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Definition: Bologna |
BolognaNoun1. The capital of Emilia-Romagna; located in northern Italy east of the Apennines. 2. Large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Bologna" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Bologna is a city in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. Bologna was a Roman colony which survived as a medieval city to become a centre of learning and then a major city of the Renaissance papal states. Its townscape is enriched by elegant and extensive arcades.Gratian and Irnerius, two of the formative influences on legal study both taught at the university in the 12th century (and Copernicus was also there to study in 1495).
The city was one of the first European settlements to experiment with the concept of "free" public transport.
See also
Bologna is also a lunch meat. It is made from the spare parts of pigs, such as their ears, snouts and tails. Oscar Mayer popularized bologna with their own brand, which ran the famous commercials in which the kid sings, "My bologna has a first name . . ."
- University of Bologna
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The University of Bologna is a university in Bologna, Italy. The university received a charter from Frederick I Barbarossa (1158); but, appears to have existed since, at least, the 1080s, making it perhaps the first and most long-lived university in the western world (which arguably invented the university as an institutional form, at least in the modern sense of the word "university"). The University of Bologna is historically notable for its teaching of canon and civil law.
Notable Members of the University of Bologna
- 17th Century
- Giovanni Cassini
- Ulisse Aldrovandi
- 18th Century
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi
- 19th Century
- Camillo Golgi
- Giacomo Ciamician
- 20th Century
- Umberto Eco
- Vincenzo Balzani
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "University of Bologna."
Synonym: BolognaSynonym: Bologna sausage (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bologna |
| English words defined with "Bologna": Bologna phosphorus, Bologna stone, Bolognese, Bolognian stone ♦ polony ♦ Solar phosphori. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Bologna": CHOPPING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ LPG ♦ MOLDER, MEAT. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Bologna": Polony. (references) |
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Screenplays | Me Slag say you full of viridian bologna! (The Transformers: The Movie; writing credit: Ron Friedman) Viridian bologna! (The Transformers: The Movie; writing credit: Ron Friedman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ballads and Bologna (1917) Let's Play Bologna Ride (2001) Weekend in Bologna (1997) | |
Song Titles | My Bologna (performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Launch lunch on Inner Brass Island Launch lunch was a venerable institution on hydrographic ships Usually consisted of bread, bologna, and whatever else could be put in a cooler Always generated gripes but no one ever starved Tide gauge installation crew breaking for lunch. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Church of St. Domenico, Bologna, Italy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Remondino de Luzzi overseeing assistant in dissection of cadaver as students watch in an early fourteenth century anatomy class at Bologna. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Bologna children's book fair, 1979 International Year of the Child. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Arcades in Bologna" by Chico Iuliano Commentary: "Walking through the famous arcades in Bologna (Italy) on Christmas Eve." | "Street" by Piero Desopo Commentary: "Shot of my city, Bologna - Italy." |
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Business | In Emilia-Romagna, automotive producers are concentrated in the provinces of Bologna, Ferrara and Reggio Emiglia. (references) | |
The first edition of Eurosecurity was held in 1997 at the Bologna Fairgrounds, simultaneously with Europolis, a technology fair focusing on city living. (references) | ||
The city of Bologna (Emilia-Romagna's capital) has received international recognition for its innovative approach to encouraging Internet use. In 1995, the city began its "Iperbole" network and became the first city in the world to offer free access to the Internet to residents and institutions. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bologna" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.00% of the time. "Bologna" is used about 200 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) | 98% | 196 | 21,868 |
| Noun (singular) | 2% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 200 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Bologna" 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 |
| Bologna | Last name | 1,000 | 17,038 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Bologna": Bologna phosphorus ♦ bologna sausage ♦ Bologna stone ♦ Bologna vial. 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 "Bologna"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 波隆纳. (various references) | |
Danish | bologna, mortadel. (various references) | |
Dutch | metworst. (various references) | |
Finnish | lauantaimakkara (Bologna sausage). (various references) | |
French | mortadelle. (various references) | |
German | Mortadella. (various references) | |
Greek | όπολώνια, όεγάλο Λουκάνικο, μορταδέλλα. (various references) | |
Italian | mortadella (baloney, mortadella). (various references) | |
Korean | 볼로냐. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | olognabay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mortadela. (various references) | |
Russian | болонья. (various references) | |
Spanish | mortadela (mortadella). (various references) | |
Swedish | falukorv (lightly-smoked bologna sausage). (various references) | |
Thai | ไส้กรอกสำหรับทำแซนด์วิช. (various references) | |
Turkish | iri bir cins salam (bologna sausage). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Bologna": bolognas. (additional references) | |
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"Bologna" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abilugan, Balagan, balogna, Balogun, Bellona, Bilijana, Bloodnok, Bodorgan, Bolang, bolga, Bologne, Bolognini, bolonga, bolonian, boogan, booligal, borongaj, Bulborne, bulogne, Goyogana, Molongua, Olonga, pologa. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Bologna" (pronounced bulō"nē) |
| 6 | b u l ō" n ē | abalone, baloney. |
| 3 | -ō" n ē | boney, bony, Coney, crony, macaroni, mony, negroni, pepperoni, phoney, phony, pony, rigatoni, Stoney, stony, Toney, Tony. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-l-n-o-o" | |
-1 letter: gaboon, lagoon, oblong. | |
-2 letters: aboon, along, bogan, bongo, goban, logan. | |
-3 letters: agon, bang, bola, bolo, bong, boon, gaol, glob, goal, gobo, goon, lang, loan, lobo, logo, long, loon, nolo, obol. | |
-4 letters: abo, ago, alb, bag, bal, ban, boa, bog, boo, gab, gal, gan, goa, gob, goo, lab, lag, lob, log, loo, nab, nag, nob. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-l-n-o-o" | |
+1 letter: bolognas, longboat. | |
+2 letters: longboats. | |
+3 letters: ballooning, balneology, conglobate, longbowman, obligation, urbanology. | |
+4 letters: balloonings, ballyhooing, bamboozling, bioregional, conglobated, conglobates, haptoglobin, obligations. | |
+5 letters: automobiling, balneologies, conglobating, conglobation, geobotanical, haptoglobins, overlaboring, roadblocking, urbanologies, urbanologist. | |
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