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"FERDINAND" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "ready to embark on a journey". |
Date "FERDINAND" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Ferdinand Son of the King of Naples, and suitor of Miranda, daughter of Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan. (Shakespeare Tempest.) In Love's Labour's Lost, the same name is given to the King of Navarre. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Aragon
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ferdinand."
Crosswords: FERDINAND |
| English words defined with "FERDINAND": Aragon ♦ Ferdinand and Isabella ♦ Isabella I, Isabella the Catholic ♦ Sarajevo, Strait of Magellan. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FERDINAND": Bomba ♦ Catholic King ♦ Holy League ♦ Iron Mask ♦ Rosaline ♦ ZEPPELIN. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Ferdinand y el ciempiés (1969) Clown Ferdinand will schlafen (1965) Klaun Ferdinand a raketa (1963) Stackars Ferdinand (1941) Ferdinand le noceur (1935) | |
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 | Earthen pot at Station JINSTID Similar to early earthenware cones devised by Ferdinand Hassler. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Amos Kendall - the 4th Auditor under Andrew Jackson Adversary of Ferdinand Hassler Telegraph entrepreneur in later career. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Pole signal with tin cone for reflecting sunlight Constructed by survey crews under direction of Ferdinand Hassler Sketch by Assistant John Farley - view looking to south across Long Island Sound. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Tripod signal with tin cone for reflecting sunlight At signal West Base, west end of Great Fire Island Base Line Constructed by survey crews under direction of Ferdinand Hassler Sketch by Assistant John Farley - view looking to east. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis Served on Coast Survey under both Ferdinand Hassler and Alexander Bache Intellectual, helped found National Academy of Sciences Brother-in-law of Benjamin Peirce. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | James Ferguson Senior Assistant under Ferdinand Hassler Became lifelong enemy of Alexander Dallas Bache. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Edward Livingston Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson A patron and friend of Ferdinand Hassler. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Charles Wilkes Close friend of Ferdinand Hassler Controversial naval officer. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Figure 69. Magnetic device for separating and classifying minerals. This early device that used an electro-magnet to separate minerals of different magnetic properties was conceived of by the French mineralogist Ferdinand Foque in 1879. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 37. Assman aspirating psychrometer, used to determine relative humidity by comparing dry and humid air temperatures. The instrument was designed on principles discovered by the German Ernst Ferdinand August, the director of the Gymnasium of Berlin, in 1825. Professor Richard Assman of the Meteorological Institute of Berlin, built this instrument about 1886. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ferdinand Christian Baur | These Gospels (the first four of the New Testament) are spurious, and were written in the Second century. |
Ferdinand De Saussure | A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas. |
| Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent. | |
Ferdinand VII | Far be it from us, the danger of thinking. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In 1805, he was in that division of Malher which captured Gunzburg from the Archduke Ferdinand. |
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Economic History | Bosnia and Herzegovina | World War I began when Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. (references) |
Philippines | Ferdinand Magellan claimed the Philippines for Spain in 1521, and for the next 377 years, the islands were under Spanish rule. (references) | |
Croatia | By the mid-1400s, concerns over Ottoman expansion led the Croatian Assembly to invite the Habsburgs, under Archduke Ferdinand, to assume control over Croatia. (references) | |
Human Rights | Philippines | Indemnification claims for alleged human rights abuses during the Ferdinand Marcos era, which ended in 1986, remain unresolved. (references) |
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| "FERDINAND" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.98% of the time. "FERDINAND" is used about 331 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) | 96.98% | 321 | 16,086 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.51% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.21% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.3% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 331 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "FERDINAND" 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 |
| Ferdinand | First name Male | 7,000 | 845 |
| Ferdinand | Last name | 1,000 | 18,236 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "FERDINAND" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "ready to embark on a journey". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "FERDINAND." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Ferran | Male | Catalan | Ferdinand |
| Ferdinand | Male | Czech | N/A |
| Ferdinanda | Female | Czech | Ferdinand |
| Farran | Male | English | Ferdinand |
| Ferdie | Male | English | Ferdinand |
| Ferdinand | Male | English | N/A |
| Ferdinanda | Female | English | Ferdinand |
| Ferdy | Male | English | Ferdinand |
| Nandy | Male | English | Ferdinand |
| Ferdinand | Male | French | N/A |
| Fernand | Male | French | Ferdinand |
| Fernande | Female | French | Ferdinand |
| Ferdinand | Male | German | N/A |
| Ferdinanda | Female | German | Ferdinand |
| Nándor | Male | Hungarian | Ferdinand |
| Ferdinanda | Female | Italian | Ferdinand |
| Ferdinando | Male | Italian | Ferdinand |
| Fernão | Male | Portuguese | Ferdinand |
| Fernanda | Female | Portuguese | Ferdinand |
| Fernando | Male | Portuguese | Ferdinand |
| Fernanda | Female | Spanish | Ferdinand |
| Fernando | Male | Spanish | Ferdinand |
| Hernando | Male | Spanish | Ferdinand |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
1. Ferdinand, ID (city, FIPS 27460) 2. Ferdinand, IN (town, FIPS 22990) |
Expressions using "FERDINAND": August Ferdinand Mobius ♦ Baron Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz ♦ count Ferdinand von Zeppelin ♦ Ferdinand and Isabella ♦ Ferdinand de Lesseps ♦ Ferdinand de Saussure ♦ Ferdinand I ♦ Ferdinand II ♦ Ferdinand III ♦ Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton ♦ Ferdinand Julius Cohn ♦ ferdinand magellan ♦ Ferdinand the Catholic ♦ Ferdinand the Great ♦ Ferdinand V ♦ Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix ♦ Francis Ferdinand ♦ Franz Ferdinand ♦ Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz ♦ vicomte Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "FERDINAND": Paul-ferdinand. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "FERDINAND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | Фердинанд. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"FERDINAND" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Forsinard. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-f-i-n-n-r" | |
-2 letters: dandier, drained, faddier, nardine. | |
-3 letters: dander, darned, denari, dinned, dinner, endrin, fadein, fainer, faired, fanned, fanner, farded, finder, finned, friend, inaner, infare, narine, raided, rained, redfin, refind, ridden, rinded. | |
-4 letters: adder, afire, aided, aider, aired, dared, deair, denar, dinar, dined, diner, drain, dread, dried, faded, fader, fared, feria, fiend, fined, finer, fired, frena. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-f-i-n-n-r" | |
+4 letters: underfinanced, underinflated. | |
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