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Definition: Proserpine |
ProserpineNoun1. Goddess of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Persephone. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Proserpine" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "emerge". |
Date "Proserpine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonym: ProserpineSynonym: Proserpina (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Proserpine |
| Specialty definitions using "Proserpine": Ascalaphos ♦ Cut neither Nails nor Hair at Sea ♦ Gods ♦ Hair devoted to Proserpine ♦ I'sis ♦ Orders of Architecture. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Proserpine" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Proserpine" is used about 10 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) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Proserpine" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "emerge". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Proserpine." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Proserpina | Female | Roman Mythology | N/A |
| Proserpine | Female | Roman Mythology | Proserpina |
| 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 |
proserpine | 16 |
airport australia proserpine | 11 |
goddess proserpine | 2 |
garden proserpine swinburnes | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Proserpine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Prosepene. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-o-p-p-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: peperonis. | |
-2 letters: isoprene, peperoni, perspire, pioneers, poperies, prerinse, prisoner, propenes, propense, propines, repiners, ripeners, roperies. | |
-3 letters: erepsin, ironers, nippers, onerier, openers, orpines, peonies, pepsine, pereion, perries, perrons, pioneer, pornier, prisere, propene, propers, propine, prosier, prosper, reopens, repiner, repines, reposer, reprise, rerisen, respire, ripener, rippers, snipper, soppier. | |
-4 letters: eosine, ironer, irones, nereis, nipper, nosier, opener. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-o-p-p-r-r-s" | |
+2 letters: improperness. | |
+3 letters: perpetrations, precentorship, preprocessing. | |
+4 letters: impropernesses, peremptoriness, precentorships. | |
+5 letters: appropriateness, hyperresponsive, mercaptopurines, norepinephrines, parthenocarpies, preponderancies, preponderations, preprofessional. | |
| 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 72 6F 73 65 72 70 69 6E 65 |
| 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 01110010 01101111 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110000 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r o s e r p i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 006F 0073 0065 0072 0070 0069 006E 0065 |
| 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)50848185718482758071 |
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