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FILOMENA

Specialty Definition: FILOMENA

DomainDefinition

Literature

Filomena Longfellow calls Florence Nightingale St. Filomena, not only because Filomena resembles the Latin word for a nightingale, but also because this saint, in Sabatelli's picture, is represented as hovering over a group of sick and maimed, healed by her intercession. (See Thaumaturgus.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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"FILOMENA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a friend of strength".

Date "FILOMENA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references)

"FILOMENA" is a common misspelling or typo for: Filament, Phenomena.


Modern Usage: FILOMENA

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Movie/TV Titles

Filomena Marturano (1950)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: FILOMENA

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Books

  • Soft Money: A Filomena Buscarsela Mystery (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: FILOMENA

The following table summarizes the usage of "FILOMENA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
FilomenaFirst name Female6,0001,253
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: FILOMENA

"FILOMENA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a friend of strength".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "FILOMENA."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
PhilomenaFemaleEnglishN/A
PhilomenaFemaleGermanN/A
FilomenaFemaleItalianPhilomena
FilomenaFemalePortuguesePhilomena
FilomenaFemaleSpanishPhilomena
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FILOMENA

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

filomena

18

santa filomena

9

filomena restaurant

4

filomena tomayra

3

filomena gonçalves

3

brazil filomena santa

3

filomena ristorante

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: FILOMENA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-m-n-o"

-1 letter: inflame.

-2 letters: anomie, eolian, famine, finale, flamen, foeman, lomein, maline, menial, moline, oilman, oilmen, olefin.

-3 letters: alien, aline, aloin, alone, amine, amino, amnio, amole, anile, anime, anole, elain, elfin, eloin, email, felon, final, flame, fleam, folia, leman, lemon, liane, liman, limen, maile, melon, minae, monie, olein.

-4 letters: aeon, alef, alif, alme, aloe, amen, amie.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-l-m-n-o"
 

+2 letters: flamingoes, manifolded.

 

+3 letters: confirmable, filamentous, infomercial, malefaction, myofilament, nonfamilies, sulfonamide.

 

+4 letters: infomercials, malefactions, manifoldness, monofilament, myofilaments, sulfonamides, unmodifiable.

 

+5 letters: deformalizing, deformational, flamboyancies, flameproofing, foraminiferal, informalities, informatively, malfunctioned, metafictional, microfilament, monofilaments, nonmeaningful, reformational, reformulating, reformulation.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FILOMENA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 49 4C 4F 4D 45 4E 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    ..    .-..    ---    --    .    -.    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001001 01001100 01001111 01001101 01000101 01001110 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#76 &#79 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 004C 004F 004D 0045 004E 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4043464947394835

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Names: Frequency
5. Names: Derived from
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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