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Feria

Definition: Feria

Feria

Noun

1. A weekday on which no feast is celebrated.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms within Context: Feria

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Holiday; gala day, red letter day, play day; high days and holidays; high holiday, Bank holiday; May day, Derby day; Saint Monday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday; Bairam; wayz-goos, bean feast; Arbor Day, Declaration Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Thanksgiving Day; Mardi gras,mi-careme, feria, fiesta.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Feria

English words defined with "feria": Feriae, ferial. (references)
Specialty definitions using "feria": Marriages. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Feria" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (day off, feria, weekday), Sicilian (vacation), Spanish (Bank holiday, carnival, Donnybrook, fair, holifay, show).

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Modern Usage: Feria

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Feria del caballo en Jerez (1974)

Tarde de feria (1971)

Feria del Campo 1968 (1968)

España en la Feria de Nueva York (1964)

El Servicio de Concentración Parcelaria en la Feria del Campo (1964)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Feria

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Patron and a Playwright in Renaissance Spain: The House of Feria and Diego Sanchez De Badajoz (Coleccion Tamesis. Serie A, Monografias, 126) (reference)

  • Carlos and the Carnival/Carlos Y LA Feria (reference)

  • Estado de fiesta : feria, foro, corte y circo (reference)

  • Feria taurina de Quito (reference)

  • LA Feria (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Feria

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Gran aniversario de la feria de San Juan de los Lagos, 1797 a 1899.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Feria

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Guatemala

One is the international trade fair held in Guatemala City every odd year: INTERFER '2001 - October 23 - 28, 2001. The other event is called FERIA NACIONAL (National Fair), which takes place every year in December, it is also called BAZARES DE INTERFER, Nov 30 - Dec 17. Other events during the year are: the International Construction Show (month of May) and it takes place every odd year, and COMFERIA (July 13 - 22, 2001). Information about the activities of the U.S. Embassy at this Promotion Opportunities can be obtained from the Commercial Service Office at the U.S. Embassy, Tel.: 011-502-331-1541 Ext.: 4259 and Fax: 011-502-331-7373. Any other general information please contact Roberto Gonzalez at COPEREX, Tel.: 011-502-331-0388 / 9 or 011-502-331-3737. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Feria

The following table summarizes the usage of "feria" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
FeriaLast name20030,442
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Feria

Expression using "feria": La Feria. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Feria

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

feria

210

feria iridescence

9

feria hair color

121

chilena del feria libro

8

loreal feria

105

del feria hogar

8

del disco feria

46

coupon feria

8

l oreal feria

38

cientifica feria

7

loreal feria hair color

21

de feria manizales

7

del feria libro

20

by feria loreal

7

feria suelo

16

feria juniana

7

feria woman

13

feria de cali

6

feria man

13

feria color

6

de feria marcos san

12

feria juarez

6

la feria

12

del empleo feria

6

feria isd la

12

de feria jerez

6

de feria flores las

12

de feria malaga

6

feria hair

11

2003 expo feria juarez

5

ciencias de feria

11

chile del disco feria

5

de feria nimes

11

de feria sevilla

5

la feria tx

11

feria nimes

5

feria hair dye

10

del feria mar

5

la feria texas

9

feria nacional potosina

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Feria

Language Translations for "feria"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hebrew 

  

יום חול (weekday). (various references)

   

Italian

  

feria (day off, weekday). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eriafay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Feria

Derivations

Words beginning with "feria": feriae, ferial, ferias. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Feria"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "feria" (pronounced fe"rēu)
4-e" r ē uarea, honoraria, hysteria, malaria.
3-r ē uaciduria, aria, Atria, bacteria, cafeteria, Coria, crematoria, criteria, diphtheria, emporia, equilibria, euphoria, Gloria, hypochondria, imperia, moratoria, nutria, phantasmagoria, rosaria, Victoria.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Feria

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: afire.

Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-r"

-1 letter: fair, fare, fear, fiar, fire, frae, reif, rife.

-2 letters: air, are, arf, ear, era, far, fer, fie, fir, ire, ref, rei, ria, rif.

-3 letters: ae, ai, ar, ef, er, fa, if, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-r"
 

+1 letter: aerify, faerie, fainer, faired, fairer, farcie, feriae, ferial, ferias, fiacre, fraise, infare.

 

+2 letters: affaire, affixer, airfare, aquifer, barefit, daffier, faddier, faeries, failure, fainter, fairest, fairies, fancier, farcies, farrier, farside, fattier, fawnier, fearing, fiacres, filaree, firearm, fireman, firepan, flakier, flamier, flawier, flaxier, foamier, fragile, frailer, fraises, freesia, friable, frigate, giraffe, infares, leafier, piaffer, reaffix, refrain, refugia.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Feria


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 65 72 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .    .-.    ..    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0065 0072 0069 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4071847567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Names: Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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