Vesuvius

Definition: Vesuvius

Vesuvius

Noun

1. A volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; erupted in 79 AD and buried Pompeii; last erupted in 1944.

Date "Vesuvius" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)

Synonyms: Vesuvius

Synonyms: Mount Vesuvius (n), Mt. Vesuvius (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Vesuvius

English words defined with "Vesuvius": Davyne ♦ Humite ♦ Leucite ♦ Melilite, Mount Vesuvius, Mt. Vesuvius ♦ Nephelite ♦ Pompeii. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Vesuvius": 24483 ♦ calce, COOK ♦ Drusilla ♦ mizzonite ♦ Vesuvian eruption. (references)

Etymologies containing "Vesuvius": Vesbium. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Vesuvius" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Dutch (Vesuvius).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Clear column 1 and 2, front page. What? The Vesuvius eruption, 50,000 dead? (Wedding Rehearsal; writing credit: Lajos Bir�; George Grossmith)
Movie/TV Titles	Vesuvius VI (1959)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Alvira: The Heroine of Vesuvius (reference) Cities of Vesuvius (reference) Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Vesuvius (Bonechi Guide) (reference) Secrets of Vesuvius (reference) The Buried City of Pompeii: What Is Was Like When Vesuvius Exploded (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	National Geographic's In the Shadow of Vesuvius (reference) Nova: Deadly Shadow of Vesuvius (reference) Wrath of God:Mount Vesuvius - Fury (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Damage to the ship's port side, forward, received in a collision with USS Vesuvius. The original print was on a postal card mailed in April 1907.Credit: NAVY.		Enters port at Naples, Italy, circa early 1959. Mount Vesuvius is in the distance. Aircraft visible on deck include A3D-2 bombers of squadron VAH-5, F4D-1 fighters of squadron VF-102 and A4D-2 attack planes of squadron VA-12. This photograph was released by the Department of Defense on 19 May 1959. Forrestal's 1958-59 Sixth Fleet tour had ended on 12 March of that year.Credit: NAVY.
	Playing her searchlights on USS Alarm, at left, and USS Vesuvius, at right. Watercolor by Fred S. Cozzens, 1892, published as a chromolithograph in "Our Navy -- Its Growth and Achievements", 1897.Credit: NAVY.		Contemporary photograph of an artwork, depicting her in the Bay of Naples, with Mount Vesuvius in the background, about 1866.Credit: NAVY.
	View of Vesuvius from Capri.Credit: Library of Congress.		The blackness of that night in our little prairie town was like the horrible blackness that fell upon Pompeii when Vesuvius destroyed it, said Rosselyn.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Another American Vesuvius.Credit: Library of Congress.		A scene of desolation : Ottajano [i.e., Ottaviano], swept by volcanic ashes from Vesuvius, Italy.Credit: Library of Congress.
	U.S.S. Vesuvius.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Vesuvius" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vesuvius" is used about 37 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%	37	56,631

1. Vesuvius, VA
Zip Code(s): 24483
Country: USA

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Expressions: Vesuvius

Expressions using "Vesuvius": Mount Vesuvius ♦ Mt. Vesuvius. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vesuvius

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
vesuvius	202
mt vesuvius	105
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vesuvius volcano	14
mount picture vesuvius	12
pompeii vesuvius	10
vesuvius va	9
vesuvius usa	9
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mt picture vesuvius	6
eruption vesuvius	6
mount pompeii vesuvius	5
lake vesuvius	5
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refractories vesuvius	4
costore.com vesuvius	4
eruption mount vesuvius	4
mcdanel vesuvius	4
krauter vesuvius	4
picture vesuvius	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vesuvius

Language		Translations for "Vesuvius"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Dutch		Vesuvius. (various references)

Esperanto		Vezuvo. (various references)

German		Wesuwe. (various references)

Greek		�'εζούβιοσ. (various references)

Pig Latin		esuviusvay

Russian		�'езувий. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Vesuvius

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-s-s-u-u-v-v"
	-3 letters: issue, vises.
	-4 letters: seis, sues, uses, vies, vise, vive.
	-5 letters: ess, sei, sis, sue, use, vie, vis.
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