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Saint Lawrence

Definitions: Saint Lawrence

Saint Lawrence

Noun

1. Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the Church's treasure and when he responded by offering the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258).

2. A North American river; flows into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the North Atlantic.

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

Synonyms: Saint Lawrence

Synonyms: Laurentius (n), Lawrence (n), Saint Lawrence River (n), St Lawrence (n), St. Lawrence (n), St. Lawrence River (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Saint Lawrence

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Saint Lawrence (Laurentius in Latin) was one of the seven deacons of Rome, where he was martyred in 258. According to legend, he was roasted to death on a grid, but it is more likely that he was beheaded. His feast day is August 10 and his emblem is a gridiron. He is the patron saint of librarians.

See also: Saint Lawrence River, List of saints

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

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Crosswords: Saint Lawrence

English words defined with "Saint Lawrence": Gulf of Saint LawrenceKingstonMontrealNova ScotiaOnondagaPierre Laporte Bridge, Prince Edward IslandQuebec, Quebec CitySaint Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence Seaway, St. Lawrence, St. Lawrence River, St. Lawrence Seaway. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Saint Lawrence": 57373. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Saint Lawrence

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Books

  • Bernard Shaw's Rhyming picture guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence (reference)

  • River without end : a logbook of the Saint Lawrence (reference)

  • Saint Lawrence (reference)

  • The Skin Boats of Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska (reference)

  • Visiting the islands of the Saint Lawrence (reference)

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Cities: Saint Lawrence


1. Saint Lawrence, SD
Zip Code(s): 57373
Country: USA

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Expressions: Saint Lawrence

Expressions using "Saint Lawrence": gulf of Saint Lawrence Saint Lawrence River Saint Lawrence Seaway. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Saint Lawrence

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

saint lawrence university

27

saint lawrence

17

saint lawrence county

4

saint lawrence south dakota

2
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Modern Translations: Saint Lawrence

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

Pig Latin

  

aintsay awrencelay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

река Св. Лаврентия. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Saint Lawrence

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-i-l-n-n-r-s-t-w"

-2 letters: intercensal.

-3 letters: cantilenas, carnelians, catenaries, centralise, incarnates, interlaces, linecaster, nectarines, transience, waterlines.

-4 letters: acierates, alienates, analcites, ancestral, ancienter, anelastic, annealers, arsenical, ascertain, canewares, canneries, cannister, cantilena, carnelian, cartelise, caseinate, centiares, cisternae, cisternal, clarinets, craniates, crawliest, creatines, elaterins, entailers, entrances, incarnate, incenters, interclan, interlace, internals, iterances, lacerates, laitances, lannerets, larcenies, larcenist, latencies, narceines, nearliest, nectaries, nectarine, reliances, renascent, sectarian, stenciler, tailraces, tanneries, tenancies, treelawns, treenails, waterline.

-5 letters: acarines, acierate, alanines, alienate, alieners, analcite, analects, ancients, annalist, annealer, anserine, antisera, antiwear, arenites, arsenate, arsenite, articles, asternal, ateliers, awaiters, canalise, canaries, caneware, canister, canniest, canteens, cantinas, carinate, carlines, caterans, centares, centiare, centiles, centners, centrals, ceratins, cesarean, cesarian, cineaste, cisterna, clarinet, cleaners, cleanest, cleanser, clearest, craniate, crannies, creatine, creatins, earliest, elaterin, encaenia, enlister, entailer, enticers, entrails, entrains, entrance, entwines, escalate, estancia, eternals, incenter, increase, increate, insectan, instance, intenser, internal, internes, iterance, lacerate, laitance, lanciers, lanneret, lanterns, latrines, leariest, lecterns, licenser, listener, narceine, narceins, nescient, ratanies, ratlines, realties, reascent, recitals, recleans, reclines, reenacts, reenlist, reliance, renewals, resinate, reticles, retinals, salience, santalic, sarcenet, scantier, sclerite, scrannel, seatrain, seawater, secretin, sentinel, serenata, silencer, silenter, stearine, sterical, sweatier, tacrines, tailrace, teawares, telerans, tiercels, tinwares, trainees, treacles, treelawn, treenail, trenails, triscele, wasterie, weariest, wenniest, wiseacre.

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Alternative Orthography: Saint Lawrence


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

53 61 69 6E 74      4C 61 77 72 65 6E 63 65

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

    

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

01010011 01100001 01101001 01101110 01110100 00100000 01001100 01100001 01110111 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#97 &#105 &#110 &#116 &#32 &#76 &#97 &#119 &#114 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0061 0069 006E 0074      004C 0061 0077 0072 0065 006E 0063 0065

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

536775808624667898471806971

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INDEX

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


  

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