NEVERS

Date "NEVERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

"NEVERS" is a common misspelling or typo for: nerves, never.

Specialty Definition: NEVERS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Nevers II Conte di Nevers, the husband of Valentina. Being asked by the Governor of the Lonvre to join in the massacre of the Protestants, he replied that his family contained a long list of warriors, but not one assassin. He was one of the Catholics who fell in the dreadful slaughter (Meyerbeer Gli Ugonotti, an opera.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Nevers

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Nevers is a commune of central France, the Préfecture (capital) of the Nièvre département, in the former province of Burgundy. Nevers is located 159 m. S.S.E. of Paris. Population: (1906) 23,561.

History

Noviodunum, the early name of Nevers was in later times altered to Nebirnum. The quantities of medals and other Roman antiquities found on the site indicate the importance of the place at the time when Caesar chose it as a military depot for corn, money and hostages. In 52 BC it was the first place seized by the revolting Aedui. It became the seat of a bishopric at the end of the 5th century. The countship dates at least from the beginning of the l0th century. The citizens of Nevers obtained charters in 1194 and in 1231. For a short time in the 14th century the town was the seat of a university, transferred from Orleans, to which it was restored.

Geography

Nevers is situated on the slope of a hill on the right bank of the Loire River at its confluence with the Nièvre River.

Highlights

Narrow winding streets lead from the quay through the town where there are numerous old houses of the 14th to the 17th centuries.

Among the ecclesiastical buildings the most important is the cathedral of St Cyr, which is a combination of two buildings, and possesses two apses. The apse and transept at the west end are the remains of a Romanesque church, while the nave and eastern apse are in the Gothic style and belong to the 14th century. There is no transept at the eastern end. The lateral portal on the south side belongs to the late 15th century; the massive and elaborately decorated tower which rises beside it to the early 16th century.

The church of St Etienne is a specimen of the Romanesque style of Auvergne of which the disposition of the apse with its three radiating chapels is characteristic. It was consecrated at the close of the nth century, and belonged to a priory affiliated to Cluny. The ducal palace at Nevers (now occupied by the courts of justice and an important ceramic museum) was built in the 15th and 16th centuries and is one of the principal feudal edifices in central France. The facade is flanked at each end by a turret and a round tower. A middle tower containing the great staircase has its windows adorned by sculptures relating to the history of the house of Cleves by the members of which the greater part of the palace was built.

In front of the palace lies a wide open space with a fine view over the valley of the Loire. The Porte du Croux, a square tower, with corner turrets, dating from the end of the 14th century, is among the remnants of the old fortifications; it now contains a collection of sculptures and Roman antiquities.

A triumphal arch of the 18th century, commemorating the victory of Fontenoy and the hotel de ville, a modern building which contains the library, are of some interest. The Loire is crossed by a modern stone bridge, and by an iron railway bridge.

Economy

Nevers is the seat of a bishopric, of tribunals of first instance and of commerce and of a court of assizes and has a chamber of commerce and a branch of the Bank of France. Its educational institutions include a lycee, a training college for female teachers, ecclesiastical seminaries and a school of art. The town manufactures porcelain, agricultural implements, chemical manures, glue, boilers and iron goods, boots and shoes and fur garments, and has distilleries, tanneries and dye-works. Its trade is in iron and steel, wood, wine, grain, live-stock, &c. Hydraulic lime, kaolin and clay for the manufacture of faience are worked in the vicinity.

Miscellaneous

Nevers was the birthplace of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763-1794), revolutionist

The Formula One circuit of Magny-Cours is located near Nevers.

Initial text from a 1911 encyclopedia. Please update as needed.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nevers."

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Crosswords: NEVERS

Specialty definitions using "NEVERS": Raul. (references)

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Commercial Usage: NEVERS

Domain	Title
Books	Etienne de Nevers, sieur de Brantigny, et quelques descendants-- (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: NEVERS

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	U.S. Army. Camp Hospital No. 28, Nevers, France. : Officers and Nurses Mess Hall. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		U.S. Army Evacuation Hospital No.24, Nevers, France : Exterior view- Red Cross Hut. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	[Chief Surgeon's office, Nevers, France]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Nevers, France, 1880 / Gilbert. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Cathedral, Bourges, France ; Person with broad-brimmed hat ; Church or cathedral and gateway, Nevers, France] / [by] CG. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: NEVERS

"NEVERS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 61.90% of the time. "NEVERS" is used about 21 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)	61.9%	13	97,576
Noun (plural)	23.81%	5	157,705
Lexical Verb (-s form)	14.29%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	21	N/A

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Name Usage Frequency: NEVERS

The following table summarizes the usage of "NEVERS" 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
Nevers	Last name	1,000	17,219
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Expression: NEVERS

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "NEVERS": Nevers-autun.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NEVERS

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
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ernie nevers	4
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mumba nevers	3
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2003 grand information nevers prix tourist	2
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industry nevers	2
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Anagrams: NEVERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: nerves.
	Words within the letters "e-e-n-r-s-v"
	-1 letter: ernes, evens, nerve, never, neves, serve, seven, sever, sneer, veers, verse.
	-2 letters: erne, erns, even, ever, eves, neve, rees, revs, seen, seer, sene, sere, veer, vees.
	-3 letters: ens, ere, ern, ers, eve, nee, ree, res, rev, see, sen, ser, vee.
	-4 letters: en, er, es, ne, re.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-n-r-s-v"
	+1 letter: enviers, eveners, inverse, veiners, venders, veneers, venires, venters, versine.
	+2 letters: avengers, conserve, converse, enfevers, engraves, enslaver, eversion, innerves, inverses, liveners, nerviest, nervines, nervules, nervures, overseen, oversewn, prevents, raveners, reinvest, reshaven, revenges, revenues, severing, sirvente, sniveler, universe, unnerves, unreeves, unserved, unversed, veneries, venomers, ventures, verbenas, verniers, vernixes, verseman, versemen, versines, veterans, vineries.
	+3 letters: anteverts, averments, cheverons, conserved, conserver, conserves, conveners, converges, conversed, converser, converses, conveyers, deserving, endeavors, enervates, engravers, enslavers, eversions, governess, graveness, inventers, inverness, inversely, inversive, invertase, inverters, knaveries, lavenders, levanters, maneuvers, nerveless, nerviness, ovenwares, overlends, overmines, overspend, overspent, overtness, overtones, overweens, parvenues, reconveys, reinvades, reinvents, reinvests, reinvites, reinvokes, renovates, replevins, reserving, resolvent, restriven, revanches, revenants, revengers, revenuers, reverends, reversing, reversion, revesting, scavenger, scrivener, severance, sirventes, snivelers, sovereign, supervene, taverners, universes, unreserve, unrevised, veneerers, venerates, venturers, vergences, vernacles, vernicles, vestrymen, virescent.
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