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SORIA

Specialty Definition: Soria (province)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Soria is a province of central Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon.

It is bordered by the provinces of La Rioja, Zaragoza, Guadalajara, Segovia, and Burgos.

Soria is the least populous of all of Spain's provinces. Of the province's population of 91,487 (2002), nearly 40% live in the capital, Soria. There are 183 municipalities in Soria, of which nearly half are hamlets of under 100 people and of which only 12 have more than 1000 people. See List of municipalities in Soria.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Soria (province)."

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Date "SORIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references)


Modern Usage: SORIA

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Soria de Machado (1967)

El Duero nace en Soria (1963)

Soria doce linajes (1959)

Tierras de Soria (1959)

Soria Moria (2000)

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

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Commercial Usage: SORIA

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cancionero amoroso del Siglo de Oro atribuible al vallisoletano Pedro de Soria : estudio, edición y reproducción facsímil (reference)

  • Text & Concordances of Sermones Contra Iudios E Moros, MS 25h: Biblioteca Publica y Provincial de Soria (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: SORIA

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Guatemala

The President refused to sign a degree that called for COPREDEH to be dissolved; however, he did name Alfonso Fuentes Soria, who was acceptable to conservatives within the Government, as the new head of the organization. (references)

Chile

On June 15, the Supreme Court upheld the ruling of a lower court not to reopen the case of Carmelo Soria, a Spanish citizen working for the U.N. and killed in Santiago in 1976. Soria's family continued to negotiate compensation with the Government. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: SORIA

"SORIA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SORIA" is used about 7 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%7133,076

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

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Name Usage Frequency: SORIA

The following table summarizes the usage of "SORIA" 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
SoriaLast name3,0004,061
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SORIA

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

soria

118

moria soria

9

sophie soria

8

esmeralda soria

8

soria natural

8

musica soria turina

7

arturo mata soria y

6

soria hotel

6

mireille soria

4

gete soria

3

soria spain

3

arturo soria

3

de inmobiliarias soria

2

soria thomas

2

abel soria

2

edward soria

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

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Derivations: SORIA

Derivations

Words ending with "SORIA": appressoria, ostensoria, sensoria. (additional references)

Words containing "SORIA": accessorial, censorial, cursorial, fossorial, infusorian, infusorians, nonprofessorial, professorial, professorially, professoriat, professoriate, professoriates, professoriats, psoriases, psoriasis, psoriatic, psoriatics, rasorial, sensorial, sensorially, sponsorial, tonsorial. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: SORIA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-o-r-s"

-1 letter: airs, oars, osar, rias, sari, soar, sora, sori.

-2 letters: air, ais, ars, oar, ora, ors, ras, ria, sir, sri.

-3 letters: ai, ar, as, is, or, os, si, so.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: aorist, ariose, ariosi, arioso, aristo, aroids, arsino, isobar, ixoras, norias, radios, ratios, riojas, sailor, satori, savior, scoria, souari.

 

+2 letters: abrosia, advisor, airpost, amorist, aorists, ariosos, aristos, arkosic, aroints, bailors, barrios, boarish, carious, corsair, curiosa, erasion, giaours, girasol, glorias, hairdos, haviors, inroads, insofar, isobare, isobars, isogram, jailors, mohairs, oarfish, ooralis, oralism, oralist, ordains, origans, ostiary, ouraris, ovaries, paviors, picaros, prosaic, rations, rialtos, roadies, rosaria, sadiron, sailors, sarcoid, satoris, sautoir, saviors, saviour, scoriae, shortia, signora, soapier, soaring, solaria, soprani, souaris, sparoid, tailors, thorias, travois, troikas, various, viators, viragos, warison.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SORIA


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

53 4F 52 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)

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

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

01010011 01001111 01010010 01001001 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#79 &#82 &#73 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004F 0052 0049 0041

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

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

5349524335

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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