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"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) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
Crosswords: LAURENCE |
| Specialty definitions using "LAURENCE": Friar Laurence. (references) |
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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) | |
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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. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 320 | 16,119 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Laurence | First name Female | 1,000 | 3,629 |
| Laurence | First name Male | 24,000 | 428 |
| Laurence | Last name | 1,000 | 9,429 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "LAURENCE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Laurentum", "a laurel". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "LAURENCE." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Laurentia | Female | Ancient Roman | Laurence |
| Laurentius | Male | Ancient Roman | Laurence |
| Lavrenti | Male | Bulgarian | Laurence |
| Llorenç | Male | Catalan | Laurence |
| Vavrinec | Male | Czech | Laurence |
| Laurits | Male | Danish | Laurence |
| Lauritz | Male | Danish | Laurence |
| Laurens | Male | Dutch | Laurence |
| Larkin | Male | English | Laurence |
| Larrie | Male | English | Laurence |
| Larry | Male | English | Laurence |
| Lauren | Female | English | Laurence |
| Laurence | Male | English | N/A |
| Laurencia | Female | English | Laurence |
| Lawrence | Male | English | Laurence |
| Lawson | Male | English | Laurence |
| Loren | Male, Female | English | Laurence |
| Lasse | Male | Finnish | Laurence |
| Lassi | Male | Finnish | Laurence |
| Lauri | Male | Finnish | Laurence |
| Laurent | Male | French | Laurence |
| Lorenz | Male | German | Laurence |
| Lavrentios | Male | Greek | Laurence |
| Lõrinc | Male | Hungarian | Laurence |
| Labhrás | Male | Irish | Laurence |
| Lorenza | Female | Italian | Laurence |
| Lorenzo | Male | Italian | Laurence |
| Wawrzyniec | Male | Polish | Laurence |
| Laurenço | Male | Portuguese | Laurence |
| Laurentiu | Male | Romanian | Laurence |
| Lavrenti | Male | Russian | Laurence |
| Lars | Male | Scandinavian | Laurence |
| Lorens | Male | Scandinavian | Laurence |
| Labhrainn | Male | Scottish | Laurence |
| Lorencio | Male | Spanish | Laurence |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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. | |
| 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. |
| 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 síndrome de Lawrence-Moon-Biedl (Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Biedl's syndrome, Biemond's syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome). (various references) лоренс (laurens, lawrence). (various references) síndrome de Bardet-Biedl (Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Biedl's syndrome, Biemond's syndrome, Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome, Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 41 55 52 45 4E 43 45 |
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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 01000001 01010101 01010010 01000101 01001110 01000011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L A U R E N C E |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4635555239483739 |
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