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Definition: Namur |
NamurNoun1. A city in south central Belgium situated on a promontory between the Meuse River and the Sambre River; the site of intense fighting in World War I and World War II. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Namur" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1686. (references) |
Crosswords: Namur |
| English words defined with "Namur": Sambre, Sambre River ♦ Walloons. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Namur" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (Namur), Spanish (Namur). |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Namur."
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Movie/TV Titles | Un étudiant de Namur pour la première fois sur la glace (1907) Les Deux vagabonds de Namur (1907) | |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The masterpiece of Jesuit architecture is at Namur. |
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Economic History | Belgium | Today the FGTB/ABVV is the leading union in the Hainaut, Namur, and Liège provinces and matches the CSC/ACV in Brussels. (references) |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "Namur" 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 |
| Namur | Last name | 100 | 80,671 |
| 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 |
belgium namur | 143 |
namur | 62 |
namur hotel | 33 |
de gare namur | 11 |
namur tec | 7 |
namur roi | 7 |
namur plan | 6 |
carte de namur | 5 |
belgique de en journal namur | 5 |
citadelle namur | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Namur"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | Namen. (various references) | |
Chinese | 那慕å°". (various references) | |
Dutch | Namen (names). (various references) | |
Esperanto | Nameno. (various references) | |
French | Namur. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amurnay.(various references) | |
Spanish | Namur. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Namucense. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: unarm. | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: arum, maun, mura. | |
-2 letters: amu, arm, man, mar, mun, nam, ram, ran, rum, run, urn. | |
-3 letters: am, an, ar, ma, mu, na, nu, um, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: antrum, granum, manure, rumina, unarms. | |
+2 letters: antrums, arcanum, cranium, cumarin, duramen, enamour, fraenum, humaner, juryman, manuary, manured, manurer, manures, maunder, murrain, natrium, neuroma, numeral, nummary, organum, rhamnus, romaunt, ruminal, surname, tantrum, turfman, unarmed, unmaker, unmoral, unsmart, uranism, uranium. | |
+3 letters: alburnum, aneurism, aneurysm, arcanums, argentum, argument, columnar, coumarin, craniums, cumarins, duramens, enamours, fraenums, francium, geranium, gourmand, laburnum, luminary, macruran, maneuver, manicure, manubria, manurers, manurial, manuring, maturing, maunders, menstrua, mensural, monaural, muraenid, murrains, natriums, naturism, neuromas, numeracy, numerals, numerary, numerate, nummular, organums, origanum, penumbra, prehuman, rambutan, ramentum, ramequin, romaunts, routeman, rumbaing, ruminant, ruminate, superman, surnamed, surnamer, surnames, tantrums, truckman, unarming, underarm, undreamt, unframed, unharmed, unmakers, unmarked, unmarred, unmasker, unwarmed, uranisms, uraniums, urbanism, urinemia. | |
+4 letters: alaruming, alburnums, aneurisms, aneurysms, anthurium, antiserum, antitumor, argentums, argumenta, arguments, armouring, augmenter, augmentor, churchman, communard, coumarins, demeanour, duralumin, enamoured, enumerate, franciums, geraniums, germanium, gourmands, granuloma, guardsman, guardsmen, hamstrung, harmonium, humanizer, ignoramus, laburnums, lumberman, luminaire, luminaria, macrurans, maneuvers, manicured, manicures, manipular, manoeuvre, manubrium, marauding, marihuana, marijuana, maundered, maunderer, meandrous, measuring, menstrual, miniature, monocular, monovular, mucronate, muraenids, muscarine, myoneural, naturisms, neuromata, numerable, numerally, numerated, numerates, numerator, numerical, nursemaid, origanums, paramount, penumbrae, penumbral, penumbras, prehumans, pulmonary, quarryman, quarrymen, rambutans, ramequins, rhamnuses, rhumbaing, roundsman, ruminants, ruminated, ruminates, ruminator, rummaging, sarmentum, saturnism, semilunar, submarine, subnormal, surnamers, surnaming, transmute, tremulant, unadmired, unarmored, underarms, undreamed, unmanlier, unmarried, unmaskers, urbanisms, urinemias. | |
+5 letters: accruement, allurement, anadromous, androecium, aneurysmal, anthuriums, antiserums, aquamarine, argumentum, armaturing, augmenters, augmentors, ausforming, barramunda, barramundi, buckraming, campground, cinerarium, clamouring, communards, counterman, countryman, demeanours, dicoumarin, duralumins, enamouring, enumerable, enumerated, enumerates, enumerator, foraminous, germaniums, glamouring, gramineous, granulomas, groundmass, groundsman, harmonious, harmoniums, harumphing, honorarium, humanizers, infrahuman, innumeracy, innumerate, insularism, intermural, intramural, journalism, journeyman, lambrequin, laundromat, laundryman, laundrymen, lawrencium, lebensraum, luminaires, luminarias, luminaries, mandibular, maneuvered, maneuverer, manicuring, manicurist, manoeuvred, manoeuvres, manubriums, manuscript, marihuanas, marijuanas, maturating, maturation, maunderers, maundering, mavourneen, membranous, memorandum, menstruate, mensurable, microfauna, migrainous, minaudiere, miniatures, monaurally, monoculars, morulation, muckraking, multigrain, multirange, muscarines, muscarinic, nasturtium, natatorium, naturalism, neurilemma, neutralism, numberable, numeracies, numerating, numeration, numerators, nursemaids, nurseryman, oceanarium, pancratium, panjandrum, paramounts, paronymous, poultryman, praemunire, protohuman, puritanism, ragamuffin, reargument, reassuming, rehumanize, remunerate, rudimental, ruffianism, ruminantly, ruminating, rumination, ruminative, ruminators, sanatorium, sanitarium, sanitorium, saturnisms, scrubwoman, sporangium, stramonium, submanager, submarined, submariner, submarines, superhuman, superwoman, tambourine, tambouring, tourmaline, tournament, transmuted, transmutes, triumphant, ultrahuman, uncharming, undramatic, unfamiliar, unhampered, unicameral, unimpaired, unmannered, unmannerly, unmarrieds, unmeasured, unmilitary, unmorality, unremarked, unromantic, unscramble. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 6D 75 72 |
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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)01001110 01100001 01101101 01110101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a m u r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 006D 0075 0072 |
| 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)4867798784 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Cities 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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