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Definition: Ricardo |
RicardoNoun1. English economist who argued that the laws of supply and demand should operate in a free market (1772-1823). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Ricardo" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a brave power". |
Date "Ricardo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
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Literature | Ricardo in the opera of I Puritani, is Sir Richard Forth, a Puritan, commander of Plymouth fortress. Lord Walton promised to give him his daughter Elvira in marriage, but Elvira had engaged her affections to Lord Arthur Talbot, a Cavalier, to whom ultimately she was married. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: RicardoSynonym: David Ricardo (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ricardo |
| English words defined with "Ricardo": David Ricardo. (references) |
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Screenplays | Lucy Ricardo caused less havoc when she was smuggling cheese back from Europe! (Passions; writing credit: Jean Chapot; Nelly Kaplan) I'm here to see my brother, Carlo Ricardo. (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut) In Cuba, Ricky Ricardo would've been Ricardo Ricardo. (Sports Night; writing credit: Tom Brady; Kevin Falls) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ricardo (1968) O Jovem Dr. Ricardo (1958) Pas de grisbi pour Ricardo (1957) Don Ricardo Returns (1946) The Loves of Ricardo (1926) | |
Song Titles | It Wasn't Me (performing artist: Ricardo "Rikrok" Ducent) | |
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![]() | Crowds surge around President-elect General Obregon entering Mexico City in a truck with Ricardo Topete on his right and Generals Manzo and Cruz on his left.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | D. Ricardo / engraved by W. Holl.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Ricardo, New Mexico. Engineer in his cab about to start the train along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Duors, New Mexico. Passing a water train along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico. The railroad has no well water between Vaughn and Ricardo, New Mexico. This train delivers thirty cars of water daily at stat.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | West bound Santa Fe R.R. freight train waiting in a siding to meet an east bound train, Ricardo, N[ew] Mex[ico].Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Bessie Ricardo dancing.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Mrs. Isabella Salazar at Casa Ricardo Hotel, Kingsville, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Rosendo Arce at Casa Ricardo Hotel, Kingsville, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Por la construccion del socialismo : ahora la universidad! : Eduardo Novoa, rector, Ricardo Lagos, sec. gral. ...Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably. |
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Civil Liberties | Cuba | The owner of the library, Ricardo Gonzalez, was detained early in the morning and released that evening. (references) |
Cuba | In April the police placed RSF correspondent Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso under house arrest after his former wife filed a complaint alleging that he had threatened her. (references) | |
Cuba | In February Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso, a correspondent for RSF, was detained for 4 hours and interrogated about interviews that he gave to a Miami-based radio station. (references) | |
Economic History | Argentina | Less than satisfactory fiscal results and the failure to achieve growth led to a shake-up of the economic team in March 2001. Respected economist Ricardo Lopez Murphy replaced Jose Luis Machinea as Minister of Economy. (references) |
Panama | On December 27, 1989, Panama's Electoral Tribunal invalidated the Norieiga regime's annulment of the May 1989 election and confirmed the victory of opposition candidates under the leadership of President Guillermo Endara and Vice Presidents Guillermo Ford and Ricardo Arias Calderon. (references) | |
Chile | A presidential election was held on a December 12, 1999, but none of the six candidates obtained a majority, which led to an unprecedented runoff election on January 16, 2000. Ricardo Lagos Escobar of the Socialist Party and the Party for Democracy led the Concertacion coalition to a narrow victory, with 51.32% of the votes. (references) | |
Human Rights | Belize | In 1999 two Guatemalan men, Hector Balcarcel and Ricardo Guzman, were detained at the Guatemala-Belize border. (references) |
Panama | In June Ricardo Julio Vargas, adjunct Ombudsman, unexpectedly visited La Joyita and reported witnessing human rights violations. (references) | |
Colombia | Paramilitary Ricardo Lopez Lora was sentenced to 16 years in the La Ceja killings, another paramilitary is being tried in absentia, and a third has been absolved. (references) | |
Political Economy | Chile | In January 2000, voters elected Ricardo Lagos of the Socialist Party as president in a free and fair runoff election. (references) |
CHILE | The government of President Ricardo Lagos, which assumed power in March 2000, has maintained Chile's longstanding commitment to a disciplined fiscal policy. (references) | |
Chile | President Ricardo Lagos took office in March 2000 and met with President Bush in Washington in April 2001 shortly before the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, Canada. (references) | |
Political Rights | Honduras | After a major political conflict during the 2000 primaries in which the Liberals challenged the National Party presidential contender Ricardo Maduro for not being a "Honduran by birth," the Congress interpreted constitutional provisions on citizenship by birth, which allowed Maduro's candidacy. (references) |
Worker Rights | Colombia | In April Ricardo Orozco, vice president of the Hospital Workers Union was shot and killed near Barranquilla. (references) |
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| "Ricardo" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.35% of the time. "Ricardo" is used about 86 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) | 95.35% | 82 | 36,594 |
| Noun (singular) | 4.65% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 86 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Ricardo" 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 |
| Ricardo | First name Male | 93,000 | 191 |
| Ricardo | Last name | 1,000 | 13,666 |
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| "Ricardo" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a brave power". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Ricardo." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Richelle | Female | N/A | Richard |
| Richard | Male | Czech | N/A |
| Dick | Male | English | Richard |
| Rich | Male | English | Richard |
| Richard | Male | English | N/A |
| Richardine | Female | English | Richard |
| Richendra | Female | English | Richard |
| Richie | Male | English | Richard |
| Richmal | Female | English | Richard |
| Rick | Male | English | Richard |
| Rickey | Male | English | Richard |
| Rickie | Male | English | Richard |
| Ricky | Male | English | Richard |
| Rik | Male | English | Richard |
| Rikard | Male | Finnish | Richard |
| Rikhard | Male | Finnish | Richard |
| Riku | Male | Finnish | Richard |
| Richard | Male | French | N/A |
| Ricarda | Female | German | Richard |
| Richard | Male | German | N/A |
| Richárd | Male | Hungarian | Richard |
| Rikárd | Male | Hungarian | Richard |
| Risteárd | Male | Irish | Richard |
| Riccarda | Female | Italian | Richard |
| Riccardo | Male | Italian | Richard |
| Rico | Male | Italian | Ricardo |
| Ryszard | Male | Polish | Richard |
| Ricardo | Male | Portuguese | Richard |
| Rikard | Male | Scandinavian | Richard |
| Ricarda | Female | Spanish | Richard |
| Ricardo | Male | Spanish | Richard |
| Rico | Male | Spanish | Ricardo |
| Rhisiart | Male | Welsh | Richard |
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| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Ricardo Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "Ricardo": David Ricardo. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Ricardo": Ricardo-campbell. | |
Ending with "Ricardo": Bortoni-ricardo. | |
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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. |
Misspellings | |
"Ricardo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fiscardo, Fiskardo, Picarda, Ricaldoni, Ricards, ricardum, Ricciarda, Ricciardi, ricordo, Rikaard, Riscada. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: corrida. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-o-r-r" | |
-2 letters: acrid, ardor, aroid, caird, coria, daric, radio. | |
-3 letters: acid, arco, arid, cadi, caid, card, carr, ciao, coda, coir, cord, dorr, odic, orad, orca, orra, raid, road, roar. | |
-4 letters: ado, aid, air, arc, cad, car, cod, cor, doc, dor, oar, oca, ora, orc, rad, ria, rid, roc, rod. | |
-5 letters: ad, ai, ar, do, id, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: corridas. | |
+2 letters: barricado, coriander, corrading. | |
+3 letters: cardiogram, cordillera, cordwainer, corianders, corrigenda, eradicator, madreporic, microfarad, orchardist. | |
+4 letters: barricadoed, barricadoes, cardiograms, cardiograph, charbroiled, comraderies, coordinator, cordilleran, cordilleras, cordwainers, cordwainery, counterraid, depreciator, dimercaprol, dipterocarp, directorate, directorial, discourager, doctrinaire, eradicators, harpsichord, microfarads, microreader, orchardists, predicatory, radiocarbon, radiometric, radiotracer, recordation, varicolored. | |
+5 letters: achlorhydria, achlorhydric, androcentric, barricadoing, cardiographs, cardiography, contradictor, coordinators, counterraids, decarbonizer, decorticator, democratizer, depreciators, depreciatory, dimercaprols, dipterocarps, directorates, discographer, discouragers, doctrinaires, ferrocyanide, harpsichords, hydrographic, incorporated, micrographed, microreaders, overdramatic, perichondral, perichondria, radiocarbons, radiographic, radiotracers, reciprocated, recordations, redecorating, redecoration. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 69 63 61 72 64 6F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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