BANQUO

Date "BANQUO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1606. (references)

Specialty Definition: BANQUO

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Literature	Banquo A Scotch general of royal extraction, who obtained several victories over the Highlanders and Danes in the reign of Donald VII. He was murdered by the order of Macbeth, and his ghost haunted the guilty usurper. (Shakespeare: Macbeth.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Banquo

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Banquo is a character in the play Macbeth, by William Shakespeare.

He is with Macbeth during the encounter with the witches near the beginning of the play. After predicting that Macbeth would be king, they predict that Banquo would never himself be king, but would beget a line of kings (the Stuart line of Scottish and English kings). Macbeth later sends murderers to kill him and his son Fleance. Fleance escapes, and the ghost of Banquo returns to haunt Macbeth.

Although Macbeth was certainly a historical figure (a very different one from the character in the play), Banquo's actual historical existence is more questionable. He is mentioned by Holinshed, and other chroniclers, as an accomplice of Macbeth in his usurpation, and as being the ancestor of the Fitzalan High Stewards of Scotland, from whom the new King, James I, descended, but this descent was disproven in the 19th century, when it was discovered that the Fitzalans actually descended from a Breton family. Whether or not Banquo, Thane of Lochaber, actually existed remains in doubt.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Banquo."

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Crosswords: BANQUO

English words defined with "BANQUO": To drink to. (references)

Specialty definitions using "BANQUO": Fleance ♦ Insane Root ♦ Spear of Ithuriel. (references)

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Usage Frequency: BANQUO

"BANQUO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 73.33% of the time. "BANQUO" is used about 15 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)	73.33%	11	106,044
Noun (singular)	26.67%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BANQUO

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
banquo	6
banquo macbeth	5
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Anagrams: BANQUO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-n-o-q-u"
	-3 letters: abo, ban, boa, bun, nab, nob, nub, qua.
	-4 letters: ab, an, ba, bo, na, no, nu, on, un.
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