Sylvanus

Definition: Sylvanus

Sylvanus

Noun

1. (Roman mythology) Roman god of woods and fields and flocks; Pan is the Greek counterpart.

Date "Sylvanus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Synonym: Sylvanus

Synonym: Silvanus (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sylvanus

English words defined with "Sylvanus": pan ♦ the goat god. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Sylvanus

Domain	Title
Books	Three Years With Grant: As Recalled by War Correspondent Sylvanus Cadwallader (reference) Sylvanus Thayer: A Biography (reference) Sylvanus Marston: Pasadena's Quintessential Architect (California Architecture and Architects, No. 19) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Sylvanus

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Photo Album: Sylvanus

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Sylvanus Thayer, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Sylvanus

Author	Quotation
Virgilvirgil [publius Virgilius	And no less happy he who knows the rural gods -- Pan, and old Sylvanus, and the sisterhood of Nymphs.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sylvanus

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Togo	On January 13, the Government shut down Radio Jeunesse Espoir, a small radio station operating in Tagligbo, after it announced a January 13 mass commemorating the death of Sylvanus Olympio, the country's first President. (references)
Economic History	Togo	However, due to irregularities in the plebiscite, an unsupervised general election was held in 1958 and won by Sylvanus Olympio. (references)
	Togo	Opposition leader Gilchrist Olympio, son of the slain president Sylvanus Olympio, was ambushed and seriously wounded apparently by soldiers on May 5, 1992. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Sylvanus

"Sylvanus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sylvanus" is used about 5 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%	5	157,705

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

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Expression: Sylvanus

Expression using "Sylvanus": sylvanus Surinamensis. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sylvanus

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
sylvanus thayer	5
sylvanus	3
bradley sylvanus	2
conant sylvanus	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Sylvanus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-l-n-s-s-u-v-y"
	-1 letter: sylvans.
	-2 letters: sylvan, sylvas, unlays, unsays, yulans.
	-3 letters: lunas, lyssa, sauls, slays, sylva, ulans, ulnas, ulvas, unlay, unsay, yuans, yulan.
	-4 letters: anus, lass, lavs, lays, luna, luny, luvs, navy, nays, sals, sans, saul, says, slay, suns, ulan, ulna, ulva, vans, vaus, yuan.
	-5 letters: als, any, ass, ays, las, lav, lay, luv, nay, nus, sal, sau.
	Words containing the letters "a-l-n-s-s-u-v-y"
	+5 letters: substantively, unassertively, voluntaryisms, voluntaryists.
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