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Definition: Faience |
FaienceNoun1. Glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "faience" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | A glazed or unglazed tile made by the plastic process. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Faience (2 syl.). Majolica. So called from Faenza, where, in 1299, it was first manufactured. It is termed majolica because the first specimens the Italians saw came from Majorca. In France it now means a fine ware not equal to porcelain. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sculpture | Marble, bronze, terra cotta, papier-mache; ceramic ware, pottery, porcelain, china, earthenware; cloisonne, enamel, faience, Laocoon, satsuma. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Faience |
| English words defined with "faience": Scarabee. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Faience" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (crockery, earthenware, pottery). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Faience" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.55% of the time. "Faience" is used about 29 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) | 96.55% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
faience | 31 |
carrelage faience | 10 |
quimper faience | 8 |
french faience | 4 |
ephraim faience | 3 |
faience pottery | 2 |
egyptian faience | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "faience"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fajancë (crockery), qeramikë e glazuruar. (various references) | |
Arabic | صيني خزف (chinaware, porcelain), خزف مزخرف, خزف (ceramics, china, earthenware, pottery). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фаянсов, фаянс. (various references) | |
Danish | fajance (earthenware). (various references) | |
Dutch | faience (crockery, earthenware, pottery), aardewerk (crockery, earthenware, pottery). (various references) | |
Finnish | fajanssi (glazed earthenware). (various references) | |
French | faïence (faiance). (various references) | |
German | Fayence (crockery, earthenware, pottery), Faience. (various references) | |
Greek | φαγεντιανό είδος (earthenware), φαβεντιανόν πλακίδιον. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kõedény (stoneware). (various references) | |
Italian | terracotta (earthenware, terra cotta, terracotta), porcellana (China, chinaware, crockery, harness, porcelain, purslane), maiolica (majolica). (various references) | |
Manx | faiense. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aiencefay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | faiança (crockery, earthenware, fail, pottery, stoneware), braçada (armful, breast stroke). (various references) | |
Romanian | faianţã (crockery, pottery). (various references) | |
Russian | фаянс (delft, delftware, earthenware). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | keramika (ceramics). (various references) | |
Spanish | loza (crockery, earthenware, pottery, tile). (various references) | |
Swedish | fajans. (various references) | |
Turkish | fayans (tile), çini (ceramic, encaustic tile, tile). (various references) | |
Ukranian | фаянс (earthenware). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sứ đ" sứ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "faience": faiences. (additional references) | |
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"Faience" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: effiency, faiance, Fakeney, Farense, Faunce, Fayance, feiance, fiencee, Kaziende, saience. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fiancee. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-i-n" | |
-1 letter: enface, fiance. | |
-2 letters: fence, niece. | |
-3 letters: acne, cafe, cain, cane, cine, face, fain, fane, fice, fine, naif, neif, nice. | |
-4 letters: ace, ain, ane, ani, can, cee, fan, fee, fen, fie, fin, ice, nae, nee. | |
-5 letters: ae, ai, an, ef, en, fa, if, in, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-f-i-n" | |
+1 letter: caffeine, defiance, faiences, fiancees. | |
+2 letters: caffeines, defiances, interface, refinance. | |
+3 letters: beneficial, defecating, defecation, effeminacy, facileness, feminacies, franchisee, interfaced, interfaces, maleficent, prefinance, refinanced, refinances. | |
+4 letters: affectioned, affluencies, benefaction, beneficiary, beneficiate, caffeinated, defecations, enfranchise, fancinesses, franchisees, freelancing, ineffectual, inflectable, maleficence, misfeasance, prefinanced, prefinances, rubefacient. | |
+5 letters: affectionate, benefactions, beneficially, beneficiated, beneficiates, candlefishes, conferential, craftinesses, decaffeinate, effectuating, effectuation, effeminacies, enfranchised, enfranchises, facilenesses, ferricyanide, ferrocyanide, fianchettoed, flatulencies, forereaching, frankincense, frenetically, fricasseeing, gemeinschaft, handkerchief, ineffaceable, ineffaceably, inefficacies, magnificence, maleficences, misfeasances, reflectional, rubefacients. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 69 65 6E 63 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- .. . -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a i e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0069 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
| 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)40677571806971 |
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