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COVERLEY

Date "COVERLEY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)


Specialty Definition: COVERLEY

DomainDefinition

Literature

Coverley Sir Roger de Coverley. A member of an hypothetical club in the Spectator, "who lived in Soho Square when he was in town." Sir Roger is the type of an English squire in the reign of Queen Anne. He figures in thirty papers of the Spectator.
"Who can be insensible to his unpretending virtues and amiable weaknesses; his modesty, generosity, hospitality, and eccentric whims; the respect for his neighbours, and the affection of his domestics?" - Hazlitt. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms within Context: COVERLEY

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Dance; hop, reel, rigadoon, saraband, hornpipe, bolero, ballroom dance; minuet, waltz, polka, fox trot, tango, samba, rhumba, twist, stroll, hustle, cha-cha; fandango, cancan; bayadere; breakdown, cake-walk, cornwallis, break dancing; nautch-girl; shindig; skirtdance, stag dance, Virginia reel, square dance; galop, galopade; jig, Irish jig, fling, strathspey; allemande; gavot, gavotte, tarantella; mazurka, morisco, morris dance; quadrille; country dance, folk dance; cotillon, Sir Roger de Coverley; ballet; (drama); ball; bal, bal masque, bal costume; masquerade; Terpsichore.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: COVERLEY

English words defined with "COVERLEY": The five wits. (references)
Specialty definitions using "COVERLEY": Roger. (references)

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Usage Frequency: COVERLEY

"COVERLEY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "COVERLEY" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%3202,518

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COVERLEY

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

coverley de doulton roger royal sir

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: COVERLEY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-o-r-v-y"

-2 letters: celery, clever, clover, corvee, creole, overly, veloce, volery.

-3 letters: ceorl, clove, cover, covey, coyer, creel, elver, every, leery, lever, lover, lycee, revel, veery.

-4 letters: cere, cero, cloy, cole, coly, core, cory, cove, eely, eery, ever, eyer, eyre, leer, levo, levy, lore, lory, love, lyre, orle, over, oyer, reel, rely, role, rove, veer, very.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-o-r-v-y"
 

+2 letters: coercively, conversely.

 

+4 letters: correctively, decoratively, projectively, protectively, uncoercively.

 

+5 letters: compressively, cooperatively, correlatively, hypervelocity, irrecoverably, prospectively, retroactively, viceroyalties.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COVERLEY


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

43 4F 56 45 52 4C 45 59

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)

01000011 01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01001100 01000101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#76 &#69 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 0056 0045 0052 004C 0045 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

3749563952463959

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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