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"ANASTASIA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a resurrection", "to get up", "to stand". |
Date "ANASTASIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Anastasia (St.) Her attributes are a stake and faggots, with a palm branch in her hand. The allusion is, of course, to her martyrdom at the stake. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: ANASTASIA |
| Specialty definitions using "ANASTASIA": Symbols of Saints. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "ANASTASIA" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (Anastasia). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Anastasia mio fratello ovvero il presunto capo dell'Anonima Assassini (1973) Kampf um Anastasia (1938) Die falsche Zarentochter Anastasia (1928) Der Kapitän - Kein Hafen für die Anastasia (2000) The Secret of Anastasia (1997) | |
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| "ANASTASIA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ANASTASIA" is used about 13 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% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "ANASTASIA" 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 |
| Anastasia | First name Female | 10,000 | 907 |
| Anastasia | Last name | 200 | 32,480 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "ANASTASIA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a resurrection", "to get up", "to stand". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "ANASTASIA." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Anastasia | Female | Ancient Greek | Anastasius |
| Anastasios | Male | Ancient Greek | Anastasius |
| Anastasius | Male | Ancient Greek (Latinized) | N/A |
| Stacey | Female, Male | English | Anastasia |
| Stacia | Female | English | Anastasia |
| Anastasia | Female | Greek | Anastasius |
| Anastasios | Male | Greek | Anastasius |
| Anasztáz | Male | Hungarian | Anastasius |
| Anasztázia | Female | Hungarian | Anastasia |
| Anastasio | Male | Italian | Anastasius |
| Anastasia | Female | Russian | Anastasius |
| Asya | Female | Russian | Anastasia |
| Nastasia | Female | Russian | Anastasia |
| Nastya | Female | Russian | Anastasia |
| Stasya | Female | Russian | Anastasia |
| Anastas | Male | Spanish | Anastasius |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "ANASTASIA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Anastasia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | anastasiaay Anastácia. (various references) анастасия. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"ANASTASIA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anaesthaeia, anasazi, Anastase, anastasi, Anastasie, Anastasis, Anfantais, Natascia, Sanstisima. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-i-n-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: astasia. | |
-3 letters: asanas, saints, satins, stains. | |
-4 letters: antas, antis, asana, assai, sains, saint, sasin, satin, satis, snits, stain, tains. | |
-5 letters: ains, aits, anas, anis, ansa, anta, anti, ants, nits, sain, sans, sati, sins, sits, snit, tain, tans, tass, tins. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-a-i-n-s-s-t" | |
+3 letters: antimacassar. | |
+4 letters: antimacassars. | |
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