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Definitions: PODESTA |
PODESTANoun1. A mayor, alderman, or other magistrate, in some towns of Italy. 2. One of the chief magistrates of the Italian republics in the Middle Ages. |
Date "PODESTA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Podesta \Po*des"ta\, noun. [Italian podest[`a], from the Latin expression potestas power, magistracy. See Potent.]. (Websters 1913) |
"PODESTA" is a common misspelling or typo for: lodestar, pedestal, polestar. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Judge | Archon, tribune, praetor, syndic, podesta, mollah, ulema, mufti, cadi, kadi; Rhadamanthus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "PODESTA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Podesta | Last name | 400 | 22,723 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
john podesta | 20 |
rossana podesta | 19 |
podesta | 13 |
michael podesta | 8 |
connie podesta | 6 |
rosanna podesta | 4 |
mattoon podesta | 3 |
podesta alberto | 3 |
podesta tony | 2 |
baldocchi podesta | 2 |
nude photo podesta roxana | 2 |
john podesta tank think | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PODESTA": podestas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PODESTA" (pronounced pōde"stu) |
| 4 | -e" s t u | celesta, Cuesta, Fiesta, Testa, Vesta. |
| 3 | -s t u | Arista, canasta, Costa, pasta, robusta, vista. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: adepts, adopts, depots, despot, pasted, posted, sapote, soaped, stoped. | |
-2 letters: adept, adopt, apods, dates, datos, depot, doats, doest, dopas, dopes, dotes, estop, opted, paseo, paste, pated, pates, peats, pesto, poets, posed, psoae, sated, septa, spade, spado, spaed, spate, spode, stade, stead, stoae, stope, taped, tapes, tepas, toads, toeas, toped, topes, tsade. | |
-3 letters: ados. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: adoptees, adopters, dioptase, notepads, pastored, podestas, postdate, potheads, readopts, tadpoles. | |
+2 letters: antipodes, autopsied, clodpates, dioptases, impastoed, outpassed, outspread, pastedown, pintadoes, postdated, postdates, preadopts, predators, speedboat, spoliated, tapaderos, teardrops, tetrapods. | |
+3 letters: adipocytes, adsorptive, audiotapes, davenports, depositary, deutoplasm, diplomates, doorplates, godparents, juxtaposed, outspanned, outspreads, pasteboard, pastedowns, patronised, personated, petalodies, planetoids, podiatries, postdebate, postmarked, postulated, predations, prostrated, speedboats, sporulated, syncopated, transposed, trapezoids, videotapes, zapateados. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 44 45 53 54 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)01010000 01001111 01000100 01000101 01010011 01010100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O D E S T A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 0044 0045 0053 0054 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)50493839535435 |
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