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Definition: Auteur |
AuteurNoun1. A filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "auteur" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Book | Phrase: "among the giant fossils of my past"; craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux; "for authors nobler palms remain"; "I lived to write and wrote to live"; "look in thy heart and write"; "there is no Past so long as Books shall live"; "the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers"; "volumes that I prize above my dukedom". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Auteur |
| Etymologies containing "auteur": Author. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Auteur" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (author, authoress, woman writer, writer), French (author, doer, instigator, originator, perpetrator, progenitor, writer), Frisian (author, writer). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Zes personages zoeken een auteur (1971) Un comédien lit un auteur (1979) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Auteur" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Auteur" is used about 13 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 (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "auteur": craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "auteur": auteurist, auteurists, auteurs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "auteur": hauteur. (additional references) | |
Words containing "auteur": hauteurs. (additional references) | |
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"Auteur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acteur, aeteur, aluntur, amuteur, atear, ateu, Atiqur, autair, autar, auteer, auter, auteurs, autheurs, authur, autier, autour, autrui, autuer, avtur, Lutfur, Lutteur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-r-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: urate. | |
-2 letters: rate, tare, tear, true, urea. | |
-3 letters: are, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, era, eta, rat, ret, rue, rut, tae, tar, tau, tea, uta. | |
-4 letters: ae, ar, at, er, et, re, ta, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-r-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: auteurs, hauteur, trumeau. | |
+2 letters: auguster, cubature, hauteurs, outargue, trumeaux. | |
+3 letters: arbutuses, auteurist, autoroute, cubatures, curvature, fulgurate, luxuriate, outargued, outargues, suppurate, thesaurus, trousseau, ultrapure. | |
+4 letters: adulterous, apiculture, argumentum, auriculate, auteurists, autoroutes, aviculture, bureaucrat, curvatures, duumvirate, elucubrate, fraudulent, fulgurated, fulgurates, inaugurate, judicature, juggernaut, luxuriated, luxuriates, nunciature, nurturance, outrageous, parimutuel, quadrature, quadruplet, rouseabout, sauerkraut, suppurated, suppurates, trousseaus, trousseaux, tubercular, ultraquiet, ungrateful, unsaturate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 75 74 65 75 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ..- - . ..- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110101 01110100 01100101 01110101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A u t e u r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0075 0074 0065 0075 0072 |
| 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)358786718784 |
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