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Literature | Delia of Pope's line, "Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage," was Lady Deloraine, who married W. Windam of Carsham, and died 1744. The person said to have been poisoned was Miss Mackenzie. (Satires and Epistles, i. 81.) Delia is not better known to our yard-dog - i.e. the person is so intimate and well known that the yard-dog will not bark at his approach. It is from Virgil, who makes his shepherd Menalcas boast "That his sweetheart is as well known to his dog as Delia the shepherdess." (Eclogues, iii. 67.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Delia, Kansas."
"DELIA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Delos". |
Date "DELIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Screenplays | Delia hates it. (Beetlejuice; writing credit: Michael McDowell; Warren Skaaren) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Delia (1992) | |
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| "DELIA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DELIA" is used about 235 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% | 235 | 19,568 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DELIA" 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 |
| Delia | First name Female | 29,000 | 462 |
| Delia | Last name | 1,000 | 9,041 |
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1. Delia, KS (city, FIPS 17525) |
| 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. |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "DELIA": psychedelia. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DELIA": psychedelias. (additional references) | |
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"DELIA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Adalia, Adeliza, Aelia, Dalada, Dalia, Daliba, Dalila, Dalio, Dalip, Dalmia, Deekie, deila, Delahay, Delair, Deleza, Delfina, Delibas, Delicari, delie, Delila, Delima, Delin, delio, Delivas, Dellin, Delni, D'elsa, Deluz, Denia, Denli, depia, Desio, devia, Dheli, Dielli, Dilga, Dolezal, Dolina, Dosia, Drlica, Duklija, Dullea, Dyli, Edgiva, Edlina, Helia, Selia, Zeila. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ailed, ideal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-l" | |
-1 letter: aide, dale, deal, deil, deli, dial, diel, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lead, lied. | |
-2 letters: aid, ail, ale, dal, del, die, eld, lad, lea, led, lei, lid, lie. | |
-3 letters: ad, ae, ai, al, de, ed, el, id, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-l" | |
+1 letter: aedile, afield, aisled, alined, aliped, allied, ariled, audile, bailed, deasil, denial, derail, detail, dialed, dialer, dilate, eidola, elapid, failed, hailed, halide, ideals, jailed, laddie, ladies, laired, lazied, mailed, medial, nailed, pleiad, railed, redial, relaid, sailed, tailed, vailed, vialed, wailed. | |
+2 letters: addible, aediles, aidless, alcaide, alibied, alidade, aliened, aligned, alipeds, aliunde, annelid, anviled, applied, audible, audiles, availed, baldies, beadily, bedrail, bipedal, brailed, caviled, cedilla, citadel, claimed, dailies, dallied, dallier, dallies, dariole, dealing, decimal, declaim, decrial, delaine, deliria, deltaic, denials, derails, details, devisal, dialect, dialers, dialled, diallel, dialler, dialyse, dialyze, diazole, dilated, dilater, dilates, dilemma, disable, dualize, edictal, elapids, emailed, flailed, gallied, geoidal, gladier, glaired, glaived, halides, headily, helipad, hidable, ideally, impaled, implead, inhaled, inlaced, isolead, laddies, lapides, lardier, leadier, leading, liaised, ligated, limeade, lindane, medials, medical, melodia, miauled, misdeal, mislead, oedipal, palsied, piebald, plaided, plained, plaited, pleiads, predial, quailed, radiale, radicel, radicle, rallied, readily, redials, redtail, ridable, rivaled, sallied, sedilia, snailed, taliped, tallied, trailed, unideal, uredial, vedalia, vialled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 4C 49 41 |
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| Semaphore (1791, 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)01000100 01000101 01001100 01001001 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E L I A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 004C 0049 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)3839464335 |
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