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Definition: URSULA |
URSULANoun1. A beautiful North American butterfly (Basilarchia, / Limenitis, astyanax). Its wings are nearly black with red and blue spots and blotches. Called also red-spotted purple. |
"URSULA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a little bear", "a female bear". |
Date "URSULA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
Crosswords: URSULA |
| English words defined with "URSULA": Theatine ♦ Ursuline. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "URSULA": Red Cap ♦ Symbols of Saints ♦ TOK ♦ Virgins. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ursula (1961) Andre und Ursula (1955) Ursula - Flickan i Finnskogarna (1953) Verdacht auf Ursula (1939) Ursula (1986) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Twas Ursula whose gentle tread ... / [Ethel Reed]. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ursula, a Newport catboat. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | St. Ursula Hall, Ursuline Convent, New Orleans, La. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Ursula K. Legrim | I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She, Ursula or the Lark, she whom he no longer knew what to call, was safe. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "URSULA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "URSULA" is used about 301 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% | 301 | 16,714 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "URSULA" 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 |
| Ursula | First name Female | 18,000 | 630 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "URSULA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a little bear", "a female bear". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "URSULA." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Ursella | Female | English | Ursula |
| Ursula | Female | English | N/A |
| Ursel | Female | German | Ursula |
| Ursula | Female | German | N/A |
| Uschi | Female | German | Ursula |
| Orsolya | Female | Hungarian | Ursula |
| Urszula | Female | Polish | Ursula |
| Ursula | Female | Scandinavian | N/A |
| 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. |
Misspellings | |
"URSULA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arsala, Buresova, Erzulie, Murasoli, Orsova, Rusalka, Ruvuma, Upsala, Urs'la. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "URSULA" (pronounced 'Ur"su*la'): Acanthocephala, Acicula, Actinula, Ala, Algarovilla, Alula, Ametabola, Ampulla, Amygdala, Angola, Anopla, Aquila, Archencephala, Archiblastula, Areola, Armilla, Arolla, Artiodactyla, Auricula, Axilla, Baggala, Bandala, Banderilla, Barilla, bengola, Beteela, Blastula, Bulla, Cabala, Cabrilla, Caffila, Calcavella, Calendula, Calla, Camarilla, Campanula, Canella, Cannicula, Cannula, Capella, Capitula, Cappella, Carambola, Cedilla, Cella, Chinchilla, Chrysocolla, Cicala, Claribella, Coccinella. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-r-s-u-u" | |
-1 letter: luaus, sural, usual. | |
-2 letters: lars, luau, saul, slur, sulu, sura, ulus, ursa, urus. | |
-3 letters: als, ars, lar, las, ras, sal, sau, ulu. | |
-4 letters: al, ar, as, la, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-r-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: sutural, uvulars. | |
+2 letters: arugulas, jugulars, muscular, neurulas, pustular, ramulous, rouleaus, subdural, sublunar. | |
+3 letters: acervulus, alburnums, arduously, auriculas, claqueurs, claustrum, crapulous, furfurals, garrulous, gutturals, laburnums, raucously, sublunary, sugarplum, suturally. | |
+4 letters: adulterous, allosaurus, duralumins, fulgurates, funiculars, glamourous, inaugurals, languorous, luxuriates, majuscular, miraculous, muscularly, quadruples, ranunculus, salubrious, sculptural, simulacrum, structural, subcrustal, subnuclear, sugarplums, superlunar, surplusage, ultrasound. | |
+5 letters: apicultures, avicultures, burglarious, corpuscular, crepuscular, elucubrates, garrulously, gutturalism, luxuriances, multiparous, muscularity, musculature, nulliparous, precalculus, quadruplets, quadrupoles, rapturously, roquelaures, simulacrums, subcapsular, subcellular, subcultural, subumbrella, summersault, superlunary, surplusages, tuberculars, ultracasual, ultrasounds, uncrushable, undervalues, unglamorous, uninsurable, unspiritual, vasculature. | |
| 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)55 52 53 55 4C 41 |
| 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)01010101 01010010 01010011 01010101 01001100 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U R S U L A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 0052 0053 0055 004C 0041 |
| 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)555253554635 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Frequency 11. Names: Derived from 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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