Ricardo

  

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Ricardo

Definition: Ricardo

Ricardo

Noun

1. 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)


Specialty Definitions: Ricardo

DomainDefinitions

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.

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

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Synonym: Ricardo

Synonym: David Ricardo (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ricardo

English words defined with "Ricardo": David Ricardo. (references)

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Modern Usage: Ricardo

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Ricardo

DomainTitle

References

  • Ricardo Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • De Caro Quintero a Ricardo Alem (reference)

  • Nominations of Ricardo Martinez to be NHTSA administrator, Carrye Burley Brown to be administrator, U.S. Fire Administration, and T.R. Lakshmanan to be Director, Bureau of Transportation Statistics : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and (reference)

  • Literatura hispâanica e hispanoamericana : tres autores revalorados, Ricardo Palma, Juliâan del Casal y Jacinto Benavente (reference)

  • The black sun de Ricardo Mora (reference)

  • Zwischen Utopie und Aporie : die erzèahlerische Ermittlung der Identitèat in argentinischen Romanen der Gegenwart : Juan Martini, Tomâas Eloy Martâinez, Ricardo Piglia, Abel Posse und Rodolfo Rabanal (reference)

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Music

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Photo Album: Ricardo

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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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Use in Literature: Ricardo

TitleAuthorQuote

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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Non-Fiction Usage: Ricardo

SubjectTopicQuote

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Ricardo

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)95.35%8236,594
Noun (singular)4.65%4175,879
                    Total100.00%86N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Ricardo

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
RicardoFirst name Male93,000191
RicardoLast name1,00013,666
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Ricardo

"Ricardo" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a brave power".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Ricardo."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
RichelleFemaleN/ARichard
RichardMaleCzechN/A
DickMaleEnglishRichard
RichMaleEnglishRichard
RichardMaleEnglishN/A
RichardineFemaleEnglishRichard
RichendraFemaleEnglishRichard
RichieMaleEnglishRichard
RichmalFemaleEnglishRichard
RickMaleEnglishRichard
RickeyMaleEnglishRichard
RickieMaleEnglishRichard
RickyMaleEnglishRichard
RikMaleEnglishRichard
RikardMaleFinnishRichard
RikhardMaleFinnishRichard
RikuMaleFinnishRichard
RichardMaleFrenchN/A
RicardaFemaleGermanRichard
RichardMaleGermanN/A
RichárdMaleHungarianRichard
RikárdMaleHungarianRichard
RisteárdMaleIrishRichard
RiccardaFemaleItalianRichard
RiccardoMaleItalianRichard
RicoMaleItalianRicardo
RyszardMalePolishRichard
RicardoMalePortugueseRichard
RikardMaleScandinavianRichard
RicardaFemaleSpanishRichard
RicardoMaleSpanishRichard
RicoMaleSpanishRicardo
RhisiartMaleWelshRichard
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Ricardo

CountryName
United Kingdom

Ricardo Plc

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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Ricardo

Expression using "Ricardo": David Ricardo. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Ricardo": Ricardo-campbell.

Ending with "Ricardo": Bortoni-ricardo.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ricardo

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
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  ricardo arjona

1,889

  boy closet loubriel loubriel melanie ricardo

29

  ricardo montaner

496

  jane ricardo stewart

28

  ricardo

195

  quaresma ricardo

27

  ricardo luggage

105

  arjona fotos ricardo

27

  david ricardo

99

  ricardo bofill

26

  ricardo montalban

94

  ricky ricardo

24

  arjona lyrics ricardo

94

  cavallo miguel ricardo

24

  alamo ricardo

88

  lucy ricardo

24

  ricardo of beverly hills

64

  2c ricardo

23

  arjona mp3 ricardo

56

  ricardo rodriguez

22

  ricardo palma

46

  ricardo lagos

20

  ricardo mayorga

45

  canciones montaner ricardo

19

  arjona letras ricardo

43

  arjona ricardo tab

19

  ricardo legorreta

37

  montaner mp3 ricardo

18

  lyrics montaner ricardo

36

  arjona de letras ricardo

18

  miro ricardo

34

  arjona canciones de ricardo

17

  arjona el problema ricardo

31

  arjona de fotos ricardo

17

  palma ricardo universidad

31

  ricardo castillon

16

  ricardo beverly hills luggage

30

  arjona música ricardo

16

  arjona bajar de musica ricardo

30

  cassiano ricardo

16
  

arjona canciones de de letras ricardo

16
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Misspellings: Ricardo

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).

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Anagrams: Ricardo

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ricardo


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

52 69 63 61 72 64 6F

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Bibliographic Items: "Ricardo"


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