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Geraint

Definition: Geraint

Geraint

Noun

1. (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: Geraint

Synonym: Sir Geraint (n). (additional references)

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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).

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Usage Frequency: Geraint

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)97.56%4054,274
Lexical Verb (base form)2.44%1339,140
                    Total100.00%41N/A

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

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Derived & Related Names: Geraint

"Geraint" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an old man".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Geraint."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
GerontiusMaleLate RomanN/A
GeraintMaleWelshGerontius
GeraintMaleWelsh MythologyGerontius
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Geraint

Expression using "Geraint": Sir Geraint. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Geraint

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

  geraint wyn davies

32

  geraint wife

20

  geraint

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Geraint

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).

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Anagrams: Geraint

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Geraint


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

47 65 72 61 69 6E 74

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)

--.    .    .-.    .-    ..    -.    -

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

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

01000111 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#114 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#116

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)

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

41718467758086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Derived from
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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