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HOLOPHERNES

Date "HOLOPHERNES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)


Specialty Definition: HOLOPHERNES

DomainDefinition

Literature

Holophernes (4 syl.). Master Tubal Holophernes. The great sophister-doctor, who, in the course of five years and three months, taught Gargantua to say his A B C backward. (Rabelais: Gargantua, book i. 14.)
Holofernes, in Love's Labour's Lost. Shakespeare satirises in this character the literary affectations of the Lyly school. An anagram of Johnes Florio. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HOLOPHERNES

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

holophernes judith

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: HOLOPHERNES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: noosphere.

-3 letters: honorees, loosener, oosphere, shoehorn.

-4 letters: elopers, helpers, honoree, hoopers, leprose, loopers, onshore, openers, operons, operose, phenols, reopens, reshone, snooper.

-5 letters: eloper, elopes, enrols, ephors, helper, hereon, heroes, herons, herpes, holpen, honers, honors, hooper, hopers, leones, lepers, loners, looper, loosen, looser, lopers, nerols, nooser, nosher, opener, operon, orlops, peones, pereon, person, phenol, phones.

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

+5 letters: hexachlorophenes, neurohypophyseal, phosphorescently.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HOLOPHERNES


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

48 4F 4C 4F 50 48 45 52 4E 45 53

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 01001111 01001100 01001111 01010000 01001000 01000101 01010010 01001110 01000101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#79 &#76 &#79 &#80 &#72 &#69 &#82 &#78 &#69 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 004F 004C 004F 0050 0048 0045 0052 004E 0045 0053

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

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

4249464950423952483953

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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