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"SAMPSON" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the sun". |
Date "SAMPSON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Sampson A dominie Sampson. A humble pedantic scholar, awkward, irascible, and very old-fashioned. The character occurs in Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sampson, Wisconsin."
Crosswords: SAMPSON |
| Specialty definitions using "SAMPSON": Camarina ♦ Dominie Sampson ♦ Guy, Earl of Warwick ♦ White Moon. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Vengeance of Sampson (1915) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Out for a fight : in search of the Spanish fleet, Rear Admiral Sampson on the bridge of the "New York". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sampson takes Havana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | William Thomas Sampson, three-quarter-length portrait, standing on flagship New York, facing left. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait of Pvt. Sampson Altman, Jr., Company C, 29th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, C.S.A. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Admiral Sampson and family. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S.S. New York, Admiral Sampson. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Straw barn built by Lloyd Sampson for his chickens and livestock near Armstrong, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mrs. Sampson and children. Jefferson County, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Children of Dan Sampson who formerly lived in the Pine Camp expansion area waiting for the bus near their new school. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Portrait of Edith Sampson. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "SAMPSON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.36% of the time. "SAMPSON" is used about 157 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) | 99.36% | 156 | 25,144 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.64% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 157 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SAMPSON" 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 |
| Sampson | Last name | 15,000 | 817 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "SAMPSON" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the sun". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "SAMPSON." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Samson | Male | Biblical | N/A |
| Sam | Male, Female | English | Samson |
| Sampson | Male | English | Samson |
| Samson | Male | English | N/A |
| Sansone | Male | Italian | Samson |
| Shimshon | Male | Jewish | Samson |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "SAMPSON": Sampson County ♦ sampson post. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SAMPSON": Stalker-sampson. | |
| 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 "SAMPSON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Samson post (king post, sampson post). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mast (mast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Samson-posti (king post, sampson post), puomimasto (king post, sampson post), paalumasto (king post, sampson post). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mât auxiliaire (sampson post). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ladepfosten (king post, sampson post). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στύλος υποστήριξης φορτωτήρα (king post, sampson post), ιστός φορτωτήρα (king post, sampson post). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | puntale di baglio (king post, sampson post). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ampsonsay mastro de pau de carga (king post, sampson post). (various references) pendolón (king post, sampson post). (various references) Xam-xon (samson), người có sức khoẻ phi thường (samson). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Judges Chapter 14, Verse 1 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai katebh samywn eiV qamnaqa kai eiden gunaika en qamnaqa ek twn qugaterwn twn allofulwn kai hresen enwpion autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Descendit igitur Samson in Thamnatha vidensque ibi mulierem de filiabus Philisthim |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Sampson thanne dessendide in Thannatha, and seynge there a womman of the douytris of Philistien, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines; |
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| Language | Judges Chapter 14, Verse 1 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ug si Samson milugsong ngadto sa Timnah, ug nakakita sa usa ka babaye sa Timnah sa mga anak nga babaye sa mga Filistehanon. |
| Croatian | I siðe Samson u Timnu i ugleda ondje djevojku meðu filistejskim kæerima. |
| Danish | Engang Samson kom ned til Timna, så han en af Filisternes Døtre der. |
| Dutch | En Simson ging af naar Thimnath, en gezien hebbende een vrouw te Thimnath, van de dochteren der Filistijnen, |
| Finnish | Ja Simson meni alas Timnaan ja näki Timnassa naisen, filistealaisten tyttäriä. |
| French | Samson descendit Thimna, et il y vit une femme parmi les filles des Philistins. |
| German | Simson ging gen Thimnath und sah ein Weib zu Thimnath unter den Töchtern der Philister. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Yon jou Samson desann ale lavil Timna, li wè yon jenn fi nan moun Filisti yo li renmen. |
| Hungarian | És lement Sámson Timnátba, és meglátott egy nõt Timnátban a Filiszteusok lányai közül. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pada suatu hari Simson pergi ke Timna, dan melihat seorang gadis Filistin di sana. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sebermula, maka Simsonpun turunlah ke Timnat, maka dilihatnya di Timnat seorang perempuan dari pada segala anak orang Filistin. |
| Italian | Sansone scese poi a Timna e a Timna vide una donna tra le figlie dei Filistei. |
| Maori | ¶ Na ka heke a Hamahona ki Timinata, a ka kite i tetahi wahine i Timinata no nga tamahine a nga Pirihitini. |
| Norwegian | Engang gikk Samson ned til Timnata; der så han en kvinne, en av filistrenes døtre. |
| Portuguese | Desceu Sansão a Timnate; e vendo em Timnate uma mulher das filhas dos filisteus, |
| Rumanian | Samson s`a pogorkt la Timna, wi a vqzut acolo o femeie din fetele Filistenilor. |
| Swedish | Simsons bröllop och hans gåta. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"SAMPSON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Hamspon, sampsons, Saposnik, Scampston, Sympson. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-m-n-o-p-s-s" | |
-1 letter: masons. | |
-2 letters: manos, mason, moans, monas, nomas, psoas, samps, snaps, soaps, somas, spams, spans, spasm. | |
-3 letters: amps, asps, mano, mans, maps, mass, moan, moas, mons, mops, moss, naos, naps, noma, noms, ossa, pams, pans, pass, poms, pons, samp, sans, saps, snap, soap, soma, sons, sops, spam, span, spas. | |
-4 letters: amp, asp, ass, man, map. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-m-n-o-p-s-s" | |
+1 letter: plasmons, psammons. | |
+2 letters: encompass, impassion, neoplasms, pleonasms, spanworms, spoilsman, spokesman, sportsman. | |
+3 letters: amylopsins, assumption, campesinos, compassing, compassion, endoplasms, impassions, menopauses, moonscapes, pianissimo, prosimians. | |
+4 letters: angiosperms, assumptions, compactness, comparisons, compassions, compensates, dipsomanias, encompassed, encompasses, impassioned, mascarpones, miscaptions, oarsmanship, parsimonies, personalism, pianissimos, proseminars, pseudomonas, showmanship, spokeswoman, sportsmanly, sportswoman, synaptosome, utopianisms. | |
+5 letters: accompanists, adoptianisms, adoptionisms, anaplasmoses, anaplasmosis, anisotropism, bronchospasm, compensators, dipsomaniacs, encompassing, expansionism, foremanships, horsemanship, impassioning, impersonates, malpositions, misanthropes, nucleoplasms, oarsmanships, pantomimists, parkinsonism, paronomasias, parsimonious, personalisms, plasminogens, preadmission, prognathisms, pseudomonads, reassumption, scopolamines, showmanships, sycophantism, synaptosomal, synaptosomes, taphonomists, trypanosomes, workmanships. | |
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