Explore Rabelais through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like satirist. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Rabelais in a sentence
Rabelais meaning
A surname from French.
Synonyms of Rabelais
Using Rabelais
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname from French.
- Useful related words include: francois rabelais, satirist, ironist, ridiculer.
- In the example corpus, rabelais often appears in combinations such as: françois rabelais, of rabelais, rabelais in.
Context around Rabelais
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rabelais
- In this selection, "rabelais" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rue, wrote, appears and university stand out and add context to how "rabelais" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 52 57 rabelais writes of and agree that rabelais wrote from. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rabelais" sits close to words such as aat, abenomics and abraxas, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rabelais
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Rabelais and his world. (4 words)
Most critics today agree that Rabelais wrote from a Christian humanist perspective. (12 words)
In his first book (ch. 52-57), Rabelais writes of this Abbey of Thélème, built by the giant Gargantua. (19 words)
In 1970, the François Rabelais University was founded; this is centred on the bank of the Loire in the downtown area, and not – as it was then the current practice – in a campus in the suburbs. (36 words)
One of the oldest vernacular uses was by François Rabelais in his Pantagruel in 1532. citation citation Several encyclopedias have names that include the suffix -p(a)edia, e.g., Banglapedia (on matters relevant for Bengal). (36 words)
The University of Poitiers was established in 1431 as the second oldest university in France, and has welcomed many famous philosophers and scientists throughout the ages (notably François Rabelais ; René Descartes ; Francis Bacon ; Samir Amin ). (35 words)
Example sentences (13)
A posthumously published piece on the art of preaching, A Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais, appears to have been written in 1759.
Eiffel died on 27 December 1923, while listening to Beethoven's 5th symphony andante, in his mansion on Rue Rabelais in Paris, France.
Examples of this are the characters of Rabelais in France, Till Eulenspiegel in Germany, Lazarillo de Tormes in Spain and Master Skelton in England.
French satirist François Rabelais wrote in Gargantua and Pantagruel that a swan's neck was the best toilet paper he had encountered.
He believes that they used caves as a Dionysian oracular temple, based upon Dashwood’s reading of the relevant chapters of Rabelais.
In 1970, the François Rabelais University was founded; this is centred on the bank of the Loire in the downtown area, and not – as it was then the current practice – in a campus in the suburbs.
In his first book (ch. 52-57), Rabelais writes of this Abbey of Thélème, built by the giant Gargantua.
Most critics today agree that Rabelais wrote from a Christian humanist perspective.
One of the oldest vernacular uses was by François Rabelais in his Pantagruel in 1532. citation citation Several encyclopedias have names that include the suffix -p(a)edia, e.g., Banglapedia (on matters relevant for Bengal).
Rabelais and his world.
Rabelais has been variously credited with the creation of the philosophy Thelema is seen by some neutral parties as a philosophy, and not a religion.
Stillman, Peter G. "Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Rousseau's Thought" in Rubin & Stroup (1999), p. 70 Satirical, it also epitomises the ideals considered in Rabelais' fiction.
The University of Poitiers was established in 1431 as the second oldest university in France, and has welcomed many famous philosophers and scientists throughout the ages (notably François Rabelais ; René Descartes ; Francis Bacon ; Samir Amin ).
Common combinations with rabelais
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- françois rabelais 4×
- of rabelais 3×
- rabelais in 3×
- that rabelais 2×
- rabelais wrote 2×