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Definition: Lady-in-waiting |
Lady-in-waitingNoun1. A lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Lady-in-waiting" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Lady-in-waiting" is used about 18 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 (singular) | 83.33% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.11% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "Lady-in-waiting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 女官. (various references) | |
Dutch | hofdame. (various references) | |
Esperanto | korteganino. (various references) | |
Finnish | hovinainen. (various references) | |
French | Dame d'Honneur de S.M.la Reine (Lady-in-waiting to H.M.the Queen). (various references) | |
German | Hofdame I.M.der Koenigin (Lady-in-waiting to H.M.the Queen). (various references) | |
Hungarian | udvarhölgy (lady in attendance, lady in waiting, maid of honor), szolgálattevő udvarhölgy. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 老女 (elderly woman, senior lady-in-waiting). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ろうじょ (elderly woman, senior lady-in-waiting). (various references) | |
Korean | 숙녀 안에 기다림. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ady-in-waitinglay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-g-i-i-i-l-n-n-t-w-y" | |
-4 letters: digitalin, indignity. | |
-5 letters: algidity, awaiting, daintily, dilating, indignly, inditing, inlaying, tailwind, windling, wintling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 64 79 2D 69 6E 2D 77 61 69 74 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01100100 01111001 00101101 01101001 01101110 00101101 01110111 01100001 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a d y - i n - w a i t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0064 0079 002D 0069 006E 002D 0077 0061 0069 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)466770911575801589677586758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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