Clovis

Definition: Clovis

Clovis

Noun

1. King of the Franks who unified Gaul and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish monarchy; his name was rendered as Gallic `Louis' (466-511).

"Clovis" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a famous warrior".

Date "Clovis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonym: Clovis

Synonym: Clovis I (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Clovis

English words defined with "Clovis": battle of Tertry ♦ Clovis I ♦ Tertry. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Clovis": Li-Flambe ♦ Merovingian Dynasty ♦ Pope's Tiara ♦ Remigius ♦ Yvetot. (references)

Domain	Usage
Clever	God of Clotilda, if you grant me victory I shall become a Christian. (references; author: Clovis)
Movie/TV Titles	Clovis (1993)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Clovis Crawfish and Etienne Escargot (reference) Clovis Ecrevisse Et L'Oiseua Orphelin (Clovis Crawfish) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Clovis News Journal (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Clovis to Phoenix: The Early Years (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[Elijah E. Clovis, M.D.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Canyon, Texas. Approaching the town on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Amarillo, Texas and Clovis, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Dawn, Texas. Crossing Texas wheat country along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Amarillo, Texas and Clovis, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.		Yeso, New Mexico. Rounding a curve along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Buchanan, New Mexico. Passing an eastbound diesel freight train along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.		Duoro, New Mexico. Rounding a curve in the sheep and cattle country along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Duors, New Mexico. Going across sheep and cattle country along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.		Iden, New Mexico. Assistant foreman George Zamora of Mountainair, New Mexico, on a section job in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard between Clovis and Vaughn, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Vaughn, New Mexico. Conductor Ennis O'Niell of Clovis, New Mexico, who was about to leave on the return trip. Credit: Library of Congress.		Conductor E.K. Hill of Amarillo, Texas, on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad between Amarillo, Texas and Clovis, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Clovis	God of Clotilda, if you grant me victory I shall become a Christian.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Cote d'Ivoire	On June 20, two unknown men entered the house of Tape Koulou, the founder of the extremist daily Le National, and shot and killed his elder sister, Tape Ziadou Madeleine, and a friend of the family, Takore Clovis Desire. (references)
Human Rights	Brazil	In 1997 at the direction of Captain Clovis Martins de Miranda Filho, as many as 10 civil policemen in Belem, Para state, severely beat and sexually abused Hildebrando Silva de Freitas. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Clovis" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.25% of the time. "Clovis" is used about 134 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)	99.25%	133	27,614
Noun (singular)	0.75%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	134	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "Clovis" 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
Clovis	Last name	200	34,048
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

"Clovis" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a famous warrior".

The following table summarizes names related to "Clovis."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Clovia	Female	N/A	Clovis
Clovis	Male	Ancient Germanic (Latinized)	Ludwig
Ludvik	Male	Czech	Ludwig
Lodewijk	Male	Dutch	Ludwig
Louis	Male	English	Ludwig
Ludovic	Male	English	Ludwig
Luchjo	Male	Esperanto	Ludwig
Ludoviko	Male	Esperanto	Ludwig
Louis	Male	French	Ludwig
Ludwig	Male	German	N/A
Lutz	Male	German	Ludwig
Lúðvík	Male	Icelandic	Ludwig
Lodovico	Male	Italian	Ludwig
Ludwik	Male	Polish	Ludwig
Ludvig	Male	Scandinavian	Ludwig
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

1. Clovis, CA (city, FIPS 14218)
Location: 36.81963 N, 119.69602 W
Population (1990): 50323 (18888 housing units)
Area: 37.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 93612
Country: USA

2. Clovis, NM (city, FIPS 16420)
Location: 34.41022 N, 103.20271 W
Population (1990): 30954 (12978 housing units)
Area: 35.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 88101
Country: USA

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Expression: Clovis

Expression using "Clovis": Clovis I. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Clovis

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
clovis new mexico	607	clovis school	13
clovis california	474	clovis point	12
clovis	166	clovis school unified	12
clovis unified school district	121	clovis department police	11
clovis community college	94	chamber clovis commerce	10
clovis news journal	92	clovis newspaper	10
city of clovis	60	clovis ca real estate	10
clovis unified	58	clovis california real estate	10
clovis high school	36	clovis mexico new newspaper	10
clovis west high school	35	city of clovis ca	9
adult clovis school	30	clovis school district	9
afb cannon clovis nm	20	adult clovis education	8
clovis community hospital	20	clovis nm weather	8
clovis lake	18	clovis weather	8
center clovis	18	city of clovis california	8
clovis independent	16	adventure clovis water wild	8
clovis west	16	clovis news	7
clovis real estate	15	clovis new mexico real estate	7
clovis municipal school	15	clovis people	7
clovis east high school	15	chronicle clovis	7
clovis hotel	15	clovis park water	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Clovis

Language		Translations for "Clovis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Russian		кловис. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Clovis

Misspellings
	"Clovis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Clarvis, Clives, Clomid, Cloris, clovas, clxvi, Colvins, Eccovi, Kleobis, Loovis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Clovis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-l-o-s-v"
	-1 letter: coils, viols.
	-2 letters: coil, cols, loci, oils, silo, soil, soli, viol.
	-3 letters: cis, col, cos, lis, oil, sic, sol, vis.
	-4 letters: is, li, lo, os, si, so.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-l-o-s-v"
	+2 letters: lovesick, slivovic, vocalics, vocalise, vocalism, vocalist.
	+3 letters: collusive, corrivals, costively, coverlids, coverslip, livestock, locatives, occlusive, outcavils, slipcover, univocals, viciously, violences, viscously, vocalised, vocalises, vocalisms, vocalists, vocalizes, voiceless, volcanics, volcanism.
	+4 letters: acyclovirs, archivolts, chivalrous, cohesively, colluviums, compulsive, conclusive, consultive, convulsing, convulsion, convulsive, covellines, covellites, coverslips, dichlorvos, insolvency, involucres, lascivious, livestocks, microvolts, novelistic, olivaceous, overchills, overclaims, slipcovers, slivovices, solvencies, solvolytic, velocities, violaceous, vocalising, vocalities, vocalizers, volcanisms.
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