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Vatican City

Definition: Vatican City

Vatican City

Noun

1. The capital of the State of the Vatican City.

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



Specialty Definitions: Vatican City

DomainDefinitions

Geography

Capital of Vatican City. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Vatican City

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField
VAEnglishState of the Vatican CityGeography

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

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Synonym: Vatican City

Synonym: Citta del Vaticano (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Vatican City

English words defined with "Vatican City": Achille Ratti, Ambrogio Damiano Achille RattiCitta del VaticanoPius XIState of the Vatican CityVatican, Vatican Palace. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Vatican City

DomainTitle

References

  • A Strategic Profile of Vatican City,1999 edition (reference)

  • The 2001 Vatican City Economic and Product Market Databook (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Conferences of Riyad, Paris, Vatican City, Geneva, and Strasbourg on Moslem doctrine and human rights in Islam, between Saudi canonist and eminent European jurists and intellectuals (reference)

  • Let's Go Rome: Including the Vatican City and Day Trips to Lazio: Tivoli Gardens, Ostia (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Vatican City & The Great Basilica (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Vatican City

Photos:
Vatican City

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Illustrations:
Vatican City

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Photo Album: Vatican City

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Caption: Pope Pius Xi with Ediphone Made Especially for Him; Vatican City; Unknown Date; {29.320/91} (jpg).

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Vatican City

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Monaco

The Principality of Monaco is the second-smallest independent state in the world, after Vatican City. (references)

The Holy See

The Vatican City maintains the Swiss Guards, a voluntary military force, as well as a modern security corps. (references)

The Holy See

The Pope exercises supreme legislative, executive, and judicial power over the Holy See and the State of the Vatican City. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Vatican City

Expression using "Vatican City": state of the Vatican City. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vatican City

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

vatican city

391

vatican city hotel

69

vatican city italy

54

vatican city picture

17

vatican city rome

7

vatican city flag

5

vatican city state

3

travel vatican city

2
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Modern Translations: Vatican City

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

Danish

  

Vatikanstaten (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See, Vatican City State), VA (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See), Pavestolen (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See, Vatican City State). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

Vaticaanstad (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See, Vatican City State). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

Vatikanurbo. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

Vatikaani (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See), VA (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See), Pyhä istuin (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See). (various references)

   

French

  

VA (State of the Vatican City, value-added, Vatican City State-ISO code), le Vatican (State of the Vatican City), le Saint-Siège (State of the Vatican City), l'État de la Cité du Vatican (State of the Vatican City), Cité du Vatican (Vatican City State), cité de vatican. (various references)

   

German

  

Vatikanstadt (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See, Vatican City State). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

VA (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See), 'ατικανό (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See), Αγία Έδρα· Κράτος της όλης του 'ατικανού (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See), όλη του 'ατικανού. (various references)

   

Irish

  

Cathair na BhatacÚine. (various references)

   

Italian

  

Citt del Vaticano (The Holy See, Vatican, Vatican City State). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ヴァチカン市国 (bolt, valid, valkyrie, valve, vampire, variable, variation, variety, Vatican City State, velocity, vendor, Venus, videotape, viola, vision, vocal, vocalist, voicing, volt, volume, vorpal, wizard). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ヴァチカンし"く (Vatican City State). (various references)

   

Manx

  

Ard-Valley yn Phaab. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aticanvay itycay

   

Portuguese

  

Vaticano (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See, the Vatican, Vatican), VA (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See), Estado da Cidade do Vaticano (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See), Cidade do Vaticano. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ватикан (vatican). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

VA (are you going, goes, is going, is it going, it goes, State of the Vatican City, The Holy See), Santa Sede (holy see, State of the Vatican City, The Holy See), Estado de la Ciudad del Vaticano (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See), El Vaticano (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See), Ciudad del Vaticano. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Vatikanstaden, VA (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See, what), Heliga stolen (State of the Vatican City, The Holy See). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Vatican City

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-i-n-t-t-v-y"

-2 letters: tactician.

-3 letters: activity, anticity, cyanitic, nativity, vaccinia.

-4 letters: actinia, actinic, atactic, tantivy, titania, titanic, vacancy, vaccina, viatica.

-5 letters: acinic, atavic, attain, cantic, cavity, cyanic, intact, tactic, tictac, titian, vacant, vanity, viatic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Vatican City


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

56 61 74 69 63 61 6E      43 69 74 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01000011 01101001 01110100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#110 &#32 &#67 &#105 &#116 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0061 0074 0069 0063 0061 006E      0043 0069 0074 0079

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

56678675696780237758691

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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