Sade

Sade

[sahd, sad; French sad]
noun
Do·na·tien Al·phonse Fran·çois [daw-na-syan al-fawns frahn-swa] , Comte de ( Marquis de Sade ) 1740–1814, French soldier and novelist, notorious for his paraphilia.
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Sade (sɑːd) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
Comte Donatien Alphonse François de (dɔnasjɛ̃ alfɔ̃s frɑ̃swa də), known as the Marquis de Sade. 1740--1814, French soldier and writer, whose exposition of sexual perversion gave rise to the term sadism

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sadhe, sade or tsade (ˈsɑːdiː, ˈtsɑːdiː, Hebrew ˈtsadiː, ˈsɑːdiː, ˈtsɑːdiː, Hebrew ˈtsadiː, ˈsɑːdiː, ˈtsɑːdiː, Hebrew ˈtsadiː) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
the 18th letter in the Hebrew alphabet (צ or, at the end of a word ץ), transliterated as s or ts and pronounced more or less like English s or ts with pharyngeal articulation
 
sade, sade or tsade
 
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tsade, sade or tsade
 
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