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Definition: Hillary |
HillaryNoun1. New Zealand mountaineer who first attained the summit of Mount Everest with his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay (born in 1919). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Hillary" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be cheerful". |
Date "Hillary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
Synonyms: HillarySynonyms: Edmund Hillary (n), Sir Edmund Hillary (n), Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hillary |
| English words defined with "Hillary": Edmund Hillary ♦ Sir Edmund Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival Hillary ♦ Tenzing Norgay. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The first ground landing at Marble Point air strip and in Antartica. Admiral Dufeck, USN, and Sir Edmund Hillary were on this flight.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Sir Edmund Hillary after accompanying first plane to land at the Marble Point ground air strip.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Bill Clinton, standing between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton, taking the oath of office of president of the United States.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | President Coolidge, posed on lawn of the White House, with Gen. Dennis E. Nolan, Allen Dulles, Hugh Gibson, Major G.V. Strong, Dorsey Richardson, Adm. Hillary P. Jones, Adm. A.T. Long, and Capt. A.A. Andrews.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Edmund Hillary | Well, we knocked the bastard off! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Bangladesh | In 1995, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Bangladesh. (references) |
Senegal | Senegal hosted the Second African-African American Summit in 1995. First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton began her trip to Africa in March 1997 with a visit to Senegal, and President Clinton visited Senegal in 1998. Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Walter Kansteiner, visited Senegal in August 2001. Foreign Minister Gadio met Secretary of State Colin Powell in September and November 2001. Senegal took a strong position against terrorism in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks against the U.S., and in October 2001 hosted a conference establishing an African Pact Against Terrorism. (references) | |
Political Economy | India | Improved relations were reflected over the succeeding four years in a series of high-level exchanges between the two governments, including visits to India by the Secretaries of Commerce, State, Defense, Treasury, Energy and Agriculture and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
David Letterman | Well, that's very sweet of her to say. I think it's probably a load of crap, but it's very sweet for her to have said that. We would love to have Hillary on the show. We would love to have her husband Tubby on the show. |
Dennis Miller | Now, while I myself happen to loathe Hillary Clinton more than practically any other human on the planet, I'm always amazed at the resentment she elicits. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | In the Dominican Republic, Hillary helped to rededicate a hospital that had been rebuilt by Dominicans and Americans, working side by side. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Hillary" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.36% of the time. "Hillary" is used about 87 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) | 87.36% | 76 | 38,217 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 6.9% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.75% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 87 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Hillary" 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 |
| Hillary | First name Female | 13,000 | 788 |
| Hillary | Last name | 300 | 23,755 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Hillary" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be cheerful". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Hillary." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Hilaria | Female | Ancient Roman | Hilary |
| Ellery | Male, Female | English | Hilary |
| Hilary | Female, Male | English | N/A |
| Hillary | Female, Male | English | Hilary |
| Hilaire | Male | French | Hilary |
| Ilaria | Female | Italian | Hilary |
| Ilario | Male | Italian | Hilary |
| Ilari | Male | Russian | Hilary |
| Hilaria | Female | Spanish | Hilary |
| Ilar | Male | Welsh | Hilary |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Hillary": Edmund Hillary ♦ Sir Edmund Hillary ♦ Sir Edmund Percival Hillary. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Hillary": Hillary-jones. | |
| 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 | |
"Hillary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bhilwara, Halaby, Halnaby, Heilmayr, Hellaby, Hilario, hilary, Hilery, Hiliary, Hillard, Huilar, Kilmarie, Millary, Shillay, Sillari. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-i-l-l-r-y" | |
-2 letters: hairy, hilar, hilly, rally, riyal. | |
-3 letters: airy, ally, aril, aryl, hail, hair, hall, harl, hila, hill, hyla, illy, lair, lari, liar, lily, lira, rail, rial, rill, yill. | |
-4 letters: ail, air, all, hay, ill, lar, lay, rah, ray, ria, rya, yah, yar. | |
-5 letters: ah, ai, al, ar, ay, ha, hi, la, li, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-i-l-l-r-y" | |
+3 letters: heliolatry, heroically, orphically, phyllaries. | |
+4 letters: archaically, bronchially, calligraphy, chronically, foolhardily, graphically, heretically, hilariously, parochially, spherically, thermically, trophically. | |
+5 letters: anarchically, behaviorally, cherubically, chimerically, chivalrously, cholerically, euphorically, harmonically, heraldically, herbicidally, hermetically, hieratically, historically, horizontally, horrifically, hydrological, hydronically, hyperbolical, hysterically, isochronally, isothermally, peripherally, rhetorically, rhythmically, seraphically, spheroidally, theatrically, thoracically, triglyphical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 6C 6C 61 72 79 |
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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)01001000 01101001 01101100 01101100 01100001 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i l l a r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 006C 006C 0061 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)42757878678491 |
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