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Definitions: Borgia |
BorgiaNoun1. Italian pope whose nepotism put the Borgia family in power in Italy (1378-1458). 2. Italian noblewoman and patron of the arts (1480-1519). 3. Italian cardinal and military leader; model for Machiavelli's prince (1475-1507). 4. Italian Pope and father of Cesare Borgia and Lucrezia Borgia (1431-1503). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Borgia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Borgia (See Lucrezia. ). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: BorgiaSynonyms: Alexander VI (n), Alfonso Borgia (n), Calixtus III (n), Cesare Borgia (n), Duchess of Ferrara (n), Lucrezia Borgia (n), Pope Alexander VI (n), Rodrigo Borgia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Borgia |
| English words defined with "Borgia": Alexander VI, Alfonso Borgia ♦ Calixtus III, Cesare Borgia ♦ Lucrezia Borgia ♦ Pope Alexander VI ♦ Rodrigo Borgia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Borgia": Lucrezia di Borgia ♦ Negroni ♦ Orsini ♦ Renata. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | L'amante del diavolo Lucrezia Borgia (1968) The Borgia Stick (1967) Le Notti di Lucrezia Borgia (1959) La Congiura dei Borgia (1958) Lucrèce Borgia (1953) | |
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Books | |
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Cesare Borgia | Aut Caesar, aut nihil. (Either Caesar or nothing.) |
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Economic History | San Marino | In 1503 Cesare Borgia, known as Valentino, occupied the republic until his death several months later. (references) |
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| "Borgia" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Borgia" is used about 10 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% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Borgia" 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 |
| Borgia | Last name | 300 | 25,775 |
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Expressions using "Borgia": Alfonso Borgia ♦ Cesare Borgia ♦ Lucrezia Borgia ♦ Rodrigo Borgia. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
borgia | 121 | borgia lulu | 3 |
lucrezia borgia | 88 | borgia cesar | 3 |
caesar borgia | 41 | borgia movie | 3 |
luana borgia | 37 | borgia pope | 3 |
borgia lucretia | 30 | codice borgia | 3 |
borgia family | 17 | borgia hardcore luana picture | 3 |
borgia rodrigo | 10 | borgia movie release | 3 |
borgia one | 9 | borgia stick | 2 |
borgia roderic | 8 | borgia genealogy | 2 |
codex borgia | 6 | borgia castillo | 2 |
borgia los | 5 | alexander borgia | 2 |
borgia lucrecia | 5 | anthony borgia | 2 |
borgia ricky | 5 | lucrece borgia | 2 |
borgia francis st | 4 | borgia familia la | 2 |
borgia kirill | 4 | borgia house | 2 |
de borgia mt | 4 | ||
borgia house | 2 | ||
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-g-i-o-r" | |
-2 letters: abri, agio, boar, bora, brag, brig, brio, garb, giro, grab, obia, ragi. | |
-3 letters: abo, ago, air, arb, bag, bar, big, bio, boa, bog, bra, bro, gab, gar, gib, goa, gob, gor, oar, obi, ora, orb, rag, ria, rib, rig, rob. | |
-4 letters: ab, ag, ai, ar, ba, bi, bo, go, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-g-i-o-r" | |
+1 letter: garboil. | |
+2 letters: aborning, aborting, bigaroon, boarding, borating, bravoing, gabbroic, gabbroid, garboils, laboring, taboring. | |
+3 letters: abhorring, aborigine, absorbing, adsorbing, bigaroons, biography, boardings, bricolage, broaching, brocading, bromating, harboring, ignorable, labouring, probating, signboard, tabouring. | |
+4 letters: aboriginal, aborigines, abrogating, abrogation, arborizing, barhopping, begroaning, belaboring, biodegrade, biographee, biographer, biographic, bombarding, bricolages, broadening, embargoing, forbearing, forgivable, forgivably, harbouring, nonbearing, obligatory, obturating, outbargain, outbarking, outbraving, overbaking, parboiling, reboarding, seaborgium, signboards, tambouring. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6F 72 67 69 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... --- .-. --. .. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101111 01110010 01100111 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B o r g i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006F 0072 0067 0069 0061 |
| 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)368184737567 |
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