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Definition: Nevermore |
NevermoreAdverb1. At no time hereafter; "Quoth the raven, nevermore!" -E.A.Poe. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nevermore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonym: NevermoreSynonym: never again (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Neverness | Adverb: never, ne'er; at no time, at no period; on the second Tuesday of the week, when Hell freezes over; on no occasion, never in all one's born days, nevermore, sine die; in no degree. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nevermore |
| English words defined with "nevermore": never again. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Raven... Nevermore (1999) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Nevermore" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Nevermore" is used about 8 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 (singular) | 87.5% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 12.5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
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 |
nevermore | 224 |
lyrics nevermore | 15 |
nevermore tab | 14 |
band nevermore | 7 |
home nevermore | 5 |
nevermore official | 4 |
mp3 nevermore | 3 |
nevermore raven | 3 |
nevermore official site | 3 |
nevermore princess | 2 |
nevermore quote raven | 2 |
gauguin nevermore | 2 |
nevermore video | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "nevermore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kurrë më, asnjëherë (never). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ليس أكثر, ليس بعد أبدا, بعد اليوم أبدا. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | никога вече. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | už nikdy (never again, never more). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | هرگزدیگر, دیگرابدا. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | plus jamais, jamais plus (never again, never-ever). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nimmermehr (never again). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לא עו", אף פעם בחים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | soha többé (never again, never more). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | tak lagi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mai più (never again). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | dyn dy bragh, chioee (ever, ever of future, evermore, never). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | evermorenay imperecível (eternal, imperishable, never-dying, undying). (various references) niciodatã (never, not if I know it, once). (various references) никогда больше. (various references) nikada više. (various references) nunca más (anymore, never again). (various references) aldrig mer (never more, no more). (various references) ไม่อีกแล้ว (คำโบรา"). (various references) birdaha asla, asla (by no manner of means, by no means, ever, far from, in no way, in no wise, ne'er, never, no way, no whit, nohow, not a bit, not a whit, not an iota, not at all, not by a fraction, nothing, nothing doing, nowise, nuts, on no account). (various references) ніколи у майбутньому, ніколи більше. (various references) không khi n o nữa, không bao giờ nữa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Nevermore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Enfermera, Navimore, nedermolen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nevermore" (pronounced ne"vermô'r) |
| 6 | -e" v er m ô' r | evermore. |
| 4 | -er m ô' r | furthermore. |
| 3 | -m ô' r | claymore, sophomore, sycamore. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-m-n-o-r-r-v" | |
-1 letter: evermore. | |
-2 letters: overmen, remover, venomer. | |
-3 letters: evener, moreen, remove, revere, veneer. | |
-4 letters: emeer, enorm, merer, mover, nerve, never, ormer, reeve, roven, rover, venom, vomer. | |
-5 letters: erne, even, ever, meno, mere, more, morn, move, neem, neve, nome, norm, omen, omer, oven, over, rove, veer. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-m-n-o-r-r-v" | |
+3 letters: overenamored, overmannered. | |
+4 letters: overtreatment. | |
+5 letters: intervalometer, overdetermined, overornamented, overrefinement, overtreatments. | |
| 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)4E 65 76 65 72 6D 6F 72 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . ...- . .-. -- --- .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101111 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e v e r m o r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0076 0065 0072 006D 006F 0072 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)487188718479818471 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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