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Definition: Aquitaine |
AquitaineNoun1. A region of southwestern France between Bordeaux and the Pyrenees. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Aquitaine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Synonym: AquitaineSynonym: Aquitania (n). (additional references) |
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Aquitaine (or "Guyenne" or "Guienne") now forms a region in south-western France along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain. The region comprises five départements:
In Roman times, the province of Aquitainia originally comprised the region of Gaul between the Pyrenees Mountains and the Garonne River, but Augustus Caesar added to it the land between the Garonne and the Loire River. At this stage the province extended inland as far as the Cevennes and covered an area about one third of the size of modern France.
The 4th century AD saw the Roman province of Aquitaine divided into three separate provinces:
In 1052 the duchy of Gascony (French: Gascogne) became part of "Aquitainia".
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Area: 41,400 km2 (7.6 % of France's total area)
Major cities in Aquitaine include Bordeaux, Mont-de-Marsan, Pau, and Perigueux.
Population: 2,908,300 (4.97% of the total French population) (1999)
See also: BasquesGeography
Demographics
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aquitaine."
Crosswords: Aquitaine |
| English words defined with "Aquitaine": Eleanor of Aquitaine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Aquitaine": Orson ♦ William. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Aquitaine" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (Aquitaine). |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | John, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and count of Anjou, to the archbishop, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justiciaries, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants, and to all his bailiffs and liege subjects, greetings. (reference) |
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Economic History | Malta | During this period, Malta was sold and resold to various feudal lords and barons and was dominated successively by the rulers of Swabia, Aquitaine, Aragon, Castile, and Spain. (references) |
Brunei Darussalam | The French oil company ELF Aquitaine, became active in petroleum exploration in Brunei in the 1980s. Known as Elf Petroleum Asia BV, it has discovered commercially exploitable quantities of oil and gas in three of the four wells drilled since 1987, including a particularly promising discovery announced in early 1990. Brunei is preparing to tender concessions for deepwater oil and gas exploration. (references) | |
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| "Aquitaine" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.10% of the time. "Aquitaine" is used about 446 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) | 99.1% | 442 | 13,088 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 446 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| France | Societe Elf Aquitaine S.A. |
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Expression using "Aquitaine": Eleanor of Aquitaine. Additional references. | |
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| 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 "Aquitaine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Aquitanië. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | Aquitaine, Guyenne. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aquitaineay Aquitânia. (various references) Aquitania (Aquitania). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-i-n-q-t-u" | |
-2 letters: antique, inquiet, quinate. | |
-3 letters: auntie, quaint, quanta, quinta, quinte, taenia. | |
-4 letters: antae, aquae, entia, qanat, quant, quate, quean, quiet, quint, quite, tenia, tinea, unite, untie. | |
-5 letters: anta, ante, anti, aqua, aunt, etna, etui, inia, inti, neat, nite, quai, quin, quit, tain, tine, tuna, tune, unai, unit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-i-n-q-t-u" | |
+2 letters: antiquaries. | |
+3 letters: equalitarian, equalization, quantifiable, quantitative. | |
+4 letters: equalitarians, equalizations, reacquainting. | |
+5 letters: quantitatively, unquantifiable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 71 75 69 74 61 69 6E 65 |
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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)01000001 01110001 01110101 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A q u i t a i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0071 0075 0069 0074 0061 0069 006E 0065 |
| 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)358387758667758071 |
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