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Definition: Dumas

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. French writer remembered for his swashbuckling historical tales (1802-1870).[Wordnet].

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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Date "Dumas" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1761. (references)

Specialty Definition: Dumas

Domain Definition
Health Daily Update Master Accounting System (MBR). (references)

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Common Expressions: Dumas

Expressions Definition
Alexandre Dumas French writer remembered for his swashbuckling historical tales (1802-1870). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Amy Dumas Amy Christine Dumas (born April 14, 1975), better known by her stage name, Lita, is an American professional wrestler currently working for World Wrestling Entertainment. (references)
Charles Dumas Charles Everett Dumas (February 12, 1937 - January 5, 2004) was an American high jumper, the 1956 Olympic champion, and the first person to clear 7 ft. (references)
Dumas Brothel The Dumas Brothel (formerly the Dumas Hotel) was a famous bordello in Butte, Montana in the United States. It was built in 1891 and is widely considered to be the longest-running house of prostitution in U.S. history. (references)
Dumas House Dumas House is a fourteen storey office building constructed in Perth, Western Australia during the 1960s. Named after Sir Russell Dumas, who was the Director of Works and Buildings for the Public Works Department between 1941 and 1953. The building is located close to St Georges Terrace, Kings Park, and Parliament House. (references)
Dumas Malone Dumas Malone (1892-1986), an American author, was born at Coldwater, Mississippi, USA on January 10, 1892. He received his bachelor's degree in 1910 from Emory College (Emory University) and in 1916 he received his divinity degree from Yale University. Between 1917 and 1919 during the First World War he became a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. He became best known for his multi-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson for which he earned the 1975 Pulitzer Prize. Malone died on December 27, 1986 at Charlottesville, Virginia. (references)
Frédéric Dumas Frédéric Dumas was one of the first two diving companions of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. (references)
Guillaume Mathieu, comte Dumas Guillaume Mathieu, comte Dumas (23 November 1753 - 16 October 1837), French general, born at Montpellier, of a noble family, joined the French army in 1773 and entered upon active service in 1780, as aide-de-camp to Rochambeau in the American Revolutionary War. He had a share in all the principal engagements that occurred during a period of nearly two years. On the conclusion of peace in 1783 he returned to France as a major. (references)
Henry Dumas Henry Dumas (July 20, 1934 - May 23, 1968) was an African-American writer and poet, born in Sweet Home, Arkansas. (references)
Jean-Baptiste Dumas Jean Baptiste André Dumas (July 14, 1800 - April 10, 1884), French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) by measuring vapor densities. (references)
Joseph Dumas Joseph Pierre Dumas (died 1950) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1915 to 1920 as a member of the Liberal Party. (references)
Marlene Dumas Marlene Dumas, born in 1953 in Cape Town South Africa, is an artist combining elements of Expressionism with conceptual art into ink and watercolour pieces and oil paints on canvas. (references)
Roland Dumas Roland Dumas (born August 23, 1922 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne) is a lawyer and French Socialist politician who served as Foreign Minister under Laurent Fabius from 1984 to 1986, and again under Michel Rocard, Edith Cresson, and Pierre Bérégovoy from 1988 to 1993. He later became the President of France's Constitutional Counsel. (references)

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Extended Definition: Dumas

Dumas

Dumas is the surname of several people:

Arts

  • Alexandre Dumas, père, French novelist
  • Alexandre Dumas, fils, son of the previous
  • Edward Canfor-Dumas, English TV scriptwriter and novelist
  • Henry Dumas, American poet and author
  • Marlene Dumas, South African artist
  • Dumas (singer), Québécois singer
  • Dumas Malone, American author

Sciences

  • Frédéric Dumas, one of the first two diving companions of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  • Georges Dumas (French link), French doctor and psychologist
  • Jean-Baptiste Dumas, French chemist
  • Russell Dumas, an Australian engineer and public servant

Sports

  • Amy Dumas, professional wrestler better known as "Lita"
  • Charles Dumas, American high jumper
  • Daniel Dumas, Australian rugby player
  • Franck Dumas, French football player
  • Richard Dumas, American basketball player
  • Tony Dumas, American basketball player
  • Vito Dumas, Argentine single-handed sailor

Politics

  • Joseph Dumas, Canadian politician
  • Maurice Dumas, Canadian professor and politician
  • Pierre Benoît Dumas, French Governor General of Pondicherry and Réunion
  • Roland Dumas, French politician
  • Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, General of the French Revolution and father of the novelist Alexandre Dumas, père
  • Guillaume Mathieu, comte Dumas, French general
  • Dumarsais Simeus, Haitian/American businessman

Places

United States
  • Dumas, Arkansas
  • Dumas, Mississippi
  • Dumas, Texas
  • Dumas Brothel, a brothel in Montana
Australia
  • Dumas House, an office building
France
  • Alexandre Dumas (Paris Métro)
United Kingdom
  • Willis Building (Ipswich) (originally Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters), an office building in Ipswich, England

Other

  • Duma, a political assembly in Russia.
  • Dumas (Kiba), a character within the Japanese anime Kiba
  • The Club Dumas, a novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • The Sacred Order of Saint Dumas, a fictional group in Batman comics
  • Duke Dumas, the ruler of the vampires in the videogame Lunar Knights
  • Mark Shaw, a DC Comics character

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Dumas". Image Credit.
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Topics by Level of Interest: Dumas

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Amy Dumas 74     Émilien Dumas 6
Dumas 36     Alexandre Dumas (merchant) 4
The Club Dumas 22     Alexandre Dumas (Paris Métro) 9
Russell Dumas 13     Amy Dumas 74
Jean-Baptiste Dumas 10     Charles Dumas 5
Franck Dumas 9     Daniel Dumas 4
Alexandre Dumas (Paris Métro) 9     Dumas 36
Tony Dumas 9     Dumas (singer) 7
Jerry Dumas 8     Dumas Brothel 5
Thomas-Alexandre Dumas 7     Dumas House 7
Dumas House 7     Dumas Independent School District 5
Guillaume Mathieu, comte Dumas 7     Dumas Malone 3
Frédéric Dumas 7     Dumas method 5
Dumas (singer) 7     Firoozeh Dumas 4
Marlene Dumas 6     Frédéric Dumas 7
Émilien Dumas 6     Franck Dumas 9
Dumas Brothel 5     Guillaume Mathieu, comte Dumas 7
Mike Dumas 5     Henry Dumas 4
Richard Dumas 5     Jean-Baptiste Dumas 10
Dumas Independent School District 5     Jean-Daniel Dumas 2
Dumas method 5     Jeff Dumas 4
Romain Dumas 5     Jerry Dumas 8
Roland Dumas 5     Joseph Dumas 3
Charles Dumas 5     Marlene Dumas 6
Pierre Benoît Dumas 5     Maurice Dumas 3
Daniel Dumas 4     Mike Dumas 5
The Sacred Order of Saint Dumas 4     Pierre Benoît Dumas 5
Jeff Dumas 4     Richard Dumas 5
Firoozeh Dumas 4     Roland Dumas 5
Alexandre Dumas (merchant) 4     Romain Dumas 5
Henry Dumas 4     Russell Dumas 13
Vito Dumas 3     Sandrine Dumas 2
Dumas Malone 3     The Club Dumas 22
Maurice Dumas 3     The Sacred Order of Saint Dumas 4
Joseph Dumas 3     Thomas-Alexandre Dumas 7
Jean-Daniel Dumas 2     Tony Dumas 9
Sandrine Dumas 2     Vito Dumas 3

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Synonym: Dumas
Position Synonym (sorted by strength)

Expression

 Alexandre Dumas.
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Computed Synonyms: dumas

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.1095   dumas     epics     heroics, eposs, sagas, poems, grands   
 2   1.1094   dumas     prides     vainglories, vertigoes, vertigos, spells, glories   
 3   1.1093   dumas     elegies     threnodies, lamentations, plaints, complaints, jeremiads   
 4   1.1093   dumas     thoughts     thinkings, minds, fancies, reflects, supposes   
 5   1.1092   dumas     elations     enthusiasms, joys, ardours, inebrieties, raptures   
 6   1.1091   dumas     meditations     ruminations, reflexions, thinkings, reasonings, musings   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Translations: Dumas

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Chinese Simplified 大仲马 (Alexandre Dumas, dumas). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, dumas. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 大仲馬 (Alexandre Dumas, dumas). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, dumas. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch Dumas (Dumas). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, dumas. (volunteer & more translations)
German Dumas (Dumas). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, dumas. (volunteer & more translations)
High German Dumas (Dumas). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, dumas. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch Dumas (Dumas). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, dumas. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese デュマ (dumas), デューマス (dumas), デュマス (dumas), アレクサンドル・デュマ・ペール (Alexandre Dumas), アレクサンドル・デュマ・フィス (Alexandre Dumas), エーミィ・ダーマス (Amy Dumas). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, dumas. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: Dumas

Language Translations for “dumas” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag Dathagumathagas (Dumas). Additional references: Athag, dumas. (volunteer)
Double Dutch Dagumagas (Dumas). Additional references: Double Dutch, dumas. (volunteer)
Leet ()|\/|\/|@z (Dumas). Additional references: Leet, dumas. (volunteer)
Oppish Dopumopas (Dumas). Additional references: Oppish, dumas. (volunteer)
Pig Latin umasday (dumas). Additional references: Pig Latin, dumas. (volunteer)
Terran B Dumas (Dumas). Additional references: Terran B, dumas. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi Dubumubas (Dumas). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, dumas. (volunteer)
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