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Definition: Octavian |
OctavianNoun1. Roman statesman who became emperor of Rome after defeating Mark Antony at Actium (63 BC - AD 14). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Octavian" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the eighth". |
Date "Octavian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
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Literature | Octavian Chief character of The Mountaineers, a drama by George Colman. He goes mad out of love for Donna Floranthe, whom he suspects of loving another; but Roque, a blunt old attachè, seeks him, tells him Floranthe is faithful, and induces him to return. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: OctavianSynonyms: Augustus (n), Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (n), Gaius Octavianus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Octavian |
| English words defined with "Octavian": Anthony, Antonius, Antony ♦ battle of Philippi ♦ Cleopatra ♦ Marcus Antonius, Mark Anthony, Mark Antony ♦ Philippi. (references) |
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| "Octavian" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Octavian" is used about 24 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% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Octavian" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the eighth". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Octavian." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Octavius | Male | Ancient Roman | N/A |
| Octavia | Female | English | Octavius |
| Octavian | Male | History | Octavius |
| Ottaviano | Male | Italian | Octavian |
| Ottavio | Male | Italian | Octavius |
| Otávio | Male | Portuguese | Octavius |
| Octavian | Male | Romanian | Octavius |
| Octavio | Male | Spanish | Octavius |
| 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 |
octavian | 39 |
augustus octavian | 16 |
octavian caesar | 5 |
octavian augustus caesar | 4 |
baby octavian | 2 |
octavian rome | 2 |
doru dumitru octavian | 2 |
goga octavian | 2 |
octavian picture | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: vacation. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-t-v" | |
-2 letters: action, atavic, atonic, cation, vacant. | |
-3 letters: actin, antic, avant, avian, avion, canto, coati, cotan, covin, octan, ontic, tonic, vatic, vinca. | |
-4 letters: acta, anoa, anta, anti, cain, cant, ciao, cion, coat, coin, coni, icon, into, iota, naoi, nota, nova, otic, taco, tain, vain, vina, vino, vita. | |
-5 letters: act, ain, ait, ana, ani, ant, ava, avo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-t-v" | |
+1 letter: avocation, covariant, vacations. | |
+2 letters: activation, advocating, advocation, avocations, cavitation, evacuation, excavation, vacationed, vacationer, vaccinator, vocational. | |
+3 letters: activations, advocations, autoclaving, avocational, captivation, cavitations, clairvoyant, covariation, evacuations, excavations, vacationers, vacationing, vacationist, vaccination, vaccinators, vacillation, vacuolation, vaticinator. | |
+4 letters: avitaminotic, captivations, clairvoyants, coacervation, covariations, deactivation, divarication, excavational, inactivation, invocational, nonactivated, postvaccinal, reactivation, vacationists, vacationland, vaccinations, vacillations, vacuolations, vaticination, vaticinators, vocalization, vocationally. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 63 74 61 76 69 61 6E |
| 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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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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