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"AVILA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a bird". |
Date "AVILA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (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 |
| AVI | English | Ciego de Avila | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: AVILA |
| English words defined with "AVILA": Priscillianist. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "AVILA": Mercador Amante. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Avila y América (1929) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Avila. Vista general de Avila / J. Laurent. Madrid. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Avila Ward. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Outside of an Old Tower" by Alejandro González G. Commentary: "Outside part of an old tower set, at Avila, Spain." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
St. Teresa of Avila | Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself. |
| To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that. | |
| To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. | |
| We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | His father and brother, who are not members of the opposition, were forced into a car and released on the outskirts of the town of Ciego de Avila. (references) |
Human Rights | Cuba | Valdivia is a member of the FCDH in the province of Ciego de Avila. (references) |
Cuba | On April 23, Damaso Aquino del Pino died in the Canaleta prison in Ciego de Avila. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "AVILA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AVILA" is used about 31 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% | 31 | 62,296 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "AVILA" 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 |
| Avila | Last name | 19,000 | 609 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "AVILA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a bird". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "AVILA." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Aveline | Female | English | Avila |
| Avice | Female | English | Avis |
| Avila | Female | English | Avis |
| Avis | Female | English | N/A |
| Evelyn | Female, Male | English | Avila |
| 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. |
Misspellings | |
"AVILA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abileah, Abiola, Afilaka, Ahilya, Aila, Arvika, Avala, Avalan, Avele, Avilez, avili, Aviram, Avrili, Havilah, Mavala, Pavlita, Vaila. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: avail. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-v" | |
-1 letter: lava, vail, vial. | |
-2 letters: aal, ail, ala, ava, lav, via. | |
-3 letters: aa, ai, al, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-v" | |
+1 letter: avails, gavial, saliva, salvia. | |
+2 letters: alluvia, arrival, availed, datival, gavials, ovarial, pahlavi, reavail, salivas, salvias, travail, vaginal, valiant, valonia, vanilla, variola, vatical, vedalia, velaria. | |
+3 letters: ablative, aestival, alluvial, archival, arrivals, availing, aventail, avicular, calvaria, carnival, cavalier, galivant, galvanic, javelina, lavalier, lavalike, lavation, laxative, malvasia, pahlavis, reavails, salivary, salivate, travails, vaccinal, valencia, valerian, valiance, valiancy, valiants, validate, valonias, vandalic, vanillas, variable, variably, varietal, variolar, variolas, vedalias, velamina, viatical, vicarial. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 56 49 4C 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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).- ...- .. .-.. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01010110 01001001 01001100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A V I L A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0056 0049 004C 0041 |
| 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)3556434635 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Frequency 12. Names: Derived from | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Abbreviations 15. Acronyms 16. Derivations | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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