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Definitions: Bergman |
BergmanNoun1. Swedish film actress (1915-1982). 2. Swedish film director who used heavy symbolism and explored the psychology of the characters (born 1918). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: BergmanSynonyms: Ingmar Bergman (n), Ingrid Bergman (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bergman |
| English words defined with "Bergman": Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Bergman. (references) |
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Screenplays | Well, Humphrey Bogart liked Ingrid Bergman but he gave her up for the good of the Resistance! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Kristinus Bergman (1948) Uma Banana Para Bergman (1984) The Bergman File (1978) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Field Marshall Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union South Africa, receives salute from Lieutenant Bergman, United States Navy, heading a group of U.S. Navy men passing in review in the Navy Week Celebration parade in Johannesburg. Also on the stand are Rear.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ingmar Bergman | I hope I never get so old I get religious. |
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| "Bergman" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.55% of the time. "Bergman" is used about 29 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) | 96.55% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Bergman" 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 |
| Bergman | Last name | 7,000 | 1,870 |
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| Country | Name |
| Sweden | Bergman & Beving AB |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Bergman, AR (town, FIPS 5440) |
Expressions using "Bergman": ingmar Bergman ♦ Ingrid Bergman. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
Misspellings | |
"Bergman" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aberaman, Begram, Bergama, Bergan, Bergsma, Berkman, Berreman, Berriman, Borgman, Borsman, Brugman. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-m-n-r" | |
-1 letter: bagmen, banger, barmen, bregma, engram, german, graben, manger, ragmen. | |
-2 letters: amber, anger, barge, began, bream, embar, gambe, gamer, mange, marge, namer, ramen, range, regma, regna, reman. | |
-3 letters: ager, amen, bane, bang, bare, barm, barn, beam, bean, bear, bema, berg, berm, brae, brag, bran, bren, earn, gaen, gamb, game, gane, garb, gear, germ, gnar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-m-n-r" | |
+1 letter: bargeman, bargemen, breaming. | |
+2 letters: boogerman, boomerang, cambering, embarking, embarring, embracing, embrangle. | |
+3 letters: abridgment, becharming, besmearing, beswarming, boomerangs, chambering, clambering, embargoing, embrangled, embrangles, garbageman, garbagemen, submanager. | |
+4 letters: abridgement, abridgments, beclamoring, beglamoring, boomeranged, drumbeating, embracingly, embrangling, impregnable, impregnably, marbleising, marbleizing, reembarking, submanagers, umbrellaing. | |
+5 letters: abridgements, beglamouring, benchmarking, boomeranging, descrambling, disembarking, drumbeatings, embarrassing, greenbackism, reassembling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 72 67 6D 61 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .-. --. -- .- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110010 01100111 01101101 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e r g m a n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0072 0067 006D 0061 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36718473796780 |
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