DENYS

"DENYS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Zeus".

Date "DENYS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

"DENYS" is a common misspelling or typo for: deny.

Specialty Definition: DENYS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Denys (St.), according to tradition, carried his head, after martyrdom, for six miles, and then deliberately laid it down on the spot where stands the present cathedral bearing his name. This absurd tale took its rise from an ancient painting, in which the artist, to represent the martyrdom of the bishop, drew a headless body; but, in order that the trunk might be recognised, placed the head in front, between the martyr's hands. Sir Denys Brand, in Crabbe's Borough, is a country magnate who apes humility. He rides on a sorry brown pony "not worth �5," but mounts his lackey on a racehorse, "twice victor for a plate." Sir Denys Brand is the type of a character by no means uncommon. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: DENYS

Specialty definitions using "DENYS": Seven Champions of Christendom, Symbols of Saints. (references)

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Modern Usage: DENYS

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	De l'art et la manière chez Denys Arcand (2000)
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Commercial Usage: DENYS

Domain	Title
Books	To the Right Honourable the Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, the humble petition of Denys Rolle, esq, setting forth the hardships, inconveniencies, and grievances, which have attended him in his attempts to make a settlement in east F (reference) Auteur Provocateur: The Films of Denys Arcand (reference) Silence Will Speak: A Study of the Life of Denys Finch Hatton and His Relationship With Karen Blixen (reference) The Lives of Beryl Markham: Out of Africa's Hidden Free Spirit and Denys Finch Hatton's Last Great Love (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Denys Bouliane: Music of the Magic Realism, Vol. 1 (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Usage Frequency: DENYS

"DENYS" is generally used as a lexical verb (-s form) -- approximately 89.02% of the time. "DENYS" is used about 164 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
Lexical Verb (-s form)	89.02%	146	26,107
Noun (proper)	9.76%	16	87,710
Noun (plural)	1.22%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	164	N/A

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

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Derived & Related Names: DENYS

"DENYS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Zeus".

The following table summarizes names related to "DENYS."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Dionysios	Male	Ancient Greek	Dionysos
Dionysius	Male	Ancient Roman	Dionysios
Denisa	Female	Czech	Denis
Den	Male	English	Denis
Denis	Male	English	Dionysius
Denise	Female	English	Denis
Dennis	Male	English	Denis
Denny	Male	English	Denis
Denys	Male	English	Denis
Dwight	Male	English	Denis
Sidney	Male, Female	English	Denis
Tennyson	Male	English	Denis
Tyson	Male	English	Denis
Denis	Male	French	Dionysius
Denise	Female	French	Denis
Dennis	Male	French	Denis
Dionysios	Male	Greek	Dionysos
Dionysos	Male	Greek Mythology	N/A
Dénes	Male	Hungarian	Denis
Dinis	Male	Portuguese	Denis
Denisa	Female	Romanian	Denis
Denis	Male	Russian	Dionysius
Denisa	Female	Slovak	Denis
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Expression: DENYS

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "DENYS": Denys-drash.
	Ending with "DENYS": pseudo-denys.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DENYS

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
denys defrancesco	26
denys arcand	17
denys	9
denys finch hatton	5
de denys garneau hector st	4
denys restaurant	3
denys page	3
denys fisher	3
denys fritch	3
cheating denys hes it sign still	2
denys st	2
de denys garneau hector saint	2
defrancesco denys girl	2
bourbeau denys	2
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Anagrams: DENYS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: dynes.
	Words within the letters "d-e-n-s-y"
	-1 letter: dens, deny, deys, dyes, dyne, ends, send, sned, snye, syne, yens.
	-2 letters: den, dey, dye, eds, end, ens, sen, syn, yen, yes.
	-3 letters: de, ed, en, es, ne, ye.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-n-s-y"
	+1 letter: bendys, doyens, dynels, synced, syndet.
	+2 letters: adenyls, bendays, beyonds, daysmen, densely, densify, density, destiny, dingeys, dinkeys, donkeys, dryness, dyeings, dyneins, dynodes, dyspnea, ecdyson, endways, enskyed, hoydens, kidneys, noyades, snidely, synched, syndets.
	+3 letters: analysed, andesyte, anodynes, asyndeta, bendways, condyles, cyanides, cyanosed, doyennes, drystone, duvetyns, dysgenic, dyspneal, dyspneas, dyspneic, dyspnoea, ecdysone, ecdysons, encysted, eyedness, kyanised, reynards, secondly, secundly, soddenly, suddenly, synapsed, syndeses, syndesis, syndetic, syndrome, synergid, syphoned, syringed, unstayed, unsteady, unswayed, vandykes, yearends.
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