Savonarola

Definition: Savonarola

Savonarola

Noun

1. Italian religious and political reformer; a Dominican friar in Florence who preached against sin and corruption and gained a large following; he expelled the Medici from Florence but was later excommunicated and executed for criticizing the Pope (1452-1498).

Date "Savonarola" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Savonarola

Domain	Definitions
Biographical Satire	SAVONAROLA, a reformer of Florence, Italy, who succeeded in closing the cafe's, theatres, and dance halls. He was popular with the masses until election day. When the opposition returned they made it hot for him. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
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Synonym: Savonarola

Synonym: Girolamo Savonarola (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Savonarola

English words defined with "Savonarola": Girolamo Savonarola. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Savonarola": Rising in the Air. (references)

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Modern Usage: Savonarola

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Savonarola i njegovi prijatelji (1972)
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Commercial Usage: Savonarola

Domain	Title
Books	The Catholic Reformation: Savonarola to Ignatius Loyola (reference) The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle (reference) The Unarmed Prophet: Savonarola in Florence (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Savonarola

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Photo Album: Savonarola

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Firenze - R. Museo di S. Marco--Piazza della Signoria col supplizio del Savonarola et suoi compagni (Ignoto Fiorentino, XVI secolo ?) / Ed. Alinari.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: Savonarola

"Savonarola" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Savonarola" is used about 4 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)	100%	4	175,879

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

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Expression: Savonarola

Expression using "Savonarola": Girolamo Savonarola. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Savonarola

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
savonarola	29
chair savonarola	8
girolamo savonarola	7
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Anagrams: Savonarola

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-l-n-o-o-r-s-v"
	-4 letters: larvas, lorans, navars, saloon, salvor, solano, sovran, valors, varnas.
	-5 letters: alans, anlas, anoas, arson, arval, arvos, asana, larva, lavas, loans, loons, loran, nasal, naval, navar, nolos, novas, orals, ovals, roans, salon, salvo, saran, savor, snarl, snool, solan, solar, solon, sonar, valor, varas, varna, vasal, volar.
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