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Borgia

Definitions: Borgia

Borgia

Noun

1. 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)


Specialty Definitions: Borgia

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Borgia (See Lucrezia. ). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Borgia

Synonyms: 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)

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Crosswords: Borgia

English words defined with "Borgia": Alexander VI, Alfonso BorgiaCalixtus III, Cesare BorgiaLucrezia BorgiaPope Alexander VIRodrigo Borgia. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Borgia": Lucrezia di BorgiaNegroniOrsiniRenata. (references)

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Modern Usage: Borgia

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Borgia

DomainTitle

Books

  • Francis Borgia : grandee of Spain, Jesuit, saint (reference)

  • The Prettiest Love Letters in the World: Letters Between Lucrezia Borgia & Pietro Bembo 1503 to 1519 (reference)

  • Le venin des Borgia : chronique d'un siáecle assassin (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Borgia

Illustrations:
Borgia

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Computer Images:
Borgia

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Familiar Quotations: Borgia

AuthorQuotation

Cesare Borgia

Aut Caesar, aut nihil. (Either Caesar or nothing.)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Borgia

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

San Marino

In 1503 Cesare Borgia, known as Valentino, occupied the republic until his death several months later. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Borgia

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%10111,207

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Borgia

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
BorgiaLast name30025,775
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Borgia

Expressions using "Borgia": Alfonso Borgia Cesare Borgia Lucrezia Borgia Rodrigo Borgia. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Borgia

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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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Anagrams: Borgia

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Borgia


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6F 72 67 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ---    .-.    --.    ..    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101111 01110010 01100111 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#111 &#114 &#103 &#105 &#97

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)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

368184737567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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