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"KATHARINE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "far away". |
Date "KATHARINE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Katharine or ~~~Katharina. Katharina. Daughter of Baptista, a rich gentleman of Padua. She was very beautiful, but a shrew. Petruchio of Verona married her, and so subdued her imperious temper by his indomitable will, that she became the model of a "submissive wife," and gave Bianca, her sister, most excellent advice respecting the duty of submission. (Shakespeare; Taming of the Shrew.) The Katherine de' Medici of China. Voochee, widow of King Tae-tsôg. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: KATHARINE |
| English words defined with "KATHARINE": Spencer Tracy ♦ Tracy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "KATHARINE": Lion Sermon ♦ Perillo Swords, Petruchio. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Katharine (1938) The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986) | |
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![]() | Katharine DeWitt. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Katharine Cornell, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Cornell, Katharine, Miss, photograph made for. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Portrait of Katharine Cornell. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Katharine Wright and friend Harriet Silliman, half length, smiling and facing each other. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Group picture of Orville Wright, Bishop Milton Wright, Katharine Wright, Earl N. Findley, nephew Horace Wright, John R. McMahon, and Pliny Williamson, all seated on the lawn of Orville's home, Hawthorn Hill; Dayton, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Katharine Hepburn | Enemies are so stimulating. |
| Acting is the perfect idiot's profession. | |
| Without discipline, there is no life at all. | |
| If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. | |
| As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work. | |
| If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. | |
| If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you. | |
| It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession. | |
| Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "KATHARINE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 81.08% of the time. "KATHARINE" is used about 111 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) | 81.08% | 90 | 34,744 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 18.02% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.9% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 111 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "KATHARINE" 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 |
| Katharine | First name Female | 17,000 | 661 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "KATHARINE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "far away". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "KATHARINE." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Khara | Female | N/A | Katherine |
| Katarin | Female | Breton | Katherine |
| Ekaterina | Female | Bulgarian | Katherine |
| Caterina | Female | Catalan | Katherine |
| Katarina | Female | Croatian | Katherine |
| Katerina | Female | Czech | Katherine |
| Karen | Female | Danish | Katherine |
| Katrine | Female | Danish | Katherine |
| Katrien | Female | Dutch | Katherine |
| Katrijn | Female | Dutch | Katherine |
| Katrine | Female | Dutch | Katherine |
| Caitlin | Female | English | Katherine |
| Catherine | Female | English | Katherine |
| Cathryn | Female | English | Katherine |
| Kara | Female | English | Katherine |
| Karen | Female | English | Katherine |
| Kat | Female | English | Katherine |
| Kate | Female | English | Katherine |
| Katharine | Female | English | Katherine |
| Katherina | Female | English | Katherine |
| Katherine | Female | English | Hecate |
| Kathi | Female | English | Katherine |
| Kathie | Female | English | Katherine |
| Kathryn | Female | English | Katherine |
| Kathy | Female | English | Katherine |
| Kitty | Female | English | Katherine |
| Kaarina | Female | Finnish | Katherine |
| Kaisa | Female | Finnish | Katherine |
| Karin | Female | Finnish | Katherine |
| Katariina | Female | Finnish | Katherine |
| Catherine | Female | French | Katherine |
| Käthe | Female | German | Katherine |
| Katarina | Female | German | Katherine |
| Katarine | Female | German | Katherine |
| Katharina | Female | German | Katherine |
| Katharine | Female | German | Katherine |
| Kathrin | Female | German | Katherine |
| Katja | Female | German | Katherine |
| Katrine | Female | German | Katherine |
| Aikaterine | Female | Greek | Katherine |
| Hecate | Female | Greek Mythology (Latinized) | N/A |
| Kakalina | Female | Hawaiian | Katherine |
| Katalin | Female | Hungarian | Katherine |
| Katarina | Female | Hungarian | Katherine |
| Caitlin | Female | Irish | Katherine |
| Caitríona | Female | Irish | Katherine |
| Caitria | Female | Irish | Katherine |
| Catriona | Female | Irish | Katherine |
| Catarina | Female | Italian | Katherine |
| Caterina | Female | Italian | Katherine |
| Reina | Female | Jewish | Katherine |
| Ekaterina | Female | Macedonian | Katherine |
| Kari | Female | Norwegian | Katherine |
| Katarzyna | Female | Polish | Katherine |
| Katrine | Female | Polish | Katherine |
| Catarina | Female | Portuguese | Katherine |
| Cätälin | Male | Romanian | Katherine |
| Ecaterina | Female | Romanian | Katherine |
| Ekaterina | Female | Russian | Katherine |
| Kaia | Female | Scandinavian | Katherine |
| Caitrìona | Female | Scottish | Katherine |
| Catriona | Female | Scottish | Katherine |
| Katarina | Female | Serbian | Katherine |
| Katica | Female | Slovene | Katherine |
| Katja | Female | Slovene | Katherine |
| Catalina | Female | Spanish | Katherine |
| Catherina | Female | Spanish | Katherine |
| Kajsa | Female | Swedish | Katherine |
| Karin | Female | Swedish | Katherine |
| Katarina | Female | Swedish | Katherine |
| Catrin | Female | Welsh | Katherine |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "KATHARINE": Katharine Hepburn ♦ Katharine Houghton Hepburn. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
Misspellings | |
"KATHARINE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Akhtarini, katahdin, kathaarens, Katharin, katherine, Katherines, Kathrine, Kothari, Pathirane. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-i-k-n-r-t" | |
-2 letters: hairnet, hetaira, inearth, keratin, khanate, kithara, rethink, thanker, thinker. | |
-3 letters: anther, antiar, hanker, hankie, harken, hernia, hinter, intake, kantar, karate, ratine, reknit, retain, retina, taenia, takahe, tanker, thenar, tinker. | |
-4 letters: airth, anear, antae, antra, antre, arena, arhat, atria, earth, entia, haika, hater, heart, hiker, inert, inker, inter, irate, ither, karat, kiter, kithe, krait. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-h-i-k-n-r-t" | |
+3 letters: breathtaking, earthshaking, pathbreaking. | |
+4 letters: heartbreaking. | |
+5 letters: breathtakingly, earthshakingly, halterbreaking. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 41 54 48 41 52 49 4E 45 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- .- - .... .- .-. .. -. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01000001 01010100 01001000 01000001 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K A T H A R I N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0041 0054 0048 0041 0052 0049 004E 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)453554423552434839 |
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