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Ganesa

Definition: Ganesa

Ganesa

Noun

1. God of wisdom or prophesy; remover of obstacles.

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



Specialty Definitions: Ganesa

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Ganesa (g hard). Son of Siva and Parbutta; also called Gunputty, the elephant god. The god of wisdom, fore-thought, and prudence. The Mercury of the Hindus.
"Camdeo bright and Ganesa sublime
Shall bless with joy their own propitious clime."
Campbell: Pleasures of Hope, i. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Synonyms: Ganesa

Synonyms: Ganapati (n), Ganesh (n), Ganesha (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Ganesa

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ganesa Images from Indian and Indonesia: From Circa 7th to 15th Century A.D. (reference)

  • Ganesa in Indian Art and Literature (reference)

  • Ganesa Statuary of the Kadiri and Sinhasari Periods: A Study of Art History (Verhandelingen, No 160) (reference)

  • Ganesa.net (reference)

  • Loving Ganesa (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Ganesa

Illustrations:
Ganesa

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Usage Frequency: Ganesa

"Ganesa" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ganesa" is used about 4 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%4175,879

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ganesa

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

ganesa

3
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Modern Translations: Ganesa

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

Pig Latin

  

anesagay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Ganesa"

Words rhyming with "Ganesa" (pronounced 'Ga*ne"sa'): Abscissa, Amorosa, Annulosa, Ansa, Aporosa, Balsa, Bolsa, Bursa, Casa, Docoglossa, fossa, Foussa, Gloriosa, Glossa, Hydromedusa, Impresa, Inclusa, Jossa, Juwansa, Keratosa, Lobosa, lyssa, margosa, Medusa, Melissa, mesa, mimosa, Missa, Musa, Nassa, Oquassa, Paraglossa, Physa, Potassa, Ptenoglossa, Raghuvansa, Reticulosa, Rhachiglossa, Rhipidoglossa, Rugosa, Saccoglossa, Sarsa, Sessa, Siliquosa, Tachyglossa, Taenioglossa, Toxoglossa, Ursa, Vanessa, Vibrissa. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Ganesa

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-n-s"

-1 letter: angas, ansae, sanga.

-2 letters: agas, ages, anas, anes, anga, ansa, asea, engs, gaen, gaes, gane, gens, nags, saga, sage, sane, sang, snag.

-3 letters: aas, aga, age, ana, ane, eng, ens, gae, gan, gas, gen, nae, nag, sae, sag, sea, seg, sen.

-4 letters: aa, ae, ag, an, as, en, es, na, ne.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-n-s"
 

+1 letter: agendas, agnates, anlages, fanegas, galenas, guanase, lasagne, manages, sagamen.

 

+2 letters: agenesia, anagoges, anergias, angaries, apanages, arginase, arranges, bandages, beanbags, carnages, gamelans, gamesman, ganaches, guanases, lasagnes, magentas, magnates, magnesia, managers, nametags, paganise, pageants, pawnages, sangaree, seladang, stagnate, tanagers, tankages, tannages, thanages, vantages, wantages.

 

+3 letters: abnegates, agenesias, alginates, alienages, anagogies, analgesia, analgesic, analogies, analogues, angelicas, angulates, appanages, appeasing, arginases, arrangers, badinages, bandagers, baronages, carageens, caseating, chantages, comanages, drainages, egomanias, endamages, fanegadas, gainsayer, galvanise, gardenias, garganeys, gasconade, geranials, granaries, grandames, gravamens, guaranies, harangues, indagates, lagnappes, langrages, languages, magazines, magdalens, magnesian, magnesias, mangabeys, mangabies, manganese, mismanage, navigates, paganised, paganises, paganizes, paginates, parsonage, phalanges, runagates, sangarees, seafaring, seladangs, slanguage, stagehand, stagnated, stagnates, sugarcane, wagonages.

 

+4 letters: abnegators, advantages, agendaless, aggrandise, anageneses, anagenesis, analgesias, analgesics, analgetics, analogizes, anchorages, appendages, aragonites, archangels, arrogances, asparagine, asperating, assegaiing, assignable, bargainers, carrageens, champagnes, comanagers, disarrange, egomaniacs, engarlands, escalading, escalating, flagrances, fragrances, gabardines, gainsayers, galantines, galenicals, galingales, gallamines, gallonages, galvanised, galvanises, galvanizes, gasconaded, gasconader, gasconades, granulates, guarantees, guaranties, haranguers, hydrangeas, lagniappes, laryngeals, magdalenes, mahoganies, malaguenas, manageress, manganates, manganeses, manganites, margarines, marginates, megafaunas, mismanaged, mismanages, nauseating, neuralgias, orangeades, orphanages, paganizers, parentages, parsonages, patronages, pentagrams, phalangers, plasmagene, rangelands, rearranges, saganashes, sandbagged, sandbagger, savageness, seafarings, separating, shaggymane, shanghaied, shanghaier, shenanigan, slanguages, smaragdine, stagehands, submanager, sugarcanes, termagants, tragedians, unassuaged, unbandages, vagrancies.

 

+5 letters: abnegations, admeasuring, aestivating, aggrandised, aggrandises, aggrandizes, allegations, allegiances, anagnorises, anecdotages, anemographs, anisogamies, antagonizes, antiplagues, arctangents, asparagines, assuagement, averageness, baronetages, berascaling, blancmanges, brigandages, campaigners, caretakings, carmagnoles, carragheens, causewaying, chargehands, collagenase, damascening, devastating, diagnosable, disarranged, disarranges, dragonheads, flagellants, flagrancies, fragrancies, frangipanes, gallantries, galvanizers, gangbangers, gasconaders, gearchanges, gestational, glutaminase, gradualness, grandaddies, grandbabies, grandmaster, greasepaint, haggardness, halogenates, hemangiomas, imaginaries, inaugurates, ingratiates, interabangs, invaginates, laggardness, langlaufers, malignances, managements, managership, manganesian, margravines, martingales, mastheading, overmanages, pacemakings, pageantries, parageneses, paragenesis, paramagnets, pentagonals, phanerogams, plasmagenes, prearranges, quadrangles, ravagements, reassailing, sandbaggers, sandglasses, selaginella, shaggymanes, shanghaiers, shenanigans, spermagonia, stagnancies, stalemating, strangulate, straphanger, sublanguage, submanagers, teargassing, ungraspable, vegetarians, zabagliones.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ganesa


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

47 61 6E 65 73 61

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)

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

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

01000111 01100001 01101110 01100101 01110011 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 006E 0065 0073 0061

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

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

416780718567

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INDEX

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


  

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