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Thea

Definition: Thea

Thea

Noun

1. (Greek mythology) the Titaness who was mother of Helios and Selene and Eos in ancient mythology.

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

"Thea" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a gift from God".

Date "Thea" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)

Etymology: Thea \The"a\, noun. [New Latin expression. See Tea.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Thea

Synonym: Theia (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Thea

English words defined with "Thea": Tea plant. (references)

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Modern Usage: Thea

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Das Abenteuer der Thea Roland (1932)

Die Seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter (1929)

Arme Thea (1919)

Thea (1993)

Theo en Thea en de ontmaskering van het tenenkaasimperium (1989)

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

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Commercial Usage: Thea

DomainTitle

Books

  • Death at the Wheel (The Thea Kozak Mystery Series , No 3) (reference)

  • The Choral Music of Twentieth-Century Women Composers: Elisabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Maconchy, and Thea Musgrave (Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance, No 39) (reference)

  • Thea : To Alexandria Jerusalem and Freedom (reference)

  • Thea [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  • Who Was in the Theatre, 1912-1976: A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Directors, Playwrights and Producers of the English-Speaking Thea (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Thea

Illustrations:
Thea

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Usage Frequency: Thea

"Thea" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thea" is used about 17 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%1785,106

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Thea

The following table summarizes the usage of "Thea" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
TheaFirst name Female5,0001,371
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Thea

"Thea" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a gift from God".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Thea."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
DorotaFemaleCzechDorothea
DoreteFemaleDanishDorothea
DorotheaFemaleDutchN/A
DoraFemaleEnglishDorothea
DorotheaFemaleEnglishN/A
DorothyFemaleEnglishDorothea
TheaFemaleEnglishDorothea
DorothéeFemaleFrenchDorothea
DorotheaFemaleGermanN/A
DorottyaFemaleHungarianDorothea
DoroteaFemaleItalianDorothea
DorotaFemalePolishDorothea
DorotéiaFemalePortugueseDorothea
DorofeiMaleRussianDorothea
DoroteaFemaleSpanishDorothea
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Thea

Expressions using "Thea": Camellia Thea Thea Chinensis Thea japonica Thea or Camellia Chinensis. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Thea": Thea-josephine.

Ending with "Thea": G-thea.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thea

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

  thea

136

  foss thea

4

  andrew thea

47

  gill nude thea

3

  thea gill

43

  foss thea yacht

3

  bennington thea

32

  sinensis thea

3

  beckman thea

30

  delta sigma thea

3

  thea devine

19

  design segal thea

3

  thea musgrave

10

  thea schrack

2

  thea gilmore

9

  en thea theo

2

  bloom thea

8

  monyee thea

2

  bowman thea

8

  thea alexander

2

  thea gouverneur

8

  complex sinensis thea

2

  amc thea

6

  thea von harbou

2

  segal thea

5

  as clunie folk gill michelle queer thea

2

  austin thea

5

  andrew picture thea

2

  movie thea

5

  beckman de geef ruimte thea

2

  thea vidale

5

  schoen thea

2

  sister thea bowman

4

  bowman sr thea

2

  clunie gill michelle thea

4

  gr thea

2
  

proctor thea

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

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Modern Translations: Thea

Language Translations for "Thea"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(Thea sinensis, young leaves of tea), " (Arthemisia vulgaris, piper betle, Thea sinensis), (Thea sinensis), (Thea sinensis). (various references)

   

French

  

kermès noir du théier (thea scale). (various references)

   

German

  

Zitrusloeffelschildlaus (tea black scale, thea scale), Citrusloeffelschildlaus (tea black scale, thea scale). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

קחון (anthemis, camomile, dog's fennel). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eathay

   

Swedish

  

tesköldlus (tea black scale, thea scale). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Thea

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Parlatorea theae, Parlatoria theae. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Thea

Derivations

Words beginning with "Thea": thearchies, thearchy, theater, theatergoer, theatergoers, theatergoing, theatergoings, theaters, theatre, theatres, theatric, theatrical, theatricalism, theatricalisms, theatricalities, theatricality, theatricalization, theatricalizations, theatricalize, theatricalized, theatricalizes, theatricalizing, theatrically, theatricals, theatrics. (additional references)

Words ending with "Thea": althea, barathea. (additional references)

Words containing "Thea": altheas, amphitheater, amphitheaters, amphitheatric, amphitheatrical, amphitheatrically, baratheas, bolthead, boltheads, cathead, catheads, dustheap, dustheaps, fainthearted, faintheartedly, faintheartedness, faintheartednesses, fathead, fatheaded, fatheadedly, fatheadedness, fatheadednesses, fatheads, flathead, flatheads, gilthead, giltheads, greathearted, greatheartedly, greatheartedness, greatheartednesses, hothead, hotheaded, hotheadedly, hotheadedness, hotheadednesses, hotheads, lethean, lightheaded, lighthearted, lightheartedly, lightheartedness, lightheartednesses, masthead, mastheaded, mastheading, mastheads, meathead, meatheads, nepenthean, nontheatrical. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Thea

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: eath, haet, hate, heat, thae.

Words within the letters "a-e-h-t"

-1 letter: ate, eat, eta, eth, hae, hat, het, tae, tea, the.

-2 letters: ae, ah, at, eh, et, ha, he, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-t"
 

+1 letter: bathe, cheat, death, earth, haets, haste, hated, hater, hates, haute, heart, heath, heats, lathe, neath, rathe, tache, teach, thane, theca, theta, wheat.

 

+2 letters: aether, althea, anthem, anther, bathed, bather, bathes, bertha, breath, cachet, chaeta, chalet, chaste, cheats, chetah, daleth, dearth, deaths, deathy, detach, earths, earthy, ethane, father, gather, haffet, hafted, hafter, halest, halite, halted, halter, hamate, hamlet, hanted, hantle, hapten, haslet, hasted, hasten, hastes, haters, hatred, hatted, hatter, health, hearth, hearts, hearty, heated, heater, heaths, heathy, hepcat, heptad, hereat, hetman, humate, hyetal, lathed, lather, lathes, lethal, loathe, rachet, rather, reheat, sachet, saithe, scathe, sheath, shelta, snathe, spathe, swathe, taches, takahe, tephra, teraph, thaler, thanes, thawed, thawer, thecae, thecal, thenal, thenar, thetas, thrave, thread, threap, threat, trefah, wealth, wheats, wreath.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Thea


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

54 68 65 61

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)

01010100 01101000 01100101 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#104 &#101 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0068 0065 0061

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

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

54747167

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Names: Derived from
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Derivations
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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