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Date "COMPOSTELLA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Compostella A corruption of Giacomo-postolo (James the Apostle). So called after his relics were transferred thither from Iria Flavia (El Padron) on the borders of Galicia, in the ninth century. Leo III. transferred the See of Iria Flavia to Compostella. (Somewhere between 810 and 816.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: COMPOSTELLA |
| Specialty definitions using "COMPOSTELLA": Apostles, where buried ♦ Baldassare. (references) |
| "COMPOSTELLA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COMPOSTELLA" 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 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 |
santiago de compostella | 9 |
compostella | 4 |
compostella de fietsen santiago | 3 |
beach compostella | 2 |
compostella de la santiago | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-l-m-o-o-p-s-t" | |
-2 letters: ectoplasm. | |
-3 letters: calomels, collapse, collates, comatose, compleat, complots, compotes, escallop, paleosol, polecats. | |
-4 letters: amplest, apollos, apostle, callets, callose, calmest, calomel, camlets, caplets, capotes, coeloms, coempts, collate, collets, collops, comates, compels, complot, compose, compost, compote, coolest, copalms, coplots, escalop, lactose, latosol, locales, locates, mallets, maltols, maltose, ocelots, osmolal, osteoma, pallets, pelotas, placets, polecat, pomaces. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-l-m-o-o-p-s-t" | |
+2 letters: compellations. | |
+4 letters: epistemological. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 4D 50 4F 53 54 45 4C 4C 41 |
| 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)01000011 01001111 01001101 01010000 01001111 01010011 01010100 01000101 01001100 01001100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O M P O S T E L L A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004F 004D 0050 004F 0053 0054 0045 004C 004C 0041 |
| 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)3749475049535439464635 |
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