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Bretagne

Definition: Bretagne

Bretagne

Noun

1. A former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay.

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

Date "Bretagne" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)


Synonyms: Bretagne

Synonyms: Breiz (n), Brittany (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bretagne

English words defined with "Bretagne": Armorican. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Bretagne": Honest LawyerPassing RichRenata, Rython. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Bretagne" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (Bretagne, Brittany), Dutch (Bretagne, Brittany), Finnish (Brittany), French (Bretagne, Brittany), German (Bretagne, Brittany), Swedish (britany, Brittany).

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Modern Usage: Bretagne

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

La Bretagne (1936)

2 ou 3 choses que je sais de la Bretagne (1985)

Voyage en Bretagne intérieure (1978)

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

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Commercial Usage: Bretagne

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bouquet De Bretagne: Seasonal Recipes from Le Bretagne, Questembert (reference)

  • Jean-Lou et Sophie en Bretagne (reference)

  • La Bretagne (reference)

  • Le cercle de Gauguin en Bretagne : 1894 (reference)

  • Michelin Bretagne (Brittany), France Map No. 230 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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

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Photo Album: Bretagne

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

U.S. Army. Camp Hospital No.85, Montior de Bretagne, France. : Personnel- Non-commissioned Officers. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

S.S. De Bretagne. Credit: Library of Congress.

S.S. La Bretagne. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Usage Frequency: Bretagne

"Bretagne" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bretagne" is used about 12 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 (proper)100%12101,599

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

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Usage in Company Names: Bretagne

CountryName
France

Societe de Developpement Regional de la Bretagne

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bretagne

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

bretagne

458

bretagne documentation la sur

12

bretagne camping

45

location vacances bretagne

12

bretagne hotel

33

la bretagne

12

bretagne france

23

bretagne en fluvial tourisme

12

grande bretagne

20

bretagne en randonnees

12

bretagne en location

19

bretagne en thalassotherapie

12

tourisme bretagne

18

bretagne de en location vacances

11

bretagne location villa

16

bretagne en escapade

11

bretagne location

15

bretagne carte

11

bretagne formules

15

hotel grande bretagne

11

bretagne en etapes

15

bretagne pedestres sentiers

11

bretagne bridge

15

bretagne bridge in

10

bretagne information touristique

14

vacances bretagne

10

bretagne en hotel reserver un

14

bretagne en location saisonniere

10

bretagne en thalasso

14

bretagne en en forme remise

10

bretagne en end week

13

bretagne carte de

9

bretagne des peintres

13

bretagne credit de mutuel

9

bretagne en promenade

13

bretagne cure jeune maman

7

basset fauve de bretagne

12

bretagne de dol

7

au bretagne chambres chateau d hotes

12

immobilier bretagne

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bretagne

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

Afrikaan

  

Bretagne (Brittany). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Bretagne (Brittany). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

Bretonujo (Brittany), Bretonio (Brittany). (various references)

   

French

  

Bretagne (Brittany). (various references)

   

German

  

Bretagne (Brittany), die Bretagne (Brittany). (various references)

   

Irish

  

An BhriotÚin (Brittany). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Bretagna (Brittany). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etagnebray

   

Portuguese

  

Bretanha (Brittany). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

Britanya (Brittany). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

Llydaw (Brittany). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bretagne

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-g-n-r-t"

-1 letter: grantee, greaten, negater, reagent, rebegan.

-2 letters: argent, banger, banter, barege, bargee, beaten, beater, berate, enrage, entera, ergate, garnet, genera, gerent, graben, neater, negate, rebate, regent.

-3 letters: agene, agent, agree, anger, antre, arete, barge, began, begat, beget, beret, brant, brent, eager, eagre, eaten, eater, egret, enate, enter, genet, genre, grant, grate, great, grebe, green.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-g-n-r-t"
 

+2 letters: baronetage, integrable.

 

+3 letters: abridgement, baronetages, beardtongue, becarpeting, betattering, celebrating, cerebrating, exuberating, glabrescent, libertinage, overbeating, talebearing, tiebreaking.

 

+4 letters: abridgements, beardtongues, bespattering, deliberating, exacerbating, libertinages, renegotiable, talebearings.

 

+5 letters: beleaguerment, decerebrating, embranglement, heartbreaking, overbreathing, reverberating, subgeneration, unforgettable, verbigeration.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bretagne


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 72 65 74 61 67 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-.    .    -    .-    --.    -.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110010 01100101 01110100 01100001 01100111 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#114 &#101 &#116 &#97 &#103 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0072 0065 0074 0061 0067 006E 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3684718667738071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Company Usage
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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‏الاسبرانتو لغة دولية, Esperantu, есперанто, 世界语, esperanton, espéranto, εσπεράντο, אספר טו, eszperanto, eszperantó, エスキモー犬 , エスペラント , эсперанто, Eseperano, esperanto, Kiesperanto, าษาที่ประ"ิษฐ์ขึ้นเพื่อใช้เป็น าษากลางในการสื่อสารระหว่างประเทศ ซึ่งรากศัพท์ส่วนใหญ่, esperanto dili, tiếng etperantô, for esperanto;
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