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Definition: Spenser |
SpenserNoun1. English poet who wrote an allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I in the Spenserian stanza (1552-1599). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Spenser" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
"Spenser" is a common misspelling or typo for: spender. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Spenser (Edmund), called by Milton "the sage and serious Spenser." Ben Jonson, in a letter to Drummond, states that the poet "died for lake of bread." (1553-1599.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SpenserSynonym: Edmund Spenser (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spenser |
| English words defined with "Spenser": craven ♦ In spite of ♦ recreant ♦ Spenserian, Spenserian stanza, Spite of. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Spenser": Abessa, Algrind, Archimago, Arthegal ♦ Colin Clout ♦ ELIZABETH ♦ Faërie Queene ♦ Gloriana, Gryll ♦ Ignaro ♦ King Ryence ♦ Lion and Unicorn ♦ Mammon's Cave, Morrel, Much Ado about Nothing ♦ Painter of Nature, Philisides, Poets, Poets' Corner, Poets Laureate ♦ Rosalinde ♦ Shepherd of the Ocean, Squire of Dames ♦ Well of English Undefiled, Wil't. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Spenser" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Serbo-Croatian (spencer). |
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Clever | The troubled blood through his pale face was seen to come and go with tidings from his heart, as it a running messenger had been. (references; author: Spenser) | |
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Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edmund Spenser | A bold bad man. |
| Wars and alarums unto nations wide. | |
| All for love, and nothing for reward. | |
| That here on earth is no sure happiness. | |
| And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. | |
| Fierce wars and faithful loves shall moralize my song. | |
| Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. | |
| But Justice, though her dome [doom] she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right. | |
Spenser | The troubled blood through his pale face was seen to come and go with tidings from his heart, as it a running messenger had been. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Spenser" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.60% of the time. "Spenser" is used about 167 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) | 97.6% | 163 | 24,498 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.4% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 167 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Spenser" 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 |
| Spenser | Last name | 1,000 | 14,475 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Spenser": Edmund Spenser ♦ Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
spenser for hire | 41 | spenser suzette | 4 |
edmund spenser | 39 | edmund spenser fairy queen | 4 |
spenser | 38 | fairy queen spenser | 3 |
spenser gift | 26 | bank savings spenser | 3 |
mark spenser | 18 | clothing jeremy spenser | 2 |
grammar spenser | 16 | dress jeremy spenser | 2 |
jeremy spenser | 8 | amoretti spenser | 2 |
spenser tracy | 7 | edmund spenser amoretti | 2 |
spenser stuart | 6 | b parker robert spenser | 2 |
diana spenser | 5 | gregory spenser | 2 |
edmund spenser sonnet | 4 | novel spenser | 2 |
communication spenser | 4 | parker robert spenser | 2 |
dvd hire spenser | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "Spenser": dispenser, suspenser. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Spenser": dispensers, suspensers. (additional references) | |
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"Spenser" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Penseur, Spense, sponser, Svennsen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-n-p-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: perses, preens, sneers, speers, spense, sprees. | |
-2 letters: ernes, erses, neeps, peens, peers, penes, perse, preen, prees, prese, press, seeps, seers, sense, seres, sneer, speer, spree. | |
-3 letters: erne, erns, eses, neep, ness, peen, peer, pees, pens, pree, rees, reps, seen, seep, seer, sees, sene, sere, sers. | |
-4 letters: ens, ere, ern, ers, ess, nee, pee, pen. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-n-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: erepsins, pensters, pertness, presents, pressmen, pureness, response, ripeness, serpents, spencers, spenders. | |
+2 letters: dispenser, enspheres, inspheres, isoprenes, nephroses, passenger, passerine, perkiness, phrensies, pilseners, prerinses, preseason, presences, pretenses, primeness, princesse, proneness, responses, spareness, speerings, spermines, suspender, suspenser, unpressed, unspheres, winepress. | |
+3 letters: copresents, creepiness, dapperness, depressant, depressing, depression, dispensers, endosperms, endospores, esperances, expertness, expressing, expression, expressman, expressmen, impureness, interposes, necropsies, newspapers, newsperson, noospheres, overspends, pancreases, paperiness, parentless, passengers, passerines, pennycress, pensioners, persistent, personages, personates, personnels, pertnesses, pinsetters, pistareens, poornesses, precensors, precessing, precession, preppiness, prescreens, preseasons, presentees, presenters, presentism, presentist, presidents, prettiness, primnesses, princesses, properness, purenesses, raptnesses, reinspects, reinspires, represents, repressing, repression, reserpines, responders, responsive, ripenesses, ropinesses, serpigines, sharpeners, sparseness, sparteines, spelunkers, spinnerets, spinneries, spruceness, sprynesses, superbness, supergenes, supervenes, suspenders, suspensers, unripeness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 70 65 6E 73 65 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .--. . -. ... . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01110000 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S p e n s e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0070 0065 006E 0073 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53827180857184 |
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