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"ORSON" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a bear". |
Date "ORSON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Orson Twin brother of Valentine, and son of Bellisant, sister of King Pepin and wife of Alexander, Emperor of Constantinople. The twin brothers were born in a wood near Orleans, and Orson was carried off by a bear, which suckled him with her cubs. When he grew up he was the terror of France, and was called the Wild Man of the Forest. He was reclaimed by Valentine, overthrew the Green Knight, and married Fezon, the daughter of Duke Savary of Aquitaine. (French, ourson, a little bear.) (Valentine and Orson.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: ORSON |
| Specialty definitions using "ORSON": Bellisant, Blandiman, Brazen Head ♦ Clerimond ♦ Ferragus ♦ Pacolet, Pick Straws. (references) |
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Screenplays | Well, if it isn't Orson Welles, I can't be of any immediate help. (Remington Steele; writing credit: Neil Hardwick; Jussi Tuominen) Orson, come into the light. (RKO 281; writing credit: Richard Ben Cramer; Thomas Lennon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Portrait: Orson Welles (1968) Interview with Orson Welles (1960) Orson Welles and People (1956) Around the World with Orson Welles (1955) The Orson Welles Sketchbook (1955) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Brandy Station, Va. Lt. Col. Orson H. Hart, A.A.G. of 3d Corps, and horse. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait of Orson Welles. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Orson Squire Fowler | The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men. |
Orson Welles | My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. |
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| "ORSON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ORSON" is used about 38 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% | 38 | 55,818 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ORSON" 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 |
| Orson | Last name | 130 | 69,423 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "ORSON": George Orson Welles ♦ Orson Welles. 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 | |
"ORSON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dorson, Lorsont, Morson, Norsun, Oraon, Orcdom, Oresund, Orhon, Ormon, Ormston, oron, Oros, Orskov, Orso, Orsoni, Orston, Ortona, Ortony, Osun, Oursin, Owston, Porson, Rokon, Ropson, Rosow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "n-o-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: soon, sorn. | |
-2 letters: noo, nor, nos, ons, ors, son. | |
-3 letters: no, on, or, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-o-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: borons, croons, donors, honors, kroons, morons, nooser, orison, pornos, rondos, sooner. | |
+2 letters: broncos, condors, consort, cordons, coronas, crotons, dromons, drongos, enroots, erosion, gorgons, honours, indoors, maroons, morions, nitroso, nonpros, noosers, onerous, onshore, operons, orgones, orisons, protons, racoons, ratoons, romanos, ronions, ronyons, roosing, rosinol, snooker, snooper, snoozer, sojourn, sooners, soprano, sordino, sponsor, sunroof, sunroom, swooner, thorons, torsion, trogons, unmoors, unroofs, unroots. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 52 53 4F 4E |
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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)01001111 01010010 01010011 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O R S O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0052 0053 004F 004E |
| 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)4952534948 |
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