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Ninon

Definition: Ninon

Ninon

Noun

1. A fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon.

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

"Ninon" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "favor", "grace".

Date "ninon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)

"Ninon" is a common misspelling or typo for: minion, neon, nine, ninny, Nixon, noon, nylon.



Specialty Definitions: Ninon

DomainDefinitions

Industry

(1)A fabric originally made from very fine highly-twisted silk yarns with two or three ends weaving as one and with two or three threads lightly twisted together to form the weft so as to give the effect of two or three picks in a shed. These were known as double or triple ninons. A typical construction was 18 denier, 75 S x 18/3 denier, 45 S x 2 1/2 S;336(three as one)ends x 112 picks. Single ninon appears to have been relatively uncommon; (2)A voile fabric made from man-made-fibre yarns, particulary, for example, one intended to be used as curtains, etc. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: Ninon

Specialty definitions using "ninon": Ninon de I'Enclos. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Ninon

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mademoiselle Libertine; a portrait of Ninon de Lanclos (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Ninon

"Ninon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Ninon" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)66.67%2245,945
Noun (proper)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Ninon

"Ninon" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "favor", "grace".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Ninon."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
HannahFemaleBiblicalN/A
AnnickFemaleBretonAnne
AnnekeFemaleDutchAnne
AnnemarieFemaleDutchAnne
AnnFemaleEnglishAnne
AnneFemaleEnglishHannah
AnnettaFemaleEnglishAnne
AnnieFemaleEnglishAnne
HannahFemaleEnglishN/A
NanetteFemaleEnglishAnne
AnneFemaleFrenchHannah
AnnetteFemaleFrenchAnne
HannahFemaleFrenchN/A
NinonFemaleFrenchAnne
AnkeFemaleGermanAnne
AnneFemaleGermanHannah
AnnelieseFemaleGermanAnne
AnnemarieFemaleGermanAnne
ÁineFemaleIrishAnne
AnnettaFemaleItalianAnne
HannahFemaleJewishN/A
AnkaFemalePolishAnne
AynFemaleRussianAnne
AnnelieseFemaleScandinavianAnne
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ninon

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

escort ninon

5

cevilla ninon

5

ninon

4

ninon sevilla

4

de lenclos ninon

3
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Modern Translations: Ninon

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

Russian 

  

of Ann (Annie, Nannie, Nanny 2, Nina, Ninette), Anna Нинон. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Ninon

Derivations

Words beginning with "ninon": ninons. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Ninon"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ninon" (pronounced ni"nun)
4-i" n u nlinen.
3-n u ncannon, Canon, feminine, hemocyanin, Honan, Kronen, melatonin, Mignon, renin.

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Anagrams: Ninon

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-n-n-n-o"

-2 letters: inn, ion.

-3 letters: in, no, on.

 Words containing the letters "i-n-n-n-o"
 

+1 letter: ninons.

 

+2 letters: conning, donning, inconnu, munnion, noniron, nooning, wonning.

 

+3 letters: annoying, cinnamon, inconnus, innocent, innuendo, intoning, mignonne, munnions, nonbeing, noncling, nonfinal, nonionic, nonpoint, nonprint, nonunion, nonusing, noonings, santonin, tenoning, trunnion.

 

+4 letters: andantino, anointing, antiunion, bonneting, cannoning, cantoning, cinnamons, condoning, confining, connexion, connivent, conniving, connoting, continent, convening, enjoining, ennobling, enouncing, inanition, indention, innocence, innocency, innocents, innuendos, intension, intention, inunction, invention, nonacting, nonaction, nonanimal, nonbeings, nonbinary, nonbiting, nonbuying, noncaking, noncoking, nonending, nonentity, nonethnic, nonfading, nonfinite, nonflying, nonillion, nonimmune, noninjury, noninsect, nonjoiner, nonjuring, nonlineal, nonlinear, nonliving, nonmoving, nonnative, nonpaying, nonruling, nonsaline, nonshrink, nonsigner, nonunions, nonunique, nonvirgin, nonvoting, onionskin, pinioning, redonning, renowning, santonins, sonneting, trunnions, unknowing, wantoning, winnowing.

 

+5 letters: abandoning, andantinos, annexation, annotating, annotation, announcing, annoyingly, annulation, anointment, antinomian, cannabinol, cannelloni, cannonries, canonising, canonizing, cinchonine, coannexing, concerning, concinnity, condemning, condensing, conjoining, connecting, connection, connexions, conniption, connivance, consenting, consigning, containing, contemning, contending, contenting, contention, continence, continents, contingent, continuant, continuing, convenient, conventing, convention, convincing, denouncing, dungeoning, ensconcing, enthroning, envenoming, environing, hosannaing, inanitions, inbounding, inconstant, indentions, injunction, innocences, innocenter, innocently, innominate, innovating, innovation, innuendoed, innuendoes, intensions, intentions, interunion, inthroning, intinction, intonating, intonation, inunctions, inundation, inventions, landowning, mentioning, nominating, nomination, nonactions, nonaligned, nonaspirin, nonbanking, nonbearing, nonbetting, nonbinding, nonbonding, noncabinet, noncitizen, nondeviant, nondrinker, nonearning, nonentries, nonenzymic, nonfiction, nongenetic, nongenital, nongrowing, nonhistone, nonhousing, nonhunting, nonillions, noninitial, noninsects, noninsured, nonjoinder, nonjoiners, nonmeeting, nonmigrant, nonnatives, nonorganic, nonplaying, nonplusing, nonprotein, nonreading, nonrioting, nonroutine, nonscience, nonsigners, nonsmoking, nonsuiting, nonuniform, nonutopian, nonvintage, nonviolent, nonvirgins, nonwinning, nonworking, onionskins, outgunning, outmanning, outrunning, outsinning, pensioning, renouncing, sonnetting, tensioning, unconfined, uncrowning, unionising, unionizing, unjointing, unknotting, unknowings, unrounding, unthroning.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ninon


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

4E 69 6E 6F 6E

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)

01001110 01101001 01101110 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#105 &#110 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0069 006E 006F 006E

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

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

4875808180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Derived from
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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