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Definition: Ibsen

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906).[Wordnet].

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

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Date "Ibsen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Common Expressions: Ibsen

Expressions Definition
Henrik Ibsen Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Henrik Johan Ibsen Realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Sigurd Ibsen Sigurd Ibsen (1859-1930) was a Norwegian author and politician. As the only child of Henrik Ibsen, he was born to high expectations and struggled all his life to meet these. (references)
Zak Ibsen Zak Ibsen (born June 6, 1972 in Santa Clara, California) is an American soccer player who last played for San Jose Earthquakes. (references)

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

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Extended Definition: Ibsen (alternative meanings)

Ibsen

Ibsen usually refers to the Norwegian playwright and poet Henrik Ibsen.

Other people named or surnamed Ibsen include:

  • Suzannah Ibsen, Henrik Ibsen's wife
  • Sigurd Ibsen, author, politician, and the son of Henrik and Suzannah Ibsen
  • Tancred Ibsen, filmmaker and actor, Sigurd Ibsen's son
  • Lillebil Ibsen, actress, wife of Tancred Ibsen
  • Zak Ibsen, American soccer player
  • Ibsen Martinez, Venezuelan journalist and playwright

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ibsen (disambiguation)"


Topics by Level of Interest: Ibsen

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Henrik Ibsen 31     Henrik Ibsen 31
Zak Ibsen 9     Ibsen (alternative meanings) 2
Tancred Ibsen 6     Ibsen Martinez 2
Sigurd Ibsen 3     Sigurd Ibsen 3
The Death of Little Ibsen 3     Suzannah Ibsen 2
Ibsen Martinez 2     Tancred Ibsen 6
Ibsen (alternative meanings) 2     The Death of Little Ibsen 3
Suzannah Ibsen 2     Zak Ibsen 9

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).

Synonyms: Ibsen
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 dramatist, playwright, poet, Carnegie, Cicero, Crockett, Crusoe, Defoe, Dewey, Epicurus, Erasmus, Faulkner, ferris, Fuehrer, Gissing, Gulliver, Handel, Hannibal, Hawthorne, Hegel.
Consider also: Gutenberg, Hemingway, Hepburn, Hobbes, Hume, Irving, Lamarck, Leander, lin, bard, orator, rhetorician, solon, speechmaker, statesman, pica, philosopher, philanthropist, singer.

Expression

 Henrik Ibsen, Henrik Johan Ibsen.
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Computed Synonyms: Ibsen

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.1095   Ibsen     lin     linn, linen, flax, Hepburn, line   
 2   1.1094   Ibsen     Hepburn     lin, Heine, Hegel, Hemingway, Hume   
 3   1.0195   Ibsen     Irving     Gutenberg, lin, Heine, Crusoe, ferris   
 4   1.0095   Ibsen     Dewey     Dewey decimal system, Hemingway, Defoe, decimal, Hegel   
 5   1.0094   Ibsen     Handel     Hegel, Hannibal, Hawthorne, Hyde, Hume   
 6   1.0094   Ibsen     Defoe     Crusoe, Heine, Hume, Hyde, Carnegie   
 7   1.0094   Ibsen     Crusoe     Defoe, Carnegie, Hume, Hyde, Heine   
 8   1.0094   Ibsen     Cicero     pica, small pica, Cicero type, cicerone, Crockett   
 9   1.0093   Ibsen     Fuehrer     Faulkner, leader, Gulliver, Leander, driver   
 10   1.0093   Ibsen     ferris     ferris wheel, Fuehrer, Faulkner, Defoe, Heine   
 11   1.0092   Ibsen     Gutenberg     Irving, Gulliver, Fuehrer, Faulkner, Hepburn   
 12   1.0092   Ibsen     Gulliver     Fuehrer, Faulkner, Leander, Gutenberg, Cicero   
 13   1.0092   Ibsen     Faulkner     Fuehrer, Gulliver, Leander, ferris, lin   
 14   1.0092   Ibsen     Crockett     crocket, croquet, croquette, croqueting, Crusoe   
 15   1.0092   Ibsen     Hannibal     Ibrahim Petrovich Gannibal, sal, Handel, Hegel, basil   
--------------------     8 synonyms ranked from 16 to 23 abridged     --------------------

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: Ibsen

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Hebrew הנריק איבסן (Henrik Ibsen). Additional references: Hebrew, Israel, Ibsen. (volunteer & more translations)
Ivrit הנריק איבסן (Henrik Ibsen). Additional references: Ivrit, Israel, Ibsen. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese ヘンリック・イプセン (Henrik Ibsen). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, Ibsen. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: Ibsen

Language Translations for “Ibsen” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag Athagibsathagen (Ibsen). Additional references: Athag, Ibsen. (volunteer)
Double Dutch Agibsagen (Ibsen). Additional references: Double Dutch, Ibsen. (volunteer)
Leet 1|3§3[\] (Ibsen). Additional references: Leet, Ibsen. (volunteer)
Oppish Opibsopen (Ibsen). Additional references: Oppish, Ibsen. (volunteer)
Pig Latin Ibsenway (Ibsen). Additional references: Pig Latin, Ibsen. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi Ubibsuben (Ibsen). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, Ibsen. (volunteer)
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