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LEUCADIA

Date "LEUCADIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references)

"LEUCADIA" is a common misspelling or typo for: Leucosis, Leukemia, Lucida.


Specialty Definition: LEUCADIA

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Literature

Leucadia or ~~~Leucas.
Leucas. The promontory from which desponding lovers threw themselves into the sea. Sappho threw herself from this rock when she found her love for Phaon was in vain.
"Thence injured lovers, leaping from above,
Their flames extinguish, and forget to love."
Pope: Sappho to Phaon. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: LEUCADIA

Specialty definitions using "LEUCADIA": Philoxenos of Leucadia. (references)

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Commercial Usage: LEUCADIA

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References

  • Leucadia National Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

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

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Usage in Company Names: LEUCADIA

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USA

Leucadia National Corporation

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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LEUCADIA

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

leucadia

48

leucadia national

22

leucadia pizza

21

leucadia national corp

12

leucadia national corporation

12

leucadia pizzeria

10

leucadia ca

8

leucadia california

6

leucadia pizzaria

5

leucadia real estate

4

leucadia hotel

3

leucadia national president

2

cumming ian leucadia

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: LEUCADIA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-u"

-1 letter: alcaide.

-2 letters: acedia, aculei, aecial, alcade, audial, audile, caudal, caudle, cedula.

-3 letters: adieu, aecia, ailed, alcid, aulic, cauld, clade, clued, decal, ducal, dulia, ideal, ileac, laced, lucid, ludic.

-4 letters: aced, acid, aide, alae, alec, auld, cade, cadi, caid, caul, cedi, ceil, clad, clue, cued, dace, dale, deal, deil, deli, dial, dice, diel, dual, duce.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-u"
 

+1 letter: acidulate.

 

+2 letters: acidulated, acidulates, actualized.

 

+3 letters: articulated, calumniated, capitulated, educational.

 

+4 letters: appendicular, clairaudient, fasciculated, hallucinated, matriculated, unacclimated, uncalibrated.

 

+5 letters: clairaudience, coeducational, disarticulate, educationally, extrajudicial, miscalculated, quadruplicate, rearticulated, recapitulated, ultradistance, unarticulated, uncapitalized, undialectical.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LEUCADIA


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

4C 45 55 43 41 44 49 41

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 01000101 01010101 01000011 01000001 01000100 01001001 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#85 &#67 &#65 &#68 &#73 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 0055 0043 0041 0044 0049 0041

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

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

4639553735384335

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Names: Company Usage
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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