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Definition: George III |
George IIINoun1. King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820; the American colonies were lost during his reign; he became insane in 1811 and his son (later George IV) acted as regent until 1820 (1738-1820). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Biographical Satire | GEORGE III, King of England, 1736-1820. Lived during the reign of William Pitt, and believed in taxing tea. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | George III was nicknamed "Farmer George," or "The Farmer King." (See Farmer.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: George III |
| English words defined with "George III": Frederick North ♦ John Wilkes ♦ north ♦ Regent bird ♦ Second Earl of Guilford ♦ The Sailor King ♦ Wilkes, William IV. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "George III": Baga de Secretis ♦ Cat Proverbs, Column at Boulogne ♦ Florizel ♦ GEORGE III ♦ Lucus a non Lucendo ♦ Marian'a ♦ Redgauntlet, Rudolphine Tables ♦ Stars and Garters! ♦ Vicar of Bray. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "George III": Strelitzia. (references) |
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 | Pulling down the statue of George III by the "Sons of Freedom," at the Bowling Green, City of New York, July 1776 / painted by Johannes A. Oertel ; engraved by John C. McRae.Credit: Library of Congress. | | Pulling down the statue of George III by the "Sons of Freedom," at the Bowling Green, City of New York, July 1776 / painted by Johannes A. Oertel ; engraved by John C. McRae.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Portrait of Richard Nixon posed as a King George III, with partially dest royed United States Capitol in background.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Economic History | Grenada | In 1782, Sir Joseph Banks, the botanical adviser to King George III, introduced nutmeg to Grenada. (references) |
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| 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 |
king george iii | 61 |
george iii | 39 |
george iii king picture | 9 |
king george iii of england | 6 |
george iii patton s | 3 |
biography king george iii | 2 |
coin george iii | 2 |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | RM:Departament presidial da l'interpresa svizra da posta,telefon e telegraf. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"George III" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: georeg iii. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-g-i-i-i-o-r" | |
-3 letters: greige. | |
-4 letters: egger, gorge, grego. | |
-5 letters: eger, ergo, giro, goer, gore, gree, grig, grog, ogee, ogre. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-g-i-i-i-o-r" | |
+5 letters: bioengineering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 6F 72 67 65 49 49 49 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01101111 01110010 01100111 01100101 00100000 01001001 01001001 01001001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e o r g e   I I I |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 006F 0072 0067 0065 0049 0049 0049 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4171818473712434343 |
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