Garbo

Definition: Garbo

Garbo

Noun

1. United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990).

Date "Garbo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

"Garbo" is a common misspelling or typo for: garb, garbed, gearbox, grab.

Specialty Definition: Codename Garbo

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Garbo was the codename of Juan Pujol Garcia, a Spaniard who was taken on by the Germans during World War II to spy on the British, after an initial overture to British intelligence had been rejected. Because of his dislike for Franco, the Spanish dictator, he double-crossed the Germans, and went to work for the British. He thought that an Allied victory would result in the deposition of Franco.
Operating initially in Lisbon, he pretended to the Germans that he was in Britain. He fabricated reports about shipping movements, successfully convincing them. Eventually, he again made contact with British intelligence, and again offered his services. This time he was accepted.
Garbo reached Britain in the spring of 1942, and operated as a double agent under the aegis of the XX Committee. He purported to have recruited a large network of agents, including a number of influential people with 'inside' information. In order to foster this illusion, Garbo supplied the Germans with a certain amount of collateral information. The Germans then paid Garbo a large amount of money for this misinformation.
Garbo has the distinction of being one of the few people during World War II to receive decorations from both sides, gaining both an Iron Cross from the Germans and an MBE from the British.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Codename Garbo."

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Garbo

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Garbo may stand for:
Greta Garbo
the codename of Juan Pujol Garcia: codename Garbo
Wikipedia:This is a disambiguation page
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Garbo."

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Synonyms: Garbo

Synonyms: Greta Garbo (n), Greta Louisa Gustafsson (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Garbo

Etymologies containing "Garbo": Galbe. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Garbo" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Esperanto (sheaf), Italian (politeness), Portuguese (grace, gracefulness), Spanish (charm, elegance, elegancy, elegant, grace).

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Modern Usage: Garbo

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Then there's pretty Dottie Henson, who plays like Gehrig, and looks like Garbo. Uh-uh, fellas, keep your mitts to yourself; she's married (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele)
Lyrics	Greta Garbo, and Monroe (Vogue; performing artist: Madonna)
Movie/TV Titles	Garbo (1969) Garabatos Greta Garbo (1944) Garbo - berättelsen bakom breven (2001)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Garbo

Domain	Title
Books	Venus in Hollywood: The Continental Enchantress from Garbo to Loren (reference) The Golden Girls of MGM: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Others (reference) Jean Batten : the Garbo of the skies (reference) Garbo : the famous biography, lavishly illustrated (reference) Greta Garbo Paper Dolls in Full Color (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Garbo Talks (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Garbo

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Photo Album: Garbo

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Greta Garbo in the role of Zara, a cafe entertainer in Budapest, in the 1932 movie "As you desire me." She stands with her arm on the shoulder of Erich von Stroheim, who plays Carl Salter, a novelist. Credit: Library of Congress.		Garbo, Greta, Miss, house. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Portrait photograph of Greta Garbo. Credit: Library of Congress.		Clipping from an article on Arnold Genthe called Ein Romantiker der Photographie: Arnold Genthe, consisting of portrait photographs of Eleonara Duse, Greta Garbo and Arnold Genthe. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Garbo

"Garbo" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Garbo" is used about 48 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%	48	49,194

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Garbo

The following table summarizes the usage of "Garbo" 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
Garbo	Last name	300	27,669
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Garbo

Expression using "Garbo": Greta Garbo. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "Garbo": sub-garbo.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Garbo

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
greta garbo	331	anonymous archive ftp garbo	4
garbo	76	gallery garbo greta	4
greta garbo picture	13	barrymore garbo movie	3
biography greta garbo	11	garbo matchline philips	3
eva garbo	11	garbo grand	3
gretta garbo	9	fire garbo island	2
barrymore garbo	9	greta garbo pic	2
barrymore checked garbo in where	7	fred garbo	2
garbo matchline	7	greta garbo movie	2
garbo greta photo	6	garbo joan	2
greta y los garbo	5	bio garbo greta	2
garbo greta hari mata	5	camille garbo greta	2
garbo philips	5	actress garbo greta	2
greta garbo autograph	4	greta garbo photograph	2
greta garbo nude	4	greta garbo poster	2
deluxe garbo philips	4	garbo production	2
		garbo greta lesbian	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Garbo

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Garbo": garboard, garboards, garboil, garboils. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Garbo

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-g-o-r"
	-1 letter: boar, bora, brag, garb, grab.
	-2 letters: abo, ago, arb, bag, bar, boa, bog, bra, bro, gab, gar, goa, gob, gor, oar, ora, orb, rag, rob.
	-3 letters: ab, ag, ar, ba, bo, go, or.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-g-o-r"
	+1 letter: barong, borage, brogan, gabbro.
	+2 letters: bagworm, barongs, begorah, begorra, begroan, borages, brogans, brokage, embargo, gabbros, garboil, gearbox, hagborn, outbrag, probang, workbag.
	+3 letters: aborning, aborting, abrogate, algaroba, bagworms, bargello, barogram, baronage, beglamor, begorrah, begroans, bergamot, bigaroon, boarding, borating, bravoing, brockage, brokages, brougham, faubourg, gabbroic, gabbroid, garbanzo, garboard, garboils, glabrous, globular, grosbeak, growable, laboring, osnaburg, outbrags, pegboard, probangs, taboring, tagboard, workbags.
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