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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DEMIMONDAINE

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEMIMONDAINE

demimondaine  [ˌdɛmɪˈmɒndeɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEMIMONDAINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Demimondaine 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.

WHAT DOES DEMIMONDAINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Demimonde

Demi-monde refers to a group of people who live hedonistic lifestyles, usually in a flagrant and conspicuous manner. The term was commonly used in Europe from the late 18th to the early 20th century, and contemporary use has an anachronistic character. Its connotations of pleasure-seeking often contrasted with wealth and ruling class behavior. The term was often used as one of disapprobation, the behavior of a person in the demimonde being contrary to more traditional or bourgeois values. Such behaviors often included drinking or drug use, gambling, high spending, and sexual promiscuity. The term demimondaine referred to a woman who embodied these qualities; later it became a euphemism for a courtesan or prostitute. The term 'demi-monde' is French for "half-world". It derives from a comedy by Alexandre Dumas fils published in 1855 called Le Demi-Monde.

Definition of demimondaine in the English dictionary

The definition of demimondaine in the dictionary is a woman of the demimonde.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEMIMONDAINE


antemundane
ˌæntɪˈmʌndeɪn
chlordane
ˈklɔːdeɪn
Dane
deɪn
deign
deɪn
disdain
dɪsˈdeɪn
extramundane
ˌɛkstrəˈmʌndeɪn
foreordain
ˌfɔːrɔːˈdeɪn
Haldane
ˈhɔːldeɪn
intermundane
ˌɪntəˈmʌndeɪn
intramundane
ˌɪntrəˈmʌndeɪn
lindane
ˈlɪndeɪn
mundane
ˈmʌndeɪn
ordain
ɔːˈdeɪn
preordain
ˌpriːɔːˈdeɪn
sdeign
zdeɪn
sdein
zdeɪn
supermundane
ˌsuːpəˈmʌndeɪn
supramundane
ˌsuːprəmʌnˈdeɪn
transmundane
trænzˈmʌndeɪn
ultramundane
ˌʌltrəˈmʌndeɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEMIMONDAINE

demicanton
demies
demigod
demigoddess
demigration
demijohn
demilitarization
demilitarize
demilitarized zone
demilune
demimonde
demineralisation
demineralise
demineraliser
demineralization
demineralize
demineralizer
demipique
Demirel
demirelief

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEMIMONDAINE

aine
Aquitaine
Caine
chaine
cocaine
cross of Lorraine
fredaine
graine
Ille-et-Vilaine
La Fontaine
Laine
Lorraine
Maine
migraine
mondaine
Paine
romaine
saine
Touraine
Ukraine

Synonyms and antonyms of demimondaine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «demimondaine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEMIMONDAINE

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The translations of demimondaine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «demimondaine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

demimondaine
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

demimondaine
570 millions of speakers

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demimondaine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

demimondaine
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

demimondaine
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

demimondaine
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mundana
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

demimondaine
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

femme douteuse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Demimondaine
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Halbweltdame
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

demimondaine
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

demimondaine
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Demimondaine
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

demimondaine
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

demimondaine
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

डिममिऑंडिन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

demimondaine
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

demimondaine
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

demimondaine
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

demimondaine
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

demimondaine
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

demimondaine
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

demimondaine
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

demimondaine
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

demimondaine
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of demimondaine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEMIMONDAINE»

The term «demimondaine» is used very little and occupies the 166.741 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEMIMONDAINE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «demimondaine» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «demimondaine» 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 demimondaine

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEMIMONDAINE»

Discover the use of demimondaine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to demimondaine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in ...
By the 1890s, the negative image of the bourgeois shopper bore a discomfiting resemblance to that of the demimondaine, whose manipulation of men for venal purposes evoked for republicans the corruption of the Second Empire and the ...
Lisa Tiersten, 2001
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Heroes and Legends of Fin-de-Siècle France: Gender, ...
Opium, Gambling, and the Demimondaine: The Ullmo Spy Case of 1907–1908 Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the ...
Venita Datta, 2011
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Say Chic: A Collection of French Words We Can't Live Without
Demimondaine. [. de. mee. mon. dain. /. de. mee. mon. dain. ] Written demi- mondaine in French, this expression translates literally as “half-socialite” and designates a woman of the demimonde (halfworld or netherworld), in other words , ...
Francoise Blanchard, Jeremy Leven, 2007
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Narrating from the Margins: Self-representation of Female ...
This particular method becomes the central dynamic in Good Morning, Midnight, in which the demimondaine Sasha creates a community of life-stories through her simultaneous self-narration in which hers makes sense and does not seem too ...
Nagihan Haliloğlu, 2011
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The Best Words
demimondaine. (dem-ee-mon-DANE) noun a woman of the demimonde; a prostitute; demirep. The demimonde referred to a class of women who were supported by wealthy lovers. Though commonplace in the ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
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Fin-de-siècle Splendor: Repressed Modernities of Late Qing ...
Demimondaine. Becomes. National. Heroine. In the winter of 1936, the death of an old woman in a Beijing slum became national news, for this old woman was the notorious Sai Jin- hua. Born in 1874, she first gained public attention as a ...
Dewei Wang, 1997
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History: 4 Volume Set
In theory, a demimondaine was a professional mistress who sold her company, affections, and body in exchange for being maintained by a patron in a long-term relationship. In practice, many demimondaines earned a good portion of their ...
Bonnie G. Smith, 2008
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Aspiring to la Vie Galante: Reincarnations of Rococo in ...
century on the costumes and social habits of the demimondaine characters of the Second Empire that he depicted. His pen and ink drawing La dame au canapé ( pl. 61) is a particularly piquant example of an eighteenth-century spirit living on ...
Allison Unruh, 2008
9
Survive the Savage Sea
In the original 1885 Lemerre edition he introduces a demimondaine named Ella Virieux (p. 127). In the definitive edition (Plon, 1902, p. 109) she is now his more celebrated Gladys Harvey, first introduced in his Pastels (Lemerre, 1889).
Dougal Robertson, 1974
10
Thai Private Eye: Further adventures from the files of ...
He had left his Thai girlfriend (his choice of words, although perhaps paid-for- companion or, as Bernard Trink would say, “demimondaine” was a more accurate description) in the apartment while he went down to the office, paid some bills and ...
Warren Olson, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEMIMONDAINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term demimondaine is used in the context of the following news items.
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Outrage at Museum of Fine Arts Boston over Disgraceful “Dress Up …
“Conservatives called the figure a 'great doll, with nothing human about her face,' a 'demimondaine,' a 'two-headed Chinese,' and a 'scarlet ... «artnet News, Jul 15»
2
Verses forged in blood
Angelica was a demimondaine, kept by wealthy lovers. Family legend claimed that Guillaume's father was a Roman aristocrat. But in the first ... «Irish Times, May 15»
3
Review: Vanessa Hudgens in a Squeaky Clean 'Gigi' on Broadway
In this squeaky clean version of the material, Gigi's potential future as a demimondaine — that's French for high-end prostitute — is alluded to in ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
4
Louvre, Musee d'Orsay and other unmissable Paris art museums …
The prostitute: from the beguiling demimondaine to the poor pierreuse (streetwalker), no figure better represents the poles of glamour and ... «The Australian, Mar 15»
5
Le jour se lève review – Philip French on Marcel Carné's poetic …
... with a pretty flower girl (Jacqueline Laurent) and a cynical big-hearted demimondaine (Arletty), both victims of the suave, manipulative Berry. «The Guardian, Nov 14»
6
Sexing up marriage
A woman speaking about her sexual desires is often considered demimondaine (typically, a class of women on the fringes of respectable ... «Bangalore Mirror, Oct 14»
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My Paris Kitchen author David Lebovitz proves the French rule that …
It travel back to the 1890s to posit the heyday of the flat's real-life demimondaine owner Marthe de Florian and her sittings for the painter ... «National Post, Jun 14»
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Penny Dreadful: Demimonde, review
Penny Dreadful explores the life of the demimonde and demimondaine in the latest episode. Demimonde means half world in French, it was ... «Den of Geek, Jun 14»
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Beautifully nuanced staging adds drama to Verdi's masterpiece
A sinner turned saint, Violetta chooses to throw away her glamorous lifestyle as a demimondaine in the search for true love. Meanwhile, the ... «The Australian, May 14»
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Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive has more going on (by …
It's a love story about two centuries-old vampires, musician Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and demimondaine Eve (Tilda Swinton), who haunt the ... «National Review Online, Apr 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Demimondaine [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/demimondaine>. May 2024 ».
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