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Date "AMIENS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references) |
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Literature | Amiens (3 syl.) The Peace of Amiens , March 27, 1802, a treaty signed by Joseph Bonaparte, the Marquis of Cornwallis, Azara, and Schimmelpenninck, to settle the disputed points between France, England, Spain, and Holland. It was dissolved in 1803. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Amiens is city in the north of France, 120km north of Paris. It is the préfecture (capital city) of the Somme département. Population: 120,000.
Amiens cathedral is the tallest of the larges 'classic' Gothic churches of the 13th century. After a fire destroyed the former cathedral, the new nave was built 1220 - finished 1247. Amiens is notable for the coherence of its plan, the beauty of its three-tier interior elevation, the particularly fine display of sculptures on the principal facade and in the south transept, and the maze and other inlays of its floor.
Amiens is also known for the hortillons, gardens in the marshland along the Somme River.
Jules Verne was member of the city council of Amiens from 1888 to his death in 1905. He is buried in the Madeleine Cemetery.
Amiens was the birthplace of Odette Sansom (1912-1995), a heroic member of the French Resistance.
See also: Treaty of Amiens
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Crosswords: AMIENS |
| Specialty definitions using "AMIENS": GHOUL. (references) |
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 | Cathedral, Amiens, France. Tower. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hamlin at Amiens. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Amiens, France, 1919. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GHOUL, n. A demon addicted to the reprehensible habit of devouring the dead. The existence of ghouls has been disputed by that class of controversialists who are more concerned to deprive the world of comforting beliefs than to give it anything good in their place. In 1640 Father Secchi saw one in a cemetery near Florence and frightened it away with the sign of the cross. He describes it as gifted with many heads an an uncommon allowance of limbs, and he saw it in more than one place at a time. The good man was coming away from dinner at the time and explains that if he had not been "heavy with eating" he would have seized the demon at all hazards. Atholston relates that a ghoul was caught by some sturdy peasants in a churchyard at Sudbury and ducked in a horsepond. (He appears to think that so distinguished a criminal should have been ducked in a tank of rosewater.) The water turned at once to blood "and so contynues unto ys daye." The pond has since been bled with a ditch. As late as the beginning of the fourteenth century a ghoul was cornered in the crypt of the cathedral at Amiens and the whole population surrounded the place. Twenty armed men with a priest at their head, bearing a crucifix, entered and captured the ghoul, which, thinking to escape by the stratagem, had transformed itself to the semblance of a well known citizen, but was nevertheless hanged, drawn and quartered in the midst of hideous popular orgies. The citizen whose shape the demon had assumed was so affected by the sinister occurrence that he never again showed himself in Amiens and his fate remains a mystery. |
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| "AMIENS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 67.11% of the time. "AMIENS" is used about 76 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) | 67.11% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Noun (plural) | 32.89% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Total | 100.00% | 76 | N/A |
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| 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 |
amiens | 62 | amiens chu | 3 |
amiens cathedral | 23 | immobilier amiens | 3 |
amiens hotel | 16 | ac amiens | 3 |
amiens france | 14 | amiens esc | 3 |
academy amiens | 9 | amiens garage | 2 |
amiens battle | 7 | académie amiens d | 2 |
academy amiens d | 7 | amiens restaurant | 2 |
amiens history | 6 | amiens de pedro | 2 |
amiens d rectorat | 5 | amiens honoratus st | 2 |
amiens catedral de | 5 | amiens jules verne | 2 |
amiens rectorat | 5 | amiens clock | 2 |
amiens iufm | 4 | amiens crous | 2 |
amiens iut | 2 | ||
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"AMIENS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amien, Ariens, Atienza, Kamien. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: amines, animes, inseam, mesian, semina. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-m-n-s" | |
-1 letter: amens, amies, amine, amins, anime, anise, mains, manes, manse, means, mensa, miens, minae, minas, mines, names, nemas. | |
-2 letters: aims, ains, amen, amie, amin, amis, anes, anis, maes, main, mane, mans, mean, mesa, mien, mina, mine, mise, name, nema, nims, sain, same, sane, seam, semi, sima, sine. | |
-3 letters: aim, ain, ais, ami, ane, ani. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-m-n-s" | |
+1 letter: ammines, amnesia, amnesic, anemias, anomies, cinemas, enigmas, etamins, famines, gamines, haemins, inmates, inseams, jasmine, kinemas, maidens, malines, manwise, marines, meanies, medians, medinas, menials, misname, remains, samisen, seaming, seminal, seminar, sideman, tameins. | |
+2 letters: ailments, alienism, aliments, alumines, ambients, amentias, amidines, amidones, amnesiac, amnesias, amnesics, amnestic, amniotes, anaemias, anemosis, aneurism, animates, animuses, bailsmen, bimensal, carmines, cremains, daimones, diamines, enamines, etamines, examines, flamines, gaminess, harmines, hematins, humanise, imagines, impanels, infamies, inflames, jasmines, laminose, linesman, machines, magnesia, magnesic, mangiest, manifest, manilles, maniples, manliest, mannites, mantises, mariners, marlines, matinees, matiness, maundies, maziness, meanings, mediants, melanics, melanins, melanism, melanist, meniscal, minarets, minerals, mintages, misagent, misatone, misbegan, miseaten, mislearn, misnamed, misnames, mistaken, moraines, paeanism, panmixes, pembinas, pemicans, raiments, ramekins, reinsman, romaines, romanise, samisens, semantic, seminars, seminary, semolina, simazine, smaltine, smearing, steaming, sycamine, veganism, womanise. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4D 49 45 4E 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- .. . -. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001101 01001001 01000101 01001110 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A M I E N S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004D 0049 0045 004E 0053 |
| 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)354743394853 |
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