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Eclat

Definitions: Eclat

Eclat

Noun

1. Enthusiastic approval; "the book met with modest acclaim"; "he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd"; "they gave him more eclat than he really deserved".

2. Ceremonial elegance and splendor; "entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses".

3. Brilliant or conspicuous success or effect: "the eclat of a great achievement".

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

Date "eclat" was first used: 1674. (references)

Synonyms: Eclat

Synonyms: acclaim (n), acclamation (n), plaudit (n), plaudits (n), pomp (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Eclat

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Repute

Noun: distinction, mark, name, figure; repute, reputation; good repute, high repute; note, notability, notoriety, eclat, " the bubble reputation ", vogue, celebrity; fame, famousness; renown; popularity, aura popularis; approbation; credit, succes d'estime, prestige, talk of the town; name to conjure with.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Eclat

English words defined with "eclat": acclaim, acclamationplaudit, plaudits, pomp. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Eclat

DomainTitle

Books

  • Eclat des contraires : la poétique de Saint-John Perse (reference)

  • Eclat Sites 1-10 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Use in Literature: Eclat

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Yet the Middlesex Cattle Show goes off here with eclat annually, as if all the joints of the agricultural machine were suent.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Eclat

"Eclat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eclat" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eclat

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

eclat marketing

32

eclat

12

eclat touche

5

lotus eclat

5

consulting eclat

4

eclat laurent st touche yves

3

yves saint laurent touche eclat

3

coup d eclat

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Eclat

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

Albanian

  

sukses (advance, good luck, hit, speed, success, winner), shkëlqim (aureola, aureole, blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, distinction, effulgence, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flame, glint, glitter, glory, gloss, glow, halo, irradiation, lambency, luster, lustre, nimbus, pageantry, polish, pomp, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏بهاء (glitter, glory, magnificence, radiance). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

блясък (blaze, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, dash, effulgence, fire, flash, glamor, glamour, glance, glint, glitter, glory, gloss, glossiness, heraldry, illumination, irradiation, lambency, light, luminance, luminosity, luster, lustre, pageantry, polish, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, resplendency, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), блестящ успех. (various references)

   

Czech

  

sláva (distinction, fame, gl, gloriole, glory, kudos, luster, lustre, renown, show, stardom). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

سروصدازیاد, افتضاح (Debacle, Ignominy, Infamy, Scandal), روشنی خیره کننده , درخشش (Glitter, Luster, Scintillation, Shine, Spangle, Sparkle). (various references)

   

French

  

éclat. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

λάμψη (brightness, coruscation, effulgence, flare, flash, glare, glint, glisten, glitter, gloss, glow, limelight, luster, lustre, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, resplendence, resplendency, shine, shininess, shining, splendor, splendour, twinkle), λαμπρότητα (brightness, brilliance, lightness, lucence, lucency, luminance, lustrousness, pomp, resplendence, resplendency, sheen, splendidness, splendor, splendour). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ת"ל" (adoration, fame, glory, illustriousness, kudos, laurel, panegyric, praise, psalm). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kirobbanó siker, feltûnés (splurge). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kemuliaan (dignity, glory, grandeur, magnificence), kemegahan (glitter, splendor). (various references)

   

Italian

  

successo clamoroso, impetuosit (hastiness, impetuosity, vehemence), fulgore (brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, refulgence). (various references)

   

Manx

  

gloyr-reaym. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eclatay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

esplendor (blaze, bravery, bright, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, effulgence, flourish, grandeur, illumination, irradiation, lustful, lustreless, magnificence, pomp, radiance, radiancy, resplendence, sheen, splendor, splendour), glória (fame, glory, kudos, laurel, renown), doença convulsiva, brilho (blaze, bright, brightness, brillance, brilliance, brilliancy, burnish, effulgence, fire, flashing, glaze, glints, glisten, glitter, gloss, glossitis, glow, illuminative, irradiation, lucidity, luminance, luster, lustre, lustre of fabric, polish, radiance, radiancy, resplendence, scintillation, sheen, shine, varnish, vivacity). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

strãlucire (bravery, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, effulgence, fineness, fire, flame, flash, flashing, flush, gaiety, glitter, gloss, glow, gorgeousness, grandeur, irradiance, irradiation, lucency, luminosity, luster, lustre, panoply, pomp, radiance, radiancy, radiation, refulgence, resplendence, richness, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), glorie (eminence, fame, glory, luster, lustre, renown), faimã (blaze of publicity, celebrity, fame, flare, luster, lustre, name, notoriety, renown, rep, reputation, repute). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

успех (advance, advancement, big hand, big time, do, hit, luck, purpose, strides, success), известность (celebrity, fame, notoriety, renown). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sjaj (blazon, blazonry, brilliance, brilliancy, burnish, effulgence, gloss, glow, luminosity, luster, lustre, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

milagro (miracle, wonder), maravillo (jewel), brillo (bloom, brightness, brillance, brilliance, brilliancy, burnish, glare, glaze, glint, glory, gloss, glossiness, glow, luminance, lustre, lustre of fabric, radiance, radiancy, sheen, shimmer, shine, sparkle), éxito brillante. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stor succe, glans (brightness, brilliancy, burnish, glare, glaze, glitter, glory, gloss, lambency, lustre, panache, polish, pride, resplendence, sheen, shine, splendor, splendour), anseende (appearance, aspect, authority, credit, distinction, esteem, fame, look, prestige, reputation, repute, respect, sight, view). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ความสำเร็จที่ง"งาม. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

parlak başarı (brillant success, crowning achievement), beğeni (acclaim, admiration, applause, credit, fancy, good taste, inclination, like, liking, regard, taste), şan (character, fame, glory, renown, singing), üstün başarı (exploit, feat), övgü (accolade, approbation, bouquet, commendation, compliment, encomium, eulogy, glowing account, ode, panegyric, praise, tribute). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Eclat

Derivations

Words beginning with "eclat": eclats. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Eclat

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cleat.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-t"

-1 letter: alec, cate, celt, lace, late, tace, tael, talc, tale, teal, tela.

-2 letters: ace, act, ale, alt, ate, cat, cel, eat, eta, lac, lat, lea, let, tae, tea, tel.

-3 letters: ae, al, at, el, et, la, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-t"
 

+1 letter: acetal, acetyl, atelic, cablet, callet, camlet, cantle, caplet, cartel, castle, cattle, cental, chalet, claret, cleats, eclats, lancet, locate, placet, rectal, tackle, talced, tectal, thecal.

 

+2 letters: acetals, acetyls, acolyte, actable, acutely, acylate, aloetic, article, cablets, calcite, callets, calmest, calotte, calumet, camlets, cantles, capelet, caplets, cartels, castled, castles, catlike, celesta, centals, central, chaetal, chalets, chaplet, chattel, chelate, cholate, ciliate, citable, citadel, clarets, clatter, clavate, cleated, climate, collate, crestal, deltaic, dialect, ectypal, edictal, elastic, ethical, exactly, falcate, hatchel, hellcat, laciest, lactase, lactate, lacteal, lactean, lactone, lactose, lancets, latched, latches, latchet, latency, latices, lattice, located, locater, locates, metical, placate, placets, placket, plectra, plicate, polecat, recital, satchel, scarlet, sulcate, tackled, tackler, tackles, tactile, talcked, talcose, trachle, treacle, treacly.

 

+3 letters: abjectly, acetoxyl, acetylic, acolytes, acrolect, acrylate, actively, aculeate, acylated, acylates, alcahest, allocate, analcite, analecta, analects, articled, articles, athletic, balletic, biacetyl, blackest, bluecoat, bootlace, bracelet, bracteal, bractlet, brocatel, calamite, calceate, calcites, califate, calottes, calotype, calumets, calycate, calypter, canticle, canulate, capelets, cartable, castable, catalase, cataloes, catalyze, catechol, cattleya, celestas, celibate, cellaret, cellmate, celomata, centrals, cervelat, chaplets, chastely, chattels, chelated, chelates, chelator, chevalet, chlorate, cholates, ciliated, ciliates, citadels, citeable, clarinet, clatters, clattery, clayiest, cleanest, clearest, cleating, clematis, cliental, climates, clitella, clodpate, clypeate, coaliest, coatless, collaret, collated, collates, colocate, compleat, conepatl, conflate, copulate, corelate, covalent, cultrate, cumulate, cupulate, cutlases, cuttable, decretal, delicate, diacetyl, dialects, ecotonal, elastics, erotical, escalate, eschalot, ethicals, ethnical, eucalypt, excretal, facelift, facetely, falcated, falconet, gestical, glaciate, hatchels, hectical, hellcats, jaculate, klatches, lacerate, lacertid, lactases, lactated, lactates, lacteals, lacteous, lactones, lactoses, lacunate, laitance, lancelet, lanceted, latchets, latchkey, latticed, lattices, leachate, literacy, localite, locaters, locative, loculate, locustae, loricate, maculate, maledict, metallic, meticals, metrical, muscatel, nucleate, obstacle, ocellate, octangle, oothecal, osculate, particle, pectoral, peculate, pentacle, placated, placater, placates, placenta, plackets, planchet, plicated, poetical, polecats, potlache, praelect, prelatic, raclette, recitals, rectally, relocate, retackle, reticula, satchels, scaliest, scarlets, sceptral, scutella, secantly, sectoral, septical, silicate, slackest, slatches, societal, spectral, sterical, sulcated, tacklers, tackless, tactless, tailrace, teiglach, telecast, tenacula, tentacle, teocalli, thetical, tieclasp, tracheal, trachled, trachles, tractile, trauchle, treacles, trochlea, ulcerate, vertical.

 

+4 letters: accentual, acclimate, acetabula, acetoxyls, acetylate, acetylene, acidulate, acidulent, acrolects, acropetal, acrylates, actualize, afflicted, afterclap, alcahests, alchemist, aleatoric, aliteracy, allocated, allocates, altercate, analcites, analeptic, analgetic, ancestral, anciently, anecdotal, anelastic, anticline, antiulcer, apiculate, applecart, arcuately, ascetical, aspectual, athletics, autoclave, autotelic, bacterial, biacetyls, bluecoats, bootlaces, bracelets, bracteole, bractlets, branchlet, brocatels, cabaletta, cabriolet, cadential, calamites, calculate, calenture, calibrate, califates, caliphate, callowest, calmative, calotypes, calypters, candlelit, candlenut, cantabile, canticles, cantilena, canulated, canulates, capablest, cartelise, cartelize, cartilage, cartwheel, cassoulet, castellan, catalases, catalepsy, catalexes, catalexis, cataloged, cataloger, catalogue, catalyses, catalyzed, catalyzer, catalyzes, cataplexy, catcalled, catchable, catchpole, catechols, caterwaul, cathedral, cattaloes, cattleman, cattlemen, cattleyas, cavaletti, celebrant, celebrate, celestial, celibates, cellarets, cellmates, centraler, centrally, certainly, cervelats, chalkiest, chapleted, charlotte, chatelain, chelating, chelation, chelators, chevalets, chlorates, chocolate, cingulate, circulate, cisternal, clammiest, clarinets, clarities, classiest, classmate, clathrate, clattered, clatterer, claughted, clientage, clodpates, coagulate, coastline, cobaltine, cobaltite, cockatiel, coelomata, coelomate, coeternal, coevality, cogitable, cognately, collarets, colligate, collimate, collocate, colocated, colocates, comatulae, conepatls, conflated, conflates, connately, constable, consulate, copulated, copulates, cordately, corelated, corelates, corollate, correlate, countable, covetable, craterlet, crawliest, creatural, crenulate, cucullate, culminate, cultivate, cumulated, cumulates, curtailed, curtailer, curtilage, cuticulae, cutlasses, cyclamate, decaliter, decathlon, declarant, decollate, decretals, defalcate, deistical, delicates, diacetyls, dialectal, dialectic, dislocate, duplicate, eclamptic, ectoplasm, effectual, ejaculate, ejectable, electable, electoral, electuary, elucidate, enucleate, erectable, eristical, erratical, escalated, escalates, escalator, eschalots, ethically, eucalypti, eucalypts, exactable, excitable, exculpate, explicate, exultance, exultancy, facecloth, facelifts, faceplate, faculties, falconets, fluctuate, fortalice, galactose, genetical, genitalic, glaciated, glaciates, gluconate, graticule, hackliest, hatchable, hatcheled, heretical, identical, implicate, inculcate, inculpate, inelastic, inexactly, inoculate, interclan, interlace, italicise, italicize, jacksmelt, jaculated, jaculates, klatsches, lacerated, lacerates, lacertids, laciniate, laitances, lancelets, larcenist, latchkeys, latecomer, latencies, lateritic, laticifer, leachates, leachiest, lethargic, leviratic, lightface, localites, locatable, locatives, loricates, lubricate, lucrative, lunchmeat, maculated, maculates, malachite, maledicts, matchable, matchless, melanitic, melanotic, metabolic, metallics, militance, mislocate, muscatels, nucleated, nucleates, nucleator, obstacles, octangles, oscillate, osculated, osculates, particles, pearlitic, peccantly, pectorals, peculated, peculates, peculator, pentacles, percolate, petechial, petulance, petulancy, placaters, placative, placement, placentae, placental, placentas, planchets, playacted, potlaches, praelects, precoital, raclettes, realistic, rectangle, rectorial, relocated, relocatee, relocates, reluctant, reluctate, replicate, retackled, retackles, reticular, revictual, sacculate, scapolite, sceptical, sciential, sclerotia, scrutable, scutellar, sectional, sectorial, selectman, shtetlach, silicates, skeptical, socialite, specialty, spectacle, speculate, stackable, tactilely, tailpiece, tailraces, teachable, teachably, teacherly, teacupful, technical, telecasts, telically, tenaculum, tentacled, tentacles, teocallis, theriacal, thylacine, tieclasps, timescale, tolerance, touchable, trabecula, traceable, traceless, tracheole, trackless, tractable, trauchled, trauchles, triticale, trochleae, trochlear, trochleas, tularemic, ulcerated, ulcerates, unactable, unethical, unlatched, unlatches, urceolate, vacillate, vacuolate, vectorial, verticals, victualed, victualer, watchable, wyliecoat.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Eclat


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

45 63 6C 61 74

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

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

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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

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

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0063 006C 0061 0074

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

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

3969786786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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