ASPASIA

"ASPASIA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to welcome".

Date "ASPASIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Specialty Definition: ASPASIA

Domain	Definition
Literature	Aspasia a courtesan. She was the most celebrated of the Greek Hetæræ, to whom Pericles attached himself. On the death of Pericles she lived with Lysicles, a cattle-dealer. The Hetæræ of Athens were, many of them, distinguished for talents and accomplishments. Those of Corinth were connected with the worship of Aphrodite (Venus). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Aspasia

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Aspasia (c. 469 BC- c. 406 BC) was the mistress of Pericles.
Although she lived in Athens, she was not from there, having been born in Miletus. Being a foreigner, she could not legally marry an Athenian. Aside from her foreign birth, she was also a hetaira, essentially a high-class prostitute or courtesan, who could not marry Athenian citizens. These laws were established by Pericles and his predecessors before he met Aspasia. However, Pericles thought so much of her beauty and talents that he considered her his wife and she lived with him until his death.
It is said that she had great skill both in writing and in the art of speaking, and she was visited by many of the most learned and famous people of Athens, including Socrates.

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A page studying Aspasia
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Synonyms within Context: ASPASIA

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Libertine	Adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman; woman of easy virtue; (unchaste); wanton, fornicatress; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette; demimonde; chippy; sapphist; spiritual wife; white slave.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: ASPASIA

Domain	Title
Books	Prisoner of History: Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical Tradition (reference) (more book examples)
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Use in Literature: ASPASIA

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Aspasia was a being who touched the two extremes of woman, the prostitute goddess
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Usage Frequency: ASPASIA

"ASPASIA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ASPASIA" is used about 6 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%	6	143,867

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ASPASIA

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
aspasia	13
aspasia tzitzikaki	3
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Anagrams: ASPASIA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-p-s-s"
	-1 letter: paisas.
	-2 letters: apsis, aspis, assai, paisa.
	-3 letters: asps, pass, pias, piss, psis, saps, sips, spas.
	-4 letters: aas, ais, asp, ass, pas, pia, pis, psi, sap, sip, sis, spa.
	-5 letters: aa, ai, as, is, pa, pi, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-p-s-s"
	+1 letter: aphasias, aplasias, paisanas, piasabas, piasavas, piassaba, piassava.
	+2 letters: aphasiacs, piassabas, piassavas.
	+3 letters: anaplasias, appraisals, vanaspatis.
	+4 letters: anabaptisms, asparagines, metaplasias, paramnesias, passacaglia.
	+5 letters: amphisbaenas, anaplasmosis, misappraisal, palatialness, paraesthesia, parasailings, paronomasias, passacaglias, reappraisals, sarsaparilla, spanakopitas.
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