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Definition: Tudor |
TudorAdjective1. Of or relating to a style of architecture in England in the 15th century; "half-timbered Tudor houses"; "Tudor furniture". Noun1. An English dynasty descended from Owen Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603). 2. United States dancer and choreographer (born in England) (1909-1987). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Tudor" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the ruler of the people". |
Date "Tudor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references) |
| 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 |
TUDOR | English | Usability issue for people with special needs | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tudor."
Synonyms: TudorSynonyms: Antony Tudor (n), House of Tudor (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tudor |
| English words defined with "Tudor": Bosworth Field ♦ grey ♦ half-timber, half-timbered, Henry Tudor, Henry VII, House of Tudor ♦ Lady Jane Grey ♦ Ralph Vaughan Williams, Richard III ♦ Tudor architecture ♦ Vaughan Williams ♦ War of the Roses, Wars of the Roses. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Tudor": Florid Architecture. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tudor" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (Tudor), Hungarian (Tudor), Portuguese (tudor). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Marie Tudor (1966) Tudor (1962) A Tudor Princess (1913) Take Joy! The Magical World of Tasha Tudor (1996) Tudor King (1979) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Tudor Hall. Exterior of Tudor Hall. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Portrait of Anthony Tudor, in "Gala Performance". Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Minorities | Bulgaria | In July an unidentified assailant shot a Rom, Tudor Todorov, who was attempting to steal almonds from a private orchard; Todorov was taken to the hospital in critical condition. (references) |
Political Economy | Romania | Its presidential candidate and party leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor came in second to Ion Iliescu in the presidential run-off. (references) |
Political Rights | Romania | Allegations of widespread voting fraud by the losing PRM candidate, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, were not judged to be credible. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tudor" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.10% of the time. "Tudor" is used about 526 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) | 98.1% | 516 | 11,767 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.9% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 526 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Tudor" 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 |
| Tudor | Last name | 2,000 | 5,044 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Tudor" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the ruler of the people". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Tudor." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Theodoric | Male | Ancient Germanic | N/A |
| Diederik | Male | Dutch | Theodoric |
| Derek | Male | English | Theodoric |
| Terry | Male, Female | English | Theodoric |
| Thierry | Male | French | Theodoric |
| Diederick | Male | German | Theodoric |
| Dietrich | Male | German | Theodoric |
| Tudor | Male | Welsh | Theodoric |
| Tudur | Male | Welsh | Tudor |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Tudor plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Tudor": antony Tudor ♦ Henry Tudor ♦ house of Tudor ♦ Mary Tudor ♦ tudor arch ♦ Tudor architecture ♦ Tudor style. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Tudor": tudor-arch, Tudor-cum-georgian, tudor-effect, tudor-gothic, Tudor-hart, tudor-style, Tudor-walters. | |
Ending with "Tudor": Mock-tudor. | |
| 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 |
tudor | 246 | tudor england | 21 |
tudor watch | 149 | english tudor home | 20 |
tasha tudor | 99 | english tudor | 20 |
tudor house | 74 | submariner tudor | 20 |
mary tudor | 58 | house style tudor | 19 |
tudor home | 49 | tudor house plan | 18 |
tudor style home | 42 | history tudor | 17 |
rolex tudor | 32 | joel tudor surf board | 17 |
joel tudor | 31 | elizabeth tudor | 16 |
investment tudor | 28 | tudor floor plan | 16 |
tudor hotel | 27 | tudor hotel miami | 15 |
tudor mint | 27 | park school tudor | 15 |
style tudor | 27 | corporation investment tudor | 14 |
typing tudor | 26 | park tudor | 13 |
tudor rose | 26 | building tudor | 12 |
times tudor | 25 | tudor clothing | 11 |
paul tudor jones | 24 | ranger tudor | 11 |
tudor architecture | 22 | fisher house tudor | 10 |
city tudor | 21 | corp investment tudor | 10 |
tudor home plan | 21 | tudor costume | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Tudor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Tudor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | От Епохата На Тюдорите. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tudorboog (four-centred arch, Tudor arch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | arc Tudor (Tudor arch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Tudorbogen (four-centred arch, Tudor arch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ־כו ית ׁ'ור" ֳו ֳלתית. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Tudor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Tiudaragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | udortay tudor. (various references) Тюдоровский. (various references) tudorski. (various references) Tudor Krallarına Ait. (various references) Tudur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Tudor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tdor, Toujour, Tuborg, Tudur, Tuor, Tuzo, Usdor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Tudor" (pronounced 'Tu"dor'): ARDOR, Candor, Male-odor, malodor, Masticador, Nidor, Odor, Rodomontador, splendor, stridor. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-o-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: dour, duro, rout, tour, trod, turd. | |
-2 letters: dor, dot, duo, ort, oud, our, out, rod, rot, rut, tod, tor, udo, urd. | |
-3 letters: do, od, or, to, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-o-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: detour, drouth, redout, rotund, routed, stroud, toured, untrod. | |
+2 letters: auditor, courted, detours, dilutor, doubter, dourest, dropout, drought, drouths, drouthy, eductor, grouted, obtrude, orotund, outbred, outdare, outdoer, outdoor, outdrag, outdraw, outdrew, outdrop, outread, outride, outrode, outward, product, readout, redoubt, redouts, rotunda, rousted, strouds, torqued, trouped, tutored. | |
+3 letters: abductor, adductor, adjustor, adulator, aeroduct, auditors, auditory, authored, clotured, cornuted, detoured, deuteron, devouter, dextrous, dilutors, doubters, downturn, dropouts, droughts, droughty, ductwork, duration, educator, eductors, fortuned, inductor, laudator, obdurate, obtruded, obtruder, obtrudes, outboard, outbreed, outcried, outdared, outdares, outdoers, outdoors, outdrags, outdrank, outdrawn, outdraws, outdream, outdress, outdrink, outdrive, outdrops, outdrove, outdrunk, outfired, outheard, outraced, outraged, outrated, outraved, outreads, outrider, outrides, outrowed, outsider, outtrade, outwards, postdrug, postured, products, protrude, proudest, ragouted, readouts, redoubts, reductor, rerouted, roqueted, rotundas, rotundly, roundest, roundlet, sprouted, studwork, sudatory, taboured, tonsured, tortured, troubled, trounced, trudgeon, tuberoid, turndown, udometer, udometry, undertow, unrooted, unsorted, untoward, uprooted, utilidor. | |
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