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FABIUS

"FABIUS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a bean".

Date "FABIUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)


Crosswords: FABIUS

English words defined with "FABIUS": Fabian policy. (references)
Specialty definitions using "FABIUS": Death from Strange CausesFabian Tactics. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: FABIUS

DomainDefinition

Literature

Fabius The American Fabius. Washington (1732-1799), whose military policy was similar to that of Fabius. He wearied out the English troops by harassing them, without coming to a pitched battle. Duguesclin pursued the same policy in France, by the advice of Charles V., whereby all the conquests of Edward and the Black Prince were retrieved.
Fabius of the French. Anne, Duc de Montmorency, grand constable of France; so called from his success in almost annihilating the imperial army which had invaded Provence, by laying the country waste and prolonging the campaign. (1493-1567.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Commercial Usage: FABIUS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Fabius M. Ray's Story of Westbrook (reference)

  • John Dickinson--The letters of Fabius (1788) (reference)

  • Onze ans ce printemps-là, 1981-1992 : correspondances de Tristan Mage avec Messieurs Robert Badinter, Laurent Fabius, Pierre Mauroy et François Mitterrand relatives à la Constitution et aux méfaits de la représentation proportionnelle pour la désignation (reference)

  • Pericles and Fabius [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

  • Quintilian As Educator: Selections from the Institutio Oratoria of Marcus Fabius Quintilianus. (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Familiar Quotations: FABIUS

AuthorQuotation

Fabius Maximus

To be turned form one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: FABIUS

"FABIUS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FABIUS" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%4451,500

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: FABIUS

"FABIUS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a bean".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "FABIUS."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
FabiaFemaleAncient RomanFabius
FabiusMaleAncient RomanN/A
FabianMaleDutchFabius
FabianMaleEnglishFabius
FabianMaleGermanFabius
FabiaFemaleItalianFabius
FabioMaleItalianFabius
FabianMalePolishFabius
FabioMalePortugueseFabius
FabioMaleSpanishFabius
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Cities: FABIUS


1. Fabius, NY (village, FIPS 24867)
Location: 42.83548 N, 75.98551 W
Population (1990): 310 (132 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 13063
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FABIUS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fabius new york

15

fabius

7

bile fabius

6

fabius pompey

4

fabius laurent

3

district fabius pompey school

3

central district fabius pompey school

3

fabius pompey school

2

fabius maximus quintus

2
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Anagrams: FABIUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-f-i-s-u"

-2 letters: bias, fibs, fubs, isba, suba.

-3 letters: abs, ais, bas, bis, bus, fas, fib, fub, ifs, sab, sau, sib, sub.

-4 letters: ab, ai, as, ba, bi, fa, if, is, si, us.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-f-i-s-u"
 

+1 letter: fibulas.

 

+2 letters: basinful, fabulist.

 

+3 letters: basinfuls, bisulfate, fabulists, subfamily.

 

+4 letters: beautifies, bifurcates, bisulfates, fabulistic, unfeasible.

 

+5 letters: beautifiers, breadfruits, buffalofish, bullmastiff, fibromatous, floribundas, funambulism, funambulist, infibulates, justifiable, justifiably, obfuscating, obfuscation, subclassify, subfamilies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FABIUS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 41 42 49 55 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .-    -...    ..    ..-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01000001 01000010 01001001 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#65 &#66 &#73 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0041 0042 0049 0055 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

403536435553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Derived from
7. Cities
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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