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Definition: Othello |
OthelloNoun1. The hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wife. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Othello" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the wealth", "a fortune". |
Date "Othello" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | OTHELLO, of Venice. Born in Morocco. Went to Venice and fell in love with one Desdemona, an Italian girl. They were married. Mrs. Othello lost one of her favorite handkerchiefs and was killed by her enraged husband. Shakespeare, of England, a writer, heard of the incident and made some money out of it. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Othello (in Shakespeare's tragedy so called). A Moor, commander of the Venetian army, who eloped with Desdemona. Brabantio accused him of necromancy, but Desdemona, being sent for, refuted the charge. The Moor, being then sent to drive the Turks from Cyprus, won a signal victory. On his return, Iago played upon his jealousy, and persuaded him that Desdemona intrigued with Cassio. He therefore murdered her, and then stabbed himself. Othello the Moor. Shakespeare borrowed this tale from the seventh of Giovanni Giraldi Cinthio's third decade of stories. Cinthio died 1573. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: Othello |
| English words defined with "Othello": Iago. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Othello": Aglaos ♦ BEAST WITH TWO BACKS, Bianca ♦ Caora, Cassio, Chronicle Small Beer, Counter-caster ♦ Gratiano, Guards of the Pole, Guinea-hen ♦ Hair-breadth 'Scape ♦ Ice-brook, Itching of the Eye ♦ OTHELLO ♦ Promethean Fire, Public-house Signs ♦ Roderigo ♦ Spartan Dog. (references) |
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Screenplays | Dear Lord, please let tonight's production be better than Othello starring Peter Marshall. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Othello (1969) Ein Weißer Othello (1922) Othello (1922) The Duped Othello (1909) Othello (1908) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Othello. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | John McCullough as Othello. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Thos. W. Keene. Othello. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait of Earle Hyman, as Othello. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | What overwhelms Othello, glides over Candide. |
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| "Othello" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Othello" is used about 147 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% | 147 | 25,998 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Othello" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the wealth", "a fortune". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Othello." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Odo | Male | N/A | N/A |
| Otho | Male | N/A | Otto |
| Cody | Male | English | Otto |
| Otis | Male | English | Otto |
| Otto | Male | German | Odo |
| Cody | Male | Irish | Otto |
| Othello | Male | Literature | Otto |
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1. Othello, WA (city, FIPS 52215) |
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Beginning with "Othello": othello-like. | |
Ending with "Othello": Carb-othello. | |
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| 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. |
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Greek | Οθέλλοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | オクタン価 (enthusiast, fantasy object for masturbation, geek, honor, love affair with colleague, masturbation, nerd, Occam, ocean space explorer, Oceania, octane value, octet, odometer, of course, off, off the record, offence, offense, offer, office, office automation, office computer, office girl, office lady, office wife, officer, official, official handicap, official record, off-season, offshore, offshore center, offshore fund, off-side, Ohio, Oklahoma, okra, OL, onanism, onion, onomatopoeia, onyx, opal, opinion, opinion leader, orchestra, Oscar, oscillograph, oscilloscope, Oslo, osmium, OSPER, ostracism, ostrich, ostrich policy, Ottawa, Oxford, oxtail, ozone, ozone hole, respectable person). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | オセロ (Oslo). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | othelloay Otelo. (various references) ตัวละครเอกในบทประพันธ์แนวโศกนาฎกรรมของเช็กสเปียร์. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Othello" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gotthelf, Kotelo, Ktholo, Otelo, othel, O'thello, Otterlo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-l-l-o-o-t" | |
-2 letters: hello, helot, hollo, hotel, thole. | |
-3 letters: hell, helo, hole, holt, hoot, loot, loth, oleo, tell, tole, toll, tool. | |
-4 letters: ell, eth, het, hoe, hot, let, loo, lot, oho, ole, ooh, oot, tel, the, tho, toe, too. | |
-5 letters: eh, el, et, he, ho, lo, oe, oh, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-l-l-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: bolthole. | |
+2 letters: boltholes, hollowest, photocell, tollhouse. | |
+3 letters: photocells, tollhouses, toolholder, typhlosole. | |
+4 letters: cholesterol, ethological, lithologies, loathsomely, theological, toolholders, typhlosoles. | |
+5 letters: cholesterols, ethnological, floodlighted, heliolatrous, metallophone, otherworldly, photolyzable, throttlehold, yellowthroat, zooxanthella. | |
| 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)4F 74 68 65 6C 6C 6F |
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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)01001111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O t h e l l o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0074 0068 0065 006C 006C 006F |
| 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)49867471787881 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", griego |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonés, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", japonés, คนญี่ปุ่น, าษาญี่ปุ่น, เกี่ยวกับญี่ปุ่น |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , español |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, たい", tailandés, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglés, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ |
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