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Holofernes

Definition: Holofernes

Holofernes

Noun

1. (Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith.

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

Date "Holofernes" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)


Crosswords: Holofernes

English words defined with "Holofernes": Judith. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Holofernes": HolophernesRosalinde. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Holofernes

"Holofernes" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Holofernes" is used about 2 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 (proper)100%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Holofernes

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

  holofernes judith

13

  holofernes

9

  holofernes judith slaying

6

  head her holofernes judith maidservant

2

  artemisia by gentileschi holofernes judith slaying

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

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Anagrams: Holofernes

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: honorees, hornfels, loosener.

-3 letters: flenser, flesher, freshen, fresnel, herself, honoree, hoofers, oneself, onshore, reshone.

-4 letters: enrols, enserf, felons, fleers, flense, floors, foehns, hereof, hereon, heroes, herons, honers, honors, hoofer, leones, loners, loosen, looser, nerols, nooser, nosher, refels, reshoe, resole, senhor, sooner.

-5 letters: enols, enrol, ernes, erose, feels, felon, feres, ferns, fleer, flees, flesh, floes.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-f-h-l-n-o-o-r-s"
 

+5 letters: foolhardinesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Holofernes


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

48 6F 6C 6F 66 65 72 6E 65 73

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 01101100 01101111 01100110 01100101 01110010 01101110 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#111 &#108 &#111 &#102 &#101 &#114 &#110 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 006C 006F 0066 0065 0072 006E 0065 0073

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

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

42817881727184807185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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