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Definition: Evers |
EversNoun1. American civil rights worker in Mississippi; was killed by a sniper (1925-1963). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Evers" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
Synonyms: EversSynonyms: Medgar Evers (n), Medgar Wiley Evers (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: Evers diet (medicine). |
Crosswords: Evers |
| English words defined with "Evers": Medgar Evers, Medgar Wiley Evers. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rutgers Medical College J. Evers del.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Johnny Evers.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Johnny Evers.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Johnny Evers.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | John J. Evers.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Johnny Evers.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | James P. Archer/John J. Evers.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rev. R.L.T. Smith, near top at right, addresses crowd in New York at a memorial service for Medgar Evers.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Evers" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "Evers" is used about 10 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) | 70% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 30% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Evers" 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 |
| Evers | Last name | 3,000 | 3,798 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Evers": medgar Evers ♦ medgar Wiley Evers. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Evers": bull-for-evers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
medgar evers | 270 | myrlie evers williams | 5 |
medgar evers college | 186 | brooklyn college evers in medgar | 5 |
evers medger | 38 | ellen evers | 5 |
evers | 38 | boy evers ms | 5 |
evers toy store | 24 | college evers megar | 4 |
miss evers boy | 19 | denise evers jane | 4 |
college evers medger | 19 | carl evers | 4 |
evers toy | 18 | bernie evers | 4 |
chance evers tinker | 17 | evers frans | 4 |
evers kevin | 14 | evers medgar university | 4 |
evers medgar picture | 11 | denise evers | 4 |
edwin evers | 9 | jason evers | 4 |
evers myrlie | 9 | cuny medgar evers | 4 |
charles evers | 9 | evers maike | 4 |
evers megar | 8 | evers medgar murder | 4 |
cuny medgar evers college | 8 | evers tinker | 3 |
evers lisa | 7 | evers kevin miami | 3 |
comedian evers john | 6 | kary evers | 3 |
biography evers medgar | 6 | company evers | 3 |
evers meger | 6 | evers institute medgar | 3 |
comedian evers | 6 | evers medgar quote | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Evers"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | Evers'diæt (Evers diet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | régime d'Evers (Evers diet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Evers Diät (Evers diet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | δίαιτα του Evers (Evers diet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eversay dieta de Evers (Evers diet). (various references) régimen de Evers (Evers diet), dieta de Evers (Evers diet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Evers": eversible, eversion, eversions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Evers": achievers, believers, cantilevers, disbelievers, dissevers, enfevers, fevers, forevers, grievers, levers, misbelievers, nonbelievers, overachievers, relievers, retrievers, revers, rievers, severs, superachievers, unbelievers, underachievers, weevers. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Evers": bouleversement, bouleversements, irreversibilities, irreversibility, irreversible, irreversibly, nonreversible, reversal, reversals, reverse, reversed, reversely, reverser, reversers, reverses, reversibilities, reversibility, reversible, reversibles, reversibly, reversing, reversion, reversional, reversionary, reversioner, reversioners, reversions, reverso, reversos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: serve, sever, veers, verse. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: ever, eves, rees, revs, seer, sere, veer, vees. | |
-2 letters: ere, ers, eve, ree, res, rev, see, ser, vee. | |
-3 letters: er, es, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: averse, breves, elvers, everts, fevers, levers, nerves, reaves, reeves, reives, revels, revers, revest, revets, revise, revues, served, server, serves, severe, severs, soever, swerve, verges, vermes, versed, verser, verses, verset, verste, verves, vesper, vexers. | |
+2 letters: adverse, beavers, brevets, chevres, corvees, delvers, derives, deserve, deviser, diverse, enviers, erosive, evaders, eveners, evokers, greaves, grieves, heavers, inverse, laveers, leavers, leviers, observe, obverse, oeuvres, oversea, oversee, overset, oversew, overuse, previse, prevues, reavers, regives, reivers, releves, relives, removes, repaves, reserve, reshave, resolve, restive, reveals, reverbs, reveres, reverse, reverso, reverts, revests, reviews, reviles, revised, reviser, revises, revives, revokes, revotes, rievers, scrieve, servers, service, servile, several, severed, severer, shelver, shrieve, svelter, swerved, swerver, swerves, trevets, vealers, veeries, veilers, veiners, velures, venders, veneers, venires, venters, verbose, vergers, veriest, verites, versers, versets, versine, verstes, vervets, vespers, vesture, vetoers, viewers, weavers, weevers, wherves. | |
| 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)45 76 65 72 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ...- . .-. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E v e r s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0076 0065 0072 0073 |
| 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)3988718485 |
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