Galahad

Definition: Galahad

Galahad

Noun

1. (Arthurian legend) the most virtuous knight of the Round Table; was able to see the Holy Grail.

Date "Galahad" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Galahad

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Galahad or Sir Galaad (g hard). Son of Sir Launcelot and Elaine, one of the Knights of the Round Table, so pure in life that he was successful in his search for the Sangrail. Tennyson has a poem on the subject, called The Holy Grail. "There Galaad sat, with manly grace, Yet maiden meekness in his face." Sir W. Scott: Bridal of Triermain, ii. 13. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Galahad

Synonym: Sir Galahad (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Galahad

English words defined with "Galahad": Sir Galahad. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Galahad": Lamerock. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Galahad" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (Galahad).

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Modern Usage: Galahad

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Kid Galahad (1962)

The Adventures of Sir Galahad (1949)

Kid Galahad (1937)

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Commercial Usage: Galahad

Domain	Title
Books	Dad Galahad (Silhouette Romance, No 8928) (reference) Galahad at Blandings (reference) Galahad in Blue Jeans (Silhouette Intimate Moments, 971) (reference) Galahad Pictorial Atlas of the World (reference) Her Galahad (Silhouette Intimate Moments, No. 1182) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Kid Galahad (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
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Usage Frequency: Galahad

"Galahad" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Galahad" is used about 20 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)	100%	20	78,262

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

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Expression: Galahad

Expression using "Galahad": Sir Galahad. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Galahad

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
kid galahad	58
galahad	36
galahad sir	29
galahad tab	5
galahad lauren ralph	5
galahad picture	4
galahad vnboards.ign.com	3
daoc galahad	2
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Modern Translations: Galahad

Language		Translations for "Galahad"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		Galahad, Ritter (arctic char, Arctic charr, cavalier, char, chevalier, ilkalupik, knight, mountain trout, salmon trout, swallowtail), Kavalier (beau, cavalier, gallant, gentleman, squire). (various references)

Pig Latin		alahadgay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Galahad

Misspellings
	"Galahad" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alahdal, Gallachio, Ghalata, Malahat, Talagaad. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Galahad

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-g-h-l"
	-2 letters: galah, hadal.
	-3 letters: agha, alga, dahl, dhal, gala, glad.
	-4 letters: aah, aal, aga, aha, ala, dag, dah, dal, gad, gal, had, hag, lad, lag.
	-5 letters: aa, ad, ag, ah, al, ha, la.
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