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Definitions: Ethelred |
EthelredNoun1. King of the English who succeeded to the throne after his half-brother Saint Edward the Martyr was murdered; he struggled unsuccessfully against the invading Danes (969-1016). 2. King of Wessex and Kent and elder brother of Alfred; Alfred joined Ethelred's battle against the invading Danes and succeeded him on his death (died in 871). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Ethelred" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a noble counsel". |
Date "Ethelred" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Synonyms: EthelredSynonyms: Ethelred I (n), Ethelred II (n), Ethelred the Unready (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ethelred |
| English words defined with "Ethelred": Edward the Confessor, Edward the Martyr, Ethelred I, Ethelred II, Ethelred the Unready ♦ Saint Edward the Confessor, Saint Edward the Martyr, St Edward the Confessor, St Edward the Martyr. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Ethelred": Kingston-on-Thames. (references) |
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Screenplays | The next morning I went out shooting with Ethelred - or rather, to watch Ethelred shooting; for my principles will not allow me to take a direct part in blood sports. (Kind Hearts and Coronets; writing credit: Roy Horniman; Robert Hamer) | |
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| "Ethelred" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Ethelred" 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) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 44.44% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Ethelred" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a noble counsel". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Ethelred." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| &Aelig;ðelred | Male | Anglo-Saxon | N/A |
| &Aelig;lred | Male | Anglo-Saxon | æðelred |
| Ethelred | Male | Anglo-Saxon (Latinized) | æðelred |
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Expressions using "Ethelred": Ethelred I ♦ Ethelred II ♦ Ethelred the Unready. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
ethelred unready | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "Ethelred"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | tanácstalan ethelred (ethelred the unready). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ethelreday | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-h-l-r-t" | |
-2 letters: delete, heeder, heeled, heeler, leered, reeled, reheel. | |
-3 letters: deter, elder, ether, heder, lethe, relet, there, three, treed. | |
-4 letters: deer, deet, dele, delt, dere, dree, heed, heel, held, herd, here, herl, leer, leet, lehr, rede, reed, reel, rete, teed, teel, tele, thee, tree. | |
-5 letters: dee, del, edh, eel, eld, ere, eth, her, het, led, lee. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-h-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: blethered, leathered, sheltered, telphered. | |
+2 letters: letterhead. | |
+3 letters: cartwheeled, heldentenor, letterheads, telegraphed. | |
+4 letters: chesterfield, etherealized, heldentenors, helicoptered, heteroduplex, largehearted, shirtsleeved, wholehearted. | |
+5 letters: chesterfields, freeheartedly, openheartedly, pamphleteered, reestablished, reupholstered. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 74 68 65 6C 72 65 64 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). - .... . .-.. .-. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101100 01110010 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E t h e l r e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0074 0068 0065 006C 0072 0065 0064 |
| 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)3986747178847170 |
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