. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
le matin | 108 | le maroc matin | 4 |
matin nice | 85 | du gloire matin | 4 |
du le matin sahara | 32 | butt matin | 3 |
matin | 25 | matin tele | 3 |
matin var | 24 | matin vert | 3 |
corse matin | 17 | 2 37 le matin | 3 |
king luther matin | 13 | matin réveil | 3 |
matin luther king jr | 12 | du déjeuner matin | 3 |
matin ricky | 12 | martin matin ricky | 3 |
authorized dealer matin | 11 | de le matin sahara | 3 |
fraternite matin | 6 | latin matin | 3 |
matin de naples | 6 | journal le matin | 3 |
guitar matin | 5 | matin st | 3 |
matin nice restaurant | 5 | brun matin | 3 |
matin montreal | 5 | aston matin | 2 |
algerie le matin | 5 | du fleur harris matin miller | 2 |
matin reveil | 4 | brodeur matin | 2 |
luther matin | 4 | matin new nice york | 2 |
du matin sahara | 4 | bon matin | 2 |
algeria le matin | 4 | 37,2 divx le matin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "MATIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Утринно Пеене На Птици, Утринна Молитва (Matins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | όρθιοσ (erect, unflagging, up, upright, upstanding), ρωινόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Mattutino (early, early rising, Matins, morning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atinmay Matinal (matutinal, rath, rathe), Matemática (math, mathematical, mathematics), Canto Matinal. (various references) Utrenie, Ciripit De Dimineaţã. (various references) заутреня (matins, prime). (various references) Alboroto Matinal De Los Pájaros. (various references) анкова Пісня. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MATIN": matinal, matinee, matinees, matiness, matinesses, mating, matings, matins. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "MATIN": chromatin, euchromatin, haematin, hematin, heterochromatin. (additional references) | |
Words containing "MATIN": acclimating, amalgamating, animating, approximating, automating, bromating, checkmating, chromatinic, chromatins, collimating, consummating, cremating, decimating, desquamating, estimating, euchromatins, gemmating, guesstimating, haematins, hematine, hematines, hematinic, hematinics, hematins, heterochromatins, intimating, legitimating, misestimating, mismating, overestimating, postmating, reanimating, reestimating, remating, stalemating, sublimating, summating, ultimating, underestimating. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-m-n-t" | |
-1 letter: amin, anti, main, mina, mint, tain. | |
-2 letters: aim, ain, ait, ami, ani, ant, man, mat, nam, nim, nit, tam, tan, tin. | |
-3 letters: ai, am, an, at, in, it, ma, mi, na, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-m-n-t" | |
+1 letter: etamin, inmate, intima, manito, manitu, mantic, mantid, mantis, martin, mating, matins, mattin, pitman, tamein, taming, tinman, titman. | |
+2 letters: ailment, aliment, amanita, ambient, amenity, amentia, aminity, amniote, amotion, animate, animato, animist, antijam, antiman, anytime, catmint, etamine, etamins, hematin, impaint, implant, inmates, intimae, intimal, intimas, liftman, maintop, malting, manihot, manitos, manitou, manitus, mannite, mantids, mantric, manumit, martian, marting, martini, martins, masting, matinal, matinee, matings, matting, mattins, mediant, migrant, minaret, mintage, minutia, moating, natrium, nematic, pitmans, ptomain, raiment, santimi, santims, stamina, tamarin, tameins, tamping, tampion, taximan, taximen, teaming, tegmina, thiamin, timpana, timpani, timpano, tinamou, tsunami, tympani, varmint, vitamin. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 41 54 49 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- - .. -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A T I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0054 0049 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4735544348 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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