Vesper

  

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Vesper

Definitions: Vesper

Vesper

Noun

1. A planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky.

2. A late afternoon or evening worship service.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Vesper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)



Synonym: Vesper

Synonym: evening star (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Vesper, Wisconsin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Vesper is a village located in Wood County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 541.

Geography


Vesper is located at 44°28'52" North, 89°58'3" West (44.481016, -89.967423)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.9 km² (1.1 mi²). 2.9 km² (1.1 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 541 people, 234 households, and 153 families residing in the village. The population density is 186.5/km² (482.2/mi²). There are 243 housing units at an average density of 83.8/km² (216.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 98.71% White, 0.00% African American, 0.18% Native American, 0.18% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.18% from other races, and 0.74% from two or more races. 0.74% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 234 households out of which 29.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.6% are married couples living together, 10.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 34.2% are non-families. 30.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 14.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.31 and the average family size is 2.88. In the village the population is spread out with 25.0% under the age of 18, 6.8% from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 23.3% from 45 to 64, and 15.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 90.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 89.7 males. The median income for a household in the village is $38,750, and the median income for a family is $45,000. Males have a median income of $36,161 versus $20,833 for females. The per capita income for the village is $19,327. 7.2% of the population and 6.6% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 7.6% are under the age of 18 and 8.1% 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 "Vesper, Wisconsin."

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Crosswords: Vesper

English words defined with "Vesper": grass finchThe evening starvesper mouse, Vesper sparrow, Vesperal. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Vesper": 54489. (references)
Etymologies containing "Vesper": Vespertine. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Vesper" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (break, vespers), Latin (evening, evening star, West), Swedish (vespers).

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Modern Usage: Vesper

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Vesper Boat Club (1900)

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

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Commercial Usage: Vesper

DomainTitle

Books

  • Vesper Sparrows (reference)

  • Der Kampf um den Leser im Dritten Reich : die Literaturpolitik der "Neuen Literatur" (Will Vesper) und der "Nationalsozialistischen Monatshefte" (reference)

  • L'étoile vesper (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Vesper

Illustrations:
Vesper

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Photo Album: Vesper

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

M-117, 500-pound and 1000-pound bombs line the carrier's flight deck during Vietnam War combat operations in the South China Sea, 21 August 1966. Photographed by PHAA C.B. Vesper. Planes parked nearby include A-4, F-8 and A-1 types.Credit: NAVY.

Vesper service at the lake. Pocono Pines Assembly, Pocono Pines, Monroe County, Pa.Credit: Library of Congress.

Vesper Boat Club, Lowell, Mass.Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Familiar Quotations: Vesper

AuthorQuotation

Gaius Valerius Catullus

The evening is come; rise up, ye youths. Vesper from Olympus now at last is just raising his long-looked-for light.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Name Usage Frequency: Vesper

The following table summarizes the usage of "Vesper" 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
VesperLast name20030,945
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Vesper


1. Vesper, WI (village, FIPS 82650)
Location: 44.48106 N, 89.96729 W
Population (1990): 598 (219 housing units)
Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 54489
Country: USA

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Expressions: Vesper

Expressions using "Vesper": vesper bell vesper mouse vesper sparrow. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Vesper": vesper-ball.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vesper

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

vesper

49

vesper country club

11

camp point vesper

9

vesper wi

7

vesper sparrow

5

scooter vesper

5

club vesper

5

boat club vesper

5

corporation vesper

4

vesper wisconsin

3

point vesper

2

club philadelphia vesper

2

corp vesper

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vesper

Language Translations for "Vesper"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ylli i mbrëmjes (hesperus), mbrëmjesore (vespers), mbrëmje (dew-fall, even, evening, eventide, get together, night, soiree). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

камбанен звън за вечерня (vesper bell), вечер (eve, even, evening, evenings, eventide, night, nightfall), венера, звезда вечерница. (various references)

   

Czech

  

veèernice (hesperus). (various references)

   

French

  

pinson vespéral (vesper sparrow). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

έσπεροσ (hesperus), εσπέρα (evening), εσπερινόσ (even song, evening prayer, evensong, vespers, vespertine). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

esthajnalcsillag (folding star, hesperus), este (eve, evening, in the evening, night, sundown), est (evening). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kebaktian (loyality, religious service). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sera (even, evening, eventide, night). (various references)

   

Manx

  

fastyr (afternoon, evening, from noon to darkness, postmeridian). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

espervay

   

Portuguese

  

hora da igreja, entardecer (eventide, hessian). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

vecernie (evensong), searã (dark, dew-fall, dusk, eve, even, evening, eventide, night, twilight), luceafãrul de searã (evening star). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

вечерний звон (curfew, vesper bell, vesper-bell), вечер (dew-fall, eve, even, evening, eventide, night, party). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

večernje zvono (vesper bell). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

aftonstjärnan. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

venüs (evening star, Lucifer, Venus), akşam yıldızı, akşam (dark, dew-fall, eve, evening, eventide, night, vespertine). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

вечірня зоря (sunset). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Vesper

Derivations

Words beginning with "Vesper": vesperal, vesperals, vespers, vespertilian, vespertine. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Vesper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desper, esper, Hesper, verper, Verster, vesp, Vespa, Vespan, Vespas, vester. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Vesper"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "Vesper" (pronounced ve"sper)
3-s p erasper, crisper, gasper, Jasper, prosper, whisper.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Vesper

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-p-r-s-v"

-1 letter: peers, perse, prees, prese, serve, sever, speer, spree, veeps, veers, verse.

-2 letters: ever, eves, peer, pees, pree, rees, reps, revs, seep, seer, sere, veep, veer, vees.

-3 letters: ere, ers, eve, pee, per, pes, ree, rep, res, rev, see, ser, vee.

-4 letters: er, es, pe, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-p-r-s-v"
 

+1 letter: previse, prevues, repaves, vespers.

 

+2 letters: depraves, deprives, overstep, pervades, perverse, perverts, preavers, prelives, preserve, prevents, previews, prevised, previses, reproves, vesperal.

 

+3 letters: depravers, deprivers, eavesdrop, eruptives, overheaps, overhopes, overhypes, overleaps, overplies, oversleep, overslept, overspend, overspent, oversteps, parvenues, perceives, persevere, pervaders, pervasive, poverties, prelusive, preserved, preserver, preserves, pulverise, replevies, replevins, reprieves, reprovers, repulsive, revampers, sleepover, supervene, supervise, superwave, upheavers, vesperals.

 

+4 letters: depressive, developers, dispersive, eavesdrops, evaporates, evaporites, expressive, grapevines, impressive, operatives, oppressive, overexpose, overpassed, overpasses, overpedals, overpluses, overpowers, overpraise, overprices, overprizes, oversimple, oversleeps, overspends, overspread, oversupped, paloverdes, perceivers, percussive, permissive, perovskite, persevered, perseveres, persuasive, perversely, perversion, perversity, perversive, perverters, preclusive, preharvest, preservers, preservice, preserving, prevalents, preventers, previewers, privateers, privileges, protensive, provenders, pulverised, pulverises, pulverizes, reapproves, redevelops, repressive, reprievals, resorptive, respective, responsive, separative, sleepovers, superheavy, supernovae, supervened, supervenes, supervised, supervises, superwaves, superwives, vespertine, vespiaries, viewership.

 

+5 letters: apperceives, compressive, depravities, depressives, descriptive, herpesvirus, imperatives, misperceive, overexpands, overexposed, overexposes, overimpress, overpeoples, overpraised, overpraises, overprecise, overprocess, overpromise, overreports, overrespond, overslipped, overspender, overspreads, overstepped, papaverines, pejoratives, perfectives, perovskites, persecutive, perseverate, persevering, personative, perspective, pervasively, perversions, preapproves, preharvests, prelusively, prepositive, preservable, presumptive, prevalences, preventions, preventives, previsioned, privateness, progressive, prospective, provenances, providences, pulverizers, purveyances, repulsively, semiprivate, sempervivum, superlative, supervening, supervirile, suppressive, viewerships, vituperates.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Vesper


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

56 65 73 70 65 72

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)

...-    .    ...    .--.    .    .-.

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

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100101 01110011 01110000 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#101 &#115 &#112 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0065 0073 0070 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

567185827184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Names: Frequency
10. Cities
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Derivations
15. Rhymes
16. Anagrams
17. Orthography
18. Bibliography


  

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