TRAVERS

Definition: TRAVERS

TRAVERS

Adjective

1. Across; athwart.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

"TRAVERS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "cross".

Date "TRAVERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Etymology: Travers \Trav"ers\, adverb. [French expression travers, breadth, extent from side, [`a] travers, en travers, de travers, across, athwart. See Traverse,]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms within Context: TRAVERS

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disagreement	Adverb: in defiance, in contempt,in spite of; discordantly; Adjective: a tort et a travers.
Reasoning,	Cut blocks with a razor, beat about the bush, play fast and loose, play fast and loose with the facts, blow hot and cold, prove that black is white and white black, travel out of the record, parler a tort et a travers, put oneself out of court, not have a leg to stand on.
Resolution	At any rate, at any risk, at any hazard at any price, at any cost, at any sacrifice; at all hazards, at all risks, at all events; a bis ou a blanc; cost what it may; coute; a tort et a travers; once for all; neck or nothing; rain or shine.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: TRAVERS

Specialty definitions using "TRAVERS": Black Book of the Admiralty ♦ QT-OBJECTS. (references)

Non-English Usage: "TRAVERS" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (breadth, through), Lombard (across, beyond, on the other side of), Romanian (balk), Swedish (overhead crane, traverse), Turkish (ledger, sleeper, transom, traverse).

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Modern Usage: TRAVERS

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Travers, have you lost your mind? (Cliffhanger; writing credit: Michael France) Sincerity Travers wears a bra filled with toilet paper! (What About Mimi?; writing credit: Jo�lle Goron; Catherine Pierre)
Movie/TV Titles	La Course du lièvre � travers les champs (1972) Le Duel � travers les âges (1952) Battling Travers (1925) Etrennes � travers les ages (1920) La Civilisation � travers les âges (1908)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: TRAVERS

Domain	Title
Books	A Lively Oracle: A Centennial Celebration of P.L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins (reference) A Man Called Travers (Silhouette, No 622) (reference) Contre-Courants: Les femmes s'écrivent à travers les siècles (reference) Fenwick Travers and the Forbidden Kingdom (reference) Interfaces: Les Affaires Et LA Technologie a Travers LA Vie De Tous Les Jours (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Travers (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	À travers le grillage (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: TRAVERS

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	William Travers Jerome. Credit: Library of Congress.		The Jedge (Hon. William Travers Jerome). Credit: Library of Congress.
	Jerome D. Travers; with Havemeyer Cup, American Amateur Championship trophy. Credit: Library of Congress.		Virginia McKenna, three-quarter length portrait, facing left, holding lion cub, Elsa in her arms, with Bill Travers standing next to them. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Travers Island, New York. Norwegian Independence Day celebration at the Norwegian gunners' school. Athletes parading before events. Credit: Library of Congress.		L'enfant à travers les ages--Petit Palais Avril-Juin 1901. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: TRAVERS

"TRAVERS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 90.63% of the time. "TRAVERS" is used about 128 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)	90.63%	116	29,969
Noun (plural)	8.59%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (-s form)	0.78%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	128	N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: TRAVERS

The following table summarizes the usage of "TRAVERS" 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
Travers	Last name	3,000	4,145
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: TRAVERS

"TRAVERS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "cross".

The following table summarizes names related to "TRAVERS."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Travers	Male	English	Travis
Travis	Male	English	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: TRAVERS

Expressions using "TRAVERS": a tort et a travers ♦ parler a tort et a travers ♦ Sir Arthur Travers Harris. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TRAVERS

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
pat travers	97	pat tab travers	4
travers	87	island travers	4
travers stakes	55	company tool travers	4
rachel travers	41	2003 travers	4
travers tool	33	discography pat travers	4
city travers	28	2003 saratoga travers	4
city michigan travers	17	grand resort travers	4
mary travers	15	realty travers	3
2003 stakes travers	14	city hotel travers	3
city mi travers	14	saratoga stakes travers	3
peter travers	10	bill travers	3
saratoga travers	10	de porc travers	3
pat travers band	10	travers stakes ticket	3
fabric travers	7	braithwaite smith travers	3
ireland john travers	7	home page pat travers	3
lyrics pat travers	6	p.l travers	3
travers ticket	5	bob travers	3
race travers	5	cherry city festival travers	3
co tool travers	5	insurance travers	2
horse race travers	5	cup travers	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TRAVERS

Language		Translations for "TRAVERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		durchlaufen (go through, pass through, run through, run without stopping, to traverse, wear through), Drehbewegung (rotary motion, turning motion). (various references)

Pig Latin		averstray
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: TRAVERS

Derivations
	Words beginning with "TRAVERS": traversable, traversal, traversals, traverse, traversed, traverser, traversers, traverses, traversing. (additional references)
	Words containing "TRAVERS": extraversion, extraversions, untraversed. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: TRAVERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: starver.
	Words within the letters "a-e-r-r-s-t-v"
	-1 letter: arrest, averts, rarest, raster, raters, ravers, starer, starve, tarres, terras, traves, vaster.
	-2 letters: aster, avers, avert, rares, raser, rater, rates, raver, raves, rears, saver, stare, stave, tares, tarre, tears, terra, trave, verst, verts, vesta.
	-3 letters: ares, arse, arts, ates, aver, aves, ears, east, eats, eras, errs, erst, etas, rare, rase, rate, rats, rave.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-r-r-s-t-v"
	+1 letter: starvers, traverse.
	+2 letters: arriviste, cavorters, harvester, overrates, taverners, travelers, traversal, traversed, traverser, traverses, veratrias, veratrins, veratrums, vertebras.
	+3 letters: advertiser, arrivistes, curvatures, extraverts, harvesters, narratives, overassert, overdrafts, overeaters, overmaster, overreacts, overstrain, overtrades, overtrains, overtreats, overwaters, preharvest, privateers, renovators, retrievals, revelators, revertants, riverboats, transverse, travellers, traversals, traversers, traversing, varletries, venerators, veratrines.
	+4 letters: adventurers, advertisers, arborvitaes, architraves, conservator, drivetrains, earthmovers, evaporators, gravimeters, hovercrafts, margravates, observatory, overasserts, overearnest, overharvest, overmasters, overstrains, perseverate, preharvests, reservation, restorative, rotaviruses, transceiver, transversal, transverses, traversable, travertines, untraversed, variegators, variometers, vertebrates.
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