Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Date "LUDGATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Ludgate Stow says, "King Lud, repairing the city, called it after his name Lud's town; the strong gate which he built in the west part he likewise named Ludgate. In the year 1260 the gate was beautified with images of Lud and other kings. Those images, in the reign of Edward VI., had their heads smitten off .... Queen Mary did set new heads upon their old bodies again. The twenty-eighth of Queen Elizabeth the gate was newly and beautifully built, with images of Lud and others, as before." (Survey of London.) The more probable etymon of Lud-gate is the Anglo-Saxon leode (people), similar to the Porto del populi of Rome. "[Lud] Built that gate of which his name is hight, By which he lies entombëd solemnly." Spenser: Faerie Queene, ii. x. 46. Ludgate was originally built by the barons, who entered London, destroyed the Jews' houses, and erected this gate with their ruins. It was used as a free prison in 1373, but soon lost that privilege. A most romantic story is told of Sir Stephen Forster, who was lord mayor in 1454. He had been a prisoner at Ludgate, and begged at the gate, where he was soen by a rich widow, who bought his liberty, took him into her service, and afterwards married him. To commemorate this strange eventful history. Sir Stephen enlarged the prison accommodation, and added a chapel. The old gate was taken down and rebuilt in 1586. The new-built gate was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, and the next gate (used also as a prison for debtors) was pulled down in 1760, the prisoners having been removed to the London Workhouse, and afterwards to the Giltspar Street Compter. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ludgate."
Crosswords: LUDGATE |
| Specialty definitions using "LUDGATE": Lud's Bulwark ♦ Newgate, No More Poles. (references) |
| "LUDGATE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LUDGATE" is used about 34 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% | 34 | 59,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "LUDGATE" 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 |
| Ludgate | Last name | 170 | 43,051 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ludgate | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-l-t-u" | |
-2 letters: adult, aglet, dealt, delta, gated, gault, glade, glued, lated, luged, lutea, luted, tegua. | |
-3 letters: aged, ague, auld, dale, date, daut, deal, delt, dual, duel, duet, egad, egal, gaed, gale, gate, gaud, geld, gelt, geta, glad, gled, glue, glut, gude, lade, late, laud, lead, leud, lude, luge, lute, tael, tale, teal, tela, tule. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-l-t-u" | |
+2 letters: angulated, claughted, jugulated, ligatured, outglared, regulated, untangled. | |
+3 letters: catalogued, coagulated, defaulting, deregulate, fulgurated, gauntleted, granulated, gratulated, judgmental, multigrade, outlaughed. | |
+4 letters: deregulated, deregulates, devaluating, elucidating, gastrulated, geniculated, promulgated, reregulated, slaughtered, uncataloged, undelegated, unregulated. | |
+5 letters: adulterating, agglutinated, battleground, daughterless, demodulating, depopulating, deregulating, deregulation, edulcorating, gesticulated, judgmentally, nonregulated, outgeneraled, strangulated, triangulated. | |
| 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 55 44 47 41 54 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| 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 01010101 01000100 01000111 01000001 01010100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L U D G A T E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0055 0044 0047 0041 0054 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46553841355439 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
