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ORSINI

Date "ORSINI" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)


Specialty Definition: ORSINI

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Literature

Orsini (Maffio). A young Italian nobleman, whose life was saved by Gennaro at the battle of Rimini. Orsini became the staunch friend of Genaro, but both were poisoned at a banquet given by the Princess Negroni. (Donizetti: Lucrezia di Borgia, an opera.) This was the name of the conspirator who attempted the life of Napoleon III. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Specialty Definition: Orsini

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Orsini was a powerful noble family in medieval and renaissance Rome, supplying three popes and many other leaders, and fighting with their rivals the Colonna family for influence.

The three Orsini popes were Pope Celestine III, (1191-1198), Pope Nicholas III (1277-1280), and Pope Benedict XIII (1724-1730).

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Orsini."

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Crosswords: ORSINI

Specialty definitions using "ORSINI": Lord Lovel, Lucrezia di Borgia. (references)

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Modern Usage: ORSINI

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Movie/TV Titles

El Conde Orsini (1917)

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

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Usage Frequency: ORSINI

"ORSINI" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "ORSINI" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)85.71%6143,867
Adjective (general or positive)14.29%1339,140
                    Total100.00%7N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: ORSINI

The following table summarizes the usage of "ORSINI" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
OrsiniLast name1,00011,986
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ORSINI

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "ORSINI": Orsini-colonna.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ORSINI

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

orsini

34

dominic orsini

29

marina orsini

24

monica orsini

9

castello orsini hotel

8

michael orsini

7

castello orsini

7

isabella orsini

6

antonella orsini

6

lee mary orsini

4

derek dominic orsini russo

4

dinettes orsini

3

kate orsini

3

bruce orsini

2

apartment orsini

2

lisa orsini

2

angeles apartment los orsini

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: ORSINI

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-i-n-o-r-s"

-1 letter: irons, noirs, noris, ornis, rosin.

-2 letters: inro, ions, iris, iron, nisi, noir, nori, rins, sori, sorn.

-3 letters: ins, ion, nor, nos, ons, ors, rin, sin, sir, son, sri.

-4 letters: in, is, no, on, or, os, si, so.

 Words containing the letters "i-i-n-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: incisor, ironies, ironist, noirish, noisier, origins, signior, signori, sirloin, sordini, virions.

 

+2 letters: brionies, crinoids, derision, fibroins, ignitors, imprison, incisors, incisory, introits, ionizers, ironings, ironists, ironizes, ironside, ligroins, lioniser, midirons, nigrosin, recision, resinoid, revision, ripienos, rosining, seignior, signiori, signiors, signiory, sirloins, skioring, soricine, vibrions, visoring.

 

+3 letters: cistronic, criminous, derisions, disorient, disrobing, diversion, frictions, fruitions, gridirons, heroinism, historian, ignitrons, immersion, imprisons, incurious, incursion, indictors, indorsing, inferiors, injurious, insertion, interiors, introfies, intromits, intrusion, inversion, ironsides, joineries, ligroines, lionisers, lionizers, mirlitons, misinform, misorient, missioner, mortising, nigrosins, noncrisis, notifiers, originals, peignoirs, precision, prevision, prisoning, promising, prosimian, provision, recisions, religions, remission, resinoids, retinoids, revisions, rigatonis, riposting, sanitoria, seigniors, seigniory, seniority, signories, signorina, signorine, skijoring, skiorings, sortieing, sortition, striation, trillions, vibriones, visionary, zirconias.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ORSINI


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

4F 52 53 49 4E 49

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01010010 01010011 01001001 01001110 01001001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#82 &#83 &#73 &#78 &#73

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0052 0053 0049 004E 0049

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

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

495253434843

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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