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"BERNICE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "one that brings victory", "to bring victory". |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Bernice bearer of victory, the eldest daughter of Agrippa I., the Herod Agrippa of Acts 12:20. After the early death of her first husband she was married to her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis. After his death (A.D. 40) she lived in incestuous connection with her brother Agrippa II. (Acts 25:13, 23; 26:30). They joined the Romans at the outbreak of the final war between them and the Jews, and lived afterwards at Rome. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Medicine | An acute keratoconjunctivitis, highly contagious, characterized by edema of the eyelids and the conjunctiva, subepithelial corneal infiltration, petechial hemorrhages, hyperemia and involvement of the regional lymph nodes, considered to be due to a virus. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Bernice is a town located in Delaware County, Oklahoma. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 504.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bernice, Louisiana."
Crosswords: BERNICE |
| Specialty definitions using "BERNICE": Agrippa I. ♦ Festus, Porcius. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "BERNICE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (active, agile, brisk, fleet, nimble, persistent, preserving, quick, swift). |
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Screenplays | Call Bernice. Tell her I'm gonna be a little late for dinner (Lepke; writing credit: Tamar Simon Hoffs; Wesley Lau) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bernice (1996) | |
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 | WAVES at Naval Air Station, New Orleans, Louisiana, try on the newly-authorized Overseas Cap, while registering varying degrees of approval and disapproval, circa 1944-45. They are (from left to right): Yeoman 2nd Class Bernice Elliot; Yeoman 3rd Class Martha Dietlin; and Seaman 1st Class Kay Magee. Credit: NAVY. |  | Work on the Pratt & Whitney R-1340 radial engine of a SNJ-4 training plane, at Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida. They are AMM 3rd Class Bernice Snasburg and AMM 3rd Class Violet Falkum, both graduates of the Navy's Technical Training Center at Norman, Oklahoma. Date is probably on or about 30 November 1943. Note markings on the plane's propeller. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Edgard Varese shaking hands with Aaron Copland, with Mr. Copland receiving presentation, standing, half-length] / Bernice B. Perry, Wilton, New Hampshire. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pitcairn, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Bernice Stevens of Braddock, Pennsylvania, mother of one child, employed in the engine house of the Pennsylvania Railroad, earns fifty-eight cents per hour. She is cleaning a locomotive with a high pressure nozzle. Mrs. Steven. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | Bernice Judy had a range of medical tests that suggested she had Alzheimer's disease or a related disorder. (references) | |
Ten years earlier Bernice Judy's illness would probably have been swept into a broad and ill-defined category labeled senile dementia. (references) | ||
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| "BERNICE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.20% of the time. "BERNICE" is used about 497 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) | 99.2% | 493 | 12,167 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.8% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 497 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "BERNICE" 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 |
| Bernice | First name Female | 128,000 | 172 |
| Bernice | Last name | 100 | 75,005 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "BERNICE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "one that brings victory", "to bring victory". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "BERNICE." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Bernice | Female | Biblical | Berenice |
| Bernice | N/A | Biblical | N/A |
| Berenice | Female | English | N/A |
| Bernetta | Female | English | Berenice |
| Bernice | Female | English | Berenice |
| Berniece | Female | English | Berenice |
| Veronica | Female | English | Berenice |
| Berenice | Female | Italian | N/A |
| Veronica | Female | Italian | Berenice |
| Veronica | Female | Romanian | Berenice |
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1. Bernice, LA (town, FIPS 7030) 2. Bernice, OK (town, FIPS 5550) |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "BERNICE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | sne (snow). (various references) | |
Dutch | sneeuw (snow), lijntje (rope), coke (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady). (various references) | |
French | blow (bernie's flake), blanche (bernie's flake), bernice (bernie's flake), Scotty (bernie's flake), perico (bernie's flake), neige (bernie's flake), Julie (bernie's flake), Dame Blanche (bernie's flake), Corinne (bernie's flake), coke (bernie's flake), coco (bernie's flake), Coca (bernie's flake), cheublan (bernie's flake), Charlie (bernie's flake). (various references) | |
German | White stuff (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), White Lady (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, boy, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, Helen, Henry, her, horse, jam, jee jee, jojee, Jones, joy powder, lady, Mrs.White, nose candy, peanut butter, pimp's drug, scag, she, smack, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white boy, white girl, white lady), Star dust (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Snow (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Schnee (scag, snow, whisked egg-white), Lady snow (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Koks (coke, dough, nonsense, rubbish), Killer Queen (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Jam (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, Jamaica, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Heaven dust (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Flake (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Coke (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), Charlie (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady). (various references) | |
Greek | κόκα (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coca bush, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), χιόνι (snow). (various references) | |
Italian | signora (gentlewoman, lady, ma'am, madam, missis, missus, mistress, mrs, Mrs., ms, signora, tradesman, wife, woman), polvere di stelle (stardust), polver d'oro (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), neve (snow), madama (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), lei (her, herself, she, you), dama bianca (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ernicebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | branca (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), neve (snow), júlia (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), gulosa (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), coca (coca). (various references) | |
Spanish | blanca (half note, minim), polvo (dust, grit, jammed, powder, screw), periquito (budgerigar, budgie, love bird, parakeet), perico (parakeet, Pete), perica (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), nieve (snow), faslopa (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), dama blanca (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady), coca (bun, Coca, coke, head, kink, Napper), charli (bernie's flake, big C, blow, bouncing power, cadillac, champagne of drugs, charley, charlie, coke, dama blanca, flake, gold dust, green gold, happy trails, her, jam, lady, nose candy, pimp's drug, she, snow, stardust, tool, toot, uptown, white girl, white lady). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 25, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Hmerwn de diagenomenwn tinwn agrippaV o basileuV kai bernikh kathnthsan eiV kaisareian aspasomenoi ton fhston |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et cum dies aliquot transacti essent Agrippa rex et Bernice descenderunt Caesaream ad salutandum Festum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne summe daies weren passid, Agrippa kyng, and Beronyce camen doun to Cesarie, to welcome Festus. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | After a certayne dayes kinge Agrippa and Bernice came vnto Cesarea to salute Festus. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And after certain days, king Agrippa and Bernice came to Cesarea, to salute Festus. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now when some days had gone by, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea and went to see Festus. |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 25, Verse 13 |
| Albanian | Pas disa ditësh mbreti Agripa dhe Berenike erdhën në Cezare për të përshëndetur Festin. |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ug sa paglabay na sa pipila ka adlaw, si Agripa nga hari ug si Bernice nahiabut sa Cesarea aron sa pagyukbo kang Festo. |
| Croatian | Nekoliko dana poslije doðu kralj Agripa i Berenika u Cezareju da pozdrave Festa. |
| Danish | Men da nogle Dage vare forløbne, kom Kong Agrippa og Berenike til Kæsarea og hilste på Festus. |
| Dutch | En als enige dagen voorbijgegaan waren, kwamen de koning Agrippa en Bernice te Cesarea, om Festus te begroeten. |
| Finnish | Muutamien päivien kuluttua kuningas Agrippa ja Bernike saapuivat Kesareaan tervehtimään Festusta. |
| French | Quelques jours après, le roi Agrippa et Bérénice arrivèrent Césarée, pour saluer Festus. |
| German | Aber nach etlichen Tagen kamen der König Agrippa und Bernice gen Cäsarea, Festus zu begrüßen. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Kèk jou apre sa, wa Agripa ak Berenis rive Sezare. Yo te vin di Festis bonjou. |
| Hungarian | Néhány nap elmúltával pedig Agrippa király és Bernicé érkezék Czézáreába, hogy köszöntsék Festust. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tidak beberapa lama kemudian, Raja Agripa dan Bernike datang ke Kaisarea untuk mengucapkan selamat kepada Festus. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Beberapa hari kemudian daripada itu, tibalah Baginda Agerippa dengan Bernike di Kaisaria, hendak menghormatkan Pestus. |
| Italian | Erano trascorsi alcuni giorni, quando arrivarono a Cesarèa il re Agrippa e Berenìce, per salutare Festo. |
| Maori | ¶ A muri iho i etahi ra, ka tae atu a Kingi Akaripa, raua ko Pereniki ki Hiharia, a ka oha ki a Petuha. |
| Norwegian | Men da nogen dager var til ende, kom kong Agrippa og Berenike til Cesarea for å hilse på Festus. |
| Portuguese | Passados alguns dias, o rei Agripa e Berenice vieram a Cesaréia em visita de saudação a Festo. |
| Rumanian | Dupq ckteva zile, kmpqratul Agripa wi Berenice au sosit la Cezarea, ca sq ureze de bine lui Festus. |
| Russian | юЕТЕЪ ОЕУЛПМШЛП "ОЕК "БТШ бЗТЙ Б Й чЕТЕОЙЛБ ТЙ'ЩМЙ Ч лЕУБТЙА ПЪ"ТБЧЙФШ жЕУФБ. |
| Shuar | ¶ Tura ishichik tsawant nankaamasmatai akupin Akripia ni nuwejai Pirinísejai Jístun áujsataj tusa Sesarianam wearmiayi. |
| Spanish | Pasados algunos días, el rey Agripa y Berenice fueron a Cesarea para saludar a Festo. |
| Swahili | Siku chache baadaye, mfalme Agripa na Bernike walifika Kaisarea ili kutoa heshima zao kwa Festo. |
| Swedish | Efter några dagars förlopp kommo konung Agrippa och Bernice till Cesarea och hälsade på hos Festus. |
| Uma | ¶ Uma mahae ngkai ree, Magau' Agripa hante Bernike, hilou hi ngata Kaisarea mpotabe Festus ngkai kara'ongko' -na jadi' gubernur. |
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Misspellings | |
"BERNICE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Banacek, Barnabe, Benaco, Bencie, Benecke, Beneke, Benicor, Benninck, Benrkik, berenices, Bergische, Bergisel, Berindei, Bernabe, Bernauer, Berncia, Bernis, Bertice, Bjernede, Boericke, Bojnice, Bonicco, Cerknica. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-i-n-r" | |
-2 letters: brine, nicer, niece, rebec. | |
-3 letters: been, beer, bene, bice, bier, bine, bree, bren, brie, brin, cere, cine, cire, crib, erne, nice, rein, rice. | |
-4 letters: bee, ben, bin, cee, ere, ern, ice, ire, neb, nee, nib, reb, rec, ree, rei, rib, rin. | |
-5 letters: be, bi, en, er, in, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: bernicle. | |
+2 letters: bernicles, bigeneric, breeching, recombine. | |
+3 letters: breechings, carabineer, cybernetic, incredible, incumbered, linebacker, probenecid, recombined, recombines, tenebrific. | |
+4 letters: abecedarian, aberrancies, baronetcies, becarpeting, bedcovering, bedrenching, benedictory, beneficiary, bescreening, bicentenary, cabinetries, carabineers, carabiniere, celebrating, celebration, cerebrating, cerebration, convertible, cranberries, cybernetics, decarbonize, discernable, discernible, disencumber, embryogenic, encumbering, exorbitance, hebephrenic, incoercible, increasable, linebackers, probenecids, reobjecting, rubefacient, unbreeching. | |
+5 letters: abecedarians, absorbencies, bedcoverings, belligerence, belligerency, bioenergetic, buccaneering, buccaneerish, bunchberries, cabinetmaker, celebrations, cerebrations, chinaberries, considerable, convertibles, cybernetical, decarbonized, decarbonizer, decarbonizes, disencumbers, exacerbating, exacerbation, exorbitances, forcibleness, greenbackism, hebephrenics, ineradicable, inextricable, inobservance, noncelebrity, recognizable, reconcilable, recumbencies, redescribing, ribonuclease, rubefacients, subservience, subserviency, supercabinet, turbulencies. | |
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