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"ROSALINE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a soft horse", "soft", "tender", "a beautiful rose". |
Date "ROSALINE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Rosaline (3 syl.). A negress of sparkling wit and great beauty, attending on the Princess of France, and loved by Lord Biron', a nobleman in the suite of Ferdinand, King of Navarre. (Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "ROSALINE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "ROSALINE" is used about 10 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) | 80% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ROSALINE" 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 |
| Rosaline | First name Female | 3,000 | 1,989 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "ROSALINE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a soft horse", "soft", "tender", "a beautiful rose". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "ROSALINE." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Rosaleen | Female | English | Rosalyn |
| Rosalin | Female | English | Rosalyn |
| Rosalind | Female | English | N/A |
| Rosaline | Female | English | Rosalyn |
| Rosalyn | Female | English | Rosalind |
| Rosalynne | Female | English | Rosalyn |
| Roselyn | Female | English | Rosalyn |
| Roslyn | Female | English | Rosalyn |
| Rosalina | Female | Portuguese | Rosalyn |
| Rosalina | Female | Spanish | Rosalyn |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rosaline sanchez | 21 |
rosaline | 19 |
romeo rosaline | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ROSALINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | Розалина (Rosalind). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ailerons, alienors. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: aileron, alienor, aliners, anisole, erasion, loaners, nailers, nerolis, reloans, renails. | |
-2 letters: aliens, aliner, alines, aloins, anoles, ariels, ariose, arisen, arseno, arsine, arsino, elains, eloins, enrols, eolian, insole, irones, lanose, larine, learns, lesion, lianes, linear, liners, loaner, loners, lorans, lories, nailer, neroli, nerols, norias, nosier, oilers, oleins, oriels, reason, reloan, renail, reoils, resail. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: acroleins, almonries, censorial, erosional, geraniols, normalise, orientals, regionals, relations, sensorial, serotinal, versional. | |
+2 letters: alienators, arecolines, bandoliers, blazonries, bromelains, corallines, cornelians, falconries, girandoles, impersonal, natrolites, neorealism, neorealist, neuroglias, nonpareils, normalcies, normalised, normalises, normalizes, piperonals, porcelains, prolamines, rationales, reflations, rosemaling, seignorial, senatorial. | |
+3 letters: alterations, antileprosy, arenicolous, ceremonials, chloramines, chlorinates, citronellas, complainers, cordialness, delineators, delusionary, desalinator, disrelation, dragonflies, eliminators, erosionally, fluorinates, grandiosely, insertional, intercostal, journalizes, lacerations, laureations, legionaries, liberations, linerboards, literations, lowercasing, meridionals, nalorphines, nefariously, neoliberals, neorealisms, neorealists, normalities, normalizers, orientalism, orientalist, oversalting, palindromes, personalise, personalism, personalist, personality, personalize, polyandries, pratincoles, previsional, rationalise, recessional, regionalism, regionalist, regulations, relaxations, relegations, relocations, revelations, reversional, rhizoplanes, rosemalings, salinometer, secondarily, sensorially, subregional, tolerations, tourmalines, trampolines, ulcerations, vainglories, ventilators, voluntaries. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage Frequency 3. Names: Frequency 4. Names: Derived from | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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