Balfour

Definition: Balfour

Balfour

Noun

1. English statesman; member of the Conservative Party (1848-1930).

"Balfour" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a village pasture".

Date "Balfour" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Biographical Satire	BALFOUR, Arthur James, of England, one time leader of the talking forces of the House of Commons. Ambition: Opposition seats on both sides of the house, and an epitaph over the home rule bill. Recreation: St. Andrew's golf and writing deep books. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
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Synonyms: Balfour

Synonyms: 1st Earl of Balfour (n), Arthur James Balfour (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Balfour

English words defined with "Balfour": 1st Earl of Balfour ♦ Arthur James Balfour ♦ Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson ♦ Upon the matter, Upon the whole matter. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Balfour": 58712 ♦ Balfour Beatty, Balfour of Burley, biological husbandry, Blasphemous Balfour ♦ dynamo theory ♦ organic farming. (references)

Etymologies containing "Balfour": Baggala. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	The Scottish philosopher Balfour said that destiny is the scapegoat we make responsible for our crimes. (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner)
Clever	The ambiguous livery worn alike by modesty and shame. (references; author: Balfour)
Movie/TV Titles	Chamberlain and Balfour (1901)
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Domain	Title
References	Marylebone Warwick Balfour Group Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Balfour Beatty Plc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	America's Palestine: Popular and Officialperceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood (reference) Arthur James Balfour, 1848-1930: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies of British Statesmen, No 22) (reference) At Sea and by Land: The Reminiscences of William Balfour MacDonald (reference) Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour (reference) British High Politics and a Nationalist Ireland: Criminality, Land and the Law Under Forster and Balfour (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Balfour	The ambiguous livery worn alike by modesty and shame.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Israel	These efforts were initiated by Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement, and were given added impetus by the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which asserted the British Government's support for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. (references)
	Uae	Although US suppliers dominate this industry, competition from European and Japanese firms, such as IFP, BP, Technip, John Brown , Kvaerner, Mott McDonald,. Balfour, Tebodin, Pencol, Pritchard, Stork Engineers & Contractors, Mitsui, Chiyoda and Mitsubishi, is intense. (references)
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"Balfour" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Balfour" is used about 236 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%	236	19,516

The following table summarizes the usage of "Balfour" 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
Balfour	Last name	1,000	14,692
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Country	Name
United Kingdom	Balfour Beatty Plc.
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1. Balfour, NC (CDP, FIPS 3220)
Location: 35.34861 N, 82.47892 W
Population (1990): 1118 (539 housing units)
Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

2. Balfour, ND (city, FIPS 4460)
Location: 47.95234 N, 100.53466 W
Population (1990): 33 (35 housing units)
Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 58712
Country: USA

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Expressions: Balfour

Expressions using "Balfour": 1st Earl of Balfour ♦ Arthur James Balfour ♦ Balfour Beatty ♦ Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Balfour": balfour-all.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Balfour

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
balfour	167
balfour declaration	95
balfour eric	89
balfour beatty	37
balfour ring	29
balfour realty	16
balfour eric picture	8
balfour sandy	7
emma balfour	7
agreement balfour	7
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Modern Translations: Balfour

Language		Translations for "Balfour"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		Balfour's metode ved resektion af ulcus ventriculi (Balfour cauterization). (various references)

Dutch		cauterisatie van Balfour (Balfour cauterization). (various references)

French		méthode de Balfour (Balfour cauterization). (various references)

German		Balfour Kauterisation (Balfour cauterization). (various references)

Greek		καυτηρίασις του Balfour (Balfour cauterization). (various references)

Italian		cauterizzazione di Balfour (Balfour cauterization). (various references)

Pig Latin		alfourbay.(various references)

Portuguese		cauterização de Balfour (Balfour cauterization). (various references)

Spanish		método de Balfour (Balfour cauterization). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Balfour

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-f-l-o-r-u"
	-1 letter: labour.
	-2 letters: afoul, bolar, boral, flora, flour, fluor, labor, lobar.
	-3 letters: barf, blur, boar, bola, bora, bura, burl, farl, faro, flab, flub, foal, fora, forb, foul, four, furl, loaf, lour, oral, rolf.
	-4 letters: abo, alb, arb, arf, bal, bar, boa, bra, bro, bur, far, flu, fob, for, fou, fro, fub, fur, lab, lar, lob, oaf, oar, ora, orb, our, rob, rub, urb.
	-5 letters: ab, al, ar, ba, bo, fa, la, lo, of, or.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-f-l-o-r-u"
	+2 letters: harborful.
	+3 letters: floribunda, harborfuls.
	+4 letters: floribundas, unfavorable, unfavorably.
	+5 letters: buffaloberry, burglarproof, confabulator, fluorocarbon, flutterboard, shuffleboard, unaffordable, unforgivable, unprofitable, unprofitably.
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