GERVAIS

"GERVAIS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a spear".

Date "GERVAIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Gervais (St.). The French St. Swithin, June 19th. (See Swithin.) In 1725, Bulliot, a French banker, made a bet that, as it rained on St. Gervais's Day, it would rain more or less for forty days afterwards. The bet was taken by so many people that the entire property of Bulliot was pledged. The bet was lost, and the banker was utterly ruined. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: GERVAIS

Specialty definitions using "GERVAIS": Swithin. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Meet Ricky Gervais (2000)
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Domain	Title
Books	Cantatas and Cantatilles by Louis Le Marie: Cantata by Laurent Gervais 1725-1745/Cantatas by Nicolas Racot De Grandval 1676-1753 (18th Century Frenc) (reference) Le haut pays minier : histoire & techniques : Boussagues, Bousquet d'Orb, Castanet, Castan, Graissessac, Camplong, St. Etienne d'Estrechoux, St. Gervais sur Marne, St.-Genies-de-Varensal, La Tour sur Orb, Rosis (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	WAVES serve as cheerleaders for the Air Station's football team, 21 October 1943. They are (from left to right): Virginia Gervais, Dorothy Nicoll, Mary Kneller and Nancy Lanford. Credit: NAVY.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	We have but little to add to what the reader already knows, concerning what had happened to Jean Valjean, since his adventure with Petit Gervais.
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"GERVAIS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "GERVAIS" is used about 6 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	66.67%	4	175,879
Noun (singular)	16.67%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	16.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "GERVAIS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Gervais	Last name	2,000	6,036
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

"GERVAIS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a spear".

The following table summarizes names related to "GERVAIS."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Gervasius	Male	N/A	N/A
Gervaise	Male	English	Gervasius
Gervase	Male	English	Gervasius
Gervais	Male	French	Gervasius
Gervaise	Female	French	Gervasius
Gervas	Male	German	Gervasius
Gervasio	Male	Italian	Gervasius
Gervasio	Male	Portuguese	Gervasius
Gervasio	Male	Spanish	Gervasius
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1. Gervais, OR (city, FIPS 28650)
Location: 45.10846 N, 122.89479 W
Population (1990): 992 (257 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 97026
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GERVAIS

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
borden gervais ladner	67	gervais marty	3
gervais ricky	36	gervais office ricky	3
gervais	22	ducas gervais	3
gervais oregon	14	gervais location	3
ford gervais	12	paul gervais	3
gervais saint	11	gervais vine	3
gervais sandy	8	gervais leo	3
auto gervais	8	bruno gervais	3
borden gervais ladner llp	7	saint gervais les bains	2
gervais st	7	gervais high school	2
bianca gervais	5	gervais shawn	2
gervais pepin	5	al gervais party rental	2
al gervais	4	david gervais	2
gervais roland	4	gervais hotel st	2
gervais leo sculptor	4	gervais marc	2
apartment gervais saint	4	gervais office	2
gervais lincoln mercury	4	gervais hotel saint	2
district gervais school	4
		gervais hotel saint	2
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Anagrams: GERVAIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: gravies, rivages.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-r-s-v"
	-1 letter: aivers, givers, graves, rivage, sagier, varies, virgas, visage.
	-2 letters: aegis, agers, aiver, arise, avers, gears, giver, gives, grave, rages, ragis, raise, raves, rives, sager, sarge, saver, serai, siver, vairs, viers, vigas, vires, virga.
	-3 letters: ager, ages, airs, ares, arse, aver, aves, ears, egis, eras, ergs, gaes, gars, gave, gear, gies, give, ires, rage.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-r-s-v"
	+1 letter: vagaries, vinegars, viragoes, virgates.
	+2 letters: aggrieves, almsgiver, graveside, gravities, grievants, lawgivers, ravelings, ravenings, ravigotes, reshaving, slavering, verbiages, vicarages, villagers, vintagers, vulgarise.
	+3 letters: aggressive, almsgivers, caregivers, crevassing, engravings, grapevines, gravesides, gravitases, gravitates, grievances, harvesting, oversaving, purgatives, ravellings, savageries, starveling, stravaiged, traversing, vagrancies, variegates, vernissage, vinegarish, vulgarised, vulgarises, vulgarizes.
	+4 letters: advertising, caregivings, enravishing, everlasting, galvanizers, gravidities, gravimeters, invigorates, margravines, misaverring, overcasting, overpassing, oversalting, oversaucing, oversoaking, overstating, overstaying, overtasking, segregative, shivareeing, starvelings, travestying, vainglories, variegators, vegetarians, vernissages, villageries, vulgarities, vulgarizers.
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