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| Domain | Definition |
Biographical Satire | JOSEPHINE, only one of that great multitude of women who carried a heart which was broken by the ambitions of a man. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Josephine, Texas."
"JOSEPHINE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "he who will add". |
Date "JOSEPHINE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Crosswords: JOSEPHINE |
| Specialty definitions using "JOSEPHINE": Dying Sayings ♦ Fire-eaters ♦ Hair, Hairs. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "JOSEPHINE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (Josephine). |
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Lyrics | Corrected By Josephine Conboy (Uh Huh; performing artist: B2K) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Josephine (1974) Napoleon and Josephine (1924) Wife of a Demigod Empress Josephine; Or (1923) Napoleon and the Empress Josephine (1909) Josephine (2000) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [S. Josephine Baker, M.D.] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Nickolas Murray.. |  | [Sara Josephine Baker]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Miss Mary Josephine Keyworth Broome, ship's Sponsor, with her party at Broome's christening ceremonies, 14 May 1919. The ship was built at the William Cramp & Sons shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Miss Broome was granddaughter of Lieutenant Colonel John Lloyd Broome, USMC, in whose honor USS Broome was named. Her attendants, at left, are wearing the War Service uniform of the Emergency Aid. Credit: NAVY. |  | Miss Bowman is at left (presumably Josephine Beatrice Bowman, who became Superindentent of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1922). Credit: NAVY. |
 | Daily bread : by Josephine Preston Peabody. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Josephine Baker, arms outstretched, surrounded by women wearing elaborate hats, during activities relating to the French Gratitude Train. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ci-devant occupations-or-Madame Taliah and the Empress Josephine dancing naked before Barrass in the winter of 1797.-A fact! / Js Gillray dest & fect. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Josephine. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Josephine and Mercie. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hop, transported from field to kiln. Near Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon. General caption number 45. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Josephine Pollard | The wheel goes round and round, some are up and some are on the down, and still the wheel goes round. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | O Zephine, or Josephine, with face more than wrinkled, you would be charming if you were not cross. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | I thought you were Josephine, Stephen. |
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| "JOSEPHINE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "JOSEPHINE" is used about 184 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) | 100% | 184 | 22,714 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "JOSEPHINE" 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 |
| Josephine | First name Female | 177,000 | 121 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "JOSEPHINE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "he who will add". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "JOSEPHINE." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Joseph | Male | Biblical | N/A |
| Joseph | Male | English | N/A |
| Josephina | Female | English | Joséphine |
| Josephine | Female | English | Joséphine |
| Josie | Female | English | Josephine |
| Posie | Female | English | Josephine |
| Posy | Female | English | Josephine |
| Fifi | Female | French | Joséphine |
| Joséphine | Female | French | Joseph |
| Joseph | Male | French | N/A |
| Josette | Female | French | Joséphine |
| Josiane | Female | French | Joséphine |
| Pepca | Female | Slovene | Josephine |
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1. Josephine, TX (town, FIPS 38068) 2. Josephine, WV |
Expressions using "JOSEPHINE": Gloria May Josephine Svensson ♦ Josephine County ♦ Josephine knot. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "JOSEPHINE": Thea-josephine. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "JOSEPHINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | noeud Joséphine (Josephine knot). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Josephine. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | Ιωσηφίνα. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | osephinejay Жозефина, Ð"жозефин. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"JOSEPHINE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Josefin, Josefino, Josephea, josephinae, jospehites, Osafune. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-j-n-o-p-s" | |
-2 letters: peonies, phonies. | |
-3 letters: eosine, joseph, opines, peones, phones, ponies, siphon, sphene. | |
-4 letters: eosin, hoise, hones, hopes, hosen, jeeps, johns, joins, jones, neeps, noise, opens, opine, opsin, peens, peins, peise, penes, penis, peons, phone, phons, pines, pions, poise, pones, seine, sheen, sheep, shine, shoji, shone, snipe, spine. | |
-5 letters: eons, epos, hens, hies, hins, hips, hisn. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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