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Definitions: GRISONS |
GRISONSNoun plural1. The largest and most eastern of the Swiss cantons. 2. Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps. |
Date "GRISONS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Grisons \Gri"sons\, plural noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| GR | English | Canton of Grisons | Geography, Law |
| GR | French | Canton des Grisons | Geography, Law |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Grisons (grih.zonz'), German Graubünden (grow.bÜn'dûn), Italian Grigioni (gree.jo'nee), Romansh Grischun (grih.zhoon'), French Grisons (gree.zong'), is the largest and easternmost Swiss canton. It has a population of 167,000 and a surface area of 7,100 km².
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The canton is entirely mountainous, comprising the highlands of the Rhine and Inn valleys. It borders on Liechtenstein (N), Austria (NW), Italy (SW), and the confederate cantons of St. Gallen (NE), Glarus, Uri (E), and Ticino (SW.) The capital city is Chur. Other towns are the world-famous resorts of Davos and St. Moritz.
The languages spoken in the Grisons are German in the NW (54%), Romansh - a language of the Ladin group - in the Engadin and around Disentis/Mustér (31%), and Italian in the valleys Mesolcina/Misox, Calanca, Bregaglia/Bergell, and Poschiavo/Puschau (15%).
The religions are Protestantism and Catholicism.
The name Graubünden means "The Gray Leagues." The Grisons were established in the 14th century from the merging of three defensive leagues, the Gray League (Grauer Bund) , the League of God's House (Cadi, Gottes Haus, Ca' di Dio), and the League of the Ten Jurisdictions (Zehngerichtebund). A "perpetual ally" of Switzerland, the country became a canton in 1803.
Also known for a lovely dried-beef delicacy called Bundnerfleisch.
Location of the canton
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Grisons."
Crosswords: GRISONS |
| English words defined with "GRISONS": Rhetian, Romansch. (references) |
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| "GRISONS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "GRISONS" is used about 10 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) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (plural) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
grisons | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "GRISONS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | GR (canton of Grisons, Greece), canton des Grisons (canton of Grisons). (various references) | ||||
German | GR (canton of Grisons, Greece, hail, Hellenic Republic), Kanton Graubünden (canton of Grisons). (various references) | ||||
Italian | GR (canton of Grisons, Greece, hail, Hellenic Republic, red blood cells, red blood corpuscles, red cells, red corpuscles), Cantone dei Grigioni (canton of Grisons). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | isonsgray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"GRISONS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gimsons, Grason, Gregsons, Grimsdon, Grimson. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: signors, sorings. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-o-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: girons, gnosis, grison, groins, rosing, rosins, signor, soring. | |
-2 letters: girns, giron, giros, grins, groin, gross, irons, noirs, noris, ornis, rings, rosin, signs, sings, snogs, songs, sorns. | |
-3 letters: gins, girn, giro, grin, inro, ions, iron, nogs, noir, nori, rigs, ring, rins, sign, sing, sins, sirs, snog, song, sons, sori, sorn, sris. | |
-4 letters: gin, gor, gos. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-o-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: assignor, crossing, goriness, grossing, ringtoss, shorings, signiors, signoras, soarings. | |
+2 letters: assignors, assorting, birdsongs, cosigners, coursings, crossings, egression, frostings, garrisons, nigrosins, organises, organisms, organists, prognosis, scourings, seigniors, showrings, signories, skiorings, songbirds, strongish. | |
+3 letters: aggression, boringness, bowstrings, chorussing, consignors, digression, egressions, engrossing, gorinesses, granulosis, grogginess, grosgrains, growliness, incrossing, ingression, misgoverns, missorting, monsignors, nonsigners, offsprings, oppressing, organisers, orogenesis, overswings, oysterings, posturings, processing, professing, progestins, reasonings, recognises, recrossing, reglossing, regression, ringtosses, sangfroids, scissoring, sclerosing, seignories, shoestring, signboards, signiories, signorinas, skijorings, solarising, sovereigns, sponsoring, springboks, stroudings, subregions, uncrossing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 52 49 53 4F 4E 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-. .. ... --- -. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01010010 01001001 01010011 01001111 01001110 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G R I S O N S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0052 0049 0053 004F 004E 0053 |
| 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)41524353494853 |
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