PERCEVAL

  

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PERCEVAL

"PERCEVAL" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "pierce the valley".

Date "PERCEVAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)


Specialty Definition: PERCEVAL

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Literature

Perceval (Sir), of Wales. A knight of the Round Table, son of Sir Pellinore, and brother of Sir Lamerock. He went in quest of the St. Graal (q.v.). Chrétien de Troyes wrote the Roman de Perceval. (1541-1596.) Mebessier wrote the same in verse. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: PERCEVAL

Specialty definitions using "PERCEVAL": Fraserian GroupPerceforest. (references)

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Modern Usage: PERCEVAL

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Movie/TV Titles

Perceval ou Le conte du Graal (1965)

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

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Usage Frequency: PERCEVAL

"PERCEVAL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PERCEVAL" is used about 12 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)100%12101,599

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

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Derived & Related Names: PERCEVAL

"PERCEVAL" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "pierce the valley".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "PERCEVAL."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
PerceMaleEnglishPercival
PercivalMaleEnglishN/A
PercyMaleEnglishPercival
PercevalMaleFrenchPercival
ParsifalMaleGermanPercival
PercivalMaleWelsh MythologyN/A
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PERCEVAL

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

perceval press

26

perceval

16

john perceval

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: PERCEVAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-p-r-v"

-1 letter: cleaver, percale, replace.

-2 letters: carpel, carvel, cereal, claver, cleave, clever, laveer, leaper, leaver, parcel, pareve, placer, relace, repave, repeal, reveal, vealer.

-3 letters: calve, caper, carle, carve, caver, clave, clear, clepe, crape, crave, creel, creep, crepe, elver, lacer, laree, laver, leave, leper, lever, pacer, paler, parle, parve, paver, peace, pearl, perea, place, ravel, reave.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-p-r-v"
 

+2 letters: everyplace, prevalence.

 

+3 letters: perceivable, perceivably, prevalences, replicative.

 

+4 letters: perspectival.

 

+5 letters: convertaplane, convertiplane, cooperatively, imperceivable, overspeculate, predicatively, reduplicative.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PERCEVAL


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

50 45 52 43 45 56 41 4C

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)

01010000 01000101 01010010 01000011 01000101 01010110 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#82 &#67 &#69 &#86 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 0052 0043 0045 0056 0041 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

5039523739563546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Derived from
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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