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Definition: Thea |
TheaNoun1. (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: TheaSynonym: Theia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Thea |
| English words defined with "Thea": Tea plant. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Thea | First name Female | 5,000 | 1,371 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Thea" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a gift from God". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Thea." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Dorota | Female | Czech | Dorothea |
| Dorete | Female | Danish | Dorothea |
| Dorothea | Female | Dutch | N/A |
| Dora | Female | English | Dorothea |
| Dorothea | Female | English | N/A |
| Dorothy | Female | English | Dorothea |
| Thea | Female | English | Dorothea |
| Dorothée | Female | French | Dorothea |
| Dorothea | Female | German | N/A |
| Dorottya | Female | Hungarian | Dorothea |
| Dorotea | Female | Italian | Dorothea |
| Dorota | Female | Polish | Dorothea |
| Dorotéia | Female | Portuguese | Dorothea |
| Dorofei | Male | Russian | Dorothea |
| Dorotea | Female | Spanish | Dorothea |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Thea"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 茗 (Thea sinensis, young leaves of tea), " (Arthemisia vulgaris, piper betle, Thea sinensis), 荈 (Thea sinensis), 檟 (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 tesköldlus (tea black scale, thea scale). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Parlatorea theae, Parlatoria theae. (various references) |
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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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 65 61 |
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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)- .... . .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101000 01100101 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T h e a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0068 0065 0061 |
| 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)54747167 |
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