Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Astaire |
AstaireNoun1. United States dancer and cinema actor noted for his original and graceful tap dancing (1899-1987). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AstaireSynonym: Fred Astaire (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Astaire |
| English words defined with "Astaire": Ginger Rogers ♦ Rogers ♦ Virginia McMath. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire (Vogue; performing artist: Madonna) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Another Evening with Fred Astaire (1959) An Evening with Fred Astaire (1958) El Último baile de Fred Astaire (1996) The Fred Astaire Songbook (1991) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Music |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Astaire" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 78.57% of the time. "Astaire" is used about 14 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) | 78.57% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 21.43% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Astaire": Fred Astaire. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Astaire": astaire-ing, astaire-like. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Astaire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | эстер. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aristae, asteria, atresia. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: airest, arista, reatas, riatas, satire, striae, tarsia, terais, tiaras. | |
-2 letters: airts, areas, arias, arise, aster, astir, atria, irate, raias, raise, rates, reata, retia, riata, rites, serai, sitar, stair, stare, stria, tares, tarsi, tears, terai, tiara, tiers, tires, tries. | |
-3 letters: airs, airt, aits, area, ares, aria, arse, arts, asea, ates, ears, east, eats, eras. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: airdates, amirates, antisera, ariettas, aristate, aspirate, asterias, atresias, awaiters, dataries, hetairas, parasite, radiates, ratanies, seatrain, septaria, variates. | |
+2 letters: abstainer, acierates, actuaries, aerations, aerialist, airstream, animaters, artemisia, arterials, ascertain, aspiratae, aspirated, aspirates, ataraxies, atrazines, attainers, aubretias, aubrietas, autarkies, bacterias, caritases, craniates, disparate, dramatise, eradiates, estuarial, hatterias, karateist, marcasite, marinates, materials, metatarsi, parakites, parasites, parietals, psalteria, radicates, reattains, rhatanies, satrapies, seatrains, sectarian, spermatia, staircase, tailraces, tearstain, theriacas, varietals, veratrias, vicarates, zaratites. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
