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Doyenne

Definition: Doyenne

Doyenne

Noun

1. A woman who is the senior member of a group.

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


Crosswords: Doyenne

English words defined with "doyenne": Virgalieu. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Doyenne" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (deanery, doyenne).

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Commercial Usage: Doyenne

DomainTitle

Books

  • Les 120 ans de Jeanne Calment, doyenne de l'humanitâe (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Doyenne

"Doyenne" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Doyenne" is used about 11 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%11106,044

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Doyenne

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

doyenne

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Doyenne

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

Arabic 

  

‏عمادة. (various references)

   

French

  

doyenne. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oyenneday

   

Russian 

  

специалистка, профессионалка. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

decana. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Doyenne

Derivations

Words beginning with "doyenne": doyennes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Doyenne" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dejene, Derenne, Doheney, doyenb, doyene, doyenn, dubyana, Dubynin, dvoryane. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Doyenne

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-n-o-y"

-1 letter: donnee, neoned, yenned.

-2 letters: donee, donne, doyen, needy.

-3 letters: dene, deny, done, dyne, eyed, eyen, eyne, need, nene, neon, node, none, yond.

-4 letters: dee, den, dey, doe, don, dye, end, eon, eye, nee, nod, ode, one, yen, yod, yon.

-5 letters: de, do, ed, en, ne, no, od, oe, on, oy, ye, yo.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-n-o-y"
 

+1 letter: doyennes, endogeny.

 

+3 letters: endoenzyme.

 

+4 letters: connectedly, contentedly, despondency, endoenzymes, honeymooned, moneylender, nondelivery.

 

+5 letters: codependency, despondently, endogenously, heterodyning, moneylenders, nonresidency, openhandedly, unoxygenated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Doyenne


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

44 6F 79 65 6E 6E 65

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)

01000100 01101111 01111001 01100101 01101110 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#111 &#121 &#101 &#110 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 006F 0079 0065 006E 006E 0065

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

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

38819171808071

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INDEX

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


  

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