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Date "POLONIUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
"POLONIUS" is a common misspelling or typo for: polonium. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Polonius An old courtier, garrulous, conceited, and politic. He was father of Ophelia, and lord chamberlain to the king of Denmark. (Shakespeare: Hamlet.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Father of Ophelia and Laertes, and adjunct to King Claudius, he can be described as a windbag to some, rambler of wisdom to others.
He is ordered by Claudius to discover why Hamlet is acting mad. Polonius suggests that Hamlet is acting crazy because Polonius wouldn't allow Ophelia to see him. He attempts to put his theory to the test, but Hamlet confounds him even more. Polonius, although suspecting something afoot, could only say "Though this be madness, yet there is method in it" - Act 2 Sc.ii.
While Polonius was hiding behind the curtains in Gertrude's room, Hamlet comes in and sees someone hiding there. Without checking to see who it was first, he stabs Polonius, thinking it may have been Claudius. Polonius dies, leaving Ophelia to go crazy and Laertes to demand revenge.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Polonius."
Crosswords: POLONIUS |
| Specialty definitions using "POLONIUS": Ophelia. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That Polonius guy did. (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Polygamous Polonius (1960) | |
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| "POLONIUS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "POLONIUS" is used about 16 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) | 93.75% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
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| 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 |
polonius | 62 |
hamlet polonius | 5 |
polonius shakespeare | 4 |
behind polonius stuck | 4 |
hamlet in polonius | 3 |
behind got one polonius stuck | 3 |
polonius stuck | 2 |
gertrude hamlet polonius | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-n-o-o-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: plosion, pulsion, upsilon. | |
-2 letters: insoul, lupins, pilous, poilus, poison, polios, solion. | |
-3 letters: linos, lions, loins, loons, loops, louis, loups, lupin, noils, nolos, olios, opsin, pilus, pions, pious, poilu, polio, polis, polos, pools, poons, pulis, sloop, snool, snoop, solon, spoil, spool, spoon. | |
-4 letters: ions, lino, lins, lion, lips, lisp, loin, loon, loop, loos, lops, loup. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-n-o-o-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: poloniums, prolusion. | |
+2 letters: compulsion, pollutions, prolusions, propulsion. | |
+3 letters: compulsions, copulations, liposuction, poisonously, polemoniums, populations, postulation, propulsions, sporulation. | |
+4 letters: allopurinols, anemophilous, anthophilous, euphoniously, liposuctions, luteotropins, postulations, sporulations, supercooling. | |
+5 letters: compendiously, conspicuously, counselorship, depopulations, entomophilous, expostulation, fluoroscoping, luteotrophins, plastoquinone, postulational, proconsulship, promulgations, repopulations, subpopulation, suppositional, symphoniously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 4C 4F 4E 49 55 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .-.. --- -. .. ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01001100 01001111 01001110 01001001 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O L O N I U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 004C 004F 004E 0049 0055 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5049464948435553 |
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