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Definition: Malory |
MaloryNoun1. English writer who published a translation of romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: MalorySynonyms: Sir Thomas Malory (n), Thomas Malory (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Malory |
| English words defined with "Malory": Sir Thomas Malory ♦ Thomas Malory. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Malory": Arthurian Romances ♦ Panace'a. (references) |
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Books |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Sir Thomas Malory | What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door? |
| Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born of all England. | |
| Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end. | |
| For as well as I have loved thee, mine heart will not serve me to see thee, for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Malory" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Malory" is used about 18 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) | 88.89% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Malory" 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 |
| Malory | Last name | 100 | 81,596 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Malory": Sir Thomas Malory ♦ Thomas Malory. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Malory": malory-like, malory-towers-swallows-and-amazons. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sir thomas malory | 22 |
malory | 18 |
thomas malory | 12 |
malory marx | 4 |
family malory | 3 |
malory real world | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-m-o-r-y" | |
-1 letter: loamy, marly, mayor, molar, moral, moray, royal. | |
-2 letters: amyl, army, aryl, loam, lory, marl, mayo, mola, moly, mora, oral, roam. | |
-3 letters: arm, lam, lar, lay, mar, may, moa, mol, mor, oar, ora, ram, ray, rom, rya, yam, yar, yom. | |
-4 letters: al, am, ar, ay, la, lo, ma, mo, my, om, or, oy, ya, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-m-o-r-y" | |
+1 letter: almonry, majorly, mayoral, morally. | |
+2 letters: amorally, claymore, formally, matronly, molarity, morality, mortally, normalcy, normally, playroom, ramosely, randomly, royalism. | |
+3 letters: allometry, amorality, amorously, claymores, comradely, cyclorama, embryonal, formality, formulary, immorally, mayflower, mayoralty, memorably, modularly, monolayer, mordantly, mortality, mycoflora, myoneural, myrobalan, myxoviral, normality, playrooms, pulmonary, removably, royalisms, workmanly. | |
+4 letters: abnormally, acromegaly, ambulatory, armorially, comparably, cycloramas, cycloramic, emblazonry, fearsomely, formidably, hormonally, hypodermal, immorality, immortally, improbably, informally, karyolymph, lachrymose, lampoonery, laparotomy, lymphogram, mayflowers, memorially, methylator, micropylar, mineralogy, moderately, modularity, modulatory, monaurally, monetarily, monolayers, mycoflorae, mycofloras, myocardial, myrobalans, osmolarity, paroxysmal, polymerase, poultryman, propylaeum, proximally, temporally, unmorality. | |
+5 letters: abnormality, ambrosially, amorphously, blameworthy, calorimetry, clamorously, clergywoman, comfortably, conformably, customarily, declamatory, dermatology, dilatometry, domiciliary, exclamatory, filmography, formability, formatively, glamorously, heartsomely, hypothermal, immortality, importantly, informality, irremovably, karyolymphs, lachrymator, lognormally, lymphograms, macrocyclic, maladroitly, malariology, maledictory, mandatorily, marmoreally, martyrology, marvelously, mayoralties, methylators, molecularly, momentarily, monocrystal, monocularly, moronically, motorically, mycorrhizal, nonmilitary, normatively, paramountly, polarimetry, polymerases, primatology, proximately, salmonberry, sportsmanly, stimulatory, subnormally, temporality, temporarily, unmemorably, wearisomely. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6C 6F 72 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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 01100001 01101100 01101111 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a l o r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006C 006F 0072 0079 |
| 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)476778818491 |
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