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Definitions: Gregory |
GregoryNoun1. The pope who sponsored the introduction of the modern calendar (1572-1585). 2. The pope who fought to establish the supremacy of the pope over the Church and the supremacy of the Church over the state (1020-1085). 3. The pope for whom Gregorian chants were named (circa 540-604). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Gregory" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be watchful", "alert". |
Date "Gregory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Literature | Gregory (A). A school-feast, so called from being held on St. Gregory's Day (March 12th). On this day the pupils at one time brought the master all sorts of eatables, and of course it was a dies non, and the master shut his eyes to all sorts of licences. Gregories were not limited to any one country, but were common to all Europe. Gregory (St.). The last Pope who has been canonised. Usually represented with the tiara, pastoral staff, his book of homilies, and a dove. The last is his peculiar attribute. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gregory National Park."
Synonyms: GregorySynonyms: Gregory I (n), Gregory the Great (n), Gregory VII (n), Gregory XIII (n), Hildebrand (n), Saint Gregory I (n), St Gregory I (n), Ugo Buoncompagni (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gregory |
| English words defined with "Gregory": Decretal ♦ Gregorian, Gregorian calendar, Gregorian modes, Gregory I, Gregory John Norman, Gregory the Great, Gregory VII, Gregory XIII ♦ New Style ♦ Sacramentary, Saint Gregory I, St Gregory I. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Gregory": Ambrosian Chant, Apostles, where buried, Authentic Doctor ♦ Canossa, Catholic Majesty ♦ Dying Sayings ♦ Fathers of the Church, Fathers of the Greek Church ♦ Gregorian Year ♦ Imogine ♦ Julian Year ♦ Lollards ♦ Monk Lewis ♦ Non Angli sed Angeli, si forent Christiani ♦ Parlog, Pastorale of Pope Gregory, Pater Patrum ♦ REGTRAL ♦ Scienter Nesciens et Sapiente Indoctus, Sequential Parlog Machine, Servus Servorum, Stilo Novo ♦ Veni, Creator Spiritus. (references) |
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Screenplays | Be careful Gregory, be extremely careful about what you say! (That Darn Cat!; writing credit: Gordon Gordon; Mildred Gordon) | |
Clever | When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. (references; author: Gregory) | |
Movie/TV Titles | In Search of Gregory (1969) | |
Song Titles | Shake You Down (performing artist: Gregory Abbott) | |
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 | Gen. Gregory Martin, commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, and Lt. Col. Patrick Carpenter, U.S. Army G-3 Southern European Task Force commander, prepare to jump from a C-130 Hercules Oct. 19. Martin and 78 other U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army and Italian Arm. |  | U.S. Air Forces in Europe commander Gen. Gregory Martin; his wife, Wendy; Secretary of Defense William Cohen; his wife, Janet Langart Cohen; and former astronaut John Glenn, lead the troops and family members in celebrating the Secretary of Defense Holida. |
 | Microbiologist Gregory Siragusa obtains samples for microbial analysis from a washed carcass while food technologist James Dickson records information about the sample. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Keith Weller.. |  | [Obesity] / [John C. Gregory, Jr.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [Surgery Obesity] / [John C. Gregory, Jr.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Destroyer hulls on the building ways, 1 October 1917. Those closest to the camera are the future USS Colhoun (DD-85) and Stevens (DD-86), which had builder's numbers 280 and 281. The ships on the left are probably the future USS Sigourney (DD-81) and Gregory (DD-82). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Ships fitting out at the Fore River shipyard, 19 March 1918. The six destroyers are Little (DD-79), Kimberly (DD-80), Sigourney (DD-81), Gregory (DD-82), Colhoun (DD-85) and Stevens (DD-86), which had builder's hull numbers 274-277 and 280-281 respectively. The freighter at right is Katrina Luckenbach, yard hull # 267, which served as USS Katrina Luckenbach in 1918-19. Most of the equipment on the pier is for her. Note the large submarine being built in the background, under the revolving crane. Credit: NAVY. |  | Rep. Karl Mundt (R.S.D.), chairman of House Unamerican Activities Subcommittee (right), swears in Nathan Gregory Silvermaster ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Portrait of Rear Adm. Francis H. Gregory, officer of the Federal Navy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lady Gregory, one of the founders of the Irish theatre. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Gregory | When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. |
Gregory The Great | Holy Scripture is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet. |
Gregory XIII | To the greater glory of God. |
Pope Gregory I | If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would be no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof. |
St. Gregory The Great | Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Corporal Gregory Depestre went to Haiti as part of his adopted country's force to help secure democracy in his native land. |
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| "Gregory" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gregory" is used about 1,001 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% | 1,001 | 7,352 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Gregory" 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 |
| Gregory | First name Female | 1,000 | 3,270 |
| Gregory | First name Male | 441,000 | 37 |
| Gregory | Last name | 38,000 | 284 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Gregory" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be watchful", "alert". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Gregory." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Gregorios | Male | Ancient Greek | Gregory |
| Krikor | Male | Armenian | Gregory |
| Gregers | Male | Danish | Gregory |
| Greg | Male | English | Gregory |
| Gregg | Male | English | Gregory |
| Gregory | Male | English | N/A |
| Greig | Male | English | Gregory |
| Grier | Male | English | Gregory |
| Reijo | Male | Finnish | Gregory |
| Grégoire | Male | French | Gregory |
| Gregor | Male | German | Gregory |
| Gregorios | Male | Greek | Gregory |
| Gergely | Male | Hungarian | Gregory |
| Gréagóir | Male | Irish | Gregory |
| Gregorio | Male | Italian | Gregory |
| Gregers | Male | Norwegian | Gregory |
| Grzegorz | Male | Polish | Gregory |
| Grigore | Male | Romanian | Gregory |
| Grigori | Male | Russian | Gregory |
| Gregor | Male | Scottish | Gregory |
| Griogair | Male | Scottish | Gregory |
| Gregorio | Male | Spanish | Gregory |
| Greger | Male | Swedish | Gregory |
| Grigor | Male | Welsh | Gregory |
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| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Beeson Gregory Group PLC |
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1. Gregory, MI 2. Gregory, SD (city, FIPS 26180) 3. Gregory, TX (city, FIPS 31064) |
Expressions using "Gregory": Gregory County ♦ Gregory I ♦ Gregory John Norman ♦ Gregory the Great ♦ Gregory VII ♦ Gregory XIII ♦ Saint Gregory I ♦ St Gregory I. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Gregory": Gregory-hood, gregory-powder, Gregory-smith. | |
Ending with "Gregory": Lamont-gregory. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
gregory peck | 4,091 | funeral gregory peck | 73 |
gregory pack | 2,019 | zoe gregory | 72 |
biggs gregory | 791 | gregory mi | 71 |
gregory smith | 743 | dorian gregory | 58 |
gregory | 259 | gregory peck photo | 57 |
gregory movie peck | 156 | actor gregory peck | 44 |
biography gregory peck | 148 | gregory spencer w | 43 |
gregory adam | 122 | st gregory hotel | 41 |
gregory backpack | 120 | everwood gregory smith | 39 |
gregory spencer | 105 | gregory moss shad | 36 |
gregory isaacs | 100 | film gregory peck | 33 |
gregory picture smith | 99 | st gregory | 33 |
die gregory peck | 99 | gregory obituary peck | 32 |
gregory hines | 95 | gregory robert smith | 32 |
dick gregory | 90 | carl gregory | 32 |
lake gregory | 84 | filmography gregory peck | 31 |
gregory harrison | 80 | gregory crewdson | 31 |
james gregory | 76 | charles gregory | 31 |
death gregory peck | 76 | dickow gregory | 30 |
gregory peck picture | 74 | actor gregory smith | 26 |
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| Language | Translations for "Gregory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ревен (gregory-powder, pie-plant, rhubarb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Czech | Øehoř. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | "ρηγόριοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rebarapor (gregory-powder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | Gregoir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | egorygray "регори. (various references) grgurov prašak (gregory-powder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Gregory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gerjuoy, Gregoriev, Gregorys, Grigor, Grigorii, Grigoris, Grygar, Grygor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-g-o-r-r-y" | |
-1 letter: gorger. | |
-2 letters: gorge, grego, roger. | |
-3 letters: eggy, ergo, goer, gore, gory, grey, grog, gyre, gyro, ogre, orgy, oyer, yegg, yore. | |
-4 letters: egg, ego, erg, err, gey, gor, goy, ore, reg, roe, rye. | |
-5 letters: er, go, oe, or, oy, re, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-g-o-r-r-y" | |
+1 letter: groggery. | |
+4 letters: gallerygoer. | |
+5 letters: exaggeratory, gallerygoers, greengrocery, gregariously. | |
| 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 72 65 67 6F 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-. . --. --- .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110010 01100101 01100111 01101111 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G r e g o r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0072 0065 0067 006F 0072 0079 |
| 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)41847173818491 |
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Tsjeggies, Tsjeg, çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, Checu, чешки, Sekoslovakyano, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tjekkiskt, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tsjechysk, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체", Sheckagh, Sheckish, Czech, chèc, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc, for Czech; Grieks, Griek, الإغريقي, يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, Griegu, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, Griyego, 希臘語 , 希腊语, řecký, řeètina, řek, græker, grikst, kreikkalainen, grec, Gryk, Gryksk, Gryks, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, Grikki, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, grèc, greacã, греческий, Eleni, grk, grčki jezik, grčki, griego, grek, Yunanli, yunanlı, yunanca, yunan, Rumca, yunanistan'a ait, rum, грек, гречанка, грецька мова, грецький, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, kẻ lừa đảo, Groegwr, for Greek; 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