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Gainsborough

Definition: Gainsborough

Gainsborough

Noun

1. English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Gainsborough

DomainDefinitions

Biographical Satire

GAINSBOROUGH, T. R. A., a versatile English hat and portrait manufacturer. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.

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Specialty Definition: Gainsborough

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

There are several places named Gainsborough:

The painter, Thomas Gainsborough, is often referred to simply as Gainsborough.

This is a wikipedia disambiguation page.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gainsborough."

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Synonym: Gainsborough

Synonym: Thomas Gainsborough (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Gainsborough

English words defined with "Gainsborough": Thomas Gainsborough. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Gainsborough

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  • Sherlock Holmes: Haunted Gainsborough (reference)

  • The English Masters: Gainsborough (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Image Slideshow: Gainsborough

Illustrations:
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Computer Images:
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Usage Frequency: Gainsborough

"Gainsborough" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gainsborough" is used about 152 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%15225,494

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Gainsborough

Expressions using "Gainsborough": Gainsborough hat Thomas Gainsborough. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Gainsborough": Gainsborough-ellesmere.

Ending with "Gainsborough": Doncaster-gainsborough.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gainsborough

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

thomas gainsborough

61

gainsborough

59

aeris gainsborough

20

gainsborough hotel london

11

gainsborough shower

11

blue boy gainsborough

10

gainsborough kingdom united

7

gainsborough hardware

6

gainsborough hotel house

5

aerith gainsborough

5
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Modern Translations: Gainsborough

Language Translations for "gainsborough"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

ainsboroughgay.(various references)

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Anagrams: Gainsborough

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-g-g-h-i-n-o-o-r-s-u"

-3 letters: bigaroons.

-4 letters: arousing, bigaroon, bighorns, boroughs, broguish, brushing, grousing, orangish, osnaburg, roughing, soughing, sugaring.

-5 letters: abusing, anguish, arguing, bagnios, barging, barongs, bashing, bighorn, boarish, boggish, boorish, borings, borough, bousing, brogans, burgoos, burnish, bushing, gabions, gaboons, garbing, garnish, gashing, giaours, gobangs, goosing, gorgons, gringos, gushing, hagborn, hoboing, honours, horsing, housing, niobous, nourish, origans, ourangs, roguing, roguish, roosing, rouging, rousing, rubigos, rushing, sabring, sharing, shooing, shoring, signora, soaring, sorbing, souring, subring, sughing, surging, unhairs.

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Alternative Orthography: Gainsborough


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

47 61 69 6E 73 62 6F 72 6F 75 67 68

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)

01000111 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110011 01100010 01101111 01110010 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#115 &#98 &#111 &#114 &#111 &#117 &#103 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 0069 006E 0073 0062 006F 0072 006F 0075 0067 0068

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

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

416775808568818481877374

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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