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"HERMIONE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a cairn", "a pile of stones". |
Date "HERMIONE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Hermione (4 syl.). Wife of Leontes, King of Silicia. Being suspected of infidelity, she was thrown into jail, swooned, and was reported to be dead. She was kept concealed till her infant Perdita was of marriageable age, when Leontes discovered his mistake, and was reconciled to his wife. (Shakespeare: Winter's Tale.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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A number of fictional characters have been named Hermione:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hermione."
Crosswords: HERMIONE |
| Specialty definitions using "HERMIONE": Paulina, Polixenes ♦ Winter's Tale. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yes Hermione, I think this is going to be exactly like wizard's chess. (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; writing credit: Steven Kloves) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Vice-Admiral Sir James Somerville, half-length portrait, seated, facing right, looking through binoculars aboard the British light cruiser Hermione. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hermione. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "HERMIONE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 89.47% of the time. "HERMIONE" is used about 19 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) | 89.47% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "HERMIONE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a cairn", "a pile of stones". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "HERMIONE." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Hermia | Female | German | Hermes |
| Hermes | Male | Greek Mythology | N/A |
| Hermione | Female | Greek Mythology | Hermes |
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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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-m-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: heroine. | |
-2 letters: ermine, herein, hereon, heroin, homier, inhere, menhir, merino, moreen. | |
-3 letters: enorm, hemin, heron, homer, honer, irone, miner, minor, moire, monie, rehem, rhino. | |
-4 letters: emir, erne, heir, heme, here, herm, hern, hero, hire, hoer, home, hone, horn, inro, iron, meno, mere, mien, mine, mire, more, morn, neem, noir, nome, nori, norm, omen, omer. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-i-m-n-o-r" | |
+2 letters: echinoderm. | |
+3 letters: amenorrheic, chernozemic, echinoderms, endothermic, fisherwomen, hemoprotein, hemosiderin, homogenizer, hormonelike, mesonephric, mesonephroi, metanephroi, premonished, premonishes, theobromine, thermocline. | |
+4 letters: endomorphies, endothermies, hemoproteins, hemosiderins, heteronomies, homogenizers, motherliness, neurochemist, nitromethane, overwhelming, theobromines, theocentrism, thermoclines, thermohaline. | |
+5 letters: aeromechanics, chronometries, comprehending, comprehension, comprehensive, dysmenorrheic, ethnocentrism, marchionesses, morphogenesis, morphogenetic, nephelometric, nephrectomies, nephrectomize, neurochemical, neurochemists, nitromethanes, nonmembership, theocentrisms, thermosetting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 45 52 4D 49 4F 4E 45 |
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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).... . .-. -- .. --- -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000101 01010010 01001101 01001001 01001111 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E R M I O N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 0052 004D 0049 004F 004E 0045 |
| 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)4239524743494839 |
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