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Definition: DEVA |
DEVANoun1. A god; a deity; a divine being; an idol; a king. |
Date "DEVA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Deva is a Romanian city situated on the left bank of the middle course of the Mures river.The name Deva is considered to come from the ancient Dacian word "dava" meaning fortress (e.g -Pelendava, Piroboridava, Zargidava etc). Other theories trace back the name to a Roman Legion, II Augusta, transferred around Deva from Castrum Deva, now Chester in Britain. On medieval maps, Deva (Diemrich or Schlossburg in German and Déva in Hungarian) appears as Deva or Dewan.
Documentary evidence of the town's existence first appeared in 1269 AD. Under Voevode (Duke) John Huniady (Iancu de Hunedoara or Ioan Corvinul in Romanian, Ioannus Corvinus in Latin, Janos Huniady in Hungarian), Deva became an important military and administrative centre. Partially destroyed by the Turks in 1550, it was afterward rebuilt and the fortress extended. In 1621 Prince Gabriel Bethlen transformed and extended the Magna Curia Palace (also known as the Bethlen Castle) in Renaissance style.
Today, Deva is the capital of Hunedoara County, with almost 100,000 inhabitants, including the subordinated villages. Mining, food, civil engineering and power industries are present here. Also, a private University of Ecology and Tourism was established here in 1990, and the academic centres of Timisoara and Cluj-Napoca have opened branches in the city. Deva is dominated by Citadel Hill, a protected nature reserve because of its rare floral species and the presence of the horned adder. Perched on the top of the hill are the ruins of the Citadel built in thirteenth century.
In Hinduism, a deva is a demigod or minor deity, such as Agni, Indra, Soma, and Ushas. According to Hindu mythology, the devas are opposed to the Asuras. The conflict, between devas and asuras, causes the eternal churning of the "Cosmic Milk" upon which all Creation "floats".
See also: Mahadeva, Ishvar, Listing of Hindu deities. The In Zoroastrianism, a deva is an evil spirit.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Deva."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Jupiter | Noun: god, goddess; heathen gods and goddesses; deva; Jupiter, Jove; pantheon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DEVA |
| English words defined with "DEVA": Dev. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "DEVA": Cheshire ♦ Deva's Vale. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "DEVA": Dev. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "DEVA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (deva), Portuguese (owe, shall), Serbo-Croatian (camel, maiden), Turkish (remedy). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I am a mighty Deva sent here by the all-powerful Sovereign (Digimon: Digital Monsters; writing credit: Dayna Barron) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Deva Tuzhi Sonyachi Jejuri (1967) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Minorities | Romania | In October in Transylvania the New Right political party distributed anti-Romani leaflets in Sighisoara and Deva. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DEVA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 81.25% of the time. "DEVA" is used about 16 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) | 81.25% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (singular) | 18.75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
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 |
deva | 105 | deva kama | 5 |
wind deva | 30 | a deva day spa | 5 |
deva premal | 29 | deva jezebel sarah | 5 |
jai guru deva om | 28 | absinthe deva | 4 |
deva stars.com | 11 | terra deva | 4 |
deva star | 11 | gregory deva 60 | 3 |
deva station | 11 | clothes deva | 3 |
deva romania | 11 | deva nps.gov | 3 |
deva lifewear | 11 | deva golf | 3 |
gregory deva | 11 | deva jeannie | 3 |
clothing deva | 10 | deva wear | 2 |
deva starz.com | 10 | deva starz | 2 |
deva star.com | 9 | curl deva | 2 |
jai guru deva | 9 | deva life wear | 2 |
deva wholesale wind | 7 | deva marketing.cba.uh.edu | 2 |
com deva star | 6 | deva taps | 2 |
deva guru jai om translation | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "DEVA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | deva. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 二王 (the two guardian Deva kings), 仁王門 (Deva gate, temple gate guarded by fierce Deva Kings), 仁王 (the two guardian Deva kings), 仁王 (the two guardian Deva kings). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | におうもん (Deva gate, temple gate guarded by fierce Deva Kings, the temple gate of the Nio), におう (the two guardian Deva kings, to be bright, to be fragrant, to glow, to smell, to stink). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | evaday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DEVA": devaluate, devaluated, devaluates, devaluating, devaluation, devaluations, devalue, devalued, devalues, devaluing, devas, devastate, devastated, devastates, devastating, devastatingly, devastation, devastations, devastative, devastator, devastators. (additional references) | |
Words containing "DEVA": medevac, medevacked, medevacking, medevacs, postdevaluation, predevaluation, predevaluations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DEVA" (pronounced dā"vu) |
| 3 | -ā" v u | Ava. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-v" | |
-1 letter: ave, dev. | |
-2 letters: ad, ae, de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-v" | |
+1 letter: caved, daven, deave, devas, drave, eaved, evade, laved, paved, raved, saved, vaned, waved. | |
+2 letters: advect, advent, adverb, advert, advice, advise, avowed, braved, calved, carved, craved, dative, davens, davies, deaved, deaves, evaded, evader, evades, graved, halved, heaved, invade, leaved, paveed, reaved, salved, shaved, slaved, staved, vadose, vailed, valued, valved, vamped, vanned, varied, varved, vatted, vealed, vialed, visaed, waived, weaved. | |
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