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AURELIA

Definition: AURELIA

AURELIA

Noun

1. A genus of jellyfishes. See Discophora.

2. The chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the butterflies.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"AURELIA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be golden", "gilded".

Date "AURELIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1677. (references)


Synonyms within Context: AURELIA

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Infant

Child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin,codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin; aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: AURELIA

English words defined with "AURELIA": AurelianSemaeostomata. (references)
Etymologies containing "AURELIA": Chrysalis. (references)

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Modern Usage: AURELIA

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Aurelia (1968)

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

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Commercial Usage: AURELIA

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Usage Frequency: AURELIA

"AURELIA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AURELIA" is used about 15 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%1590,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: AURELIA

The following table summarizes the usage of "AURELIA" 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
AureliaFirst name Female10,000898
AureliaLast name13058,680
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: AURELIA

"AURELIA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be golden", "gilded".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "AURELIA."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
OralMaleN/AAurelius
AureliaFemaleAncient RomanAurelius
AureliusMaleAncient RomanN/A
AurélieFemaleFrenchAurelius
AurèleMaleFrenchAurelius
AurelMaleGermanAurelius
OrelMaleGermanAurelius
ArankaFemaleHungarianAurelia
AureliaFemaleItalianAurelius
AurelioMaleItalianAurelius
AurelioMalePortugueseAurelius
AurelMaleRomanianAurelius
AureliaFemaleRomanianAurelius
AurelianoMaleSpanishAurelius
AurelioMaleSpanishAurelius
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Cities: AURELIA


1. Aurelia, IA (city, FIPS 3745)
Location: 42.71300 N, 95.43689 W
Population (1990): 1034 (450 housing units)
Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 51005
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AURELIA

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

aurelia

62

aurelia dobre

29

aurelia b20 lancia

28

aurelia iowa

23

aurelia aurita

11

aurelia saint

7

melia roma aurelia antica

5

antica aurelia hotel

4

lancia aurelia

4

aurelia ming

3

melia roma aurelia antica hotel

3

aurelia paramecium

3

aurelia b20 lancia part

2

aurelia residence san pietro

2

aurelia ss

2

aurelia cat

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

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Misspellings: AURELIA

Misspellings

"AURELIA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Areilza, Auaralion, Aurulius, Erleia, Euralair, Orelia, Orillia, Quelyia, Tufeila. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "AURELIA"

Words rhyming with "AURELIA" (pronounced 'Au*re"li*a'): Abdominalia, Acholia, Alalia, Antlia, Bacchanalia, Cerealia, Coelia, Dahlia, Generalia, Grindelia, Linguatulida, lobelia, Lupercalia, magnolia, Mammalia, Marginalia, melancholia, Nebalia, Neuroglia, Paraphernalia, Penetralia, Physalia, Prosocoelia, Pseudocoelia, Quinquennalia, replica, Rosalia, Saturnalia, stapelia. (additional references)

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Anagrams: AURELIA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-l-r-u"

-1 letter: aerial, laurae, realia.

-2 letters: areal, ariel, aurae, aural, aurei, laari, laura, uraei, ureal, urial.

-3 letters: alae, alar, area, aria, aril, aura, earl, ilea, lair, lari, lear, liar, lier, lieu, lira, lire, lure, raia, rail, rale, real, rial, riel, rile, rule, urea.

-4 letters: aal, ail, air, ala, ale, are, ear, eau, era, ire, lar, lea.

-5 letters: aa.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-l-r-u"
 

+2 letters: auriculae, estuarial, neuralgia, subaerial, tularemia.

 

+3 letters: acquirable, articulate, auriculate, equatorial, inarguable, laureating, laureation, naturalise, naturalize, neuralgias, retinacula, tularemias, unicameral, unilateral, unsalaried.

 

+4 letters: antinuclear, aquarellist, articulable, articulated, articulates, auxiliaries, cartularies, equiangular, equilateral, hibernacula, interannual, laureations, matriculate, naturalised, naturalises, naturalized, naturalizes, particulate, planetarium, quadrennial, ratatouille, revaluating, revaluation, seminatural, subaerially, triangulate, ultramarine, uniparental.

 

+5 letters: adulterating, adulteration, aeronautical, alphanumeric, amateurishly, ambulatories, angularities, antipleasure, appendicular, aquarellists, argillaceous, articulacies, articulately, articulative, attributable, capitularies, caterwauling, chartularies, circulatable, clairaudient, denaturalize, equalitarian, extramusical, harlequinade, immeasurable, immeasurably, inaccurately, inarticulate, laureateship, matriculated, matriculates, multilateral, multivariate, multiwarhead, particulates, planetariums, preinaugural, quadrennials, quadriplegia, quadrivalent, quarterfinal, ratatouilles, rearticulate, recapitulate, reevaluating, reevaluation, reputational, revaluations, salutariness, salutatories, summarizable, triangulated, triangulates, turbellarian, ultraheating, ultraliberal, ultramarines, ultrarealism, ultrarealist, uncalibrated, uncharitable, unicamerally, unilaterally, unrealizable, valetudinary, vocabularies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AURELIA


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

41 55 52 45 4C 49 41

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)

01000001 01010101 01010010 01000101 01001100 01001001 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#85 &#82 &#69 &#76 &#73 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0055 0052 0045 004C 0049 0041

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

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

35555239464335

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Names: Derived from
8. Cities
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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