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Trajan

Definition: Trajan

Trajan

Noun

1. Roman emperor and adoptive son of Nerva; extended the empire to the east and conducted an extensive program of building (53-117).

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

Date "Trajan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)


Synonym: Trajan

Synonym: Marcus Ulpius Traianus (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Trajan

English words defined with "Trajan": AdrianElcesaiteHadrianIgnatiusMarcus Cocceius NervaNervaPublius Aelius HadrianusSaint Ignatius, St Ignatius. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Trajan": BithyniaColumn at BoulognePagan Works of Art. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Trajan" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Serbo-Croatian (abiding, continuous, durable, fast, imperfective, lasting, livelong, perdurable, permanent).

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Modern Usage: Trajan

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

In the Days of Trajan (1913)

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

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Commercial Usage: Trajan

DomainTitle

Books

  • Lives of the Later Caesars: The First Part of the Augustan History: With Newly Compiled Lives of Nerva and Trajan. Tr and Introd by Anthony Birley. 3 (reference)

  • Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 Bce-117 Ce) (Hellenistic Culture and Society, No 33) (reference)

  • Caro at the Trajan Markets, Rome (reference)

  • Cisalpine Gaul : social and economic history from 49 B.C. to the death of Trajan (reference)

  • Lives of the Later Caesars: The First Part of the Augustan History: With Newly Compiled Lives of Nerva and Trajan. Tr and Introd by Anthony Birley. 3 (Penguin Classics) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Trajan

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Photo Album: Trajan

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Columns of Kiosk of the Emperor Trajan (Pharaoh's Bed), Philae, Egypt. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Trajan

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Romania

Under the emperor Trajan early in the second century A.D., Dacia was incorporated into the Roman Empire, but was abandoned by a declining Rome less than two centuries later. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Trajan

"Trajan" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.97% of the time. "Trajan" is used about 33 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)96.97%3261,292
Adjective (general or positive)3.03%1339,140
                    Total100.00%33N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Trajan

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

trajan

57

trajan langdon

52

trajan font

19

column trajan

17

font free trajan

13

emperor trajan

5

forum trajan

5

bath trajan

4

emperor roman trajan

3

download font free trajan

3

market trajan

2

column s trajan

2

coin roman trajan

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

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Modern Translation: Trajan

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

Greek 

  

Τραϊνόσ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ajantray

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Trajan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-j-n-r-t"

-1 letter: antra, ratan.

-2 letters: ajar, anta, raja, rant, tarn.

-3 letters: ana, ant, art, jar, raj, ran, rat, taj, tan, tar.

-4 letters: aa, an, ar, at, na, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-j-n-r-t"
 

+4 letters: abjuration, adjuration, janitorial.

 

+5 letters: abjurations, adjurations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Trajan


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

54 72 61 6A 61 6E

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 01110010 01100001 01101010 01100001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#97 &#106 &#97 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0061 006A 0061 006E

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

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

548467766780

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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