Poster

  

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Poster

Definition: Poster

Poster

Noun

1. A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement; "a poster advertised the coming attractions".

2. Someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards.

3. A horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers.

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

Date "poster" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Poster

DomainDefinition

Computing

A -- is an announcement publicly exhibited which is designed to be understood at a glance. . . the -- must combine immediate visual effectiveness with concise communication of a message. Source: European Union. (references)

General

Visual presentation of a specified size, presented on a flat sheet of paper or card, with details of a specific topic. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Poster

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)


1942 US government war poster (larger version)

A poster is any large piece of paper which hangs from a wall or other such surface. They are a frequent tool of advertisers, propagandists, protestors and other groups trying to communicate a message.

Purely text posters have a long history: they advertised the plays of Shakespeare and made citizens aware of government proclamations for centuries.

The great revolution in posters was the development of colour lithography which allowed the cheap printing of posters illustrated in vibrant colours. The concept was first developed in France but by the 1890s had spread throughout Europe. A number of noted artists designed posters in this period, foremost amongst them Toulouse-Lautrec.

Many posters have had great artistic merit and have become extremely collectable. These include the posters advertising World's Fairs and Colonial Exhibitions. During the First and Second World Wars, recruiting posters became extremely common, and many of them have persisted in the national consciouness, such as the "Uncle Sam Wants You" posters from the United States, or the "Loose Lips Sink Ships" posters that warned of foreign spies.

Other times of great turmoil also produced great posters. The 1960s saw the rise of pop art and protest movements throughout the West; both made great use of posters. Perhaps the most acclaimed posters were those produced by French students during "les évenments" of May 1968.

The movie industry quickly discovered that vibrantly coloured posters were an easy way to sell their pictures. The collection of movie posters has become a major hobby.

See also: poster-poem

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

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Synonyms: Poster

Synonyms: bill (n), bill poster (n), bill sticker (n), card (n), notice (n), placard (n), post horse (n), posting (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Poster

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Publication

Circular, circular letter; manifesto, advertisement, ad., placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster; notice.

Support

Bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead; four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang; bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse; pillow, bolster; mat, rug, cushion.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Poster

English words defined with "poster": billcardnoticeplacard, post, postingshow bill, show cardtheatrical poster, top billing. (references)
Specialty definitions using "poster": Death Star, display-card writerkremvax, Kvikkalkullithographic posterMANUGRAPHERsign printer, SIGN WRITER, MACHINE, spam bait, SUPERVISOR, BILLPOSTING. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Poster" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (notice, placard, poster), French (position, post, poster, station), German (poster, posters), Italian (back, hind, later, poster), Portuguese (poster), Serbo-Croatian (poster), Turkish (bill, poster).

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Modern Usage: Poster

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Thats all it takes really pressure and time That, and big goddamn poster. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

A really big, oversized poster of Atlantic City (So I Married An Axe Murder; writing credit: Robbie Fox, Neil Mullarkey, Mike Myers)

Cyrus is a poster child for the criminally insane (Con Air; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg)

You got that from a movie poster. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

You're like the poster boy for the romantically challenged (On the Line; writing credit: Eric Aronson; Paul Stanton)

Lyrics

I am a poster girl with no poster, I am 32 flavors and then some (32 Flavors; performing artist: Alana Davis)

Now the new poster boy, with the hip now sound (Deception; performing artist: Blackalicious)

Like a Star Wars poster on my bedroom door (Wonderful; performing artist: Everclear)

So make room next to your little backstreet poster (Bow Wow [That's My Name]; performing artist: Lil Bow Wow)

Poster girl posing in a fashion mag (A Change (Would Do You Good); performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

Movie/TV Titles

The Four Poster (1959)

Musical Poster Number One (1940)

The Bill Poster (1933)

Wall Poster (1989)

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

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Commercial Usage: Poster

DomainTitle

Books

  • Redwall Friend & Foe: With Giant Poster (The Guide to Redwall's Heroes & Villains) (reference)

  • Travel by Train: The American Railroad Poster, 1870-1950 (reference)

  • The Feather in Your Heart: Secrets of the World: Storytelling Kit: 2 Cassettes, 1 Poster, and 11 Story Trading Cards [ABRIDGED] (reference)

  • Nutzung ausgewählter fester mineralischer Rohstoffe : Vorträge und Poster zum Berg- und Hüttenmännischen Tag 1988 in Freiberg, Kolloquium 6 (reference)

  • The Art of the Fillmore: The Poster Series 1966-1971 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • National Safety Council Poster Subscription Service - A Size (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Music

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Poster

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Photo Album: Poster

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Shown is a casserole of chicken and rice. This was a poster in the "Healthy Eating Tips" series. See artwork: PV-30. Credit: Len Rizzi (photographer).

Shown is fish baked with vegetables and herbs. Fish should be baked or steamed instead of fried and potatoes should be served boiled with the skin on instead of as french fries. This was a poster in the "Healthy Eating Tips" series. See artwork: PV-30. Credit: Len Rizzi (photographer).

Measles immunication campaign poster display at the Eradicate Measles Exhibit in 1972. Credit: CDC.

Vaccination of boys in West Africa while standing in front of a poster announcing Smallpox Eradication and Measles Control Programs. Note the use of jet guns. Credit: CDC.

Poster emphasizing not to throw garbage from vessels. Credit: Fisheries.

An educational poster produced by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for the Southeast Pacific Ocean area. Credit: Fisheries.

NOAA's John Iliff and a bird rehabilitator, Lee Fox, introduce a poster created to educate volunteers about how to rescue injured birds. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A beautiful poster of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco painted by Marcel Camia. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

A section of a beautiful poster of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco showing the museum in its wonderful location by the sea. This image was painted by Marcel Camia. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Take No Risks Poster.

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: Poster
 

"Poster in Barcelona" by Margriet Engstrom
Commentary: "Photo Mural in Barcelona."
"Poster Paints" by James Moore
Commentary: "Just liked the colours.(If you find a use for it I'd appreciate seeing the results.)."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Use in Literature: Poster

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

A young girl was pulling weeds in a field, where a large green poster, probably of a travelling show at some annual fair, fluttered in the wind

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Poster

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Italy

Both posters and billboards are subject to the approval of provincial authorities and to payment of a tax on poster advertising. (references)

Italy

Poster advertisement on walls, along streets, in street cars, buses, and other means of transportation are used to reach the consumer market. (references)

Italy

Posters and Billboards: Poster advertising is handled by a number of specialized companies, as is electric sign advertising, which is subject to special regulations. (references)

Human Rights

Fiji

The HRC resumed operations in mid-September 2000 with a school-based human rights poster contest and resumed distributing publications. (references)

Women

Japan

As a result, several railway companies started a poster campaign to raise awareness of antigroping ordinances and to advertise railway police contact information, including contact information for the molestation complaint offices established by the Metropolitan Police Department in 1995. At the suggestion of the Metropolitan Police, the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly also revised its antigroping ordinance in September to make first-time offenders subject to imprisonment. (references)

Worker Rights

Kazakhstan

Media attention to the trafficking problem also has increased through advertisements and poster campaigns. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Poster

"Poster" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.25% of the time. "Poster" is used about 725 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 (singular)97.25%7059,492
Noun (proper)2.75%2078,262
                    Total100.00%725N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Poster

The following table summarizes the usage of "poster" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
PosterLast name30027,245
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Poster

Expressions using "poster": bill poster lithographic poster picture poster poster color poster colour poster designer poster paint stick a poster on the wall theatrical poster wanted poster. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "poster": poster-blue, poster-design, poster-format, poster-like, poster-mags, poster-making, poster-opportunities, poster-opportunity, poster-paint, poster-sized.

Ending with "poster": bill-poster, cross-poster, four-poster, half-a-poster, railway-poster.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Poster

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

poster

18,395

dragon poster

760

movie poster

6,212

motorcycle poster

707

dog poster

5,555

cat poster

690

poster art

5,075

dragonball z poster

663

wildlife poster

2,574

wolf poster

604

nature poster

2,362

free poster

599

space poster

2,278

simpsons poster

593

vintage poster

2,129

print and poster

587

animal poster

1,942

car poster

569

hip hop poster

1,706

moon poster

500

music poster

1,701

tiger poster

469

dolphin poster

1,644

the matrix poster

448

horse poster

1,410

military poster

446

celebrity poster

1,074

black light poster

426

poster frame

924

jennifer lopez poster

365

poster model

886

beach poster

342

lord of the ring poster

873

wanted poster

317

fantasy poster

857

sports poster

309

fairy poster

807

rap poster

299

funny poster

776

rock poster

292
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Poster

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

Afrikaans

  

aanplakbiljet (notice, placard). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

pllakat, reklamë (ad, advertisement, circular, commercial, commercial break, dodger, headline, plug, prospectus, publicity, reclame, show card), ngjitës afishesh, ngjit afishe (placard), afishe (bill, placard, playbill, show bill, sticker), afishë (notice, placard). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ملصق زينة, ‏ملصق الإعلانات, ‏لصق إعلان (post), ‏الملصق, ‏إعلان (ad, advertisement, advertising, announcement, annunciation, bill, bush, declaration, exploitation, gazette, notification, pitch, placard, proclamation, profession, promulgation, pronunciation, protestation, publicity, sign, spot). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разлепвач на афиши (sticker), разлепвам афиши (bill, post), обява (ad, advertisement, announcement, bill, notice, notification, ticket), афиш (placard, show bill, show card, sticker), постер, плакат (placard). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

海报, 海報 , 標語 (slogan). (various references)

   

Czech

  

plakát (bill, handbill, placard), vývìska, lepiè plakátù. (various references)

   

Danish

  

opslag (notice, placard). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

affiche (notice, placard), aanplakbiljet (notice, placard), poster (notice, placard), plakkaat (notice, placard). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

afiŝo (notice, placard). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

uppslag (notice, placard). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

اگهی (Caveat, Notice, Ticket), اعلان نصب کردن , اعلان (Notice, Placard, Sign, Signboard), دیوارکوب . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

juliste (bill, notice, placard). (various references)

   

French

  

affiche, poster (position, post), placard. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

oanplakbiljet (notice, placard). (various references)

   

German

  

Plakat (bill, notice, placard), Poster (posters), Anschlag (aiming position, assassination, assault, attack, attempt on smb.'s life, bill, estimate, impact, knock, machination, notice, placard, plot, stop, strike, swing, touch). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αφίσα (placard). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

afishë (notice, placard). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פלקט (placard), פוסטר, כרזה (broadsheet, flyer, flysheet, placard). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

plakát (bill, hanger, placard), falragasz. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tempelan (sticker), surat tempelan. (various references)

   

Italian

  

cartellone (bill, board, notice, placard, program, programme), affisso (bill, notice, placard, sign, touch), manifesto (bill, clear, manifest, manifesto, notice, obvious, open, placard), poster (back, hind, later). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

貼り紙 (label, sticker), 貼り札 (notice), 看板 (appearance, attraction, billboard, closing time, doorplate, figurehead, policy, sign, signboard), ポーランド語 (beeper, death, drink, drip, fall drop by drop, fried potato, mail box, making up only parts of one's face instead of doing a full make-up job, pager, pocket, pocket bell, pocket bike, pocket computer, pocket money, pocket monster, pocketable, pocket-size, pod, poem, poetic, poetical, poetry, point, point and shoot, point getter, point of sales system, point of view, point size, pointer, pointing, poison, pole, Polish, poll, polling, ponytail, pop, pop art, pop country, pop fly, pop gospel, pop jazz, popgroup, poppy, pops, popular, popular music, pop-up, pop-up window, POS system, position, positioning, positive, positive film, positron, possibility, post, post-, post office, postcard, post-doc, poster color, poster session, poster value, Post-It, postmaster, postmodern, post-process, postscript, post-season, pot, potato, potato chip, potato chips, pot-au-feu, potency, potential, pottering, soup, to break down, to fail), ビヤ樽 (beautiful, beauty, beauty adviser, beauty contest, beauty corner, beauty cycle, beauty parlor, beauty salon, beauty spot, beer barrel, buffet, bureau, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, handbill, view, viewer, viewpoint, Viewtron, villa), 張り紙 (paper backing, paper patch), 張り札 (notice), 張り出し (notice, overhang). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ポスター , ポスタ , ビラ (handbill, villa), かんばん (appearance, attraction, billboard, closing time, doorplate, dry plate, figurehead, policy, sign, signboard), はりがみ (label, paper backing, paper patch, sticker), はりふだ (notice), はりだし (notice, overhang). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

포스터. (various references)

   

Manx

  

posteyr (placard). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

osterpay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

cartaz (bill, card, notice, placard, playbill, showbill, sticker). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

afiş (advertisement, bilboard, bill, placard, playbill, program, programme). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

афиша (bill, handbill, notice, placard, playbill, show bill, show-bill, sticker). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

poster, plakat (placard, show bill, sign), stavljati oglase, lepiti plakate. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cartel (bill, cartel, notice, placard, show bill, sign, signboard, trust). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

affisch (handbill, notice, placard, play-bill), anslag (allocation, allotment, allowance, appropriateness, appropriation, bill, fingering, grant, intrigue, notice, placard, supply, touch). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

poster (bill), duvar ilanı, afiş yapıştıran kimse, afiş (banner, bill, placard, show card), afíx (notice, placard). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

plakat (r) (placard). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

оголошення (advert, advertisement, announcement, annunciation, declaration, enunciation, intimation, notice, notification, pronouncement, pronouncing, publication), обклеювати афішами (post), афіша (affiche, bill poster, handbill, placard, program, programme). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

quảng cáo người dán áp phích, áp phích (placard). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

murlen (placard). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Poster

Derivations

Words beginning with "poster": posterior, posteriorities, posteriority, posteriorly, posteriors, posterities, posterity, postern, posterns, posterolateral, posters, posteruptive. (additional references)

Words ending with "poster": imposter. (additional references)

Words containing "poster": imposters, preposterous, preposterously, preposterousness, preposterousnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Poster" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: goster, Kostner, noster, Opseth, oster, pastery, pestery, picter, Pigster, pisteur, pofter, pooter, Popter, Porstner, poset, posher, Posta, poste, postem, posten, posterm, Postgem, postier, posto, postori, postperm, postur, poter, Potger, potser, potur, potzer, powte, Pozner, proste, pueter, Puste, puxter, zoster, Zostera. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Poster"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "poster" (pronounced pō"ster)
4-ō" s t ercoaster, roaster, toaster.
3-s t erdumpster, duster, Easter, adjuster, administer, alabaster, ancestor, aster, banister, bannister, barrister, blaster, blister, blockbuster, bluster, bolster, booster, broadcaster, burgomaster, Buster, canister, cannister, caster, Castor, cloister, cluster, concertmaster, coster, Dempster, Dexter, digester, disaster, ester, faster, Feaster, fester, filibuster, fluster, forecaster, Forester, Foster, gangbuster, gangster, Gaster, grandmaster, hamster, harvester, headmaster, heister, holster, huckster, imposter, impostor, investor, jester, juster, keister, kiester, lackluster, laster, Leister, Lister, lobster, Luster, lustre, master, minister, Minster, Mister, mobster, molester, monster, muenster, Munster, muster, nester, Nestor, newscaster, oldster, oleaster, ouster, oyster, paster, pastor, pester, pilaster, plaster, pollster, polyester, postmaster, prankster, protester, quartermaster, raster, register, requester, rester, ringmaster, roadster, roister, rooster, roster, royster, schoolmaster, scoutmaster, seamster, semester, sequester, shyster, sinister, sister, spinster, sportscaster, stepsister, taskmaster, taster, teamster, tester, thruster, tipster, toastmaster, transistor, trickster, trimester, twister, Ulster, upholster, waster, Webster, Wester, youngster, zoster.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Poster

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: presto, repots, respot, stoper, topers, tropes.

Words within the letters "e-o-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: estop, pesto, poets, pores, ports, poser, prest, prose, prost, repos, repot, ropes, roset, rotes, spore, sport, stope, store, strep, strop, toper, topes, tores, torse, trope.

-2 letters: epos, eros, erst, opes, opts, ores, orts, pert, peso, pest, pets, poet, pore, port, pose, post, pots, pros, repo, reps, rest, rets, roes, rope, rose, rote.

 Words containing the letters "e-o-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: copters, deports, esparto, exports, petrols, petrous, poorest, porters, postern, posters, posture, pothers, potters, potzers, pouters, powters, presort, prestos, pretors, projets, prosect, prostie, proteas, protest, proteus, prowest, redtops, replots, reports, reposit, respots, riposte, ropiest, seaport, sported, sporter, spotter, spouter, stomper, stooper, stopers, stopper, strophe, thorpes, toppers, trompes, troupes.

 

+2 letters: adopters, apterous, crowstep, diopters, dioptres, doorstep, dopester, droplets, espartos, firepots, forepast, foretops, forspent, hoopster, hotpress, imposter, jetports, operants, operates, outpress, overpast, overstep, overtips, overtops, pastored, peridots, petrosal, phorates, pieforts, pierrots, plotters, poetiser, poetries, pointers, poitrels, polestar, pollster, pomfrets, poofters, porkiest, porniest, portages, portends, portents, portless, portress, posterns, postfire, postrace, postured, posturer, postures, potherbs, potsherd, poulters, praetors, presorts, probates, proettes, projects, promotes, pronates, prophets, propjets, prorates, prosects, prosiest, prospect, prostate, prosties, prostyle, protases, proteans, protease, protects, proteges, proteids, proteins, protends, proteose, protests, protyles, proudest, readopts, reposits, resprout, riposted, ripostes, roupiest, seaports, serotype, sorptive, sporters, sportier, sportive, spotters, spottier, spouters, sprocket, sprouted, stompers, stoopers, stopover, stoppers, strophes, stropped, stropper, superhot, topsider, torpedos, towropes, trappose, treetops, triposes, troopers, trophies, tropines, troupers, upstroke.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Bibliography


  

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