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Definition: Mayoral |
MayoralAdjective1. Of or relating to a mayor or the office of mayor; "mayoral elections". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mayoral" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references) |
Etymology: Mayoral \May"or*al\, noun. [Spanish expression, from mayor greater, from Latin expression major.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Mayoral |
| Specialty definitions using "mayoral": SimCity. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mayoral" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (controller, foreman, manager). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | John Lindsay's New York City mayoral campaign, 1969.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Mexico | However, in state congressional and mayoral contests since July 2000, the PRI has fared better than the PAN. (references) |
El Salvador | In the March 2000 legislative and municipal elections, ARENA won 29 seats in the Legislative Assembly and 127 mayoral races. (references) | |
Nicaragua | Aleman's PLC won a majority of the overall mayoral races, but the FSLN fared considerably better in larger urban areas, winning a significant number of departmental capitals, including Managua. (references) | |
Human Rights | Honduras | In February police were seen detaining the son of a Potrerillos, Cortes department, mayoral candidate and his friend. (references) |
Bangladesh | Rab's son blames the killing on his father's rivals inside the Awami League who were upset by party leader Sheikh Hasina's announcement that Rab would be the party's nominee for the Khulna mayoral post. (references) | |
Mexico | On September 18, a court sentenced Juan Emilio Yee Compean and Rafael Ureta Leon to 12 years and 10 months imprisonment for the January 1999 murder of Jorge Aguirre Meza, cofounder of the Sinaloa Human Rights Defense Commission and a mayoral candidate in the municipality of Navolato. (references) | |
Minorities | Romania | A number of Roma experts were hired in the Ministries, at the county prefect's office, and in many local mayoral and county offices. (references) |
Political Rights | Zimbabwe | ZANU-PF won all four by-elections, and the opposition MDC won the three mayoral elections. (references) |
Madagascar | In November 1999, communal elections were held in which AREMA won more than 40 percent of the mayoral races. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Colombia | Mayoral and gubernatorial staffs taking office following the October 2000 elections were given training by the Ministry of Justice and "Fundacion Esperanza" or the Hope Foundation (a Colombian NGO) on the problems of trafficking and the importance of expanding social services to populations vulnerable to trafficking. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mayoral" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mayoral" is used about 27 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 27 | 66,962 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "mayoral" 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 |
| Mayoral | Last name | 300 | 24,439 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| 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 |
alfredo hernandez jose mayoral | 12 |
hernandez mayoral | 9 |
mayoral | 6 |
election houston mayoral | 5 |
denver mayoral race | 4 |
candidate mayoral toronto | 4 |
denver election mayoral | 3 |
hernandez jose mayoral | 2 |
election mayoral | 2 |
del duelo el mayoral | 2 |
blanton mayoral | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "mayoral"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bürgermeisterlich. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 市長選挙 (mayoral election), 市長選 (mayoral election). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しちょうせ"きょ (mayoral election), しちょうせ" (mayoral election). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | meoiragh (prefectorial, supervisory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ayoralmay de primar. (various references) เกี่ยวกับนายกเทศมนตรี. (various references) maerol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mayoral": mayoralties, mayoralty. (additional references) | |
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"Mayoral" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: maiorem, Maiorum, Matorell, Mayerl, Mayuree, Nayral, nizoral. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mayoral" (pronounced mā"erul) |
| 3 | -er u l | admiral, agricultural, architectural, behavioral, bilateral, collateral, Corporal, countercultural, cultural, doctoral, doggerel, electoral, ephemeral, federal, femoral, funeral, Gen, general, guttural, horticultural, humoral, inaugural, intercultural, lateral, liberal, literal, littoral, mackerel, mineral, multicultural, multilateral, natural, neoliberal, nomenclatural, nonagricultural, numeral, pastoral, pectoral, peripheral, pickerel, postdoctoral, prefectural, procedural, scriptural, sculptural, sectoral, structural, supernatural, temporal, trilateral, unilateral, unnatural, visceral. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-m-o-r-y" | |
-1 letter: amoral. | |
-2 letters: alamo, alarm, alary, aroma, loamy, malar, marly, mayor, molar, moral, moray, royal. | |
-3 letters: alar, alma, amyl, army, aryl, lama, loam, lory, maar, marl, maya, mayo, mola, moly, mora, oral, raya, roam. | |
-4 letters: aal, ala, ama, arm, lam, lar, lay, mar, may, moa, mol, mor, oar, ora, ram, ray, rom, rya, yam, yar. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-m-o-r-y" | |
+1 letter: amorally. | |
+2 letters: amorality, cyclorama, mayoralty, myrobalan. | |
+3 letters: abnormally, acromegaly, ambulatory, armorially, comparably, cycloramas, laparotomy, monaurally, myocardial, myrobalans, paroxysmal. | |
+4 letters: abnormality, ambrosially, declamatory, exclamatory, lachrymator, maladroitly, malariology, mandatorily, marmoreally, mayoralties, paramountly. | |
+5 letters: ambulatorily, amelioratory, aromatically, assimilatory, harmonically, holidaymaker, incomparably, inflammatory, lachrymators, manipulatory, marshmallowy, microanalyst, ornamentally, paranormally, pharmacology, pyromaniacal, rampageously, romantically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 79 6F 72 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -.--. --- .-. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01111001 01101111 01110010 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a y o r a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0079 006F 0072 0061 006C |
| 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)47679181846778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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