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Definition: GILLIAN |
GILLIANNoun1. A girl; esp., a wanton; a gill. |
"GILLIAN" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "with a downy beard". |
Date "GILLIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Etymology: Gillian \Gil"li*an\, noun. [from Old English expression Gillian, woman's name, for Julian, Juliana. Compare to Gill girl.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: GILLIAN |
| Etymologies containing "GILLIAN": Julian. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | She's that type, Gillian, you know. (Shirley Valentine; writing credit: Willy Russell) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Gillian Anderson | Fame is complicated and definitely overrated. There are perks to it that are unfathomable. But the other aspect is there's little to no privacy at all—being anywhere at any time and knowing that somebody you cannot see is probably taking a picture of you, which has happened hundred of times. I look around and cannot see anyone and a couple of weeks later I see a photo of me looking around. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "GILLIAN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GILLIAN" is used about 517 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% | 517 | 11,748 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "GILLIAN" 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 |
| Gillian | First name Female | 6,000 | 1,252 |
| Gillian | Last name | 1,000 | 11,068 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "GILLIAN" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "with a downy beard". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "GILLIAN." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Juliana | Female | Ancient Roman | Julian |
| Julius | Male | Ancient Roman | N/A |
| Juliana | Female | Dutch | Julian |
| Gillian | Female | English | Julian |
| Jill | Female | English | Gillian |
| Jillian | Female | English | Gillian |
| Jolyon | Male | English | Julian |
| Julian | Male | English | Julius |
| Juliana | Female | English | Julian |
| Julianna | Female | English | Julian |
| Julianne | Female | English | Julian |
| Julius | Male | English | N/A |
| Julyan | Male | English | Julian |
| Juliane | Female | French | Julian |
| Julien | Male | French | Julian |
| Julienne | Female | French | Julian |
| Juliana | Female | German | Julian |
| Juliane | Female | German | Julian |
| Giuliano | Male | Italian | Julian |
| Juliana | Female | Portuguese | Julian |
| Iulian | Male | Romanian | Julian |
| Juliana | Female | Scandinavian | Julian |
| Julián | Male | Spanish | Julian |
| Juliana | Female | Spanish | Julian |
| 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. |
Misspellings | |
"GILLIAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bilalian, Bilijana, Gallegan, Galliani, Galligan, Ghislain, Gilan, gilian, gillain, gillean, Gilliane, Gillyan, Gitlin, Giulii, Giulliano, guillain, Guillani, Illeana, Killinan, Silliman, uilleann. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "GILLIAN" (pronounced 'Gil"li*an'): Abderian, Absinthian, Academian, Academician, Acadian, Acanthopterygian, Acaridan, Achean, Achillean, Acoustician, Acritan, Acroceraunian, Acropolitan, Adamantean, Adessenarian, Adonean, Adrian, AEgean, AEolian, AEonian, AEsculapian, AEsthetican, Ahriman, Airman, Airwoman, Ajouan, Ajowan, ajwain, Alabastrian, Alan, Alban, Albanian, Albigensian, Aldebaran, Alderman, Alexandrian, Algerian, Algonkian, Algonquian, Alkoran, Alloxan, Almsman, Alogian, Alongshoreman, Alphabetarian, Altitudinarian, Amatorian, Amazonian, Amebean, Ametabolian. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-l-l-n" | |
-1 letter: ailing, nilgai. | |
-2 letters: algin, align, glial, ilial, liang, ligan, linga. | |
-3 letters: agin, anil, gain, gall, gill, glia, ilia, inia, lain, lang, ling, nail, nill. | |
-4 letters: ail, ain, all, ani, gal, gan, gin, ill, lag, lin, nag, nil. | |
-5 letters: ag, ai, al, an, in, la, li, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-l-l-n" | |
+1 letter: dialling, flailing, vialling. | |
+2 letters: anvilling, bilingual, brailling, cavilling, diallings, failingly, gazillion, hilloaing, infalling, inwalling, lilangeni, pillaging, pillaring, rivalling. | |
+3 letters: alkalising, alkalizing, bilinguals, flatlining, gazillions, gimballing, installing, legalising, legalizing, localising, localizing, misallying, miscalling, originally, palliating, redialling, signalling, spiralling, trilingual, unilingual, vigilantly, virginally. | |
+4 letters: alkalifying, alleviating, antilogical, backfilling, bilingually, bullbaiting, callipering, callipygian, colligating, colligation, collimating, disallowing, fireballing, firewalling, gallicizing, gallinipper, genitivally, globalising, globalizing, highballing, impanelling, initialling, inthralling, labializing, landsliding, legislating, legislation, metallizing, misdialling, mislabeling, oscillating, painkilling, palletising, palletizing, pluralizing, pollinating, sailplaning, sinological, titillating, unfailingly, vacillating, victualling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 49 4C 4C 49 41 4E |
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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 01001001 01001100 01001100 01001001 01000001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G I L L I A N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0049 004C 004C 0049 0041 004E |
| 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)41434646433548 |
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