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STEPNEY

Date "STEPNEY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)


Specialty Definition: STEPNEY

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

STEPNEY. A decoction of raisins of the sun and lemons in conduit water, sweetened with sugar, and bottled up. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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Specialty Definition: Stepney

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Stepney is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in London, England. St Dunstan's is Stepney's oldest church.

Nearest places:

Nearest Underground stations:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stepney."

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Crosswords: STEPNEY

Specialty definitions using "STEPNEY": MooZObject ZStepney Papers. (references)

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Modern Usage: STEPNEY

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Hand made in Italy, hand stolen in Stepney, it's as long as my arm, I wish it was as long as something else. (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)

Movie/TV Titles

Hamlet van Stepney Green (1968)

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

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Use in Literature: STEPNEY

TitleAuthorQuote

Tangled Tale

Carroll, Lewis

A STEPNEY COACH.

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Usage Frequency: STEPNEY

"STEPNEY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.85% of the time. "STEPNEY" is used about 93 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)97.85%9134,491
Noun (singular)2.15%2245,945
                    Total100.00%93N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: STEPNEY

The following table summarizes the usage of "STEPNEY" 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
StepneyLast name1,00012,311
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: STEPNEY

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

stepney

6

other stepney story thomas

5

bluebell engine stepney

4

thomas stepney

2

charles stepney

2
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Modern Translation: STEPNEY

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

Russian 

  

запасное автомобильное колесо. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: STEPNEY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-n-p-s-t-y"

-1 letter: teensy, yentes.

-2 letters: neeps, peens, penes, pesty, seepy, sente, spent, steep, teens, teeny, tense, tyees, tynes, types, yente.

-3 letters: espy, eyen, eyes, eyne, neep, nest, nets, peen, pees, pens, pent, pest, pets, pyes, seen, seep, sene, sent, sept, snye, step, stey, stye, syne, teen, tees, tens, tyee, tyes, tyne, type, yens.

-4 letters: ens, eye.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-n-p-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: neotypes.

 

+2 letters: antetypes, eyepoints, genotypes, neophytes, presently, stenotype.

 

+3 letters: endophytes, hypertense, hyphenates, hypotenuse, nymphettes, pachytenes, phenotypes, polytenies, polythenes, repayments, stenotyped, stenotypes.

 

+4 letters: antipyreses, deployments, employments, hypersthene, hypocenters, hypotensive, hypotenuses, hypothenuse, persistency, persnickety, pestilently, plenteously, polystyrene, prepayments, presciently, presentably, pycnometers, pyroxenites, pythonesses, serendipity, splenectomy, stenotypies, stereophony, typesetting.

 

+5 letters: antiepilepsy, arsenopyrite, cyproterones, despondently, hyperextends, hyperintense, hypersthenes, hypersthenic, hypertension, hypertensive, hypotensives, hypothenuses, opalescently, overpayments, pennyweights, pennywhistle, persistently, polystyrenes, prehensility, presbyterian, protensively, rehypnotizes, sempiternity, septennially, serpentinely, stereotyping, teenyboppers, typefounders, typesettings, uppitynesses.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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