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"ORIANA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be gold". |
Date "ORIANA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Oriana The beloved of Amadis of Gaul, who called himself Beltenebros when he retired to the Poor Rock. (Amadis de Gaul, ii. 6.) Queen Elizabeth is sometimes called the "peerless Oriana," especially in the madrigals entitled the Triumphs of Oriana (1601). Oriana. The nurseling of a lioness, with whom Esplandian, son of Oriana and Amadis of Gaul, fell in love, and for whom he underwent all his perils and exploits. She is represented as the fairest, gentlest, and most faithful of womankind. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: ORIANA |
| Specialty definitions using "ORIANA": Beltenebros. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Oriana (1985) | |
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| "ORIANA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ORIANA" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "ORIANA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be gold". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "ORIANA." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Oriane | Female | French | Oriana |
| Orianne | Female | French | Oriana |
| Oriana | Female | Italian | N/A |
| 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 |
oriana | 89 |
oriana fallaci | 66 |
house oriana | 9 |
oriana ship | 6 |
o oriana p | 5 |
oriana rodriguez | 3 |
gown oriana wedding | 3 |
dress oriana wedding | 2 |
gown oriana | 2 |
oriana ss | 2 |
cruise oriana | 2 |
oriana villa | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: naira, noria. | |
-2 letters: airn, anoa, aria, inro, iron, naoi, noir, nori, raia, rain, rani, roan. | |
-3 letters: ain, air, ana, ani, ion, nor, oar, ora, ran, ria, rin. | |
-4 letters: aa, ai, an, ar, in, na, no, on, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: ocarina, ovarian. | |
+2 letters: abrasion, aeration, airwoman, animator, anorexia, antidora, armonica, baronial, foramina, macaroni, manorial, marocain, morainal, notarial, ocarinas, orinasal, paranoia, paranoic, paranoid, radioman, raincoat, rational, rosarian. | |
+3 letters: abrasions, adoration, aerations, alienator, anaerobic, anaphoric, androecia, angiogram, animators, anorexias, antilabor, antisolar, arabinose, arachnoid, aragonite, armonicas, baritonal, cantorial, caparison, carbamino, carbanion, carcinoma, carnation, carnivora, covariant, draconian, foraminal, gradation, harmonica, honoraria, inamorata, indagator, inhalator, jaborandi, laminator, macaronic, macaronis, marocains, narration, natatoria, navigator, nonracial, oceanaria, orinasals, panoramic, paranoiac, paranoias, paranoics, paranoids, parathion, pharaonic, pyromania, radiation, raincoats, rationale, rationals, rosarians, sanatoria, sanitoria, sporangia, tarnation, trainload, variation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 52 49 41 4E 41 |
| 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)01001111 01010010 01001001 01000001 01001110 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O R I A N A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0052 0049 0041 004E 0041 |
| 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)495243354835 |
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