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Joyce

Definition: Joyce

Joyce

Noun

1. Influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941).

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

"Joyce" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a lord".

Date "Joyce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1868. (references)

"Joyce" is a common misspelling or typo for: juice.


Specialty Definitions: Joyce

DomainDefinitions

Computing

Joyce A distributed language based on Pascal and CSP, by Per Brinch Hansen. ["Joyce - A Programming Language for Distributed Systems", Per Brinch Hansen, Soft Prac & Exp 17(1):29-50 (Jan 1987)]. (1994-12-06). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Synonyms: Joyce

Synonyms: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (n), James Joyce (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Joyce

English words defined with "Joyce": James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, James Joyce, Joyce Carol Oatesseamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Joyce": Hugin and Muninsuccess. (references)

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Modern Usage: Joyce

DomainUsage

Screenplays

And, and Xander's crying and not talking, and, and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well, Joyce will never have any more fruit punch ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

It took James Joyce 17 years to write 'Ulysses. (Legmen; writing credit: Ivo Andric; Nebojsa Komadina)

! There's a lot of footloose women in there! Do you know Joyce Ferguson? (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

Movie/TV Titles

The Hands of Cormac Joyce (1972)

Joyce of the North Woods (1913)

The Unforgettable Yootha Joyce (2001)

Joyce Meyer (1987)

Edith Clever liest Joyce (1985)

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

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Commercial Usage: Joyce

DomainTitle

References

  • Joyce Boutique Holdings Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Hockney on 'Art': Conversations with Paul Joyce (reference)

  • James Joyce (reference)

  • James Joyce Reads: Selections from Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake, Cyril Cusack Reading Joyce (reference)

  • Portable James Joyce (reference)

  • Re Joyce (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Image Slideshow: Joyce

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Joyce

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

"Donut" by Joyce Glynn.

"Cup in Saddle" by Joyce Glynn.

Joyce Watkins loads quail eggs onto a rack after cleaning and checking them. Credit: USDA.

Chemist Joyce Foster extracts chemicals to determine which plants are safe, palatable, and nutritious for livestock. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

[Hillsborough County Health Department's Joyce Ely Health Center] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by E.E. Frey..

[Dwight Joyce Ingle]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Dorothy Dix vs. Peggy Hopkins Joyce. Credit: Library of Congress.

Joyce MacDuffey in her home at Irwinville Farms, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dearborn, Michigan. Karl Axel Westerberg and his two granddaughters, Joyce and Evelyn, outside the Peterson home. Credit: Library of Congress.

Joyce Yuki Nakamura, (eldest daughter) / photograph by Ansel Adams. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Familiar Quotations: Joyce

AuthorQuotation

Joyce Brothers

The best proof of love is trust.

Nadine Gordimer

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Joyce

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Joyce

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Ireland

Anglo-Irish writers, including Swift, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Burke, Wilde, Joyce, Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett, have made a major contribution to world literature over the past 300 years. (references)

Human Rights

Zimbabwe

In 1999 the Chitungwiza police arrested, detained for 6 months, and allegedly tortured a married couple, Joyce and Shupikai Karimazondo, and another person, John Mita, in response to allegations by a neighbor that they had killed their young domestic worker for ritual purposes. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SUCCESS, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. In literature, and particularly in poetry, the elements of success are exceedingly simple, and are admirably set forth in the following lines by the reverend Father Gassalasca Jape, entitled, for some mysterious reason, "John A. Joyce." The bard who would prosper must carry a book, Do his thinking in prose and wear A crimson cravat, a far-away look And a head of hexameter hair. Be thin in your thought and your body'll be fat; If you wear your hair long you needn't your hat.

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

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Usage Frequency: Joyce

"Joyce" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.92% of the time. "Joyce" is used about 1,301 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)99.92%1,3006,087
Noun (singular)0.08%1339,140
                    Total100.00%1,301N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Joyce

The following table summarizes the usage of "Joyce" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
JoyceFirst name Female364,00049
JoyceLast name16,000748
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Joyce

"Joyce" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a lord".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Joyce."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
JoisseFemaleN/AJoyce
GosseMaleEnglishJoyce
JocosaFemaleEnglishJoyce
JoyceFemale, MaleEnglishN/A
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Joyce

CountryName
Hong Kong

Joyce Boutique Holdings Ltd.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Joyce

Expressions using "Joyce": James Augustine Aloysius Joyce James Joyce Joyce Carol Oates. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Joyce": Joyce-leon, Joyce-loebl, joyce-worshippers.

Ending with "Joyce": Hayman-joyce.

Containing "Joyce": and-swann-meets-joyce-grenfell-old-fashioned.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Joyce

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

joyce meyer

1,767

joyce myer

55

joyce jillson

491

brenda joyce

53

james joyce

432

joyce realty

52

joyce dewitt

397

elizabeth joyce

49

joyce meyers

379

joyce hyser

49

joyce jimenez

363

araby james joyce

47

joyce meyer ministry

359

joyce dewitt nude

46

joyce

248

joyce myers ministry

45

joyce myers

172

joyce tang

44

joyce leslie

169

joyce gibson

38

joyce carol oates

157

foundation joyce

36

joyce jillson horoscope

117

joyce chen

34

joyce kilmer

98

joyce ulysses

34

joyce vedral

92

eveline james joyce

32

joyce lex

81

giraud joyce

32

joyce meyers ministry

73

dubliners james joyce

32

joyce theater

65

james joyce ulysses

31

elaine joyce

62

joyce carol oates where are you going where have you been

31

joyce meyer.org

56

biography james joyce

31

james joyce dead

55

joyce reardon

30
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Joyce

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

French

  

scrutin. (various references)

   

Italian

  

elezione (election, poll, vote). (various references)

   

Manx

  

Shoynagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oycejay

   

Russian 

  

"жойс. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

electivo (election, elective, vote). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Joyce

Misspellings

"Joyce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Doyce, Jeykell, Jiye, Jocem, joica, joye, joyse, Joysey. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Joyce

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-j-o-y"

-1 letter: joey.

-2 letters: coy, joe, joy.

-3 letters: jo, oe, oy, ye, yo.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-j-o-y"
 

+1 letter: jockey.

 

+2 letters: jockeys, joyance.

 

+3 letters: cajolery, jockeyed, jocosely, joyances.

 

+4 letters: jockeying, objectify.

 

+5 letters: johnnycake, trajectory.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Joyce


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

4A 6F 79 63 65

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)

01001010 01101111 01111001 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#111 &#121 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 006F 0079 0063 0065

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

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

4481916971

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Joyce"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, francese, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, французский, francés

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitalien, italiano, Iddaalish, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский

Manx

fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baghtManninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеrusso, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruso

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónespagnol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, испанский, español

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, английский, inglés
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Fiction
10. Quotations: Non-fiction
11. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Frequency
13. Names: Derived from
14. Names: Company Usage
15. Expressions
16. Expressions: Internet
17. Translations: Modern
18. Derivations
19. Anagrams
20. Orthography
21. Bibliography


  

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