Thackeray

Definition: Thackeray

Thackeray

Noun

1. English writer (born in India) (1811-1863).

Date "Thackeray" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)

Synonym: Thackeray

Synonym: William Makepeace Thackeray (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Thackeray

English words defined with "Thackeray": better-looking ♦ dense, dim, disgraceful, dull, dumb ♦ fine-looking ♦ good-looking ♦ handsome ♦ obtuse ♦ scandalous, shameful, shocking, slow ♦ well-favored, well-favoured, William Makepeace Thackeray. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Thackeray": Abudah ♦ Barataria, Barbazure, Billee', Bladud ♦ Cap and Bells, Carriage Company, Codds ♦ Desdemona ♦ Ever ♦ Fraserian Group ♦ Never ♦ Sit Under ... ♦ Vauxhall. (references)

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Modern Usage: Thackeray

Domain

Usage

Clever

Benevolent feeling ennobles the most trifling actions. (references; author: Thackeray)

Charming Alnaschar visions! It is the happy privilege of youth to construct you! (references; author: Thackeray)

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature. (references; author: Thackeray)

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

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Commercial Usage: Thackeray

Domain	Title
Books	Barry Lyndon, The Wagstaff Papers, Little Travels and Roadside Sketches, Etc. (The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - Volume 6) (reference) Henry Esmond, The English Humourists, and The Four Georges (The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - Volume 13) (reference) Pendennis (The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - Volume 12) (reference) Philip (The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - Volume 16) (reference) Thackeray the Writer: From Pendennis to Denis Duval (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Thackeray

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Photo Album: Thackeray

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Gordon Ray, 25 Sutton Place South, New York. Thackeray drawing, picture side.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Thackeray

Author	Quotation
Thackeray	Benevolent feeling ennobles the most trifling actions.
William M. Thackeray	People hate as they love, unreasonably.
	Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.
	When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
	It's not dying for faith that's so hard, it's living up to it.
	Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
	'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
William Makepeace Thackeray	A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
William Thackeray	To endure is greater than to dare.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Thackeray

"Thackeray" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 72.97% of the time. "Thackeray" is used about 37 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)	72.97%	27	66,962
Lexical Verb (base form)	24.32%	9	117,287
Noun (singular)	2.7%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	37	N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Thackeray

The following table summarizes the usage of "Thackeray" 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
Thackeray	Last name	200	31,017
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Thackeray

Expression using "Thackeray": William Makepeace Thackeray. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Thackeray": thackeray-like.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thackeray

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
thackeray	14
william makepeace thackeray	11
thackeray book	6
william thackeray	5
bal thackeray	3
balasaheb thackeray	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Thackeray

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-k-r-t-y"
	-2 letters: hatrack, hayrack, rackety, trachea, yachter.
	-3 letters: carate, chaeta, chakra, charka, cherty, creaky, earthy, hacker, hearty, karate, rachet, racket, retack, tacker, tackey, takahe.
	-4 letters: aceta, areca, arhat, cakey, carat, caret, carte, cater, chare, chark, chart, chary, cheat, chert, crake, crate, creak, earth, hacek, hater, hayer, heart, karat, ketch, kythe, ratch, rathe, rayah, reach, react, reata, recta, retch, rhyta, tache, tacky, taker, teach, teary, techy, thack, theca, trace, track, yacht.
	-5 letters: ache, achy, acre, acta, aery, arak, arch, area, arty, ayah, cake, caky, care, cark, cart, cate, char, chat, chay, each, eath, etch, eyra, haar, hack, haet, hake, hare, hark, hart, hate, hear, heat, heck, hyte, kart, kata, khat, khet, kyar, kyat, kyte, race, rack, racy, rake, rate, rath, raya, reck, rhea, ryke, tace, tach, tack, tahr, taka, take, tare, teak, tear, thae, they, tray, trek, trey, tyer, tyke, tyre, yack, yare, yeah, year, yech, yerk.
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