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Definition: Corday |
CordayNoun1. French revolutionary heroine (a Girondist) who assassinated Marat (1768-1793). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Corday" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Synonyms: CordaySynonyms: Charlotte Corday (n), Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Corday |
| English words defined with "Corday": Jean Paul Marat ♦ Marat. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Corday": Dying Sayings. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Charlotte Corday (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Charlotte Corday in prison. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Corday" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Corday" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Corday": Charlotte Corday ♦ Marie Anne Charlotte Corday d'Armont. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
corday | 17 |
mara corday | 16 |
charlotte corday | 15 |
corday deborah | 4 |
corday e ken mail | 3 |
corday perfume | 3 |
corday production | 3 |
corday ken | 2 |
armont charlotte corday d | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-o-r-y" | |
-2 letters: arco, card, coda, cord, cory, dory, dray, orad, orca, racy, road, yard. | |
-3 letters: ado, arc, cad, car, cay, cod, cor, coy, cry, day, doc, dor, dry, oar, oca, ora, orc, rad, ray, roc, rod, rya, yar, yod. | |
-4 letters: ad, ar, ay, do, od, or, oy, ya, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-o-r-y" | |
+2 letters: carboyed, coalyard, condylar, copyread, cowardly, crayoned, deaconry, dockyard, dormancy, hyracoid, mordancy, obduracy. | |
+3 letters: coalyards, comradely, comradery, copyreads, cordately, cordially, corydalis, courtyard, democracy, diachrony, dockyards, hyracoids, myocardia, secondary, stockyard. | |
+4 letters: cardiology, chardonnay, commandery, copyreader, cordiality, courtyards, dedicatory, dictionary, hydrocrack, hydromancy, hydrospace, immoderacy, indicatory, judicatory, myocardial, myocardium, radiolytic, schoolyard, stockyards, syndicator. | |
+5 letters: accordantly, accordingly, aerodynamic, artiodactyl, cardiopathy, caryopsides, chardonnays, codicillary, condolatory, confederacy, copyreaders, copyreading, cordwainery, corydalises, crystalloid, cyanohydrin, declamatory, declaratory, deprecatory, discography, discordancy, doctrinally, documentary, domiciliary, hydrocarbon, hydrocracks, hydropathic, hydrospaces, hydrostatic, maledictory, myocarditis, predicatory, psychodrama, pterodactyl, rhabdomancy, schoolyards, secondarily, syndicators, tragicomedy, valedictory, vindicatory. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 72 64 61 79 |
| 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 01101111 01110010 01100100 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o r d a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0072 0064 0061 0079 |
| 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)378184706791 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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