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Definition: Pompey |
PompeyNoun1. Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered (106-48 BC). 2. A port city in southern England on the English Channel; Britain's major naval base. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Pompey" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Pompeii". |
Date "Pompey" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Pompey A generic name for a black footman, as Abigail used to be of a lady's maid. Moll or Molly is a cook; Betty, a housemaid; Sambo, a black "buttons;" etc. One of Hood's jokes for a list of library books was, Pompeii; or, Memoirs of a Black Footman, by Sir W. Gill. (Sir W. Gell wrote a book on Pompeii.) Pompey is also a common name for a dog. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pompey, New York."
Synonyms: PompeySynonyms: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (n), Pompey the Great (n), Portsmouth (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pompey |
| English words defined with "Pompey": battle of Pharsalus ♦ Incident proposition ♦ Mithridates, Mithridates the Great, Mithridates VI ♦ Pharsalus, Pompey the Great. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Pompey": Guisando ♦ Married Women, Misnomers ♦ Seleucia ♦ Veni, Vidi, Vici. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Pompey, go find Doc Willoughby. (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; writing credit: James Warner Bellah; Willis Goldbeck) | |
Clever | A dead man cannot bite. (references; author: Pompey) More worship the rising that the setting sun. (references; author: Pompey) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Poslednie dni Pompey (1972) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A New humorous song, on the Cherokee chiefs Inscribed to the ladies of Great Britain : To the tune of, Caesar and Pompey were both of the horned / / by H. Howard. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Farm owned by James Pompey, who 20 years ago came from Italy on the advice of a brother, Southington, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Pompey | A dead man cannot bite. |
| More worship the rising that the setting sun. | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Pompey at this time was not to weep, but it is certain that Caesar laughed. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I saw Caesar and Pompey at the head of their troops, just ready to engage. |
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| "Pompey" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.73% of the time. "Pompey" is used about 79 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) | 98.73% | 78 | 37,656 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 79 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Pompey" 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 |
| Pompey | Last name | 1,000 | 9,516 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Pompey" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Pompeii". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Pompey." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Pompey | Male | History | N/A |
| Pompeo | Male | Italian | Pompey |
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Expression using "Pompey": Pompey the Great. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pompey | 135 | great picture pompey | 3 |
pompey the great | 22 | pompey new york | 3 |
fc pompey | 21 | fan pompey | 3 |
pompey ny | 13 | general pompey roman | 3 |
caesar pompey | 11 | district fabius pompey school | 3 |
free pompey ringtone | 8 | central district fabius pompey school | 3 |
pompey rome | 7 | club golf pompey | 3 |
caesar julius pompey | 6 | club football pompey | 2 |
general pompey | 5 | pompey club | 2 |
fans.com pompey | 4 | fabius pompey school | 2 |
pompey dodge | 4 | map pompey | 2 |
fabius pompey | 4 | pompey theater | 2 |
julia pompey | 4 | pompey sulla | 2 |
between caesar civil pompey war | 3 | ||
pompey sulla | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Pompey"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
German | Pompejus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ompeypay Pompeyo (pompeius). (various references) Portsmouth Deniz Üssü, Portsmouth Þehri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-m-o-p-p-y" | |
-1 letter: mopey, myope. | |
-2 letters: mope, mopy, pepo, poem, pome, pomp, pope. | |
-3 letters: mop, ope, pep, pom, pop, pye, yep, yom. | |
-4 letters: em, me, mo, my, oe, om, op, oy, pe, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-m-o-p-p-y" | |
+4 letters: improperly, nympholept, peremptory, preemptory, propylaeum. | |
+5 letters: impropriety, nympholepsy, nympholepts. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 6D 70 65 79 |
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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 01101111 01101101 01110000 01100101 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o m p e y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 006D 0070 0065 0079 |
| 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)508179827191 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | alemán, alman |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanisch, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | türkisch, turco, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
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