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Definition: Lady Godiva |
Lady GodivaNoun1. According to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily; the only person to look at her as she rode by was a man named Tom and Peeping Tom has become a synonym for voyeur (circa 1040-1080). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Lady GodivaSynonym: Godiva (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lady Godiva |
| English words defined with "Lady Godiva": Coventry. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Lady Godiva": GODIVA. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | Lady Godiva ("Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman"; performing artist: D'Angelo) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lady Godiva Rides (1968) Pimple's Lady Godiva (1917) Lady Godiva (1911) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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| 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 |
lady godiva | 158 |
lady godiva chocolate | 2 |
lady godiva costume | 2 |
lady godiva wig | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lady godiva"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | adylay odivagay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Alchemilla vulgaris L., Alchemilla xanthochlora Rothm., Athyrium filix-femina, Cardamine pratensis, Coccinella, Cynthia cardui, Elops sauris, Elops saurus, Polygonum persicaria, Pyrameis cardui, Scandix pecten-veneris, Tamus communis, Vanessa cardui. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-g-i-l-o-v-y" | |
-3 letters: valgoid. | |
-4 letters: adagio, algoid, alidad, alodia, avidly, dialog, gadoid, gavial, ogival. | |
-5 letters: algid, aliya, avail, avoid, daily, dildo, dodgy, doily, gaddi, gadid, gaily, gayal, giddy, glady, godly, logia, oddly, vagal, valid, viola, voila. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 64 79 47 6F 64 69 76 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100100 01111001 00100000 01000111 01101111 01100100 01101001 01110110 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a d y   G o d i v a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0064 0079 0047 006F 0064 0069 0076 0061 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)466770912418170758867 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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