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Definition: Trajan |
TrajanNoun1. 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: TrajanSynonym: Marcus Ulpius Traianus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Trajan |
| English words defined with "Trajan": Adrian ♦ Elcesaite ♦ Hadrian ♦ Ignatius ♦ Marcus Cocceius Nerva ♦ Nerva ♦ Publius Aelius Hadrianus ♦ Saint Ignatius, St Ignatius. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Trajan": Bithynia ♦ Column at Boulogne ♦ Pagan 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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Movie/TV Titles | In the Days of Trajan (1913) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Columns of Kiosk of the Emperor Trajan (Pharaoh's Bed), Philae, Egypt. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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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) |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 96.97% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
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. | |
| Language | Translations for "Trajan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | Τραϊνόσ. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ajantray | ||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 61 6A 61 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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)- .-. .- .--- .- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01110010 01100001 01101010 01100001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r a j a n |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)548467766780 |
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