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Ragusa

Definition: Ragusa

Ragusa

Noun

1. A port city in southwestern Croatia on the Adriatic; a popular tourist center.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Ragusa

Synonym: Dubrovnik (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Ragusa

Etymologies containing "Ragusa": Argosy. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Ragusa

Illustrations:
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Usage Frequency: Ragusa

"Ragusa" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "Ragusa" is used about 27 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)96.3%2668,323
Noun (singular)3.7%1339,140
                    Total100.00%27N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Ragusa

The following table summarizes the usage of "Ragusa" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
RagusaLast name1,00011,166
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ragusa

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ragusa

32

ragusa villa

6

di marina ragusa

4

ragusa sicily

3

italy ragusa

3

frank ragusa

2

dottore medicina ragusa

2

ragusa rose

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ragusa

Language Translations for "Ragusa"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

拉古萨. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

agusaray.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Ragusa

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-g-r-s-u"

-1 letter: agars, argus, auras, gaurs, guars, ragas, sugar.

-2 letters: agar, agas, aura, gars, gaur, guar, raga, rags, ruga, rugs, saga, sura, ursa.

-3 letters: aas, aga, ars, gar, gas, rag, ras, rug, sag, sau.

-4 letters: aa, ag, ar, as, us.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-g-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: jaguars, saguaro.

 

+2 letters: arugolas, arugulas, gastrula, graduals, guaranis, piraguas, saguaros, sastruga, zastruga.

 

+3 letters: ageratums, argonauts, asparagus, gastrulae, gastrular, gastrulas, graduands, graduates, guacharos, guaranies, guardants, guardians, guardsman, harangues, pagurians, pasturage, runagates, rutabagas, safeguard, sargassum, suffragan, sugarcane, sugarcoat, sugarloaf, vagarious, vanguards.

 

+4 letters: audiograms, autografts, autographs, ciguateras, coastguard, dramaturgs, gastrulate, gradualism, gradualist, graduators, grandaunts, granulates, granulomas, gratulates, guacharoes, guarantees, guaranties, guarantors, guardrails, guayaberas, haranguers, inaugurals, neuralgias, orangutans, pasturages, rampageous, safeguards, sanguinary, sargassums, saturating, subaverage, submanager, suffragans, sugarcanes, sugarcoats, vulgarians.

 

+5 letters: admeasuring, blackguards, cataloguers, coastguards, dramaturges, draughtsman, farraginous, gastrulated, gastrulates, gradualisms, gradualists, gradualness, graduations, granulators, inaugurates, jaguarondis, jaguarundis, langlaufers, outbargains, quadrangles, quarterages, ragamuffins, safeguarded, sanguinaria, sarcophagus, strangulate, submanagers, submarginal, sugarcoated, sugarloaves, ungraspable, vagariously, vanguardism, vanguardist.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ragusa


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 61 67 75 73 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-.    .-    --.    ..-    ...    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100001 01100111 01110101 01110011 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#97 &#103 &#117 &#115 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0061 0067 0075 0073 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

526773878567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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