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Definitions: Peregrine |
PeregrineAdjective1. (of groups of people) tending to travel and change settlements frequently; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes". Noun1. A widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Peregrine" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a traveler". |
Date "peregrine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Literature | Peregrine (3 syl.) ran away from home, and obtained a loan of 10 from Job Thornbury, with which he went abroad and traded; he returned a wealthy man, and arrived in London on the very day Job Thornbury was made a bankrupt. Having paid the creditors out of the proceeds made from the hardwareman's loan, he married his daughter. (George Colman the Younger: John Bull.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: PeregrineSynonyms: mobile (adj), nomadic (adj), roving (adj), wandering (adj), peregrine falcon (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Peregrine |
| English words defined with "peregrine": falcon-gentil, falcon-gentle ♦ Gray falcon ♦ mobile ♦ nomadic ♦ Pelegrine, Peregrine falcon ♦ roving ♦ Saker ♦ tercel, tercelet, tiercel, Tiercelet ♦ wandering. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "peregrine": Falcon Peregrine ♦ Gilpin. (references) |
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Screenplays | It's only a peregrine falcon. (The Other; writing credit: Tom Tryon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Making of Peregrine (1969) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Peregrine FundBirds of PreyBOPOwyhee Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District.Credit: Unknown. |  | Banding Peregrine Falcon chicksBirds of Prey ResearchBirds of Prey National Conservation AreaBOPOwyhee Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District.Credit: Barry Rose. |
 | Peregrine FalconBirds of Prey National Conservation AreaBOPOwyhee Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District.Credit: Unknown. |  | Peregrine FalconBirds of Prey National Conservation AreaBOP NCAOwyhee Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District.Credit: Barry Rose. |
 | Peregrine at nest.Credit: Alaska Image Library. |  | Peregrine.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Sir Peregrine Worsthorne | Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. |
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| "Peregrine" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 40.83% of the time. "Peregrine" is used about 120 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) | 40.83% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 34.17% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (singular) | 24.17% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (common) | 0.83% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 120 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Peregrine" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a traveler". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Peregrine." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Peregrine | Male | English | N/A |
| Perry | Male | English | Peregrine |
| Pellegrino | Male | Italian | Peregrine |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| South Africa | Peregrine Holdings Limited | USA | Peregrine Systems, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "peregrine": peregrine falcon ♦ peregrine hawk. 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. |
| Language | Translations for "peregrine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | skifter shtegtar, shtegtues (migrant, migratory, nomad, nomadic), i huaj (alien, exotic, extern, external, extraneous, foreign, foreigner, gringo, interlude, outlandish, outside, oversea, overseas, strange, stranger, tramontane), i ardhur nga jashtë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | vandrefalk (Usa: duck hawk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | slechtvalk (peregrine falcon, Usa: duck hawk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | faucon pélerin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Wanderfalke (Usa: duck hawk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πετρίτης (Usa: duck hawk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | külföldi (alien, alien friend, expatriate, external, foreign, foreigner, monitor, offshore, oversea, overseas, stranger, to depend on foreign supplies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | falco pellegrino (Usa: duck hawk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 隼 (peregrine falcon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はやぶさ (peregrine falcon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shirragh y ree (peregrine falcon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eregrinepay viagem (access, flight, highroad crossing, its, journey, passage, passenger trip, person trip, ride, run, transit, travel, trek, trip, voyage, wander), falcão-real, falcão-peregrino (Usa: duck hawk), estranho de for a, estrangeiro (abroad, alien, continental, exotic plants, foreign, foreigner, grip, outlandish, oversea, strange, stranger, tramontane). (various references) vindereu (kestrel), strãin locuind la roma, strãin (alien, another's, extraneous, foreign, foreigner, guest, heterogeneous, outlandish, outsider, oversea, strange, stranger, unknown, visitor), cãlãtor (excursionist, fare, fleeting, goer, itinerant, passenger, peripatetic, pilgrim, rider, roaming, short lived, tourist, transitory, traveller, travelling, vagrant, visitor, voyager, wayfarer, wayfaring man). (various references) сапсан (peregrine falcon). (various references) halcón peregrino, halcón común (Usa: duck hawk). (various references) yabancı (alien, exotic, foreign, foreigner, gook, gringo, outlandish, outsider, strange, stranger, tramontane, unfamiliar, unknown, xeno), tuhaf (antic, bizarre, comical, cranky, curious, droll, erratic, flaky, funnily, funny, funny peculiar, laughable, odd, offbeat, peculiar, queer, quizzical, rum, rummy, screwball, screwy, singular, splay, strange, twee, unaccustomed, uncouth, unusual, weird, whimsical). (various references) сокіл звичайний, сапсан. (various references) nhập cảng (peregrin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Falco peregrinus. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "peregrine": peregrines. (additional references) | |
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"Peregrine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pagerie, Pelegrini, penerine, peregerine, peregra, Peregrin, pergerine, perigrine, Pregardien. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "peregrine" (pronounced pe"rugrē'n) |
| 4 | -g r ē' n | evergreen. |
| 3 | -r ē' n | chloroprene, fluorine, murine, neoprene, polystyrene, smokescreen, styrene. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-i-n-p-r-r" | |
-1 letter: greenier, peregrin. | |
-2 letters: epergne, epigene, greener, greenie, peering, perigee, preeing, preener, regreen, reneger, repiner, ripener. | |
-3 letters: eerier, erring, griper, peeing, peerie, pinger, renege, repine, ringer. | |
-4 letters: eerie, genie, genip, genre, green, gripe, preen, prier, reign, renig, repeg, repin, rerig, ripen, riper. | |
-5 letters: eger, epee, erne, gene, gien, girn, gree, grin, grip, neep, peen, peer, pein. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-i-n-p-r-r" | |
+1 letter: peregrines. | |
+2 letters: peregrinate, persevering, preerecting, prefreezing, rerepeating, retempering. | |
+3 letters: derepressing, peregrinated, peregrinates, prescreening, reexpressing, reprehending, representing. | |
+4 letters: perseverating, perseveringly, prefigurement, prescreenings. | |
+5 letters: hyperenergetic, predetermining, prefigurements, preregistering, reexperiencing, reinterpreting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 72 65 67 72 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .-. . --. .-. .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100111 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e r e g r i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0072 0065 0067 0072 0069 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507184717384758071 |
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