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"SOPHIA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the wisdom". |
Date "SOPHIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Sophia (St.), at Constantinople, is not dedicated to a saint named Sophia, but to the "Logos," or Second Person of the Trinity, called Hagia Sophia (Sacred Wisdom). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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The city of Sofia, at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, has a population of 1,178,579 (2001), and is the capital of the Republic of Bulgaria in southeastern Europe.Sofia was originally a Thracian settlement. It was captured by Rome in AD 29 and was destroyed by the Huns in 447. The city was rebuilt by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I and renamed Triaditsa. Known as Sredets under the Bulgars, it was renamed Sofia in 1376. Sofia was taken by the Ottomans in 1382 and became the capital of the Turkish province of Rumelia. Sofia was taken by the Russians in 1878, and became the capital of an independent Bulgaria in 1879. During World War II the Russians captured Sofia and Bulgaria from the pro-German government.
There are 16 universities in the city, among which Sofia University, founded in 1889. It is the see of an Eastern Orthodox metropolitan and of a Roman Catholic bishop. Landmarks include the Church of St. George, the Church of St. Sofia, the Banya Bashi, and the Alexander Nevski Cathedral.
Manufactures include metal products, textiles, rubber and leather goods.
See also - List of cities in Bulgaria
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sofia."
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Sofia de Grecia y Hannover is Queen of Spain. She was born in Athens on November 2, 1938, as Sophia, the eldest child of the King of Greece, Paul I (1901-1964) and his queen, Frederika Luise Thyra Victoria Margarita Sophia Olga Cecilia Isabella Christa, Princess of Hanover, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1917-1975). Both her parents were descendants of Queen Victoria of Great Britain, and despite her country of birth, her family tree on both sides is almost exclusively German and Danish in origin, the Greek royal house being a cadet branch of the Danish royal family of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksberg.Princess Sophia spent her childhood in Egypt and South Africa during her family's exile during World War II, returning to Greece in 1946, finishing her education in Germany, and returning home to study pediatrics, music and archeology. She represented Greece in sailing at the 1960 Olympic Games.
On May 14, 1962 she married Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon of Spain, whom she met on a cruise of the Greek islands in 1954. In doing so, she relinquished all rights to the throne of Greece and converted to Roman Catholicism from Eastern Orthodox. The couple have three children: Infanta Elena on December 20, 1963, Infanta Cristina on June 13, 1965, and Prince Felipe on January 30, 1968.
Queen Sofia's mother died in 1975 in Madrid, of heart failure, after what a palace spokesman reported as "eyelid surgery," according to Queen Mother Frederika's obituary in The New York Times.
The queen of Spain is the executive president of the Queen Sofia Foundation, which in 1993 sent funds for relief in Bosnia, and is the honorary president of the Royal Board on Education and Care of Handicapped Persons, and the Foundation for Aid for Drug Addicts. She takes special interest in programs against drug addiction, traveling to conferences in both Spain and abroad. The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía is named after her.
She is a vegetarian, which is rather uncommon in Spain.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sofia of Spain."
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In Gnostic tradition, the term Sophia (Greek for "wisdom") has an esoteric meaning.Many Gnostics (especially the followers of Valentinius) taught that there was the One, the original, unknowable God (the Monad as it is called by Monoimus, or the first Aeon); and then from the One emanated other Aeons, pairs of lesser beings in sequence. (Valentinius listed 30 such pairs.) The Aeons together made up the Pleroma, or fulness, of God. The lowest of these pairs were Sophia and Christ.
Sophia's fears and anguish of losing her life, just as she lost the light of the One, caused confusion and longing to return to it. Because of these longings the matter (greek: hyle) and the soul (greek: psyke, ψυχή) accidentally came into existence through the four elements: fire, water, earth and air. The creation of the lion-faced Demiurge is also a mistake during this exile, according to some Gnostic sources as a result of Sophia trying to emanate on her own, without her male counterpart. The Demiurge proceeds to create the physical world in which we live, ignorant of Sophia, who nevertheless manage to infuse some spiritual spark into the creation of the Demiurge; that is the pneuma.
After this the savior (Christ) returns and lets her see the light again, bringing her knowledge of the spirit (greek: pneumia, πνεῦμα). Christ was then sent to earth on the form of the man Jesus to give men the gnosis needed to rescue themselves from the physical world and return to spiritual world.
The three sensations experienced by Sophia creates three types of humans: hylics (bond to the matter, the principle of evil), psychics (bond to the soul and partly saved from evil) and the pneumatics that can return to the plemora if they achieve gnosis and can behold the world of light. The gnostics regarded themselves as members of this group.
See also:
- The Sophia of Jesus Christ, gnostic tractate
- VALIS
- Hagia Sophia, Istanbul
- Sofia, Bulgaria
- Sophia, West Virginia
- Women named Sophia
- Sofia of Spain
- Sophia Baddeley
- Sophia Loren
- Sophia of Hanover
- Sophia of Nassau
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sophia."
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The Electress Sophia of Hanover was born Sophia, Pfalzgräfin von Simmern, at The Hague on October 14, 1630, and died at Herrenhausen on June 8, 1714. Daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine also known as King Frederick V of Bohemia and Elizabeth Stuart also known as Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia.
She married Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg at Heidelberg September 30, 1658. He became the Elector of Hanover in 1692. (Electors were princes who had the right to vote to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.)
As the daughter of Elizabeth Stuart, in turn the daughter of James I & VI of England and Scotland, she was inserted into the line of succession to the British throne behind Queen Anne, as her closest Protestant heir, by the Act of Settlement of 1701, for the purpose of cutting off any claim by the Catholic James Francis Edward Stuart, who would otherwise have become King James III.
Sophia would have inherited the throne if she had not died before Anne. Upon her death, Sophia's son Elector Georg Ludwig of Hanover became heir-presumptive, and weeks later succeeded Queen Anne as King George I of Great Britain.
The Act of Settlement restricts the throne to the "Protestant heirs" of Sophia of Hanover who have never been Catholic and who have never married a Catholic. The Royal Marriages Act of 1772 also provides that, with certain exceptions, they must apply for permission from the British monarch for any marriage they make. Presently there are almost 5000 descendants of Sophia although not all are in the line of succession. The Sophia Naturalization Act of 1705 granted the right of British citizenship to Sophia's non-Catholic descendants (though this has been modified by subsequent laws).
Before her marriage, Sophia, as the daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, was referred to as Sophie, Princess Palatine of the Rhine, or as Sophia of the Palatinate.
See also: British monarchy, UK topics
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sophia of Hanover."
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Sophia is a town located in Raleigh County, West Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,301.Geography
Sophia is located at 37°42'51" North, 81°15'2" West (37.714197, -81.250659)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.8 km² (0.7 mi²). 1.8 km² (0.7 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 1,301 people, 588 households, and 386 families residing in the town. The population density is 738.7/km² (1,902.5/mi²). There are 643 housing units at an average density of 365.1/km² (940.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 96.62% White, 1.15% African American, 0.31% Native American, 0.54% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.15% from other races, and 1.23% from two or more races. 0.61% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 588 households out of which 26.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.1% are married couples living together, 17.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 34.2% are non-families. 31.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 15.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.21 and the average family size is 2.75. In the town the population is spread out with 21.5% under the age of 18, 7.8% from 18 to 24, 27.8% from 25 to 44, 26.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 41 years. For every 100 females there are 82.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 76.3 males. The median income for a household in the town is $26,008, and the median income for a family is $31,200. Males have a median income of $30,875 versus $17,273 for females. The per capita income for the town is $15,296. 23.6% of the population and 22.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 41.9% are under the age of 18 and 15.1% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sophia, West Virginia."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SOPHIA | English | Water soluble conductive polymer homogeneous immunoassay | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: SOPHIA |
| English words defined with "SOPHIA": Byzantine style ♦ Flix weed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SOPHIA": Rinaldo ♦ Seven Wonders of the World. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "SOPHIA" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (wisdom). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hello Sophia, you're looking younger every day. (The Golden Girls; writing credit: Philip Broadley; Gabriel Castro) Oh, Sophia. (The Golden Girls; writing credit: Philip Broadley; Gabriel Castro) Sophia, why are you in such a bad mood (The Golden Girls; writing credit: Philip Broadley; Gabriel Castro) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sophia With Love (1967) Die Unheilige Sophia (1975) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Lady Dietrich (left) and Sophia Glenn (right), FAMU, Farm Management Specialist inspect the strawberries Dietrich grows as a U-Pick operation in Campbellton, FL. Credit: USDA. |  | Colored lithograph of an artwork by B. Russell, depicting CSS Shenandoah's assault on the U.S. whale ships in the Bering Sea area. Individual items shown are (from left to right): brig Susan Abigail (burning); ship Euphrates (burning--distant); CSS Shenandoah; ship Jerah Swift (burning--distant); ship William Thompson (burning--distant); ship Sophia Thornton (burning); whaleboat going to warn other whalers (very distant); ship Milo which carried the destroyed vessels' crews to San Francisco; ice in the distance. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Halftone reproduction of a pre-World War I photograph. Built in 1882 and initially named Sophia, then Empress, this yacht was lengthened in 1902 and renamed Onondaga, then Turbese and Reposo II. She was acquired by the Navy on 12 May 1917 and commissioned three days later as USS Reposo II (SP-198). Stricken from the Navy list on 16 December 1918, she was sold on 8 August 1919. Credit: NAVY. |  | Photographed in port, prior to World War I. Built in 1882 and initially named Sophia, then Empress, this yacht was lengthened in 1902 and renamed Onondaga, then Turbese and Reposo II. She was acquired by the Navy on 12 May 1917 and commissioned three days later as USS Reposo II (SP-198). Stricken from the Navy list on 16 December 1918, she was sold on 8 August 1919. Credit: NAVY. |
 | North and west walls of Archbishop's Court (Kremlin), with northwest tower (1671-75), and St. Sophia Cathedral belltower (1869-70), Vologda, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |  | Cathedral of St. Sophia (1568-70), interior, east view, Vologda, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
 | South panorama of Tobol'sk kremlin, with cupolas of Cathedral of St. Sophia and Dormition (1681-86); the Treasury ("Swedish Chambers") (1712); and the cathedral bell tower (1794-97), Tobol'sk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Hagia Sophia 1" by William J. Ray Commentary: "One of the oldest and largest Churches in the World." | "Sophia" by Uschi Hering Commentary: "Little friend with flower hat." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Ukraine | Other projects slated to open in 2001 (Intercontinental St. Sophia in Kyiv) and in 2002 (Radisson SAS in Kyiv and Odessa) now do not seem likely to do so. Mariott Hotels have projects in Kyiv at the inception stage. (references) |
Human Rights | Kenya | The inquest into the April 2000 killing of Sophia Nyaghthii Mbogo was ongoing at year's end. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SOPHIA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SOPHIA" is used about 328 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% | 328 | 15,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SOPHIA" 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 |
| Sophia | First name Female | 32,000 | 441 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "SOPHIA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the wisdom". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "SOPHIA." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Sofija | Female | Croatian | Sophia |
| Sophia | Female | English | N/A |
| Sophie | Female | English | Sophia |
| Sophie | Female | French | Sophia |
| Sophia | Female | German | N/A |
| Sophie | Female | German | Sophia |
| Sofia | Female | Greek | Sophia |
| Sophia | Female | Greek | N/A |
| Zsófia | Female | Hungarian | Sophia |
| Sofia | Female | Italian | Sophia |
| Sophia | Female | Italian | N/A |
| Tzofiya | Female | Jewish | Sophia |
| Sofia | Female | Norwegian | Sophia |
| Zofia | Female | Polish | Sophia |
| Sofiya | Female | Russian | Sophia |
| Sonya | Female | Russian | Sophia |
| Sofija | Female | Serbian | Sophia |
| Sofia | Female | Swedish | Sophia |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| France | Sophia SA | Japan | Sophia Systems Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Sophia, NC 2. Sophia, WV (town, FIPS 75172) |
Expressions using "SOPHIA": Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier ♦ saint sophia ♦ sisymbrium Sophia ♦ Sophia Loren ♦ st sophia. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SOPHIA": Sophia-loren. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
sophia loren | 961 | breyner de mello sophia | 22 |
sophia | 563 | boobsquad sophia | 22 |
sophia vergara | 362 | milos sophia | 21 |
sophia arden | 193 | myles sophia | 21 |
sophia loren nude | 120 | sophia crawford | 18 |
hagia sophia | 116 | sophia loren pic | 18 |
bush sophia | 91 | sophia sweet | 17 |
sophia latjuba | 59 | sophia west virginia | 17 |
choi sophia | 53 | kia sophia | 16 |
saint sophia | 47 | antipolis emploi sophia | 15 |
sophia loren picture | 36 | image loren sophia | 15 |
sophia lauren | 35 | sophia two woman | 15 |
sophia loren photo | 31 | nude sophia vergara | 14 |
sophia antipolis | 28 | adella hernandez sophia | 13 |
monroe sophia | 27 | sophia marceau | 13 |
sophia university | 26 | goddess sophia | 13 |
laura ashley sophia | 26 | evans sophia | 12 |
sophia loren naked | 25 | sophia nc | 12 |
pistis sophia | 22 | sophia vergera | 12 |
sophia ferrari | 22 | sophia george | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "SOPHIA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Greek | Σοφία (Sofia). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 上智 (supreme wisdom). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じょうち (castle moat, love foolery, permanent, standing, supreme wisdom). (various references) | |
Manx | Creeney (advisable, bush with little sap, common sense; dry, matured, provident, shrewd, wise). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ophiasay.(various references) | |
Russian | софия (sofia). (various references) | |
Scottish | Beathag (usually given as the equivalent of Sophia). (various references) | |
Spanish | sofía (Sofia). (various references) | |
Turkish | Sofya. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"SOPHIA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asophus, lophii, Lophura, Sahai, Sapha, Saphena, Sebhi, sephia, Serphidae, Sifuiva, Sodhi, Sofala, sofian, Sofya, sophie, sophy, Sphi. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: poisha. | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-o-p-s" | |
-1 letter: aphis, apish, ohias, opahs, psoai, spahi. | |
-2 letters: haps, hasp, hips, hops, ohia, opah, pash, phis, pias, pish, piso, pois, posh, ship, shop, soap, soph. | |
-3 letters: ais, ash, asp, hao, hap, has, hip, his, hop, ohs, ops, pah, pas, phi, pia, pis, poh, poi, psi, sap, sha, sip, sop, spa. | |
-4 letters: ah, ai, as, ha. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-i-o-p-s" | |
+1 letter: isopach, phobias. | |
+2 letters: alphosis, aphonias, aphonics, aphorise, aphorism, aphorist, basophil, esophagi, haploids, haplosis, hospital, hospitia, hypoxias, isograph, isopachs, morphias, picachos, scaphoid, shipload, siphonal, vaporish. | |
+3 letters: amphioxus, amphipods, antiphons, aphelions, aphorised, aphorises, aphorisms, aphorists, aphorizes, apophysis, atrophias, atrophies, basophile, basophils, champions, diaphones, dysphonia, dysphoria, euphorias, haplopias, hippocras, hospitals, hyponoias, hypotaxis, isographs, isophotal, oesophagi, ophidians, pachinkos, pachoulis, photopias, pistachio, poachiest, prophasic, rhapsodic, scaphoids, shipboard, shiploads, sociopath, thiotepas. | |
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