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Definition: Nehru |
NehruNoun1. Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule; was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of India from 1947 to 1964 (1889-1964). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: NehruSynonym: Jawaharlal Nehru (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Nehru |
| English words defined with "Nehru": Gandhi ♦ Indira Gandhi, Indira Nehru Gandhi ♦ Jawaharlal Nehru ♦ Mrs. Gandhi. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Interview with Jawaharlal Nehru (1958) Nehru (1985) Jawaharlal Nehru (1982) | |
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Economic History | India | On August 15, 1947, India became a dominion within the Commonwealth, with Jawaharlal Nehru as Prime Minister. (references) |
India | Prime Minister Nehru governed the nation until his death in 1964. He was succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri, who also died in office. (references) | |
India | After independence, the Congress Party, the party of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, ruled India under the influence first of Nehru and then his daughter and grandson, with the exception of two brief periods in the 1970s and 1980s. (references) | |
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| "Nehru" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nehru" is used about 98 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) | 100% | 98 | 33,072 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Nehru": Indira Nehru Gandhi ♦ Jawaharlal Nehru. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Nehru": nehru-gandhi. | |
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| 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 |
nehru | 57 |
jawaharlal nehru | 50 |
nehru jacket | 40 |
nehru suit | 14 |
collar nehru | 9 |
4000 nehru | 5 |
institute mountaineering nehru | 4 |
gandhi nehru | 4 |
nehru coat | 4 |
nehru shirt | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Nehru"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 尼赫魯 . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ehrunay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Nehru" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jehu, Nalrwu, Neeraum, Negru, Nehari, neru, Netherud, Nevruz, Neyra, Nihira, Noehr, Nohr, Nohra. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: hern, rune. | |
-2 letters: ern, hen, her, hue, hun, rue, run, urn. | |
-3 letters: eh, en, er, he, ne, nu, re, uh, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: hunger, hunker, hunter, rehung. | |
+2 letters: burthen, chunter, churned, churner, haunter, hounder, humaner, hundred, hungers, hunkers, hunkier, hunters, inhumer, luncher, luthern, muncher, puncher, rhenium, roughen, shunner, shunter, thunder, unearth, unheard, unhired, unhorse, urethan. | |
+3 letters: brunched, brunches, bunchier, burthens, chaunter, chunkier, chunters, churners, crunched, cruncher, crunches, earthnut, enshroud, euchring, harangue, haunters, hereunto, hereupon, honoured, honourer, hounders, hundreds, hungered, hungover, hungrier, hunkered, huntress, inhauler, inhumers, inrushes, launcher, lunchers, lutherns, munchers, murrhine, onrushes, overhung, overhunt, prehuman, prelunch, prepunch, punchers, punchier, punisher, quencher, raunches, relaunch, rheniums, roughens, ruthenic, shrunken, shunners, shunters, southern, thunders, thundery, unbreech, uncharge, unearths, unhaired, unharmed, unheroic, unholier, unhorsed, unhorses, unkosher, unrhymed, unrushed, unshared, unsphere, untether, unthread, unthrone, urethane, urethans, ushering. | |
+4 letters: buhrstone, burnished, burnisher, burnishes, burthened, chaunters, chondrule, chuntered, churchmen, cranreuch, craunched, craunches, crunchers, crunchier, deerhound, earthnuts, enshrouds, eutherian, foxhunter, furnished, furnisher, furnishes, greyhound, harangued, haranguer, harangues, harlequin, heartburn, herculean, hereunder, honourers, horehound, humanizer, humdinger, hundredth, hungering, hungriest, hunkering, hurricane, husbander, inhaulers, launchers, naughtier, neighbour, nonhunter, nourished, nourisher, nourishes, overhunts, paunchier, pothunter, prehumans, prelaunch, preshrunk, punishers, quenchers, raunchier, refurnish, rehousing, rhamnuses, roughened, roughhewn, roughneck, roughness, ruthenium, schnauzer, scrunched, scrunches, shunpiker, southerns, stauncher, sunbather, superthin, thereunto, thereupon, thundered, thunderer, truncheon, unbrushed, uncharged, uncharges, uncharted, underhand, undershot, unearthed, unearthly, unhandier, unhappier, unharness, unhonored, unhurried, unreached, unsphered, unspheres, untethers, unthreads, unthroned, unthrones, unwreathe, urethanes, whereunto, whereupon, wuthering. | |
+5 letters: antihunter, bounderish, buhrstones, bunchberry, burnishers, burthening, bushranger, butchering, chequering, chirurgeon, chondrules, chuntering, cornhusker, cowpuncher, cranreuchs, crunchable, crunchiest, deerhounds, dunderhead, earthbound, enshrouded, euphoriant, euryhaline, eutherians, flugelhorn, fourteenth, foxhunters, furnishers, furthering, greenhouse, greyhounds, gunfighter, haranguers, harlequins, hausfrauen, headhunter, heartburns, honourable, horehounds, horrendous, housefront, housetrain, humanizers, humdingers, hundredths, hungriness, huntresses, hurricanes, husbanders, keypuncher, languisher, leprechaun, murthering, neighbours, nephridium, neurohumor, neuropathy, neutrophil, nonhunters, nourishers, outhearing, overhunted, pothunters, prepunched, prepunches, raunchiest, rehumanize, relaunched, relaunches, relinquish, retouching, roughening, roughnecks, roundhouse, rutheniums, schnauzers, shotgunner, shuddering, shunpikers, shuttering, southerner, subtrahend, sunbathers, sunporches, superhuman, thereunder, thunderers, thundering, thunderous, truncheons, unanchored, unbranched, unbreeched, unbreeches, unchurched, unchurches, underbrush, underneath, undershirt, undershoot, undershrub, underwhelm, unearthing, unenriched, unfathered, unhampered, unheralded, unhindered, unravished, unsphering, untethered, unthreaded, untogether, unworthier, unworthies, unwreathed, unwreathes, upreaching, vanquisher, vouchering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 68 72 75 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . .... .-. ..- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01101000 01110010 01110101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e h r u |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0068 0072 0075 |
| 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)4871748487 |
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