DESDEMONA

"DESDEMONA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "doomed".

Date "DESDEMONA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references)

Domain	Definition
Biographical Satire	DESDEMONA, of Venice. A lady whose handkerchiefs cost more than her clothes. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
Literature	Desdemona (in Shakespeare's Othello). Daughter of Brabantio. She fell in love with Othello, and eloped with him. Iago, acting on the jealous temper of the Moor, made him believe that his wife had an intrigue with Cassio, and in confirmation of this statement told the Moor that she had given Cassio a pocket-handkerchief, the fact being that Iago's wife, to gratify her husband, had purloined it. Othello asked his bride for it, but she was unable to find it; whereupon the Moor murdered her and then stabbed himself. "She ... was ready to listen and weep, like Desdemona, at the stories of his dangers and campaigns." - Thackeray. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Desdemona

Discovery

Discovered by

Voyager 2

Discovered in

1986

Orbital characteristics

Mean radius

62659 km

Eccentricity

0.00023

Orbital period

0.47365d

Inclination

0.16°

Is a satellite of

Uranus

Physical characteristics

Equatorial diameter

~64 km

Surface area

km²

Mass

1.78×10¹⁷ kg

Mean density

1.3 g/cm³

Surface gravity

0.011m/s²

Rotation period

Axial tilt

?°

Albedo

0.07

Surface temp

min	mean	max
K	K	K

Atmospheric pressure

0 kPa

Desdemona is a moon of Uranus. It is named after the wife of Othello in William Shakespeare's play Othello. Other than its size and orbit, virtually nothing is known about it.

Mass ?
diameter 58 km
Orbital radius: 62,660 km
Orbital period: 0.473651 days
Orbital inclination: 0.16°

Desdemona of Othello
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Desdemona is a fictional charater in the play Othello by William Shakespeare. She is Othello's wife, and the daughter of Senator Brabantonio. She is a lightskinned and innocent and Shakespeare uses her as a symbol of purity to contrast malevolent Iago and his worldy wife, Emily.
Desdemona's love for her husband lasts to her dying breath and she dies loving and trusting.
Desdemona is a self-sacrificing Christ figure somewhat like Cordelia from Shakespeare's play, King Lear.

Crosswords: DESDEMONA

English words defined with "DESDEMONA": asphyxiate ♦ smother, suffocate. (references)

Specialty definitions using "DESDEMONA": Belvidera ♦ Cassio ♦ Handkerchief ♦ Monimia ♦ OTHELLO ♦ Roderigo. (references)

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Billy Merson Singing Desdemona (1926)

Desdemona (1908)

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

Domain	Title
Books	Death Comes for Desdemona (Five Star First Edition Romance) (reference) Desdemona Moves on (reference) Desdemona, if only you had spoken! : eleven uncensored speeches of eleven incensed women (reference) Fowl Play, Desdemona (reference) Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The gentle desdemona, & harlequin friday. Credit: Library of Congress.		Desdemona district from 1 1/2 miles north of town. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and intrusted its duties to the sleeve. Shakespeare's introducing it into the play of "Othello" is an anachronism: Desdemona dried her nose with her skirt, as Dr. Mary Walker and other reformers have done with their coattails in our own day -- an evidence that revolutions sometimes go backward.
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"DESDEMONA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DESDEMONA" is used about 44 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%	44	51,500

1. Desdemona, TX
Zip Code(s): 76445
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DESDEMONA

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
desdemona	51
desdemona poet tree	7
desdemona othello	6
desdemona tx	5
desdemona font	5
desdemona ligularia	3
desdemona in othello	3
desdemona good goodnight juliet morning	2
ann desdemona goodnight macdonald marie	2
desdemona goodnight	2
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Misspellings: DESDEMONA

Misspellings
	"DESDEMONA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Estepona. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DESDEMONA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-m-n-o-s"
	-1 letter: daemones.
	-2 letters: amended, daemons, deadens, demands, demeans, maddens, masoned, monades, oedemas, seedman.
	-3 letters: adeems, amends, anodes, dadoes, daemon, damned, damson, deaden, deaned, dedans, demand, demean, demode, demoed, demons, desand, desman, donees, eddoes, edemas, emends, enemas, madden, menads, mended, mensae, mensed, moaned, monads, mondes, nomads, oedema, omened, sadden, sanded, seamed, seamen, sended, sodden.
	-4 letters: adeem.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-m-n-o-s"
	+3 letters: demonstrated.
	+4 letters: decompensated, demimondaines, pseudomonades.
	+5 letters: counterdemands, undomesticated.
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