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Hohenzollern

Definition: Hohenzollern

Hohenzollern

Noun

1. A German noble family that ruled Brandenburg and Prussia.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Hohenzollern

English words defined with "Hohenzollern": Hohenzollern empire. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hohenzollern

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

William Hohenzollern Sausage Maker (1919)

The Hohenzollern (1902)

Panoramic View of the Hohenzollern (1902)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Hohenzollern

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hohenzollern Berlin: Construction and Reconstruction (reference)

  • Napoleons Adler über Württemberg, Baden und Hohenzollern : Südwestdeutschland in der Rheinbundzeit (reference)

  • Potsdam: Die Schlosser Und Garten Der Hohenzollern = Palaces and Gardens of the Hohenzollern = Chateaux Et Jardins Des Hohenzollern (reference)

  • Quellen zur Geschichte der Volksbibliotheken in Württemberg und Hohenzollern 1806-1918 : ein sachthematisches Inventar (reference)

  • ROM Und Jerusalem: Kirchenbauvorstellungen Der Hohenzollern Im 19. Jahrhundert (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Hohenzollern

Illustrations:
Hohenzollern

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Photo Album: Hohenzollern

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A Hohenzollern victory.Credit: Library of Congress.

Old woman representing "defeat" spoons off "Hohenzollern dynasty" from cauldron of "Germany".Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Historic Usage: Hohenzollern

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign William II of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offence against international morality and the sanctity of treaties. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Hohenzollern

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Romania

A German prince, Carol of Hohenzollern, was crowned first King of Romania in 1881. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Hohenzollern

"Hohenzollern" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Hohenzollern" is used about 14 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)50%7133,076
Noun (proper)35.71%5157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)14.29%2245,945
                    Total100.00%14N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Hohenzollern

Expression using "Hohenzollern": hohenzollern empire. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Hohenzollern": Hohenzollern-hechingen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hohenzollern

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  hohenzollern

39

  castle hohenzollern

9

  burg hohenzollern

5

  family hohenzollern

3

  genealogy hohenzollern

2

  dynasty hohenzollern

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hohenzollern

Language Translations for "Hohenzollern"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

hohenzollernstraße (Hohenzollern Street). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ohenzollernhay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hohenzollern

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-h-h-l-l-n-n-o-o-r-z"

-5 letters: honoree, nonhero, nonzero.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hohenzollern


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 6F 68 65 6E 7A 6F 6C 6C 65 72 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101111 01101000 01100101 01101110 01111010 01101111 01101100 01101100 01100101 01110010 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#111 &#104 &#101 &#110 &#122 &#111 &#108 &#108 &#101 &#114 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 0068 0065 006E 007A 006F 006C 006C 0065 0072 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

428174718092817878718480

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Historic
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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