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Definition: Langtry |
LangtryNoun1. British actress and mistress of of the prince who later became Edward VII (1853-1929). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Langtry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biographical Satire | LANGTRY, Mrs., the Sarah Bernhardt of England less considerable talent. Ambition: Those old time lovers. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: LangtrySynonym: the Jersey Lillie (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Langtry |
| English words defined with "Langtry": Lillie Langtry. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Lillie Langtry as Cleopatra, full-length portrait, lying on sofa and looking in mirror.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Prosperity Special crossing the Pecos river, near Langtry, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Langtry" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Langtry" is used about 8 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% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Langtry" 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 |
| Langtry | Last name | 300 | 27,478 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Langtry": Lillie Langtry. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Langtry": Langtry-langton. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lillie langtry | 14 |
langtry lily | 14 |
langtry texas | 8 |
langtry lilly | 7 |
langtry tx | 7 |
langtry | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-n-r-t-y" | |
-1 letter: gantry, gnarly, tangly. | |
-2 letters: angry, glary, gnarl, grant, gyral, lyart, rangy, tangy. | |
-3 letters: agly, arty, aryl, gnar, gnat, gran, grat, gray, lang, nary, rang, rant, tang, tarn, tray, yang, yarn. | |
-4 letters: alt, ant, any, art, gal, gan, gar, gat, gay, lag, lar, lat, lay, nag, nay, rag, ran, rat, ray, rya, tag, tan, tar, try, yar. | |
-5 letters: ag, al, an, ar, at, ay, la, na, ta, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-n-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: gallantry, gratingly, pratingly, rantingly, strangely, vagrantly. | |
+3 letters: angularity, arrogantly, flagrantly, fragrantly, generality, gyrational, ignorantly, integrally, laryngitic, laryngitis, pregnantly, rattlingly, trigonally. | |
+4 letters: arrestingly, banteringly, falteringly, glycerinate, granularity, granulocyte, hairstyling, integrality, interlaying, marginality, narratology, originality, playwriting, prattlingly, repugnantly, singularity, startlingly, tracklaying. | |
+5 letters: agranulocyte, anthropology, antiburglary, astringently, clatteringly, crystalizing, degenerately, entreatingly, flatteringly, fragmentally, frangibility, glycerinated, glycerinates, granulocytes, granulocytic, gratifyingly, hairstylings, hearteningly, interplaying, irritatingly, laryngectomy, laryngitides, lognormality, orthogonally, playwritings, pregnability, proteoglycan, regenerately, scatteringly, shatteringly, staggeringly, tetragonally, tracklayings, triangularly, trilingually, ungratefully. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 6E 67 74 72 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- -. --. - .-. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110100 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a n g t r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 006E 0067 0074 0072 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46678073868491 |
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