Cartier

Definition: Cartier

Cartier

Noun

1. French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence river and laid claim to the region for France (1491-1557).

Date "Cartier" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references)

"Cartier" is a common misspelling or typo for: carrier, carter, courtier, crater.

Synonym: Cartier

Synonym: Jacques Cartier (n). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: Quebec Cartier Mining Co. (mining).

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Crosswords: Cartier

English words defined with "Cartier": Jacques Cartier. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Cartier": Macintosh Common Lisp. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Cartier" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French Canadian (Cartier), Romanian (district, neighborhood, neighbourhood, section, slum, vicinity, ward).

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Modern Usage: Cartier

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	And on the way, stop at Cartier. (The Osbournes; writing credit: Liliana Abud; Jaime Garc�a Estrada)
Lyrics	Cartier wooded frames sported by my shortie (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet)
Movie/TV Titles	C'est pas la faute � Jacques Cartier (1967) The Land of Jacques Cartier (1960) Operacija Cartier (1991) Mes voyages en Canada de Jacques Cartier (1984) The Cartier Affair (1984)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cartier

Domain	Title
Books	The Early French Explorers of North America: How Giovanni Verazano, Jacques Cartier, Samuel De Champlain, Etienne Brule, and Others Explored the Wilderness and Established French Settlements (Exploration & Discovery) (reference) Cartier Design Viewed (reference) Henri Cartier Bresson: City and Landscapes (reference) The Early French Explorers of North America: How Giovanni Verazano, Jacques Cartier, Samuel De Champlain, Etienne Brule, and Others Explored the wild (reference) Cartier to Frontenac: Geographical Discovery in the Interior of North America in Its Historical Relations, 1534-1700 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Cartier

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Photo Album: Cartier

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Jacques Cartier Square, Montreal.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cartier

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		International brands like Tiffany and Cartier are well received by up-scale shoppers who look for quality and prestige. (references)
Civil Liberties	Australia	In September Parliament passed legislation that retroactively removed the right of any noncitizen to apply for a permanent protection visa, if that person's entry was unlawful and occurred in one of several "excised" territories along the country's northern arc: Christmas Island; Ashmore and Cartier Islands; the Cocos Islands; and any sea or resource installation designated by the Government. (references)
Economic History	Hong Kong	West Europe: Carlsberg (Denmark), Hong Kong Petrochemicals (Italian/Korean/Chinese joint venture), Siemens, Heraeus (Germany), Philips (Netherlands); Bouygues/Dragages, Bachy-Soletanches, Banque National de Paris, Banque Indosuez, Chanel, Cartier, Christian Dior, Remy (France), Erikson, Asea Brown Boveri, Tetrapak, Electrolux (Sweden). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cartier

"Cartier" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 73.17% of the time. "Cartier" is used about 41 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
Adjective (comparative)	73.17%	30	63,341
Noun (proper)	14.63%	6	143,867
Noun (singular)	12.2%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	41	N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Cartier

The following table summarizes the usage of "Cartier" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Cartier	Last name	1,000	9,992
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Cartier

Expressions using "Cartier": Ashmore And Cartier Islands ♦ Jacques Cartier. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Cartier": Cartier-bresson.
	Ending with "Cartier": all-cartier.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cartier

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
cartier	2,156	jaques cartier	36
cartier watch	981	cartier val village	36
jacques cartier	230	cartier eyeware	34
cartier replica	169	cartier tank francaise	33
cartier replica watch	136	cartier partner	32
cartier ring	119	chateau cartier	32
cartier jewelry	114	cartier eye glasses	30
cartier sun glasses	100	cartier wallet	30
henri cartier bresson	88	fake cartier watch	28
cartier pasha	73	cartier panthere	26
cartier roadster	71	cartier eyewear	26
cartier val	69	fake cartier	23
cartier bresson	68	cartier bracelet	22
1 888 amp automatic cartier quartz watch	63	cartier watch discount	22
cartier glasses	58	cartier love bracelet	21
cartier pen	53	cartier engagement ring	21
cartier tank	48	cartier handbag	21
cartier perfume	48	cartier jeweler	21
cartier tank watch	43	cartier lighter	20
cartier santos	39	cartier chronograph roadster	20
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Cartier

Language		Translations for "Cartier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French Canadian		cartier. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		カルスト地形 (boy, caldera, cardamom, cartel, clinical records, cultivator, culture, culture center, culture shock, karst, quartet, Quartier Latin). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		カルティエ . (various references)

Pig Latin		artiercay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Cartier

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: cirrate, erratic.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-r-r-t"
	-1 letter: artier, carter, crater, irater, racier, tracer.
	-2 letters: airer, areic, carer, caret, carte, cater, ceria, citer, crate, crier, erica, irate, racer, rater, react, recta, recti, retia, ricer, tarre, terai, terra, trace, triac, trice, trier.
	-3 letters: acre, airt, care, carr, cart, cate, cire, cite, etic, race, rare, rate, rear, rice, rite, tace, tare, tear, tier.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-r-r-t"
	+1 letter: catbrier, craftier, criteria, erratics.
	+2 letters: artificer, careerist, carrotier, cartridge, catbriers, certainer, charriest, cratering, curtailer, erratical, geriatric, oratrices, practicer, racketier, recrating, rectorial, reticular, retracing, rubricate, scarriest, starchier, tarriance, terracing, traceried, traceries, trierarch.
	+3 letters: architrave, archpriest, artificers, barometric, bioreactor, careerists, caricature, carritches, carrotiest, cartridges, catarrhine, certiorari, charioteer, chartering, contraries, craterlike, crematoria, curtailers, diarrhetic, eradicator, erraticism, fratricide, geriatrics, haircutter, meritocrat, parametric, parritches, practicers, reaccredit, recharting, recreating, recreation, recreative, refractile, refracting, refraction, refractive, replicator, retracking, retractile, retracting, retraction, rhetorical, rubricated, rubricates, scratchier, tarriances, tetrameric, tetrarchic, trafficker, transcribe, triarchies, trierarchs, trierarchy, trifurcate.
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