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Meaning of "calembour" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CALEMBOUR

calembour  [ˌkæləmˈbʊə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CALEMBOUR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Calembour is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CALEMBOUR


Boer
bʊə
boor
bʊə
gebur
ɡəˈbʊə
Luluabourg
luːˈluːəˌbʊə
Niebuhr
ˈniːbʊə
tambour
ˈtæmbʊə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CALEMBOUR

calefacient
calefaction
calefactive
calefactor
calefactories
calefactory
calefy
calendal
calendar
calendar day
calendar month
calendar year
calendarer
calendarisation
calendarist
calendarization
calendarize
calender
calenderer
calendrer

WORDS THAT END LIKE CALEMBOUR

arbour
Barbour
bonded labour
child labour
direct labour
division of labour
fishing harbour
forced labour
free labour
harbour
hard labour
labour
manual labour
neighbour
New Labour
next door neighbour
organized labour
safe harbour
skilled labour
slave labour

Synonyms and antonyms of calembour in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «calembour» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CALEMBOUR

Find out the translation of calembour to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of calembour from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «calembour» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

calembour
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

calembour
570 millions of speakers

English

calembour
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

calembour
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

calembour
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

calembour
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

calembour
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

calembour
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

calembour
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Calembour
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

calembour
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

calembour
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

calembour
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Calembour
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

calembour
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

calembour
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॅल्गरॉर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

calembour
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

calembour
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

calembour
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

calembour
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

calembour
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

calembour
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

calembour
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

calembour
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

calembour
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of calembour

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CALEMBOUR»

The term «calembour» is regularly used and occupies the 108.383 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CALEMBOUR» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «calembour» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «calembour» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about calembour

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CALEMBOUR»

Discover the use of calembour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to calembour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Shooting a Texas Tease
Calembour hung up the telephone and stood up. “Alright, Pounder, let's see if this can give us some idea of what our boy John was doing now. ” Sean held the recorder out toward Calembour, who blanched momentarily and backed a step ...
Robert Kearney, 2001
2
Efforts and Models in Interpreting and Translation Research: ...
Ainsi pour rendre un calembour, on peut opter en langue d'arrivée pour un calembour, un non-calembour, un autre pro cédé rhétorique comme la répétition, l'allitération ou une rime, l'omission, le calque, la compensation, l'addition (on ...
Gyde Hansen, Andrew Chesterman, Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast, 2009
3
Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Meet win* for a poetic child. Calembour (Fr.). A pun, a jest. Prom Wigand von Theben, a priest of Kohlenberg in Lower Austria, who was Introduced in Eulenspiegel (q.v.), and other German tales. He was noted for his jests, puns, and witticisms ...
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 2001
4
Twentieth-Century Literary Theory: An Introductory Anthology
Since the English variants include among them a -b- and a -d- which are not easily reducible to any one basic sound, I propose to submit a French word- family which, in its different forms, contains both - b- and - d-\ the French calembour is ...
Vassilis Lambropoulos, David Neal Miller, 1987
5
Etudes rabelaisiennes
Une comparaison entre 1'usage et la portee du meme calembour chez Pantagruel et chez Panurge me semble a cet egard revelatrice. Lorsqu'au moment d'aller consulter la Sibylle de Panzoust (Tiers Livre, ch. 16, p. 469) Panurge s'amuse ci ...
Michael B. Kline, 1963
6
Early Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert
The marabou drinks muddy water wiser than Mr. Mirabeau Indeed from barricades wine flows and naughty Marie likes bars Whoever likes colors loves the cap of liberty When the poet invented the calembour oh calembour the boulevard ...
‎1999
7
Homeric Stitchings: The Homeric Centos of the Empress Eudocia
that calembour is “striking evidence for the basic orality of the Homeric style.” However, while calembour may be “atypical” of the Homeric style, we cannot deny it, as Hainsworth is too ready to do, “a place among the resources of dottSn.
M. D. Usher, 1998
8
Laughter and Power
'Parmi les alcools de ma vie, il y aura eu l' erudition et le calembour.'44 Now some agelasts or misologists profoundly mistrust puns, and stereotypically groan under the imagined punishment of this linguistic lash or club (the recidivist Canard ...
John Parkin, John Phillips, 2006
9
Contemporary French Poetics
D'ailleurs, le petit trait d'humour que représente le calembour, n'aide-t-il pas à créer l'ambiance de confiance décontractée nécessaire à l'éloge? Qui est assez confiant pour jouer est peut-être assez confiant pour louer. Et pourtant, ce même  ...
Michael Bishop, Christopher Elson, 2002
10
Human Form in Palacolithic Art
"bisexual calembour" and realistic male. while counting the bas-reliefs also there is a predominance of realistic obese females One other object is of brick-red colour. although apparently the colour is natural. This is the Solutrean object from  ...
Powers, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CALEMBOUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term calembour is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Stéphane De Groodt, à l'assaut du cinéma
Adepte du jeu de mots et du calembour, le lauréat du Prix Raymond-Devos 2014 s'est forgé une écriture burlesque, décalée, littéraire, ... «lalibre.be, May 15»
2
Roma, Caputo e il suo jazz poppizzato:
... i suoi testi ricercati, i suoi calembour, un uso spericolato e divertente della lingua italiana, ha pubblicato dieci canzoni in inglese, tranne una. «Il Messaggero, Mar 15»
3
Cécile Debray
Marcel Duchamp, normand comme Alphonse Allais, ou encore Satie ou Alfred Jarry, développe très tôt un penchant pour le calembour, le jeu ... «Le Rideau, Feb 15»
4
L'année 2014 vu par un amoureux du goût
Calembour ou jeu de mots, mais l'euro est plus fort maintenant que il y a deux ans. Souvent, j 'ai des félicitations, des sourires et des mercis en ... «Le Club de Mediapart, Jan 15»
5
Fedez - Pop-Hoolista
Che, va detto, per quanto simpatici all'ennesimo calembour risultano un po' banalotti. D'altronde, non è certo l'originalità il punto forte di ... «Outune.net, Oct 14»
6
Tribune Libre de Angelo Djidjoho Houssou : démocrates du Bénin …
Un mauvais calembour ! Comme si le gouvernement avait le choix de donner les moyens ou de ne pas les donner. De deux choses l'une. «La Nouvelle Tribune, Oct 14»
7
Torna a Milano il Video Sound Art Festival: una settimana al Museo …
Tuto italiano il duo Calembour, che propone l'interattività multimediale di Urus: invitanti vasche magiche invitano i visitatori al contatto, ... «Artribune, Jul 14»
8
Sanremo 2014: le pagelle delle canzoni in gara
... dai tavolini del bar, icona dell'immaginario nazionale, e questi siamo noi / poeti, santi ed avventori (ottimo il calembour) / e mediamente eroi. «mentelocale.it, Feb 14»
9
Racconti e poesie
... senza sfuggirci», in cui l'annominazione, pur rischiando il calembour, ci indica la vera direzione da percorrere, perché il vero cambiamento è ... «Cronache Maceratesi, Feb 14»
10
Mamma Mia in the Romanian Miami: Mamaia!
At any rate, I reckoned that beach towns, irrespective of how you use the calembour above, tend to metamorphose into giant explosive party ... «Chessbase News, Sep 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Calembour [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/calembour>. Apr 2024 ».
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