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Definitions: Vesper |
VesperNoun1. 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: VesperSynonym: evening star (n). (additional references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vesper, Wisconsin."
Crosswords: Vesper |
| English words defined with "Vesper": grass finch ♦ The evening star ♦ vesper 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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Movie/TV Titles | Vesper Boat Club (1900) | |
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![]() | 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. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
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. |
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| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Vesper | Last name | 200 | 30,945 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Vesper, WI (village, FIPS 82650) |
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. | |
| 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 |
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. | |
| 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 hora da igreja, entardecer (eventide, hessian). (various references) vecernie (evensong), searã (dark, dew-fall, dusk, eve, even, evening, eventide, night, twilight), luceafãrul de searã (evening star). (various references) вечерний звон (curfew, vesper bell, vesper-bell), вечер (dew-fall, eve, even, evening, eventide, night, party). (various references) večernje zvono (vesper bell). (various references) aftonstjärnan. (various references) venüs (evening star, Lucifer, Venus), akşam yıldızı, akşam (dark, dew-fall, eve, evening, eventide, night, vespertine). (various references) вечірня зоря (sunset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Vesper": vesperal, vesperals, vespers, vespertilian, vespertine. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Vesper" (pronounced ve"sper) |
| 3 | -s p er | asper, crisper, gasper, Jasper, prosper, whisper. |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 65 73 70 65 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- . ... .--. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100101 01110011 01110000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e s p e r |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)567185827184 |
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