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Nehru

Definition: Nehru

Nehru

Noun

1. Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule; was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of India from 1947 to 1964 (1889-1964).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Nehru

Synonym: Jawaharlal Nehru (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Nehru

English words defined with "Nehru": GandhiIndira Gandhi, Indira Nehru GandhiJawaharlal NehruMrs. Gandhi. (references)

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Modern Usage: Nehru

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Interview with Jawaharlal Nehru (1958)

Nehru (1985)

Jawaharlal Nehru (1982)

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

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Commercial Usage: Nehru

DomainTitle

Books

  • Jawaharlal Nehru, the Founder of Modern India: The Architect of Indian Planning for Political, Economic, and Social Structure (reference)

  • Nehru and Administration: Report of a Seminar on Nehru and Public Administration in India, Sponsored by the University Grants Commission (reference)

  • Nehru on Social Issues (reference)

  • Retreat of Socialism in India: Two Decades Without Nehru, 1964-1984 (reference)

  • The Nehru Epoch: From Democracy to Monocracy (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Nehru

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

India

On August 15, 1947, India became a dominion within the Commonwealth, with Jawaharlal Nehru as Prime Minister. (references)

India

Prime Minister Nehru governed the nation until his death in 1964. He was succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri, who also died in office. (references)

India

After independence, the Congress Party, the party of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, ruled India under the influence first of Nehru and then his daughter and grandson, with the exception of two brief periods in the 1970s and 1980s. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Nehru

"Nehru" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nehru" is used about 98 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%9833,072

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Nehru

Expressions using "Nehru": Indira Nehru Gandhi Jawaharlal Nehru. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Nehru": nehru-gandhi.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nehru

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

nehru

57

jawaharlal nehru

50

nehru jacket

40

nehru suit

14

collar nehru

9

4000 nehru

5

institute mountaineering nehru

4

gandhi nehru

4

nehru coat

4

nehru shirt

4
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Modern Translations: Nehru

Language Translations for "Nehru"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

尼赫魯 . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ehrunay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Nehru

Misspellings

"Nehru" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Jehu, Nalrwu, Neeraum, Negru, Nehari, neru, Netherud, Nevruz, Neyra, Nihira, Noehr, Nohr, Nohra. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Nehru

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-n-r-u"

-1 letter: hern, rune.

-2 letters: ern, hen, her, hue, hun, rue, run, urn.

-3 letters: eh, en, er, he, ne, nu, re, uh, un.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-n-r-u"
 

+1 letter: hunger, hunker, hunter, rehung.

 

+2 letters: burthen, chunter, churned, churner, haunter, hounder, humaner, hundred, hungers, hunkers, hunkier, hunters, inhumer, luncher, luthern, muncher, puncher, rhenium, roughen, shunner, shunter, thunder, unearth, unheard, unhired, unhorse, urethan.

 

+3 letters: brunched, brunches, bunchier, burthens, chaunter, chunkier, chunters, churners, crunched, cruncher, crunches, earthnut, enshroud, euchring, harangue, haunters, hereunto, hereupon, honoured, honourer, hounders, hundreds, hungered, hungover, hungrier, hunkered, huntress, inhauler, inhumers, inrushes, launcher, lunchers, lutherns, munchers, murrhine, onrushes, overhung, overhunt, prehuman, prelunch, prepunch, punchers, punchier, punisher, quencher, raunches, relaunch, rheniums, roughens, ruthenic, shrunken, shunners, shunters, southern, thunders, thundery, unbreech, uncharge, unearths, unhaired, unharmed, unheroic, unholier, unhorsed, unhorses, unkosher, unrhymed, unrushed, unshared, unsphere, untether, unthread, unthrone, urethane, urethans, ushering.

 

+4 letters: buhrstone, burnished, burnisher, burnishes, burthened, chaunters, chondrule, chuntered, churchmen, cranreuch, craunched, craunches, crunchers, crunchier, deerhound, earthnuts, enshrouds, eutherian, foxhunter, furnished, furnisher, furnishes, greyhound, harangued, haranguer, harangues, harlequin, heartburn, herculean, hereunder, honourers, horehound, humanizer, humdinger, hundredth, hungering, hungriest, hunkering, hurricane, husbander, inhaulers, launchers, naughtier, neighbour, nonhunter, nourished, nourisher, nourishes, overhunts, paunchier, pothunter, prehumans, prelaunch, preshrunk, punishers, quenchers, raunchier, refurnish, rehousing, rhamnuses, roughened, roughhewn, roughneck, roughness, ruthenium, schnauzer, scrunched, scrunches, shunpiker, southerns, stauncher, sunbather, superthin, thereunto, thereupon, thundered, thunderer, truncheon, unbrushed, uncharged, uncharges, uncharted, underhand, undershot, unearthed, unearthly, unhandier, unhappier, unharness, unhonored, unhurried, unreached, unsphered, unspheres, untethers, unthreads, unthroned, unthrones, unwreathe, urethanes, whereunto, whereupon, wuthering.

 

+5 letters: antihunter, bounderish, buhrstones, bunchberry, burnishers, burthening, bushranger, butchering, chequering, chirurgeon, chondrules, chuntering, cornhusker, cowpuncher, cranreuchs, crunchable, crunchiest, deerhounds, dunderhead, earthbound, enshrouded, euphoriant, euryhaline, eutherians, flugelhorn, fourteenth, foxhunters, furnishers, furthering, greenhouse, greyhounds, gunfighter, haranguers, harlequins, hausfrauen, headhunter, heartburns, honourable, horehounds, horrendous, housefront, housetrain, humanizers, humdingers, hundredths, hungriness, huntresses, hurricanes, husbanders, keypuncher, languisher, leprechaun, murthering, neighbours, nephridium, neurohumor, neuropathy, neutrophil, nonhunters, nourishers, outhearing, overhunted, pothunters, prepunched, prepunches, raunchiest, rehumanize, relaunched, relaunches, relinquish, retouching, roughening, roughnecks, roundhouse, rutheniums, schnauzers, shotgunner, shuddering, shunpikers, shuttering, southerner, subtrahend, sunbathers, sunporches, superhuman, thereunder, thunderers, thundering, thunderous, truncheons, unanchored, unbranched, unbreeched, unbreeches, unchurched, unchurches, underbrush, underneath, undershirt, undershoot, undershrub, underwhelm, unearthing, unenriched, unfathered, unhampered, unheralded, unhindered, unravished, unsphering, untethered, unthreaded, untogether, unworthier, unworthies, unwreathed, unwreathes, upreaching, vanquisher, vouchering.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Nehru


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

4E 65 68 72 75

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)

01001110 01100101 01101000 01110010 01110101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#101 &#104 &#114 &#117

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0065 0068 0072 0075

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

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

4871748487

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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