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Definition: Attila |
AttilaNoun1. King of the Huns; the most successful barbarian invader of the Roman Empire (406-453). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Attila" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a little father". |
Date "Attila" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: AttilaSynonyms: Scourge of God (n), Scourge of the Gods (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Evil doer | Hun, Attila, scourge of the human race. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Attila |
| English words defined with "Attila": Chalons, Chalons-sur-Marne ♦ Leo I, Leo the Great ♦ St Leo I. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Attila": Fifteen decisive Battles ♦ Last of the Romans. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Attila" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (Attila). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Attila the Hun. (Love and Death; writing credit: Woody Allen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tharus figlio di Attila (1962) Attila (1954) Il flagello di Dio Attila (1917) Attila (2001) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Belgium | In about A.D. 300, Attila the Hun invaded what is now Germany and pushed Germanic tribes into northern Belgium. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Attila" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Attila" is used about 44 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% | 44 | 51,500 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Attila": attila the hun. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
attila the hun | 230 | attila game open schneider | 3 |
attila | 163 | attila domb | 3 |
attila hun picture | 8 | attila biography hun | 3 |
leadership secret of attila the hun | 7 | alkoc attila | 3 |
attila józsef | 6 | attila skrzypczak | 3 |
a history of attila and the hun | 6 | attila clothes hun | 3 |
attila dvd used | 5 | attila árpa | 3 |
attila ilhan | 5 | attila vári | 2 |
arpa attila | 5 | attila bakonyi | 2 |
attila jozsef | 5 | attila movie | 2 |
attila dolhai | 4 | attila bardóczy | 2 |
attila levin | 4 | tharus son of attila | 2 |
attila lukacs richard | 4 | attila tarkan | 2 |
attila jozsef poem | 4 | ||
attila tarkan | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Attila"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Attila. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | Αττίλασ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | attilaay атилла. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Attila" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Antlia, atila, Atitlan, Atla, Attal, Attala, Attia, Attile, Attilia, Attilla, Attiyah, Ittala, Latilla, Matthiola, Mattiya, ottilia, Taxila. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-t-t" | |
-1 letter: atilt. | |
-2 letters: alit, lati, tail, tala, tali, tilt. | |
-3 letters: aal, ail, ait, ala, alt, att, lat, lit, tat, til, tit. | |
-4 letters: aa, ai, al, at, it, la, li, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-t-t" | |
+1 letter: cattail, rattail. | |
+2 letters: battalia, cattails, coattail, dilatant, dilatate, fatalist, fatality, natality, rattails, sagittal, statical, tactical, tailcoat, tailgate, tantalic, ultimata. | |
+3 letters: acquittal, actuality, aliterate, antidotal, atonalist, atonality, battalias, battalion, catalatic, catalytic, cavaletti, coattails, dilatants, fatalists, lactating, lactation, matutinal, palmitate, palpitant, palpitate, retaliate, saltation, stational, tailcoats, tailgated, tailgater, tailgates, tailwater, talkative, tantalise, tantalite, tantalize. | |
+4 letters: acquittals, actability, agitatedly, aliterates, alliterate, altazimuth, alteration, altostrati, articulate, asphaltite, atonalists, attainable, battailous, battalions, cantillate, capitalist, capitulate, catabolite, catalectic, cataleptic, cavalletti, citational, dilatation, exaltation, facilitate, factualist, factuality, fatalistic, fatalities, floatation, habilitate, intraplate, intravital, italianate, lactations, lovastatin, mutational, natalities, natatorial, naturalist, notational, nutational, palatinate, palmitates, palpitated, palpitates, partiality, pathetical, plantation, retaliated, retaliates, rotational, sagittally, saltations, salutation, spatiality, stalactite, stalagmite, statically, tabulating, tabulation, tactically, tailcoated, tailgaters, tailgating, tailwaters, tangential, tantalised, tantalises, tantalites, tantalized, tantalizer, tantalizes, theatrical, titratable, tractional, trilateral. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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