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Pleven

Definition: Pleven

Pleven

Noun

1. The town was taken from the Turks by the Russians in 1877 after a siege of 143 days.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Pleven

Synonym: Plevna (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Pleven

DomainTitle

Books

  • Le projet de C.E.D. du Plan Pleven au "crime" du 30 août : histoire d'un malentendu européen (reference)

  • Papiers René Pleven, 560 AP : inventaire (reference)

  • René Pleven : un Français libre en politique (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Pleven

SubjectTopicQuote

Children

Bulgaria

During the year, Romani children from the settlement continued to attend nonsegregated schools as a result of local and international nongovernmental initiatives, and this program was expanded to include the cities of Montana, Pleven, Stara Zagora, Sliven, and Khaskovo. (references)

Civil Liberties

Bulgaria

For instance, several evangelical Christian groups filed a lawsuit during the year against municipal authorities in Pleven, alleging that the authorities have prevented religious activists from proselytizing to the public without a permit, but have refused to issue such permits. (references)

Bulgaria

Furthermore several municipal governments, including those of Burgas, Plovdiv, Pleven, Gorna Oryahovitsa, and Stara Zagora, established local registration requirements or adopted other restrictive laws curtailing the free practice of religious activities, often in contravention of the country's law. (references)

Human Rights

Bulgaria

Petrov appealed this decision, and the Pleven Regional Military Court ordered the investigation reopened. (references)

Bulgaria

Police claimed Petrov was set on fire by an unknown perpetrator; a preliminary investigation that was pending at the end of 2000 was terminated during the year by the Pleven Regional Military Prosecutor's Office. (references)

Minorities

Bulgaria

In the Pleven region, a local television station repeatedly broadcast an inflammatory statement purportedly representing the views of the local Bulgarian Orthodox bishop. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Pleven

"Pleven" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Pleven" is used about 12 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
Adjective (general or positive)66.67%8124,375
Noun (proper)33.33%4175,879
                    Total100.00%12N/A

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

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Cities: Pleven


1. Pleven , Bulgaria
Location: 43.25 North, 24.40 East
Population (2000 estimate): 166830
Time Zone: 2 GMT
Country: Bulgaria

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pleven

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

bulgaria pleven

86

pleven

9

hotel pleven

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Pleven

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-l-n-p-v"

-2 letters: even, neep, neve, peel, peen, pele, veep.

-3 letters: eel, eve, lee, lev, nee, pee, pen, vee.

-4 letters: el, en, ne, pe.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-l-n-p-v"
 

+1 letter: envelop.

 

+2 letters: envelope, envelops, replevin.

 

+3 letters: enveloped, envelopes, pensively, prevalent, replevins.

 

+4 letters: developing, enveloping, prevalence, prevalents, replevined, replevying, vilipended.

 

+5 letters: development, envelopment, expansively, expensively, explanative, inceptively, overexplain, overleaping, overplanned, overplanted, pentavalent, polyvalence, prevalences, prevalently, preventable, preventible, pulverulent, replevining, undeveloped.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Pleven


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

50 6C 65 76 65 6E

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 01101100 01100101 01110110 01100101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#108 &#101 &#118 &#101 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006C 0065 0076 0065 006E

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

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

507871887180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Cities
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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