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Definition: Signorina |
SignorinaNoun1. An Italian courtesy title for an unmarried woman; equivalent to Miss with used before a name. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "signorina" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
Etymology: Signorina \Si`gno*ri"na\, noun. [Italian]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: Signorina |
| Non-English Usage: "Signorina" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Italian (girl, madam, mademoiselle, Miss, missy, ms, signorina, young lady). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Che cosa... scusi signorina Che cosa (1965) La Signorina (1942) Signorina Ciclone (1916) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Signorina" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 79.57% of the time. "Signorina" is used about 93 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) | 79.57% | 74 | 38,813 |
| Noun (proper) | 20.43% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Total | 100.00% | 93 | 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 |
signorina | 2 |
buona sera signorina | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "signorina"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | синьорина, госпожица (demoiselle, ms., pansy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Fräulein (mademoiselle, miss, young lady). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | δεσποινίσ (damsel, demoiselle, senorita). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | signorina (girl, madam, mademoiselle, miss, missy, ms, young lady). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ignorinasay синьорина (signorine). (various references) cô (aunt, cousin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "signorina": signorinas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "signorina" (pronounced 'Si`gno*ri"na'): Abuna, Achatina, Alcanna, Alhenna, Alumna, Amphirhina, Amphisbaena, Angina, Anna, Anona, Antenna, arena, Avena, Avifauna, Banana, Becuna, BELLADONNA, Bellona, Carina, Casuarina, Catena, Cavatina, Concertina, Coquina, Cromorna, Curtana, Czarevna, Czarina, Damiana, DIANA, Echidna, Erythrina, Galena, Gehenna, Gena, Globigerina, Glucina, Hemina, henna, Hosanna, HYENA, iguana, Krishna, lacuna, Lena, Levana, Limacina, Linguatulina, Littorina, Luna. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-n-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: ingrains, ironings, nigrosin, rosining. | |
-2 letters: airings, arising, ingrain, ironing, noising, origans, origins, raining, raising, rinsing, saining, signior, signora, signori, snaring, snoring, soaring, sorning. | |
-3 letters: airing, anions, argons, ariosi, arsino, girons, grains, grison, groans, groins, inions, nasion, norias, nosing, oaring, onagri, orangs, organs, origan, origin, raisin, rasing, rising, rosing, saning, sarong, signor, siring, soring. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-n-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: organising, romanising, signorinas. | |
+2 letters: anagnorisis, garrisoning, harmonising, normalising, patronising, resignation. | |
+3 letters: caparisoning, constraining, denigrations, germinations, gormandising, integrations, legionnaires, marginations, monsignorial, organisation, originations, refashioning, resignations. | |
+4 letters: brainstorming, disorganizing, emarginations, energizations, housetraining, impersonating, impregnations, inaugurations, ingratiations, invigorations, nonimmigrants, nonincreasing, organisations, organizations, overstraining, personalising, personalizing, rationalising, romanticising, subordinating, trampolinings. | |
+5 letters: antiaggression, brainstormings, carcinogenesis, configurations, conservatizing, containerising, disharmonizing, disintegration, disorientating, generalisation, germanizations, ingurgitations, integrationist, interrogations, peregrinations, regimentations, reintegrations, renegotiations, transmigration, triangulations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 67 6E 6F 72 69 6E 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .. --. -. --- .-. .. -. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101001 01100111 01101110 01101111 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i g n o r i n a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 0067 006E 006F 0072 0069 006E 0061 |
| 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)537573808184758067 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, tedesco, немецкий, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | гръцки език, гръцки, грък, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, греческий, грек, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | италиански език, италиански, италианец, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, russo, русский, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, вьетнамский, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, английский |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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