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Definition: Tristram |
TristramNoun1. (medieval legends) the nephew of King Mark of Cornwall who fell in love with his uncle's bride (Iseult) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Tristram" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a riot", "a tumult", "having sadness". |
Date "Tristram" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Synonym: TristramSynonym: Tristan (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Tristram's grackle (biology & biotechnology), Tristram's warbler, tristram's white-bellied black woodpecker (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology). |
Crosswords: Tristram |
| Specialty definitions using "Tristram": Ægeus ♦ Cuckold King ♦ Dinah, Doctor Slop ♦ Foss ♦ Isolde ♦ Lefevre, Lilli-Burlero ♦ Minnith ♦ Nose Literature ♦ Obadiah ♦ Passe Brewell ♦ Shandean Exactness ♦ Yorick, Ysolde, Ysolt of the White Hand. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Hugo Tristram Engelhardt, M.D.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Tristram" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.34% of the time. "Tristram" is used about 106 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) | 94.34% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.66% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 106 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Tristram" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a riot", "a tumult", "having sadness". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Tristram." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Tristan | Male | Celtic Mythology | N/A |
| Trista | Female | English | Tristan |
| Tristan | Male | English | N/A |
| Tristand | Male | English | Tristan |
| Tristen | Male | English | Tristan |
| Tristin | Male | English | Tristan |
| Triston | Male | English | Tristan |
| Tristram | Male | English | Tristan |
| Tristan | Male | French | N/A |
| Tristão | Male | Portuguese | Tristan |
| Tristán | Male | Spanish | Tristan |
| Drystan | Male | Welsh | Tristan |
| Tristan | Male | Welsh | N/A |
| Trystan | Male | Welsh | Tristan |
| 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 |
tristram shandy | 17 |
tristram | 7 |
tristram coffin | 3 |
robert p tristram coffin | 3 |
tab tristram | 2 |
shandy summary tristram | 2 |
john tristram | 2 |
life opinion shandy tristram | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Dryocopus javensis richardsi. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-m-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: artist, strait, strati, traits. | |
-3 letters: airts, amirs, arris, astir, mairs, maist, marts, matts, mitts, simar, sirra, sitar, smart, stair, start, stria, tamis, tarsi, tarts, trait, trams, trims. | |
-4 letters: aims, airs, airt, aits, amir, amis, arms, arts, mair, mars, mart, mast, mats, matt, mirs, mist, mitt, rami, rams, rats, rias, rims, sari, sati, sima. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-m-r-r-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: retransmit, stratiform. | |
+3 letters: astrometric, meritocrats, retransmits, terminators, termitaries, transmitter, trichromats. | |
+4 letters: arbitraments, astrometries, cryptarithms, magistrature, transmigrate, transmitters, triumvirates. | |
+5 letters: administrator, antiterrorism, determinators, exterminators, magistratures, mariculturist, martyrologist, matriarchates, prematurities, premeditators, remonstrating, remonstration, remonstrative, retransmitted, structuralism, transmigrated, transmigrates, transmigrator, trichromatism, triliteralism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 72 69 73 74 72 61 6D |
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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 01110010 01101001 01110011 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T r i s t r a m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0072 0069 0073 0074 0072 0061 006D |
| 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)5484758586846779 |
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