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Definitions: DERN |
DERNAdjective1. Solitary; sad. 2. Hidden; concealed; secret. Noun1. A gatepost or doorpost. |
Date "DERN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references) |
Crosswords: DERN |
| Etymologies containing "DERN": Derne. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | There, dern ye! if I hedn't a' hed it ...Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "DERN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DERN" is used about 9 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% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "DERN" 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 |
| Dern | Last name | 300 | 29,102 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
laura dern | 253 | dern hippie laura rocker | 4 |
bruce dern | 52 | laura dern naked | 4 |
laura dern nude | 28 | laura dern pic | 3 |
ben dern harper laura | 16 | bruce dern movie | 3 |
laura dern picture | 10 | dern kari | 3 |
andrea dern | 7 | cage dern laura nicholas | 3 |
laura dern photo | 6 | laura dern movie | 3 |
dern | 5 | daisy dern | 2 |
best dern horse in pleasure show trail world | 5 | dern laura rambling rose | 2 |
criminal dern innocent laura | 4 | laura dern nude pic | 2 |
dern gallery laura | 4 | cage dern laura nicolas | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DERN": dernier. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "DERN": antimodern, hypermodern, modern, postmodern, premodern, supermodern, ultramodern. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DERN": antimodernist, antimodernists, antimoderns, bladdernut, bladdernuts, hypermodernist, hypermodernists, moderne, moderner, modernes, modernest, modernisation, modernisations, modernise, modernised, modernises, modernising, modernism, modernisms, modernist, modernistic, modernists, modernities, modernity, modernization, modernizations, modernize, modernized, modernizer, modernizers, modernizes, modernizing, modernly, modernness, modernnesses, moderns, outsiderness, outsidernesses, postmodernism, postmodernisms, postmodernist, postmodernists, slenderness, slendernesses, tenderness, tendernesses, ultramodernist, ultramodernists, underneath, undernourished, undernourishment. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nerd, rend. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-r" | |
-1 letter: den, end, ern, red. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, en, er, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-r" | |
+1 letter: denar, diner, drone, ender, nerds, nerdy, nuder, redan, redon, rends, trend, under. | |
+2 letters: ardent, bander, bender, binder, bonder, brined, burden, burned, cedarn, cinder, corned, craned, damner, dancer, dander, danger, danker, darken, darned, darnel, darner, decern, dehorn, denari, denars, denary, denier, denser, dinero, diners, dinger, dinner, downer, drench, driven, droned, droner, drones, dunker, dunner, durned, earned, endear, enders, endrin, endure, enduro, engird, enured, errand, fender, finder, fonder, friend, gander, garden, gender, gerund, girned, harden, hinder, horned, inbred, inured, ironed, kerned, kinder, kirned, lander, lender, mender, minder, modern, nacred, narked, neared, needer, nereid, nerved, nodder, normed, nudger, nurled, nursed, pander, pinder, ponder, pruned, rained, ranged, ranked, ranted, rebind, redans, redden, redeny, redfin, reding, redone, redons, refind, refund, reined, relend, remand, remend, remind, rended, render, rented, repand, resend, rewind, ridden, rident, rinded, ringed, rinsed, rodent, rodmen, rondel, ruined, rundle, sander, sender, snared, snider, snored, sonder, sorned, sunder, tender, tinder, trends, trendy, trined, turned, unbred, undoer, undrew, unread, vender, vendor, verdin, wander, warden, warned, winder, wonder, yarned, yonder, zander. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 45 52 4E |
| 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)01000100 01000101 01010010 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D E R N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0045 0052 004E |
| 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)38395248 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Names: Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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