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Definition: BARBARA |
BARBARANoun1. The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives. |
"BARBARA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be foreign". |
Date "BARBARA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Note: Barbara \Bar"ba*ra\, noun. [Coined by logicians.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Saint Barbara was a likely fictional Christian saint and martyr. Said to have lived in the third century, she appears in historical records for the first time in the seventh century.
Her story says that Barbara was a beautiful girl who dwelt in the city of Nicomedia in Asia Minor. Dioscurus, her cruel pagan father, had her shut in a tower in order to preserve her from suitors. She nevertheless secretly converted to Christianity. Her father commanded that she be built a bath-house, so that she would not have to use the public baths. The design for the bath-house originally had two windows, but Barbara had a third installed to commemorate the Trinity. Her father, seeing this change, discovered that she was a Christian. He had her taken to a Roman imperial magistrate during a persecution of Christians, who ordered her to be beheaded, and directed that her father carry out the sentence himself. He did so, but was struck dead by lightning in divine retribution.
Her association with lightning caused her to be invoked against lightning and fire; by association, she also became the patron of artillery and mining. Her feast was formerly celebrated on December 4; in the 1969 reform of the Roman Catholic liturgy it was downgraded to a purely local celebration, and her name was dropped from the litany of saints. She was formerly one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
She is depicted in art as standing by a tower with three windows, carrying a palm branch and a chalice; sometimes cannons are depicted by her side. Because of her identification with lightning and cannonry, in Santeria she is identified with the god Ogun, god of lightning and war.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Barbara."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BARBARA | English | Broad Range of Community-bases Telematics Applications in Rural Areas | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: BARBARA |
| English words defined with "BARBARA": Harvesting ant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BARBARA": CLU ♦ FRITCHIE ♦ Interactive Software Engineering ♦ LAURE, Liskov substitution principle ♦ Programming Language/Cornell, Prolog-II ♦ Regions, Geographic ♦ Symbols of Saints. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "BARBARA": Barbarous. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BARBARA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (barbaric), Swahili (road, route, way). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm going after Barbara. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal) And my wife, Barbara and I are here to support our daughter Caroline (Traffic; writing credit: Stephen Gaghan) If I may be so blunt, Miss Barbara this mask this suit no longer fits (Birds of Prey; writing credit: Adam Armus; Nora Kay Foster) When was the last time Barbara Streisand cleaned out your garage (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) They're coming to get you, Barbara! (Night of the Living Dead; writing credit: George A. Romero; John A. Russo) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Barbara of the House of Grebe (1973) Mia kolasmeni fisi Barbara (1972) Bad Barbara (1972) Barbara (1970) The Barbara McNair Show (1969) | |
Song Titles | Barbara Ann (performing artist: The Beach Boys) Barbara Ann (performing artist: The Regents) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Christa McAuliffe and Barbara Morgan. Credit: NASA. |  | Vicinity of Santa Barbara, California Surveyed by Assistant William E. Greenwell, 1870 Topographic Survey T-1229. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | View from sea of Santa Barbara and mountains to north Sketch by William B. McMurtrie accompanying Survey H-289. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | The harbor at Santa Barbara. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | View of the Mission at Santa Barbara. In: "The Annals of San Francisco". Frank Soule, John Gihon, and James Nesbit. 1855. Page 65. D. Appleton & Company, New York. F869.S3.S7 1855. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | The pier at Santa Barbara. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | The STORMY ELIZABETH and BARBARA ANN are offshore lobster boats. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Fishing vessel for sale in Santa Barbara Harbor. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Dungeness Crab, Cancer Magister has a reddish-brown to purplish-brown carapace with white to ivory depressions and joints. It is most often found on sandy or muddy bottoms in subtidal regions and in eelgrass beds ranging from the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, to Santa Barbara, California. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Barbara Piel (l) and Rose Davis prepare fish for a customer in the seafood section of Giant Foods i Dumfries, VA. Credit: USDA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Two Blue Flowers" by Dustin Byerley Commentary: "A macro shot of two blue flowers shot near Santa Barbara, CA." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Barbara Cartland | The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The biggest importers/distributors of lingerie are Ibsen (Chantelle Societe, Maindenform Itln, Pain de Sucre, Calvin Klein, Passionata), Alicja II S.c.(Garda, Lormar, Lilly, Doremi, Dori, Rose Rosse), Deseo (Princesa, Selmark, Abanderado, Punto Blanco, Ocean), Madame(Simone Perele, First, Lise Charmel, Ravage, Millesia, Nina Ricci, Osore Lanoro, Lejaby, Barbara, Phillipe Matignon, Hanro) and Katerina Trading Company (Magal, Marcella, Antonella). (references) | |
Economic History | Senegal | For further information on AFDB projects, U.S. companies may contact Ms. Barbara White, Project Manager AFDB, Office of Finance, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230. (references) |
Human Rights | Guatemala | On May 5 Sister Barbara Ann Ford was killed in Guatemala City. (references) |
Kenya | There were a number of protests against Ochuodho's conviction; 10 days later, High Court Justice Barbara Tanui overturned the conviction, ordered a new trial, and released Ochuodho. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Halle Berry | Jinx found me, actually. I got a call from Barbara Broccoli and MGM and they wanted to make an offer. So I got the script. And I was excited initially. I loved Bond movies and I'd even loved the women of Bond movies and I thought, Let me read it. |
Julia Child | Our Santa Barbara wines that we have that were sniffed at for a long time, but we make some really great pinot noirs in the world right there in Santa Barbara. |
Ted Olson | That's the message that Barbara had, and that's why it's so important for her voice to be out there, her smile to still be out there. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BARBARA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.94% of the time. "BARBARA" is used about 1,685 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) | 99.94% | 1,684 | 4,973 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,685 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BARBARA" 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 |
| Barbara | First name Female | 980,000 | 4 |
| Barbara | Last name | 1,000 | 11,413 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "BARBARA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be foreign". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "BARBARA." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Varvara | Female | Bulgarian | Barbara |
| Barbora | Female | Czech | Barbara |
| Babette | Female | English | Barbara |
| Babs | Female | English | Barbara |
| Barbara | Female | English | N/A |
| Barbra | Female | English | Barbara |
| Barbara | Female | French | N/A |
| Barbara | Female | German | N/A |
| Varvara | Female | Greek | Barbara |
| Barbara | Female | Hungarian | N/A |
| Borbála | Female | Hungarian | Barbara |
| Báirbre | Female | Irish | Barbara |
| Barbara | Female | Italian | N/A |
| Barbara | Female | Polish | N/A |
| Basia | Female | Polish | Barbara |
| Bárbara | Female | Portuguese | Barbara |
| Varvara | Female | Russian | Barbara |
| Barabal | Female | Scottish | Barbara |
| Barbora | Female | Slovak | Barbara |
| Barbro | Female | Swedish | Barbara |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | St. Barbara Mines Limited | France | Barbara Bui |
| USA | Santa Barbara Restaurant Group, Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "BARBARA": A barbara ♦ Aphenogaster barbara ♦ Barbara Hepworth ♦ Barbara Tuchman ♦ Barbara Ward ♦ Barbara Wertheim Tuchman ♦ Dame Barbara Hepworth ♦ Decumaria barbara ♦ eira barbara ♦ Galera barbara ♦ Santa Barbara ♦ Santa Barbara County ♦ Todea barbara. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "BARBARA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Greek | Βαρβάρα. (various references) | |
Manx | Barbrey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arbarabay.(various references) | |
Russian | барбара. (various references) | |
Spanish | Bárbara. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"BARBARA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abraira, Atbara, Babayan, Babbar, Babera, Baberahm, Bambaataa, Bambaia, Bambera, Baraba, Barabra, Barari, Barbar, Barbares, barbari, Barberi, Barbiaux, Barboza, Barbrak, Barbro, Barbur, Barharn, Barjarg, Batbayar, Birabeau, Garara, Narbra, Rabbara, Sarkara. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "BARBARA" (pronounced 'Bar"ba*ra'): Abra, Abracadabra, Acciaccatura, Acetabulifera, Agora, Agouara, Alhambra, Almagra, Amphineura, Amphora, Anaphora, Angora, Anisopleura, Anoplura, Anura, Aplacophora, Appoggiatura, Aptera, Arara, Arthropleura, Asura, Aura, Aurora, Basommatophora, Brachelytra, Brachyptera, Brachyura, Branchiura, Bravura, Caelatura, Caesura, Calyptra, Camara, Camorra, Capibara, Capra, Capybara, Caracara, Carnivora, Cathedra, Cephalophora, Cephaloptera, Cesura, Chara, Cheiroptera, Chelicera, Chelura, Chikara, Chimaera, Chimera. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-b-b-r-r" | |
-3 letters: abba, baba, barb. | |
-4 letters: aba, arb, baa, bar, bra, brr. | |
-5 letters: aa, ab, ar, ba. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-b-b-r-r" | |
+2 letters: barbarian. | |
+3 letters: barbarians. | |
+4 letters: abracadabra. | |
+5 letters: abracadabras, barbarianism, barbarically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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