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Definition: MAGGIORE |
MAGGIOREAdjective1. Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major. |
Date "MAGGIORE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Maggiore \Mag`gio"re\, adjective. [Italian expression, from the Latin expression major, compar. of magnus great. See Major.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Phrase: noli me tangere; "filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd"; maggiore fretta minore atto. |
Haste | Phrase: sauve qui peut, devil take the hindmost, no time to be lost; no sooner said than done; (early); a word and a blow; haste makes waste, maggiore fretta minore atto; ohne Hast aber ohne Rast; "stand not upon the order of your going but go at once"; "swift, swift, you dragons of the night". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: MAGGIORE |
| Specialty definitions using "MAGGIORE": Linkage disequilibrium ♦ Margutte, Morgante Maggiore. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "MAGGIORE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Italian (bigger, biggest, elder, eldest, greater, greatest, higher, larger, largest, longer, main, major, more, older, oldest, senior, superior, taller, tallest). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | L' Amante dell'orsa maggiore (1972) Lieder klingen am Lago Maggiore (1962) I Sette dell'orsa maggiore (1952) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Ospedale maggiore, Milan, Italy. : Illustrated view of Rotunda and surrounding buildings. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | San Giorgio Maggiore church, Venice, Italy. Campanile and church. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Italy - lake" by Francesco Poroli Commentary: "This is laveno, on lago maggiore - italy." | "Fontana" by Fabrizio Mencarini Commentary: "Fontana Maggiore in Perugia, Italy." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "MAGGIORE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 93.02% of the time. "MAGGIORE" is used about 43 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) | 93.02% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.65% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 2.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "MAGGIORE" 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 |
| Maggiore | Last name | 170 | 50,643 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "MAGGIORE": maggiore fretta minore atto. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Words rhyming with "MAGGIORE" (pronounced 'Mag`gio"re'): Alamire, Cochleare, Condottiere, Fioriture, furore, Improvvisatore, Lepre, Miserere, Monsignore, Nerre, Praemunire, Premunire, Quaere, Solfeggiare, Sterre. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-i-m-o-r" | |
-2 letters: gamier, imager, maigre, mirage, moggie. | |
-3 letters: agger, aggie, aggro, aimer, amigo, eggar, gager, gamer, gorge, grego, grime, image, imago, marge, moira, moire, morae, omega, ramie, regma. | |
-4 letters: aero, ager, agio, agog, amie, amir, emir, ergo, gage, game, gear, germ, giga, giro, goer, gore, gram, grig, grim, grog, mage, magi, mair, mare, migg, mire. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-i-m-o-r" | |
+2 letters: embargoing. | |
+3 letters: beglamoring. | |
+4 letters: beglamouring, boomeranging, deprograming, gyromagnetic, hemorrhaging, overmanaging, remortgaging, reprograming, warmongering. | |
+5 letters: aggiornamento, agglomerating, agglomeration, agglomerative, deglamorizing, demagogueries, deprogramming, megasporangia, mimeographing, preprograming, reprogramming, warmongerings. | |
| 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)4D 41 47 47 49 4F 52 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)01001101 01000001 01000111 01000111 01001001 01001111 01010010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M A G G I O R E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0041 0047 0047 0049 004F 0052 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)4735414143495239 |
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