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Definitions: Daphne |
DaphneNoun1. Any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers. 2. (Greek mythology) a nymph who was transformed into a laurel tree to escape the amorous Apollo. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Daphne" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a laurel". |
Date "daphne" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Daphne \Daph"ne\, noun. [Latin expression, laurel tree, from the Greek expression da`fnh.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Daphne Daughter of a river-god, loved by Apollo. She fled from the amorous god, and escaped by being changed into a laurel, thenceforth the favourite tree of the sun-god. "Nay, lady, sit. If I but wave this wand, Your nerves are all chain'd up in alabaster, And you a statue, or, as Daphn was, Root-bound, that fled Apollo." Milton:Comus, 678-681. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Ovid. Metamorphoses. Book I: 452-567.
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Daphne is a city located in Baldwin County, Alabama. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 16,581.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Daphne."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DAPHNE | English | Document Application Processing in a Heterogeneous Network Environment | Computer - Computer - (ORB) |
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Crosswords: Daphne |
| English words defined with "daphne": Dame Daphne du Maurier, Daphne cneorum, daphne family, Daphne laureola, Daphne mezereum, Daphnin ♦ February daphne ♦ genus Daphne. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "daphne": 36526 ♦ Pururavas and Urvasi. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Daphne" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (Daphne). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Su nombre es Daphne (1966) Daphne und der Diplomat (1937) Compromising Daphne (1931) Daphne and the Pirate (1916) | |
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| "Daphne" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Daphne" is used about 272 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% | 272 | 17,812 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "daphne" 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 |
| Daphne | First name Female | 19,000 | 618 |
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| "Daphne" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a laurel". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Daphne." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Daphne | Female | English | N/A |
| Daphne | Female | Greek Mythology | N/A |
| Dafne | Female | Italian | Daphne |
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1. Daphne, AL (city, FIPS 19648) |
Expressions using "daphne": Dame Daphne du Maurier ♦ Daphne alpina ♦ Daphne cneorum ♦ daphne family ♦ Daphne Gnidium ♦ Daphne Laureola ♦ Daphne mezereum ♦ Daphne oleoides ♦ February daphne ♦ genus Daphne. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
daphne | 346 |
daphne zuniga | 193 |
daphne alabama | 150 |
daphne rosen | 134 |
daphne deckers | 60 |
daphne du maurier | 50 |
blake daphne | 46 |
daphne and celeste | 45 |
scooby doo daphne | 35 |
daphne gipson | 35 |
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| Language | Translations for "daphne"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الغار (laurel). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | "ив Люляк. (various references) | |
Chinese | 芫 (daphne genkwa), 瑞香 (winter daphne). (various references) | |
Czech | Jméno (appellation, Cynthia, first name, Jocko, name, Nom). (various references) | |
Dutch | peperboompje, Daphne. (various references) | |
Esperanto | Dafno. (various references) | |
French | daphné. (various references) | |
German | Seidelbast. (various references) | |
Greek | "άφνη. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ֳפ ", ־ת ן (Leatherwood). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Oroszlán (lion). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 沈丁花 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じ"ちょう', ち"ちょう'. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aphneday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Dafne, Ninfa (case worm, nymph, pupa, siren). (various references) | |
Russian | 'олчеягодник. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dafna. (various references) | |
Spanish | Dafne. (various references) | |
Turkish | Defne Ağacı (bay tree), Defne (bay, laurel). (various references) | |
Ukranian | 'овчі ягоди, 'овче Лико. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "daphne": daphnes. (additional references) | |
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"Daphne" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daffin, daphni, Delphyne, Depone, Dopfner, Duhne. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "daphne" (pronounced 'Daph"ne'): Abalone, Acne, Benne, Canzone, Chelone, Cicerone, Clione, Conversazi-one, Dampne, Dempne, Fonne, Himpne, Hympne, krone, Melne, Nempne, Osanne, Oughne, Padrone, Pallone, Paraselene, Progne, Rekne, Ronne, silene, Solempne, Somne, Sompne, Violone, Wilne, Yronne. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-n-p" | |
-1 letter: paned. | |
-2 letters: aped, dean, epha, hade, haed, haen, hand, head, heap, nape, neap, pane, pean, pend. | |
-3 letters: and, ane, ape, dah, dap, den, edh, end, had, hae, hap, hen, hep, nae, nah, nap, pad, pah, pan, pea, ped, peh, pen. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, ah, an, de, ed, eh, en, ha, he, na, ne, pa, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-n-p" | |
+1 letter: daphnes, headpin, pinhead. | |
+2 letters: dauphine, deanship, diaphone, happened, headpins, orphaned, paunched, phonated, pinheads, unshaped. | |
+3 letters: apprehend, cheapened, dauphines, deanships, diaphones, handpress, handspike, harpooned, headphone, nephridia, panhandle, phasedown, philander, pinheaded, planished, printhead, sharpened. | |
+4 letters: apprehends, championed, chaperoned, diaphonies, duennaship, handpicked, handspikes, headphones, headspring, hydrophane, hydroplane, hyphenated, megaphoned, nephridial, openhanded, panhandled, panhandler, panhandles, parenthood, pathfinder, pentahedra, phantasied, phasedowns, phenolated, philanders, printheads, radiophone, sphenoidal, springhead, unhampered, wardenship. | |
+5 letters: apprehended, despatching, diaphaneity, diencephala, dodecaphony, duennaships, grandnephew, handicapped, handicapper, handpresses, handyperson, headsprings, heparinized, hydrophanes, hydroplaned, hydroplanes, monographed, openhearted, panhandlers, parenthoods, pathfinders, pentahedral, pentahedron, philandered, philanderer, philodendra, radiophones, snapshotted, springheads, superharden, thunderclap, transhipped, transshaped, wardenships. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 70 68 6E 65 |
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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)01000100 01100001 01110000 01101000 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a p h n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 0070 0068 006E 0065 |
| 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)386782748071 |
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