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Definitions: Gulliver |
GulliverNoun1. A fictional Englishman who travels to the imaginary land of Lilliput (in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Gulliver" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | GULLIVER, a Munchausen-Doctor Cook-Peary traveler who never submitted his proofs, but who found a credulous publisher and a gullible public. Never lectured. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Gulliver (Lemuel). The hero of the famous Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, i.e. to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the Houyhnhnms (Whin-nims), written by Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Ireland. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: Gulliver |
| Specialty definitions using "Gulliver": Brobdingnag ♦ Glubdubdrib, Glumdalclitch, GULLIVER ♦ Houyhnhnms ♦ Laputa ♦ Man-Mountain ♦ Quinbus Flestrin. (references) |
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Screenplays | And the first thing that flashed into my gulliver was that I'd like to have her right down there on the floor with the old in-out, real savage. (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ciao Gulliver (1970) The Adventures of Gulliver (1968) Novyj Gulliver (1935) Gulliver Mickey (1934) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Gulliver in the land of the Lilliputians. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gulliver. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The king of Brobdingnag and Gulliver. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | England's nightmare. The Great Britain Gulliver overpowered and made helpless by French pygmies while asleep. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Gulliver" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 86.84% of the time. "Gulliver" is used about 38 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) | 86.84% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (singular) | 13.16% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 38 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Gulliver" 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 |
| Gulliver | Last name | 200 | 40,578 |
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| Japan | Gulliver International Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Gulliver, MI |
| 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 "Gulliver"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | ガリウ ' 半導" (gallium arsenide semiconductor, preeminent example of its kind). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ガリバー (preeminent example of its kind). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ullivergay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | goulafre. (various references) |
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"Gulliver" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Buliver, Galliher, Gaullier, Gillener, Gulcicek, gullier, gullivers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-i-l-l-r-u-v" | |
-1 letter: virgule. | |
-2 letters: giller, gluier, grille, ligule, ligure, reguli, uglier. | |
-3 letters: ervil, giver, gluer, grill, gruel, guile, iller, liger, liver, livre, luger, rille, viler. | |
-4 letters: evil, gill, girl, give, glue, grue, gull, iglu, lier, lieu, lire, live, luge, lure, riel, rile, rill, rive, rule, urge, veil, vier, vile, vill, virl. | |
-5 letters: ell, erg, gel, gie, gul. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-i-l-l-r-u-v" | |
+3 letters: surveilling, unravelling. | |
+4 letters: curveballing. | |
+5 letters: revictualling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 75 6C 6C 69 76 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. ..- .-.. .-.. .. ...- . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G u l l i v e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0075 006C 006C 0069 0076 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4187787875887184 |
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