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PENDENNIS

Date "PENDENNIS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references)


Specialty Definition: PENDENNIS

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Literature

Pendennis (Arthur). The hero of Thackeray's novel, entitled The History of Pendennis, etc.
Major Pendennis. A tuft-hunter, similar in character to Macklin's celebrated Sir Pertinax M'Sycophant. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Modern Usage: PENDENNIS

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Movie/TV Titles

Pendennis (1916)

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

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Commercial Usage: PENDENNIS

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Books

  • Pendennis (The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - Volume 12) (reference)

  • Thackeray the Writer: From Pendennis to Denis Duval (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: PENDENNIS

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Pendennis club, Louisville, Ky. Credit: Library of Congress.

Freighter Pendennis White. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: PENDENNIS

"PENDENNIS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PENDENNIS" is used about 2 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%2245,945

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PENDENNIS

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

castle pendennis

4

club pendennis

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

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Anagrams: PENDENNIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-n-n-n-p-s"

-1 letter: pennines.

-2 letters: indenes, pennies, pennine, pinenes.

-3 letters: denies, dienes, espied, indene, peined, peised, penned, pennis, pinene, pinned, seined, sinned, sniped, spined.

-4 letters: deeps, denes, dense, diene, dines, inned, needs, neeps, nenes, nides, nines, pedes, peens, peins, peise, pends, penes, penis, penne, penni, pined, pines, seine, siped, snide, snipe, speed, spend, spied, spine.

-5 letters: deep, dees.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-n-n-n-p-s"
 

+3 letters: independents.

 

+4 letters: independences.

 

+5 letters: independencies, superintendent, superintending.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PENDENNIS


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

50 45 4E 44 45 4E 4E 49 53

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)

01010000 01000101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01001110 01001110 01001001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#78 &#78 &#73 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 004E 0044 0045 004E 004E 0049 0053

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

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

503948383948484353

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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