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Definition: Stuyvesant |
StuyvesantNoun1. 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: StuyvesantSynonyms: Peter Stuyvesant (n), Petrus Stuyvesant (n). (additional references) |
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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 "Stuyvesant, New York."
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Movie/TV Titles | Peter Stuyvesant (1924) | |
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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. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Stuyvesant, NY |
Expressions using "Stuyvesant": Peter Stuyvesant ♦ Petrus Stuyvesant. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 74 75 79 76 65 73 61 6E 74 |
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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 01110100 01110101 01111001 01110110 01100101 01110011 01100001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S t u y v e s a n t |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53868791887185678086 |
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