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Definition: Geraint |
GeraintNoun1. (Arthurian legend) one of the knights of the Round Table. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Geraint" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an old man". |
Date "Geraint" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
Synonym: GeraintSynonym: Sir Geraint (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Geraint |
| English words defined with "Geraint": Sir Geraint. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Geraint" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Welsh (Gerontius). |
| "Geraint" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.56% of the time. "Geraint" is used about 41 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) | 97.56% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Geraint" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an old man". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Geraint." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Gerontius | Male | Late Roman | N/A |
| Geraint | Male | Welsh | Gerontius |
| Geraint | Male | Welsh Mythology | Gerontius |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Geraint": Sir Geraint. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
geraint wyn davies | 32 |
geraint wife | 20 |
geraint | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Geraint" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Garavini, Garrani, Gefanil, gereint, Gerzina, Giacinto, Gorani, Graunt, Gujrant, Kersaint. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: granite, gratine, ingrate, tangier, tearing. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: aigret, argent, earing, eating, engirt, gainer, gaiter, garnet, gratin, ingate, ratine, rating, reagin, regain, regina, retain, retina, taring, triage. | |
-2 letters: agent, anger, antre, entia, garni, giant, grain, grant, grate, great, inert, inter, irate, niter, nitre, range, regna, reign, renig, retag, retia, riant, targe, tenia, terai, terga, tiger, tinea, tinge, tragi, train, trine. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: aerating, alerting, altering, angriest, argentic, astringe, averting, berating, catering, creating, derating, earthing, emigrant, ganister, gantries, gnattier, gradient, granites, gratinee, grievant, hearting, ingather, ingrates, integral, interage, rangiest, reacting, rebating, redating, relating, remating, retaking, retaping, retaxing, tabering, tanglier, tapering, treading, treating, triangle, twangier, vintager, watering. | |
+2 letters: accreting, adverting, agentries, antiglare, aragonite, argentine, argentite, arresting, asserting, astringed, astringes, bantering, bartering, battering, betraying, breasting, breathing, cantering, carpeting, centigram, cratering, cremating, denigrate, departing, deratting, earthling, emigrants, estraying, faltering, fathering, featuring, ganisters, gannister, garniture, gartering, gathering, gauntries, germinate, gnarliest, gradients, grainiest, granulite, gratineed, gratinees, grievants, haltering, ingathers, ingrafted, integrals, integrand, integrate, intergang, iterating, lathering, marginate, marketing, mastering, mattering, morganite, nattering, naughtier, nightmare, nightwear, operating, orangiest, originate, paltering, parenting, pargeting, pattering, preacting, predating, pretaping, rabbeting, racketing, rattening, rebaiting, recanting, recasting, recrating, redacting, reflating, regrating, reheating, repasting, repeating, replating, reseating, reslating, restaging, restating, retacking, retagging, retailing, retaining, retarding, retasting, reteaming, retearing, retracing, seriating, serrating, signature, stingaree, streaking, streaming, tampering, tangerine, targeting, tattering, terracing, threading, threaping, threating, tragedian, trameling, trapesing, traveling, treadling, triangles, uptearing, vintagers, waterings, wreathing, yattering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 72 61 69 6E 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . .-. .- .. -. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e r a i n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 0072 0061 0069 006E 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41718467758086 |
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