KATHARINE

  

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KATHARINE

"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)


Specialty Definition: KATHARINE

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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.

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Crosswords: KATHARINE

English words defined with "KATHARINE": Spencer TracyTracy. (references)
Specialty definitions using "KATHARINE": Lion SermonPerillo Swords, Petruchio. (references)

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Modern Usage: KATHARINE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Katharine (1938)

The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn (1986)

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

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Commercial Usage: KATHARINE

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Books

  • Meet Katharine Drexel : Heiress and God¿s Servant of the Oppressed (reference)

  • Katharine Bement Davis, Early Twentieth-Century American Women, and Study of Sex Behavior (reference)

  • Purple Mountain Majesties: The Story of Katharine Lee Bates and "America the Beautiful (reference)

  • Oh Thou Woman That Bringest Good Tidings: The Life and Work of Katharine C. Bushnell (reference)

  • 15 Days of Prayer With Saint Katharine Drexel (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Katharine Hepburn Giftset (The Philadelphia Story / Little Women / Dragon Seed) (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: KATHARINE

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: KATHARINE

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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.

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

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Familiar Quotations: KATHARINE

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Usage Frequency: KATHARINE

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)81.08%9034,744
Adjective (general or positive)18.02%2078,262
Noun (singular)0.9%1339,140
                    Total100.00%111N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: KATHARINE

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
KatharineFirst name Female17,000661
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: KATHARINE

"KATHARINE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "far away".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "KATHARINE."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
KharaFemaleN/AKatherine
KatarinFemaleBretonKatherine
EkaterinaFemaleBulgarianKatherine
CaterinaFemaleCatalanKatherine
KatarinaFemaleCroatianKatherine
KaterinaFemaleCzechKatherine
KarenFemaleDanishKatherine
KatrineFemaleDanishKatherine
KatrienFemaleDutchKatherine
KatrijnFemaleDutchKatherine
KatrineFemaleDutchKatherine
CaitlinFemaleEnglishKatherine
CatherineFemaleEnglishKatherine
CathrynFemaleEnglishKatherine
KaraFemaleEnglishKatherine
KarenFemaleEnglishKatherine
KatFemaleEnglishKatherine
KateFemaleEnglishKatherine
KatharineFemaleEnglishKatherine
KatherinaFemaleEnglishKatherine
KatherineFemaleEnglishHecate
KathiFemaleEnglishKatherine
KathieFemaleEnglishKatherine
KathrynFemaleEnglishKatherine
KathyFemaleEnglishKatherine
KittyFemaleEnglishKatherine
KaarinaFemaleFinnishKatherine
KaisaFemaleFinnishKatherine
KarinFemaleFinnishKatherine
KatariinaFemaleFinnishKatherine
CatherineFemaleFrenchKatherine
KätheFemaleGermanKatherine
KatarinaFemaleGermanKatherine
KatarineFemaleGermanKatherine
KatharinaFemaleGermanKatherine
KatharineFemaleGermanKatherine
KathrinFemaleGermanKatherine
KatjaFemaleGermanKatherine
KatrineFemaleGermanKatherine
AikaterineFemaleGreekKatherine
HecateFemaleGreek Mythology (Latinized)N/A
KakalinaFemaleHawaiianKatherine
KatalinFemaleHungarianKatherine
KatarinaFemaleHungarianKatherine
CaitlinFemaleIrishKatherine
CaitríonaFemaleIrishKatherine
CaitriaFemaleIrishKatherine
CatrionaFemaleIrishKatherine
CatarinaFemaleItalianKatherine
CaterinaFemaleItalianKatherine
ReinaFemaleJewishKatherine
EkaterinaFemaleMacedonianKatherine
KariFemaleNorwegianKatherine
KatarzynaFemalePolishKatherine
KatrineFemalePolishKatherine
CatarinaFemalePortugueseKatherine
CätälinMaleRomanianKatherine
EcaterinaFemaleRomanianKatherine
EkaterinaFemaleRussianKatherine
KaiaFemaleScandinavianKatherine
CaitrìonaFemaleScottishKatherine
CatrionaFemaleScottishKatherine
KatarinaFemaleSerbianKatherine
KaticaFemaleSloveneKatherine
KatjaFemaleSloveneKatherine
CatalinaFemaleSpanishKatherine
CatherinaFemaleSpanishKatherine
KajsaFemaleSwedishKatherine
KarinFemaleSwedishKatherine
KatarinaFemaleSwedishKatherine
CatrinFemaleWelshKatherine
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: KATHARINE

Expressions using "KATHARINE": Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: KATHARINE

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

katharine hepburn

1,186

bio hepburn katharine

13

katharine isabelle

96

cynthia hepburn katharine mcfadden

12

katharine houghton

90

hepburn katharine movie

11

katharine ross

76

audrey hepburn hepburn katharine related

10

audrey hepburn katharine

52

katharine hamnett

10

katharine nicholson

50

bates katharine lee

9

katharine gibbs school

48

dead hepburn katharine

8

die hepburn katharine

46

audrey hepburn katharine related

8

katharine graham

39

died hepburn katharine

8

katharine hepburn picture

39

hepburn katharine obituary

8

katharine gibbs

39

filmography hepburn katharine

8

katharine towne

29

katharine nicholson picture

7

katharine hepburn photo

29

isabelle katharine pic

7

hepburn katharine quote

24

hepburn katharine news

6

katharine

22

hepburn houghton katharine

6

biography katharine hepburn

21

katharine hepburn pic

6

death hepburn katharine

20

hepburn katharine lesbian

6

audrey hepburn hepburn katharine

19

death hepburns katharine

6

hepburn katharine spencer tracy

18

hepburn katharine nude

6

katharine kerr

15

isabelle katharine nude

5
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Misspellings: KATHARINE

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).

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Anagrams: KATHARINE

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: KATHARINE


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

4B 41 54 48 41 52 49 4E 45

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

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

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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)

01001011 01000001 01010100 01001000 01000001 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#65 &#84 &#72 &#65 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#69

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)

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

453554423552434839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Names: Derived from
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Derivations
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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