WHATELY

Date "WHATELY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1785. (references)

"WHATELY" is a common misspelling or typo for: whitely.

Specialty Definition: WHATELY

Domain	Definition
Literature	Whately Archbishop of Dublin, nicknamed at Oxford "the White Bear" (White from his white overcoat, and Bear from the rude, unceremonious way in which he would trample upon an adversary in argument). (1787-1863.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Whately, Massachusetts

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Whately is a town located in Franklin County, Massachusetts. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,573.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 53.5 km² (20.7 mi²). 52.3 km² (20.2 mi²) of it is land and 1.2 km² (0.5 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 2.32% water.

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there are 1,573 people, 629 households, and 425 families residing in the town. The population density is 30.1/km² (78.0/mi²). There are 652 housing units at an average density of 12.5/km² (32.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 97.97% White, 0.51% African American, 0.13% Native American, 0.51% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.32% from other races, and 0.57% from two or more races. 1.14% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 629 households out of which 29.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.6% are married couples living together, 7.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 32.4% are non-families. 23.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.48 and the average family size is 2.96. In the town the population is spread out with 21.8% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 30.2% from 25 to 44, 29.6% from 45 to 64, and 12.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 41 years. For every 100 females there are 100.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 101.3 males. The median income for a household in the town is $58,929, and the median income for a family is $66,488. Males have a median income of $45,208 versus $28,177 for females. The per capita income for the town is $27,826. 3.0% of the population and 1.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 1.8% are under the age of 18 and 2.4% are 65 or older.

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Crosswords: WHATELY

English words defined with "WHATELY": Servient tenement. (references)

Specialty definitions using "WHATELY": Friendships Broken. (references)

Etymologies containing "WHATELY": Stayedness. (references)

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Modern Usage: WHATELY

Domain

Usage

Clever

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. (references; author: Whately)

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves. (references; author: Whately)

The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it. (references; author: Whately)

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Familiar Quotations: WHATELY

Author	Quotation
Bishop Richard Whately	"Honesty is the best policy," but he who acts on what principle is not an honest man.
Richard Whately	He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
	Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
	Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
	Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
	It is a folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.
	Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.
	Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
Whately	Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
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Usage Frequency: WHATELY

"WHATELY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WHATELY" is used about 9 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%	9	117,287

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WHATELY

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
whately ma	13
kevin whately	8
inn whately	5
richard whately	2
whately	2
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Anagrams: WHATELY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: wealthy.
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-t-w-y"
	-1 letter: hyetal, wealth.
	-2 letters: ethyl, lathe, lathy, thewy, wetly, whale, wheal, wheat.
	-3 letters: eath, haet, hale, halt, hate, heal, heat, hyla, hyte, late, lath, tael, tale, teal, tela, thae, thaw, thew, they, twae, wale, waly, weal, welt, what, whet, whey, wyle, wyte, yawl, yeah.
	-4 letters: ale, alt, ate, awe, awl, aye, eat, eta, eth, hae.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-t-w-y"
	+2 letters: wealthily, weatherly.
	+3 letters: lengthways.
	+4 letters: blameworthy.
	+5 letters: yellowthroat.
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