Garrick

Definition: Garrick

Garrick

Noun

1. English actor and theater manager who was the foremost Shakespearean actor of his day (1717-1779).

"Garrick" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the power of a spear".

Date "Garrick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Garrick

Domain	Definitions
Biographical Satire	GARRICK, an old English matinee idol. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Garrick

Synonym: David Garrick (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Garrick

English words defined with "Garrick": David Garrick ♦ Stageplayer. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Garrick": Ogleby ♦ Roscius ♦ Wives of Literary Men. (references)

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Modern Usage: Garrick

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

The Great Garrick (1937)

David Garrick (1922)

Lily Savage Live at the Garrick Theatre (1995)

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Commercial Usage: Garrick

Domain	Title
Books	Garrick Claims the Stage: Acting as Social Emblem in Eighteenth-Century England (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) (reference) Actors Of Great Britain And The United States From The Days Of David Garrick To The Present Time (with Brander Matthews) (Notable American Authors) (reference) Pineapples of Finest Flavour: Or, a Selection of Sundry Unpublished Letters of the English Roscius, David Garrick. (reference) Mickle, Boswell, Garrick and the Siege of Marseilles (Transactions, Vol 46, Pt 5) (reference) (more book examples)
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Familiar Quotations: Garrick

Author	Quotation
David Garrick	Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
	You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
	Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
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Usage Frequency: Garrick

"Garrick" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Garrick" is used about 54 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%	54	46,184

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Garrick

The following table summarizes the usage of "Garrick" 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
Garrick	Last name	2,000	6,493
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Garrick

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Garrick

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
garrick	35
david garrick	11
aug garrick	8
garrick rv	7
garrick theater	7
filewod garrick	6
garrick lou	4
garrick ohlsson	4
garrick utley	3
john garrick	3
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Modern Translations: Garrick

Language		Translations for "garrick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Pig Latin		arrickgay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Garrick

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Lichia glauca, Trachynotus glaucus. (various references)
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Anagrams: Garrick

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-k-r-r"
	-2 letters: cigar.
	-3 letters: cark, carr, crag, rack, ragi, raki, rick.
	-4 letters: air, arc, ark, car, cig, gar, ick, irk, kir, rag, ria, rig.
	-5 letters: ag, ai, ar, ka.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-k-r-r"
	+2 letters: ragpicker, reracking.
	+3 letters: barracking, ragpickers, retracking.
	+4 letters: gimcrackery.
	+5 letters: racketeering.
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