Definitions for voltaire
voʊlˈtɛər, vɒl-voltaire

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1. Voltaire, Arouet, Francois-Marie Arouetnoun

   French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778)

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1. Voltairenoun

   pen name of the French philosopher François-Marie Arouet

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1. Voltaire

   François-Marie Arouet (French: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁi aʁwɛ]; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher. Known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (; also US: ; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), he was famous for his wit, and his criticism of Christianity—especially of the Roman Catholic Church—and of slavery. Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and scientific expositions. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. Voltaire was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally. He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties and was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. His polemics witheringly satirized intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day. His best-known work and magnum opus, Candide, is a novella which comments on, criticizes, and ridicules many events, thinkers, and philosophies of his time.

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1. voltaire

   Voltaire, originally named François-Marie Arouet, was a prominent French writer, philosopher, and historian during the Enlightenment period in the 18th-century. Known for his wit and advocacy of civil liberties including freedom of speech and separation of church and state, he produced a vast number of works including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific articles. His most recognised works include Candide, a satirical novella, and his sharp criticism of major institutions of his era made him both controversial and influential.

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1. Voltaire

   François-Marie Arouet, known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate, despite strict censorship laws with harsh penalties for those who broke them. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.

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1. Voltaire

   Voltaire, Inc. designs and develops server and storage fabric switches and network virtualization software for mission-critical applications. It offers host communications adapters, multi-service switches, integrated gigabit Ethernet and fiber channel routers, and I/O virtualization gateways. The company™s products comprise Grid Director Switches, which provides computing fabrics for data centers, high performance computing, and cloud environments; server adapters that supports various host interfaces, InfiniBand rates, and upper-layer protocols; server software, which is used for high performance computing, clustered databases, server virtualization, low latency messaging, and database applications; and Unified Fabric Manager, a platform for managing scale-out computing environments. Voltaire offers solutions for financial services, media and entertainment, research and education, government, manufacturing, energy, life sciences industries. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts. Voltaire, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Voltaire Limited.

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1. Voltaire

   Voltaire means "like a volt of lightning."

   
   

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1. Voltaire

   The anagrammatic literary pseudonym of François Marie Arouet, formed as follows:--“Arouet l. j.” (le jeune).

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1. Voltaire

   A Frenchman who went around with a bad taste in his mouth.

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1. VOLTAIRE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Voltaire is ranked #24554 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Voltaire surname appeared 1,018 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Voltaire.
   
   86.2% or 878 total occurrences were Black.
   5% or 51 total occurrences were White.
   4.6% or 47 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   3.2% or 33 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Anagrams for voltaire »

1. violater

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of voltaire in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of voltaire in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of voltaire in a Sentence

1. S. G. Tallentyre:

   I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.

2. Henry Bromel:

   After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=voltaire
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Voltaire
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=voltaire
6. ^ CrunchBase
   https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/voltaire
7. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=voltaire
8. ^ Who Was Who?
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/984/pg984-images.html#:~:text=voltaire
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=voltaire