Quaker

Definition: Quaker

Quaker

Noun

1. A member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers).

2. One who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear.

Date "Quaker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To dream of a Quaker, denotes that you will have faithful friends and fair business. If you are one, you will deport yourself honorably toward an enemy. For a young woman to attend a Quaker meeting, portends that she will by her modest manners win a faithful husband who will provide well for her household. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Literature	Quaker It appears from the Journal of George Fox, who was imprisoned for nearly twelve months in Derby, that the Quakers first obtained the appellation (1650) by which they are now known from the following circumstance:- "Justice Bennet, of Derby," says Fox, "was the first to call us Quakers, because I bade him quake and tremble at the word of the Lord." The system of the Quakers is laid down by Robert Barclay in fifteen theses, called Barclay's Apology, addressed to Charles II. "Quakers (that, like lanterns, bear Their light within them) will not swear." Butler: Hudibras, ii. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Quaker

Synonym: trembler (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Heterodoxy	Protestant; Huguenot; orthodox dissenter, Congregationalist, Independent; Episcopalian, Presbyterian; Lutheran, Calvinist, Methodist, Wesleyan; Ana, Baptist; Mormon, Latter-day Saint, Irvingite, Sandemanian, Glassite, Erastian; Sublapsarian, Supralapsarian; Gentoo, Antinomian, Swedenborgian; Adventist, Bible Christian, Bryanite, Brownian, Christian Scientist, Dunker, Ebionite, Eusebian; Faith Curer, Curist; Familist, Jovinianist, Libadist, Quaker, Restitutionist, Shaker, Stundist, Tunker; ultramontane; Anglican, Oxford School; tractarian, Puseyite, ritualist; Puritan.
Impotence	Telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy; paper tiger; Quaker gun.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Quaker

English words defined with "Quaker": Broadbrim ♦ Nankeen bird ♦ Penn ♦ Quakerish, Quakerlike ♦ Rubiaceous ♦ Venus's pride ♦ William Penn. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Quaker": Aminadab ♦ Great Men ♦ Non, Non- ♦ Obadiah ♦ PENN, Poets ♦ Simon Pure, STEWED QUAKER ♦ WET QUAKER ♦ YEA AND NAY MAN. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Quaker" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (Quaker), French (quaker), Romanian (quaker).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	A Quaker Mother (1911)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	Quaker Chemical Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Quaker City Bancorp, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Quaker Fabric Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	A Guide to the Quaker Parrot (reference) A Living Faith: An Historical and Comparative Study of Quaker Beliefs (reference) Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity (reference) Quaker Testimony (reference) The Quaker Parrot: An Owner's Guide to a Happy, Healthy Pet (Owner's Guide to a Happy, Healthy Pet) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Canadian Quaker History Journal (reference) Quaker Connections (reference) Quaker History (reference) Quaker Life (reference) Quaker Monthly (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Quaker Girl (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[William D. Leahy] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Quaker Photo Service, Phila..		Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861 volume. It depicts thirteen merchant steamships acquired by the U.S. Navy between April and August 1861 and subsequently converted into warships, plus the steamer Nashville (far left), which became a Confederate cruiser. U.S. Navy ships, as identified below the image bottom, are (from left to right: Alabama, Quaker City, Santiago de Cuba (listed as "St. Jago de Cuba", Mount Vernon, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Florida, De Soto, Augusta, James Adger, Monticello, Bienville and R.R. Cuyler. Credit: NAVY.
	Watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1948, painted for use in his book "Early American Steamers", Volume I. This ship served as USS Quaker City during 1861-1865. Credit: NAVY.		Quaker guns, Centreville, Virginia / negative by Barnard & Gibson ; positive by A. Gardner. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Quaker Ridge Station, N.Y.W. & B.R.R., New Rochelle, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.		Centreville, Va. Fort on the heights, with Quaker guns. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Rebel Gun at Munsons hill--a regular quaker. Credit: Library of Congress.		Elevators at Quaker Oats plant. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Oil. Oil for our machines of war is supplied by oil refineries like this one. Here are, left to right, the stabilizing, fractionating and heat exchange towers of the McKean cracking plant of the Quaker State Refining Company. Bradford, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress.		Quaker Oats Factory, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Battery of rollers. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	NON-:COMBATANT:, n. A dead Quaker.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Quaker" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 68.89% of the time. "Quaker" is used about 135 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
Adjective (general or positive)	68.89%	93	34,067
Noun (singular)	22.22%	30	63,341
Noun (proper)	8.89%	12	101,599
Total	100.00%	135	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "Quaker" 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
Quaker	Last name	130	68,884
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "Quaker": quaker bean ♦ quaker buttons ♦ Quaker City ♦ quaker gun ♦ Quaker Hill ♦ quaker ladies ♦ quaker meeting. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Quaker": quaker-bird, quaker-grey, quaker-plain, quaker-run.
	Ending with "Quaker": non-quaker, pre-quaker, vegetarian-quaker.
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.

Language		Translations for "Quaker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kuakeri (quakerish), kuaker. (various references)

Arabic		‏احد أفراد جماعة بروتستانتية. (various references)

Bulgarian		квакер (friend). (various references)

Czech		kvaker. (various references)

Danish		valset havre (flakes, oat flakes, quaker oats, rolled oat, rolled oats), umoden boenne (floater bean, immature bean, quaker bean), havregryn (flakes, groats, oat flakes, quaker oats, rolled oat, rolled oats). (various references)

Dutch		Quaker-. (various references)

Esperanto		kvakero, kvakera. (various references)

Farsi		ملخ (Grasshopper), مرتعش (Seismic, Tremulous, Vibrant), لرزنده (Shaky, Shuttle, Tremulous), عضوفرقه کویکر. (various references)

Finnish		kveekari (Friend). (various references)

French		quaker. (various references)

German		Quäker. (various references)

Greek		κουάκεροσ. (various references)

Hebrew		קוקר. (various references)

Hungarian		kvéker (friend). (various references)

Irish		Caecar, ball de Chumann na gCarad. (various references)

Italian		quacchero. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		クーロン力 (car horn, Chrysler, Clark, classic, classic car, classic life, classic races, classical, classicism, clerk, client, client server, climax, climber, climbing, climograph, cloud, collider, cook, cookie, cooking, cooking card, cooking school, Coulomb's force, coutouriere, couturier, crime story, crisis, criteria, crouching start, crown, cryoelectronics, cryogenics, cumin, cushion, cushion ball, Klaxon, Kuwait, large size, multi-purpose health facility, pitcher throwing to first base, quake, quality, quality paper, quantity, quantize, quark, quarter, quarterback, quarterly, quartet, quartz, quasar, queen, queen size, Queen's English, Queensland, question, question mark, quick, quick motion, quick step, quick turn, quilter, quintet, quinto, quiz, quiz mania, quiz rally, quota, quotation mark, quote, Society of Friends, the Queen Mary). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		クエーカー (Society of Friends). (various references)

Manx		fer craaee, craader (dice box, shaker, trembler, vibrator, wobbler). (various references)

Pig Latin		akerquay

Portuguese		quacre. (various references)

Romanian		quaker, albatros negru. (various references)

Russian		квакерский (quakerish), квакер. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kvekerski (quakerish), kveker. (various references)

Spanish		cuáquero (friend). (various references)

Swedish		kväkare (friend). (various references)

Turkish		siyah albatros (quaker-bird), bubi tuzağı (booby trap, quaker gun). (various references)

Ukrainian		квакер. (various references)

Vietnamese		tín đ�" phái Quây-cơ. (various references)

Welsh		Crynwr. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Quaker": quakers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Quaker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Keker, Quaere, qualer, Quaser, quayer, quazer. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Quaker" (pronounced kwā"ker)
3	-ā" k er	acre, Baker, breaker, faker, Laker, maker, raker, Saker, shaker, taker.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-k-q-r-u"
	-1 letter: quake, quare, quark.
	-2 letters: rake, urea.
	-3 letters: are, ark, auk, ear, eau, era, kae, kea, kue, qua, rue, uke.
	-4 letters: ae, ar, er, ka, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-k-q-r-u"
	+1 letter: quakers, quakier.
	+2 letters: quackery, squawker, squeaker.
	+3 letters: squawkers, squeakers, squeakier.
	+4 letters: earthquake, microquake, quackeries.
	+5 letters: earthquakes, lacquerwork, microquakes, quacksalver, quarterback, quarterdeck.
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Country	Name
USA	Quaker Chemical Corporation
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
quaker parrot	604	city quaker raceway	25
quaker oat	385	quaker hill ct	25
quaker	352	parrot picture quaker	22
lube quaker steak	320	quaker square	21
bank city quaker	147	quaker fabric	20
quaker oatmeal	110	lube quaker state	20
quaker state	102	quaker bridge mall	19
the quaker oat company	65	parrot quaker sale	18
bird quaker	63	quaker city oh	18
quaker steak	48	district quaker school valley	17
quaker parakeet	43	pennzoil quaker state	17
quaker parakeets	39	quaker city	17
quaker religion	39	quaker lace	17
oil quaker state	37	belief quaker	16
quaker cereal	36	old paint quaker	16
quaker food	31	instant oatmeal quaker	13
quaker chemical	28	home quaker	13
oat quaker recipe	28	quaker risk special	12
quaker window	27	quaker state motor oil	12
bank quaker	27	breeding parrot quaker	12
		club golf quaker ridge	12
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Quaker

Definition: Quaker

Quaker

Noun

Specialty Definition: Quaker

Synonym: Quaker

Synonyms within Context: Quaker

Heterodoxy

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Modern Usage: Quaker

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Devil's Dictionary

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Quaker Chemical Corporation

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Anagrams: Quaker

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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