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Definition: FIACRE |
FIACRENoun1. A kind of French hackney coach. |
"FIACRE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a raven". |
Date "FIACRE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Etymology: Fiacre \Fia"cre\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Fiacre A French cab or hackney coach. So called from the Hotel de St. Fiacre, Paris, where the first station of these coaches was established by M. Sauvage, about 1650. According to Alban Butler, Fiacre was the son of an Irish king, born in 600, to whose tomb pilgrimages were made in the month of August. His day is August 30th. (Lives of the Saints, vol. ii. p. 379.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: FIACRE |
| Non-English Usage: "FIACRE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (cab, carriage, fiacre). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Il Fiacre N. 13 (1947) Max cocher de fiacre (1912) Le Cocher de fiacre endormi (1897) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | There is a fiacre below. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "FIACRE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FIACRE" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "FIACRE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a raven". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "FIACRE." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Fiacre | Male | French | Fiachra |
| Fiachra | Male | Irish | N/A |
| Fiachra | Male | Irish Mythology | N/A |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fiacre saint | 12 |
st fiacre | 11 |
fiacre | 8 |
st fiacre statue | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FIACRE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | karrocë (cab, calash, carriage, equipage, gharry, go cart). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الفاكرة عربة أجرة صغيرة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | фиакър. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | malý koèár. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | fiacre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מרכב" (cab, carriage, chariot, coach), כרכר" (cab, carriage, cart, dromedary, stage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fiáker. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | carrozza (cab, carriage, chaise, coach, dining car, state-coach). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iacrefay фиакр. (various references) fijaker (barouche, carriage, coach). (various references) at arabası (cart, Clarence, coach, hack, tumbrel). (various references) xe ngựa bốn bánh (barouche, four-wheeler). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FIACRE": fiacres. (additional references) | |
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"FIACRE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fairacre, fairacres, fearce, fiancer, ficare, ficaria, Fiocre, Fucares, Piacore. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "FIACRE" (pronounced 'Fia"cre'): Acre, Chancre, lucre, sucre. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: farcie. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-r" | |
-1 letter: afire, areic, ceria, erica, facer, farce, farci, feria. | |
-2 letters: acre, cafe, care, cire, face, fair, fare, fear, fiar, fice, fire, frae, race, reif, rice, rife. | |
-3 letters: ace, air, arc, are, arf, car, ear, era, far, fer, fie, fir, ice, ire, rec, ref, rei, ria, rif. | |
-4 letters: ae, ai, ar, ef, er, fa, if, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-r" | |
+1 letter: fancier, farcies, fiacres. | |
+2 letters: artifice, backfire, campfire, chaffier, craftier, fanciers, feracity, fireback, fireclay, pacifier, refacing, repacify, trifecta. | |
+3 letters: acidifier, affricate, archfiend, artificer, artifices, backfired, backfires, bifurcate, briefcase, cafeteria, cafetoria, campfires, carnified, carnifies, ceasefire, clarified, clarifier, clarifies, craftiest, fabricate, factories, factorize, financier, firebacks, fireclays, firemanic, fireplace, fornicate, fortalice, franchise, fricassee, fricative, friedcake, fruitcake, infarcted, infracted, interface, laticifer, pacifiers, preachify, prefacing, refinance, sacrifice, scarified, scarifier, scarifies, tackifier, trifectas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 49 41 43 52 45 |
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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)01000110 01001001 01000001 01000011 01010010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F I A C R E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0049 0041 0043 0052 0045 |
| 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)404335375239 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Derived from 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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