Marseillaise

Definition: Marseillaise

Marseillaise

Noun

1. The French national anthem.

Date "Marseillaise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Marseillaise

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Marseillaise (3 syl.). The grand song of the French Revolution. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, an artillery officer in garrison at Strasbourg, composed both the words and the $$$ for Dietrich mayor of the town. On July 30th, 1792, the Marseillaise volunteers, invited by Barbaroux at the instance of Madame Roland, marched to Paris singing the favourite song; and the Parisians, enchanted with it, called it the Hymne des Marseillais. (Rouget born 1760, died 1835.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: Marseillaise

English words defined with "Marseillaise": Marseillais, Marseillaise hymn ♦ The Marseillaise. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Marseillaise": Chant du Depart ♦ National Anthems. (references)

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Modern Usage: Marseillaise

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	La Marseillaise (1938)
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Commercial Usage: Marseillaise

Domain	Title
References	Societe Immobiliere Marseillaise: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Societe Marseillaise de Credit SA: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Die Marseillaise der Weiber : Frauen, die Französische Revolution und ihre Rezeption (reference) Histoire de la Marseillaise (reference) IMMOBILIERE MARSEILLAISE, SOCIETE: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference) La Liberté ; précédée du Chant de l'Armée du Rhin, appelé depuis, La Marseillaise de Rouget de Lisle (reference) Metropolisation, Gouvernance Et Citoyennete Dans La Region Urbaine Marseillaise (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Berlioz: La Marseillaise - Love Scene from Roméo & Juliet - The Damnation of Faust, Three Excerpts, etc... / McNair, Leech, Zinman (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Photo Album: Marseillaise

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The American Marseillaise, or voice of the people.Credit: Library of Congress.		Carthage, Tunisia. General de Gaulle, accompanied by General Mast, saluting as the band plays Marseillaise outside the summer palace of the bey of Tunis.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Carthage, Tunisia. General de Gaulle, accompanied by General Mast, saluting as the band plays Marseillaise outside the summer palace of the bey of Tunis.Credit: Library of Congress.		Salute to the Marseillaise & Star Spangled Banner, Bastille Day, Camp Devens.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Société Marseillaise de Crédit. Souscrivez á l'Emprunt de la Libération.Credit: Library of Congress.		A l'oeuvre! Société Marseillaise de Crédit. Souscrivez a l'Emprunt Français.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Société Marseillaise de Crédit. Souscrivez á l'Emprunt de la Libération.Credit: Library of Congress.		A l'oeuvre! Société Marseillaise de Crédit. Souscrivez a l'Emprunt Français.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Use in Literature: Marseillaise

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Marseillaise.
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Usage Frequency: Marseillaise

"Marseillaise" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 72.73% of the time. "Marseillaise" is used about 22 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)	72.73%	16	87,710
Noun (proper)	27.27%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	22	N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: Marseillaise

Country	Name
France	Societe Immobiliere Marseillaise
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Marseillaise

Expressions using "Marseillaise": Marseillaise hymn ♦ The Marseillaise. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Marseillaise

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
la marseillaise	70
marseillaise	37
la lyrics marseillaise	8
la marseillaise mp3	7
lyrics marseillaise	3
de la marseillaise parole	3
credit de marseillaise societe	3
marseillaise mp3	2
journal la marseillaise	2
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Modern Translations: Marseillaise

Language		Translations for "Marseillaise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		marseliezë. (various references)

Bulgarian		марсилеза. (various references)

Finnish		marseljeesi (the Marseillaise). (various references)

Greek		μασσαλιώτισ. (various references)

Pig Latin		arseillaisemay

Portuguese		marsala. (various references)

Russian		марсельеза. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		marseljeza. (various references)

Spanish		marsellesa. (various references)

Swedish		marseljäsen. (various references)

Ukranian		марсель�"за. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Marseillaise

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-i-l-l-m-r-s-s"
	-2 letters: lamaseries.
	-3 letters: amarelles, milliares, misallies, misrelies, missileer, ramillies, serialise, serialism.
	-4 letters: airmails, amarelle, armillae, armillas, assailer, limeless, mailless, malaises, mealless, measlier, milliare, milliers, miseries, misraise, ramilies, ramillie, realises, realisms, reassail, salaries, salliers, seriemas, slimsier, smellers, smellier.
	-5 letters: aerials, aimless, airless, airmail, aliases, amasser, armilla, armless, earless, ireless, leasers, liaises, mailers, malaise, mallees, massier, mealier.
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