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Senhor

Definition: Senhor

Senhor

Noun

1. A Portuguese title of respect; equivalent to English `Mr'.

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

Date "Senhor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)

Etymology: Senhor \Se*nhor"\, noun. [from Portuguese expression Compare to Se[~n]or, Senior.]. (references)

 

Crosswords: Senhor

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

Portuguese (baboo, boss, compere, gentleman, lord, man, master, mister, Mr., paramount, sir, you), Portuguese Brazilian (gentleman, man, mister).

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Modern Usage: Senhor

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor (1970)

Canal 9 Contra O Senhor Espectro (1965)

Senhor dos Navegantes (1963)

As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor (1961)

O Senhor (1959)

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

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Commercial Usage: Senhor

DomainTitle

Books

  • Arthur Bispo do Rosario : o senhor do labirinto (reference)

  • Breve summario dos reis de Portugal, desdo primeiro Rey dom Afonso Henriques até el Rey dom João o terceiro nosso senhor que hora reina (reference)

  • Memórias de um senhor de engenho (reference)

  • O Senhor ABC (reference)

  • O senhor das ilhas : romance (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: Senhor

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Senhor Continho's expedition up the Zambesi to conquer the Katanga tribe / from sketches by Sir John Willoughby. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Senhor

"Senhor" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Senhor" is used about 14 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)85.71%12101,599
Noun (singular)14.29%2245,945
                    Total100.00%14N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Senhor

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

aneis dos senhor

46

ao louvemos senhor

3

anéis dos senhor

26

das moscas o senhor

3

da guerra script senhor

21

ceia senhor

3

de matosinhos senhor

19

cristo santo senhor

2

anéis dos o senhor

19

de engenho senhor

2

aneis dos o senhor

14

idoso senhor

2

da guerra senhor

6

grande o senhor é

2

bonfim senhor

6

dia senhor

2

anes dos filme senhor

4

aneis dos e jogos senhor

2

as pupilas reitor senhor

4

da guerra o senhor

2

aneis senhor

4

aneis dos o rei retorno senhor

2

brincando campos nos senhor

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: Senhor

Derivations

Words beginning with "Senhor": senhora, senhoras, senhores, senhorita, senhoritas, senhors. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Senhor

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: herons, honers, nosher.

Words within the letters "e-h-n-o-r-s"

-1 letter: herns, heron, heros, hoers, honer, hones, horns, horse, hosen, senor, shoer, shone, shore, shorn, snore.

-2 letters: eons, erns, eros, hens, hern, hero, hers, hoer, hoes, hone, hons, horn, hose, noes, nose, nosh, ones, ores, resh, rhos, roes, rose, shoe, sone, sore, sorn.

-3 letters: ens, eon, ern, ers, hen, her, hes, hoe, hon, noh.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-n-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: dehorns, gorhens, heroins, hoarsen, honkers, hornets, inshore, noshers, onshore, reshone, reshown, senhora, senhors, shorten, thrones, unhorse.

 

+2 letters: bethorns, chevrons, chorines, enshroud, groschen, hardnose, heroines, hoarsens, honester, honorees, honorers, hordeins, hormones, hornfels, horniest, hornless, horseman, horsemen, hounders, hyperons, leghorns, menorahs, moorhens, nephrons, northers, notchers, nowheres, onrushes, ornithes, preshown, rechosen, rhamnose, roughens, schooner, senhoras, senhores, shoehorn, shortens, southern, unhorsed, unhorses, unkosher, whoreson.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Senhor


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

53 65 6E 68 6F 72

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)

01010011 01100101 01101110 01101000 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#110 &#104 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006E 0068 006F 0072

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

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

537180748184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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