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Definition: AMADOU |
AMADOUNoun1. A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. |
Etymology: Amadou \Am"a*dou\, noun. [French expression amadou tinder, prop. lure, bait, from amadouer to allure, caress, perhaps from Icelandic mata to feed, which is akin to English meat.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fuel | Coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder. (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge; solid fueled rocket. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: AMADOU |
| English words defined with "AMADOU": Moxa ♦ Polyporus fomentarius. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "AMADOU" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (spunk, tinder, touch wood, Touchwood). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Niger | The 2000 libel case involving Prime Minister Hama Amadou against one of the same Canard Libere journalists still was pending at year's end. (references) |
Cameroon | Security forces detained for 5 hours at the scene John Fru Ndi, National Chairman of the SDF; Dr. Amadou Ndam Njoya, National President of the UDC; Augustin Frederic Kodock, Secretary General of the UPC; Dakole Daissala, National President of the MDR; and other deputies. (references) | |
Economic History | Niger | President Mamadou Tandja was elected in November 1999 and appointed Hama Amadou as the Prime Minister. (references) |
Human Rights | Cameroon | Amadou Ali was replaced as Minister of Defense; however, on April 27, he was reappointed Minister of Justice. (references) |
Mali | In 2000 the President appointed a special anticorruption prosecutor, Amadou Ousmane Toure, to pursue corruption at all levels, regardless of who is implicated. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | In 2000 General Guei claimed to have a copy of a taped telephone conversation between RDR Deputy Secretary Amadou Gon Coulibaly and a student union member, which Guei claimed revealed the RDR's intention to endanger national security. (references) | |
Political Rights | Niger | In 2000 Tandja appointed Hama Amadou as Prime Minister. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "AMADOU" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AMADOU" is used about 23 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 (proper) | 100% | 23 | 72,767 |
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 |
amadou diallo | 47 |
amadou | 5 |
amadou aw | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "AMADOU"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Eshkë (punk, tinder, touch wood, Touchwood). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Прахан (Touchwood). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Tapló (fungus, German tinder, punk, spunk, tinder, Touchwood). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amadouay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | nome de um fungo. (various references) | |
Romanian | Iascã (punk, spunk, tinder, Touchwood). (various references) | |
Russian | трут (tinder), Трут (Touchwood). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sunđerasta masa dobijena preradom gljiva. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "AMADOU": amadous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AMADOU" (pronounced a"muduw') |
| 3 | -u d uw' | residue. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-m-o-u" | |
-1 letter: douma. | |
-2 letters: doum, duma, maud. | |
-3 letters: ado, ama, amu, dam, dom, duo, mad, moa, mod, mud, oud, udo. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, am, do, ma, mo, mu, od, om, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-m-o-u" | |
+1 letter: amadous. | |
+3 letters: audiogram, automated, docudrama. | |
+4 letters: anadromous, audiograms, docudramas, laundromat, parapodium. | |
+5 letters: adenomatous, adumbration, automatized, camouflaged, catadromous, laundromats, maquiladora, unautomated. | |
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