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Definitions: Gustavus |
GustavusNoun1. King of Sweden whose victories in battle made Sweden a European power; his domestic reforms made Sweden a modern state; in 1630 he intervened on the Protestant side of the Thirty Years' War and was killed in the battle of Lutzen (1594-1632). 2. King of Sweden who established Lutheranism as the state religion (1496-1560). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Gustavus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
Synonyms: GustavusSynonyms: Gustavus Adolphus (n), Gustavus I (n), Gustavus II (n). (additional references) |
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Crosswords: Gustavus |
| English words defined with "Gustavus": battle of Lutzen ♦ Chronogram ♦ Gustavus Adolphus, Gustavus Franklin Swift, Gustavus I, Gustavus II, Gustavus V ♦ Lutzen. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Gustavus": Drives fat Oxen, Dying Sayings ♦ Snow King. (references) |
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 | Gustavus Vasa Fox Assistant Secretary of the Navy during Civil War Served on Coast Survey in 1840's. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | [Alexander Gustavus Brown Jr., M.D.] / [P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by] Foster.. |
 | Lithograph by Endicott & Company, New York, circa 1865, entitled "Monitor Iron-Clads and the New Ironsides, Forming part of the Fleet of Rear Admiral D.D. Porter, U.S.N. riding out a Gale of Wind, at Anchor off Fort Fisher, Coast of North Carolina, December 21, 1864." The print is dedicated by the publisher to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus V. Fox. Monitors in the foreground and middle distance are (from left to right) Monadnock (twin-turret), Canonicus, Mahopac and Saugus. Ships in the distance (from left to left-center) are: Brooklyn, New Ironsides, Juniata, Tacony and Malvern. Credit: NAVY. |  | Arlington, Va. Brig. Gen. Gustavus A. DeRussey (third from left) and staff on portico of Arlington House. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Sweden | Its contributions during the Thirty Years War under Gustav II Adolf (Gustavus Adolphus) determined the political as well as the religious balance of power in Europe. (references) |
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| "Gustavus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Gustavus" 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) | 80% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Gustavus, AK (CDP, FIPS 30940) |
Expressions using "Gustavus": gustavus Adolphus ♦ gustavus Franklin Swift ♦ gustavus I ♦ gustavus II ♦ gustavus V. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Gustavus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | γούσταυοσ. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ustavusgay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-s-s-t-u-u-v" | |
-2 letters: august. | |
-3 letters: gasts, gauss, gusts, stags, vagus, vasts, vatus. | |
-4 letters: gast, gats, gust, guts, guvs, sags, stag, tags, tass, taus, tavs, tugs, utas, vast, vats, vatu, vaus, vugs. | |
-5 letters: ass, gas, gat, gut, guv, sag, sat, sau, tag, tas, tau, tav, tug, uta, uts, vas, vat, vau, vug. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 75 73 74 61 76 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. ..- ... - .- ...- ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110101 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110110 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G u s t a v u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0075 0073 0074 0061 0076 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4187858667888785 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ |
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