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LAURENCE

"LAURENCE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Laurentum", "a laurel".

Date "LAURENCE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)


Specialty Definition: LAURENCE

DomainDefinition

Literature

Laurence (Friar). The Franciscan friar who undertakes to marry Romeo and Juliet. To save Juliet from a second marriage he gives her a sleeping draught, and she is carried to the family vault as dead. Romeo finds her there, and believing her sleep to be the sleep of death, kills himself. On waking, Juliet discovers Romeo dead at her side, and kills herself also. (Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet.) (See Lawrence .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: LAURENCE

Specialty definitions using "LAURENCE": Friar Laurence. (references)

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Modern Usage: LAURENCE

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You're no Laurence Olivier yourself! (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner)

Movie/TV Titles

The Laurence Olivier Awards 2003 (2003)

A Writer in the Nuclear Age: A Conversation with Margaret Laurence (1985)

Laurence Olivier: A Life (1982)

Our Kinda Talk: An Introduction to Margaret Laurence (1978)

First Lady of Manawaka Margaret Laurence (1978)

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

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Commercial Usage: LAURENCE

DomainTitle

Books

  • I Know What the Caged Bird Feels: The Best-Loved Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar [ABRIDGED] (reference)

  • A prophet and a pilgrim; being the incredible history of Thomas Lake Harris and Laurence Oliphant; their sexual mysticisms and Utopian communities amply documented to confound the skeptic (reference)

  • Nominations of Alan Greenspan, Alice M. Rivlin, and Laurence H. Meyer : hearing before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, second session, on nominations of Alan Greenspan, of New York, (reference)

  • Selected Essays in English Literatures: British and Canadian: Jonathan Swift - John Fowles - Margaret Laurence - Margaret Atwood - Di Brandt & dennis (reference)

  • Selected Writings of the Laureate Dunces, Nahum Tate (Laureate 1692-1715), Laurence Eusden (1718-1730), and Colley Cibber (1730-1757 (Studies in British Literature, V. 40) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • The Techniques and Arrangements of Laurence Juber, Video One: Standard Tunings (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: LAURENCE

Illustrations:
LAURENCE

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Photo Album: LAURENCE

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Photographed on the deck of his ship, circa 1939. Captain Kidd has inscribed the original print: "To my able gunnery officer and friend Commander Abercrombie. Sincerely, Isaac Campbell Kidd". Lieutenant Commander Laurence A. Abercrombie was assigned to Arizona during the latter part of Kidd's tour as her Commanding Officer. Credit: NAVY.

United Nations' delegates stand by a U.S. Air Force H-5 helicopter with General Matthew B. Ridgway, U.S. Army, Commander in Chief United Nations Command, prior to take off for the initial Armistice talks meeting, 10 July 1951. They are (from left to right): Rear Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN, Major General Laurence C. Cragie, U.S. Air Force, Major General Paik Sun Yup, Republic of Korea Army, Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, USN, Chief Delegate, General Ridgway, and Major Henry I. Hodes, U.S. Army. Credit: NAVY.

Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Steinhardt and Dulcie Ann Steinhardt. Credit: Library of Congress.

New York. Long Island. Japanese garden at home of Mrs. George W. Wickersham, Laurence [sic]. Credit: Library of Congress.

Portrait of Laurence C. Jones, Piney Woods Country Life School, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Familiar Quotations: LAURENCE

AuthorQuotation

Laurence Dunphy

A closed mind is an enigma indeed. Nothing ever goes in -- but odd things are forever coming out.

Laurence Sterne

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and obstinacy in a bad one.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: LAURENCE

"LAURENCE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LAURENCE" is used about 320 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)100%32016,119

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

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Name Usage Frequency: LAURENCE

The following table summarizes the usage of "LAURENCE" 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
LaurenceFirst name Female1,0003,629
LaurenceFirst name Male24,000428
LaurenceLast name1,0009,429
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: LAURENCE

"LAURENCE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Laurentum", "a laurel".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "LAURENCE."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
LaurentiaFemaleAncient RomanLaurence
LaurentiusMaleAncient RomanLaurence
LavrentiMaleBulgarianLaurence
LlorençMaleCatalanLaurence
VavrinecMaleCzechLaurence
LauritsMaleDanishLaurence
LauritzMaleDanishLaurence
LaurensMaleDutchLaurence
LarkinMaleEnglishLaurence
LarrieMaleEnglishLaurence
LarryMaleEnglishLaurence
LaurenFemaleEnglishLaurence
LaurenceMaleEnglishN/A
LaurenciaFemaleEnglishLaurence
LawrenceMaleEnglishLaurence
LawsonMaleEnglishLaurence
LorenMale, FemaleEnglishLaurence
LasseMaleFinnishLaurence
LassiMaleFinnishLaurence
LauriMaleFinnishLaurence
LaurentMaleFrenchLaurence
LorenzMaleGermanLaurence
LavrentiosMaleGreekLaurence
LõrincMaleHungarianLaurence
LabhrásMaleIrishLaurence
LorenzaFemaleItalianLaurence
LorenzoMaleItalianLaurence
WawrzyniecMalePolishLaurence
LaurençoMalePortugueseLaurence
LaurentiuMaleRomanianLaurence
LavrentiMaleRussianLaurence
LarsMaleScandinavianLaurence
LorensMaleScandinavianLaurence
LabhrainnMaleScottishLaurence
LorencioMaleSpanishLaurence
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: LAURENCE

Expressions using "LAURENCE": Laurence Harbor Laurence Olivier Laurence Stephen Lowry Laurence Sterne Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "LAURENCE": LAURENCE-MOON, Laurence-Moon Syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl.

Ending with "LAURENCE": Marie-laurence.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LAURENCE

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

laurence fishburne

181

paul laurence dunbar high school

11

paul laurence dunbar

79

st laurence high school

10

ashley laurence

63

laurence sterne

9

laurence

59

laurence matthew

9

laurence olivier

54

laurence kazar

9

cr laurence

46

laurence martin

8

margaret laurence

43

st laurence

8

laurence gardner

36

fishbourne laurence

8

jalbert laurence

23

horse laurence margaret night

7

angel laurence margaret stone

23

laurence mason

7

laurence yep

20

college laurence st

7

laurence harvey

19

bardet biedl laurence moon syndrome

7

c laurence r

17

dunbar laurence mask paul we wear

7

c.r laurence

16

nude ashley laurence

7

laurence luckinbill

14

sydney laurence

7

laurence juber

14

feingold laurence

7

laurence loons margaret

13

laurence tribe

6

laurence fishburn

13

fox laurence

6

bowen laurence llewelyn

13

laurence sackman

6

angel by laurence margaret stone

12

poem of paul laurence dunbar

6
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Modern Translation: LAURENCE

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

Danish

  

Laurence-Moon-Biedel-Bardet's syndrom (Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Biedl's syndrome, Biemond's syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

syndroom van Laurence-Moon-Biedl (Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Biedl's syndrome, Biemond's syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome), syndroom van Bardet-Biedl (Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Biedl's syndrome, Biemond's syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome). (various references)

   

French

  

syndrome de Laurence-Moon-Bardet (Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome), syndrome de Laurence-Biedl (Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome). (various references)

   

German

  

Bardet-Biedl Syndrom (Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Biedl's syndrome, Biemond's syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σύνδρομο των Bardet-Biedl (Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Biedl's syndrome, Biemond's syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sindrome di Laurence-Moon-Biedl (Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Biedl's syndrome, Biemond's syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome), sindrome di Biemond (Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Biedl's syndrome, Biemond's syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome), sindrome di Bardet-Biedl (Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Biedl's syndrome, Biemond's syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome), malattia di Laurence-Moon-Biedl (Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Biedl's syndrome, Biemond's syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome). (various references)

   

Manx

  

Laurys (bay, bay tree, laurel, Lawrence). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aurencelay

   

Portuguese

  

síndrome de Lawrence-Moon-Biedl (Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Biedl's syndrome, Biemond's syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

лоренс (laurens, lawrence). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

síndrome de Bardet-Biedl (Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Biedl's syndrome, Biemond's syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: LAURENCE

Misspellings

"LAURENCE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aurenche, Laurencio, Lautrecs, Lefranc, Lorence, Lourencin. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: LAURENCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cerulean.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-n-r-u"

-1 letter: cleaner, lucarne, lucerne, nuclear, reclean, unclear.

-2 letters: careen, cereal, crenel, cuneal, enlace, lacune, lancer, launce, leaner, lucern, neural, recane, relace, unlace, unreal, unreel.

-3 letters: anele, caner, carle, clean, clear, crane, creel, cruel, enure, lacer, lance, laree, learn, lucre, lunar, nacre, rance, ranee, renal, ulcer, ulnae, ulnar, uncle, ureal.

-4 letters: acne, acre, alec, alee, cane.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-n-r-u"
 

+1 letter: calenture, ceruleans, crenulate, herculean, uncleaner, unclearer.

 

+2 letters: calentures, censurable, crenulated, leprechaun, relaunched, relaunches, reluctance, superclean, unclearest, undeclared.

 

+3 letters: carefulness, counterplea, curableness, fraudulence, leprechauns, reinoculate, reluctances, unreachable, unreclaimed, untraceable.

 

+4 letters: counterpleas, denuclearize, extranuclear, fraudulences, gracefulness, inoperculate, internuclear, nomenclature, porcelaneous, reinoculated, reinoculates, relacquering, reluctancies, ribonuclease, surveillance, translucence, unbreachable, uncelebrated, uncorrelated, underclasses, unrecyclable, unsearchable.

 

+5 letters: candlesnuffer, carefulnesses, clairaudience, clearinghouse, commensurable, counterplayer, countervailed, curablenesses, denuclearized, denuclearizes, hermeneutical, inoperculates, intercellular, knuckleballer, leprechaunish, lucrativeness, mercurialness, neurochemical, nomenclatures, perpendicular, porcellaneous, pronounceable, republicanize, ribonucleases, supercalender, surveillances, thermonuclear, translucences, ultraviolence, unconquerable, uncorrectable, underclassmen, undescribable, unenforceable, unnecessarily, unpredictable, unreclaimable, unrecoverable, unrespectable, unserviceable, untheoretical, upperclassmen.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LAURENCE


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

4C 41 55 52 45 4E 43 45

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)

.-..    .-    ..-    .-.    .    -.    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000001 01010101 01010010 01000101 01001110 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#85 &#82 &#69 &#78 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0055 0052 0045 004E 0043 0045

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

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

4635555239483739

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INDEX

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


  

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