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Stuyvesant

Definition: Stuyvesant

Stuyvesant

Noun

1. The last Dutch colonial administrator of New Netherland; in 1664 he was forced to surrender the colony to England (1592-1672).

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

Date "Stuyvesant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)


Synonyms: Stuyvesant

Synonyms: Peter Stuyvesant (n), Petrus Stuyvesant (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Stuyvesant, New York

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Stuyvesant is a town located in Columbia County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 2,188.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 69.3 km² (26.8 mi²). 64.9 km² (25.0 mi²) of it is land and 4.4 km² (1.7 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 6.32% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 2,188 people, 852 households, and 633 families residing in the town. The population density is 33.7/km² (87.3/mi²). There are 929 housing units at an average density of 14.3/km² (37.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 97.30% White, 1.10% African American, 0.05% Native American, 0.50% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.14% from other races, and 0.91% from two or more races. 0.69% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 852 households out of which 35.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.6% are married couples living together, 10.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 25.6% are non-families. 20.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 6.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.57 and the average family size is 2.96. In the town the population is spread out with 25.8% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 26.7% from 45 to 64, and 12.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 95.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 95.4 males. The median income for a household in the town is $49,904, and the median income for a family is $51,688. Males have a median income of $36,087 versus $27,097 for females. The per capita income for the town is $21,314. 4.3% of the population and 2.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 5.6% are under the age of 18 and 6.2% are 65 or older.

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

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Modern Usage: Stuyvesant

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Peter Stuyvesant (1924)

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

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Commercial Usage: Stuyvesant

DomainTitle

Books

  • Alfie and Me and the Ghost of Peter Stuyvesant (reference)

  • Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968 (reference)

  • New Yorkers from Stuyvesant to Roosevelt (reference)

  • Old Silver Leg Takes over: A Story of Peter Stuyvesant (reference)

  • Peter Stuyvesant of Old New York (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: Stuyvesant

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Not for Joseph or the Stuyvesant galop--composed by Paul Steinhagen / lith. Bufford Bros. 735 Broadway, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stuyvesant elevators from the river, New Orleans. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Jr., residence in Rhinebeck, New York. Entrance detail. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wm. H. Crane as Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Amsterdam by Brander Matthews & Bronson Howard. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Stuyvesant

"Stuyvesant" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stuyvesant" is used about 8 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)100%8124,375

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

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Cities: Stuyvesant


1. Stuyvesant, NY
Zip Code(s): 12173
Country: USA

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Expressions: Stuyvesant

Expressions using "Stuyvesant": Peter Stuyvesant Petrus Stuyvesant. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Stuyvesant

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

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68

bedford corporation restoration stuyvesant

2

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46

college peter stuyvesant

2

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34

bedford restoration stuyvesant

2

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29

cooper peter stuyvesant town village

2

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19

bedford brooklyn stuyvesant

2

bedford stuyvesant

17

bedford gentrification stuyvesant

2

stuyvesant falls ny

12

peter stuyvesant travel

2

plaza stuyvesant

9

bedford brownstones stuyvesant

2

memorial park stuyvesant

4

new stuyvesant town york

2

stuyvesant hs

4

piano stuyvesant

2

stuyvesant high

3

apartment stuyvesant town

2

bedford estate real stuyvesant

2

ny plaza stuyvesant

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Stuyvesant

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-n-s-s-t-t-u-v-y"

-2 letters: tautness, unstates.

-3 letters: attunes, nutates, statues, statusy, suavest, tautens, tetanus, unseats, unstate, vastest.

-4 letters: anuses, assent, astute, attune, naevus, nutate, sanest, sautes, sayest, stanes, states, statue, status, staves, stunts, sunset, suttas, tasset, tastes, taunts, tauten, tetany, uneasy, unsays, unseat, unsets, usneas, vaunts, vaunty, vestas, yeasts, yentas.

-5 letters: antes, antsy, asset, aunts, aunty, avens, easts.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-n-s-s-t-t-u-v-y"
 

+3 letters: substantively.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Stuyvesant


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

53 74 75 79 76 65 73 61 6E 74

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 01110100 01110101 01111001 01110110 01100101 01110011 01100001 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#116 &#117 &#121 &#118 &#101 &#115 &#97 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0074 0075 0079 0076 0065 0073 0061 006E 0074

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

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

53868791887185678086

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INDEX

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


  

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