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Definition: Veronica |
VeronicaNoun1. Any plant of the genus Veronica. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Veronica" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to bring victory". |
Date "veronica" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Veronica \Ve*ron"i*ca\, noun. [LL.; -- so called from Veronica, woman who, according to an old legend, as Christ was carrying the cross, wiped his face with cloth, which received an impression of his countenance; Veronica is from MGr., from Macedonian, for Greek, literally, carrying off victory, victorious.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | Veronica |
Literature | Veronica It is said that a maiden handed her handkerchief to our Lord on His way to Calvary. He wiped the sweat from his brow, returned the handkerchief to the owner, and went on. The handkerchief was found to bear a perfect likeness of the Saviour, and was called Vera-Iconica (true likeness), and the maiden was ever after called St. Veronica. One of these handkerchiefs is preserved at St. Peter's church in Rome, and another in Milan cathedral. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Veronica is a search engine system for the Gopher protocol.Developed at the University of Nevada, Veronica is a constantly updated database of the names of almost every menu item on thousands of gopher servers. The Veronica database can be searched from most major gopher menus.
The name, although officially an acronym for 'Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-Wide Index to Computer Archives', was chosen to match that of the FTP search service known as Archie - Veronica Lodge being the name of another character from the Archie Comics.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Veronica."
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
VERONICA | English | Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives | N/A |
VERONICA | Greek | πολύ εύκολος δείκτης πληροφορικοποιημένων αρχείων δικτυοτενούς αναζήτησης | Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: VeronicaSynonym: speedwell (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Spell | Talisman, amulet, periapt, telesm, phylactery, philter; fetich, fetish; agnus Dei; furcula, madstone; mascot, mascotte; merrythought; Om, Aum; scarab, scarabaeus; sudarium, triskelion, veronica, wishbone; swastika, fylfot, gammadion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Veronica |
| English words defined with "veronica": genus Veronica ♦ speedwell ♦ Vernacle, Vernicle, Veronica agrestis, Veronica americana, Veronica anagallis-aquatica, Veronica arvensis, Veronica beccabunga, Veronica chamaedrys, Veronica michauxii, Veronica officinalis, Veronica peregrina, Veronica serpyllifolia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "veronica": Stations. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Veronica" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (Speedwell, Veronica), Manx (veronica). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Veronica does it all the time, you said! (The Lost World; writing credit: Alison Lea Bingeman) You're the first man in five years who didn't tell me I look like Veronica Lake inside of a minute. (L.A. Confidential; writing credit: Brian Helgeland) I'm getting married Veronica. Congratulate me. (Dangerous Beauty; writing credit: Jeannine Dominy) That Veronica Vaughn is one hot piece of ass, I know from experience dude. (Billy Madison; writing credit: Tim Herlihy; Adam Sandler) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Veronica se întoarce (1973) Schwester Veronica (1926) I Mean Veronica Candytuft (1921) Creanga Eminescu. Veronica (1915) Veronica Guerin (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Farshot of Veronica americana.Credit: John Craig. |  | Medium shot of wildflower (genus Veronica).Credit: John Craig. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Also, when thinking of him, saw always a stern severed head or deathmask as if outlined on a grey curtain or veronica. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Civil Liberties | Ireland | In March John Gilligan was found not guilty in the 1996 murder of journalist Veronica Guerin but was found guilty of drug dealing and is serving a 28-year sentence. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Veronica" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.37% of the time. "Veronica" is used about 317 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) | 99.37% | 315 | 16,262 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.63% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 317 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "veronica" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Veronica | First name Female | 142,000 | 158 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Veronica" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to bring victory". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Veronica." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Bernice | Female | Biblical | Berenice |
| Veronika | Female | Czech | Veronica |
| Berenice | Female | English | N/A |
| Bernetta | Female | English | Berenice |
| Bernice | Female | English | Berenice |
| Berniece | Female | English | Berenice |
| Roni | Female | English | Veronica |
| Veronica | Female | English | Berenice |
| Véronique | Female | French | Veronica |
| Veronika | Female | German | Veronica |
| Veronika | Female | Hungarian | Veronica |
| Berenice | Female | Italian | N/A |
| Veronica | Female | Italian | Berenice |
| Verônica | Female | Portuguese | Veronica |
| Veronica | Female | Romanian | Berenice |
| Veronika | Female | Russian | Veronica |
| Veronika | Female | Scandinavian | Veronica |
| Verónica | Female | Spanish | Veronica |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "veronica": genus Veronica ♦ Leptandra syn Veronica Virginica ♦ Veronica agrestis ♦ Veronica Americana ♦ Veronica Anagallis ♦ Veronica arvensis ♦ Veronica Beccabunga ♦ Veronica chamaedrys ♦ Veronica hederifolia ♦ Veronica michauxii ♦ Veronica officinalis ♦ veronica peregrina ♦ Veronica serpyllifolia ♦ Veronica Virginica. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
veronica zemanova | 4,641 |
veronica | 1,294 |
veronica vanoza | 616 |
veronica kay | 380 |
resident evil code veronica | 375 |
veronica brazil | 304 |
veronica varekova | 236 |
veronica moser | 212 |
veronica hart | 209 |
veronica zemanova gallery | 187 |
veronica zemanova video | 177 |
veronica lake | 167 |
veronica castro | 134 |
code veronica | 132 |
becerra veronica | 126 |
cheat for resident evil code veronica | 125 |
veronica zemanova picture | 121 |
veronica zemanova pic | 113 |
veronica zemanova movie | 108 |
veronica zemenova | 103 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "veronica"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Veronikë (Speedwell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | 'ероника, 'еликденче (Speedwell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Rozrazil. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Veronica (very easy rodent oriented net-wide index to computerized archives), laege-aerenpris, laegeaerenpris. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | VERONICA (very easy rodent oriented net-wide index to computerized archives), mannetjesereprijs. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Veronica(Very Easy Rodent-Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives) (very easy rodent oriented net-wide index to computerized archives). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Véronique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ehrenpreis (prize, speedwell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | VERONICA (very easy rodent oriented net-wide index to computerized archives), βερονίκη, πολύ εύκολος δείκτης πληροφορικοποιημένων αρχειοφακέλων δικτυοτενούς αναζήτησης (very easy rodent oriented net-wide index to computerized archives), πολύ εύκολος δείκτης πληροφορικοποιημένων αρχείων δικτυοτενούς αναζήτησης (very easy rodent oriented net-wide index to computerized archives), 'ερενίκη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ברו יק". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Veronika (speedwell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | veronica (Speedwell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | veronica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eronicavay VERONICA (very easy rodent oriented net-wide index to computerized archives), verónica, programa de pesquisa por palavra-chave (very easy rodent oriented net-wide index to computerized archives), Planta (design, designing, diagram, floor plan, map, plan, plan view, plane, plant, sole, survey, transplant), Pano Com A Imagem Do Rosto De Crito. (various references) 'ероника (Speedwell, Veronica 2). (various references) veronika. (various references) verónica (Speedwell). (various references) Veronika (bird's eye), Yavşanotu (bird's eye, Speedwell), Hazreti Ýsa'nın Resmi. (various references) 'ероніка (Speedwell). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Veronica officinalis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "veronica": veronicas. (additional references) | |
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"Veronica" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cerknica, jetronic, neronian, neronic, Peronista, veroica, veromica, veronia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "veronica" (pronounced verÄ"niku) |
| 5 | -Ä" n i k u | harmonica. |
| 4 | -n i k u | Tunica. |
| 3 | -i k u | Angelica, arabica, Erica, erotica, replica, silica, swastika. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-r-v" | |
-1 letter: corvina, corvine. | |
-2 letters: aeonic, carnie, carven, cavern, coiner, cornea, craven, naiver, novice, orcein, ravine, recoin, renvoi, vainer, voicer. | |
-3 letters: acorn, aiver, areic, avion, cairn, caner, canoe, carve, caver, cavie, ceria, coria, coven, cover, covin, crane, crave, crone, envoi, erica, invar, irone, nacre, naevi, naive, narco, naric, nicer, noria, novae, ocean, ocrea, orcin, ovine, racon, rance, raven, ravin, recon, riven, roven, vicar, vinca, vireo, voice. | |
-4 letters: acne, acre, aeon, aero, airn, arco, arvo, aver, cain, cane, care, carn, cave, cero, ciao, cine, cion, cire, coin, coir, cone, coni, core, corn, cove, earn, icon, inro, iron, naoi, narc, nave, near, nevi, nice, noir, nori, nova, once, orca, oven, over, race, rain, rani, rave, rein, rice, rive, roan, rove, vain, vair, vane, vein, vena, vera, vice, vier, vina, vine, vino. | |
-5 letters: ace, ain, air, ane, ani, arc, are, ave, avo, can, car, con, cor, ear, eon, era, ern, ice, ion, ire, nae, nor, oar, oca, one, ora, orc, ore, ova, ran, rec, rei, rev, ria, rin, roc, roe, vac, van, var, via, vie, voe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-o-r-v" | |
+1 letter: carnivore, veronicas. | |
+2 letters: carnivores, covariance, overacting, overaction, revocation, vacationer, vociferant. | |
+3 letters: contractive, contrastive, contrivance, countervail, covariances, involucrate, neuroactive, noncreative, nonreactive, overactions, overarching, overcalling, overcasting, overcaution, oversaucing, revocations, vacationers. | |
+4 letters: clairvoyance, coacervation, consecrative, conservation, conservatism, conservative, conservatize, contravening, contrivances, conversation, conversional, coordinative, countervails, evisceration, inobservance, intervocalic, overcastings, overcautions, overcharging, overclaiming, overcleaning, overclearing, overcoaching, overcramming, overissuance, overmatching, overreaching, overreacting, overreaction, overreliance, privatdocent, reactivation, servicewoman, verification, vociferating, vociferation. | |
+5 letters: anticorrosive, cavernicolous, clairvoyances, coacervations, concentrative, confederative, configurative, conservancies, conservations, conservatisms, conservatives, conservatized, conservatizes, conservatoire, contraceptive, contrastively, contravention, controversial, conversancies, conversations, conversazione, conversazioni, convertiplane, counteractive, countervailed, eviscerations, galvanometric, incorporative, inobservances, noncreativity, overachieving, overbalancing, overbleaching, overcautioned, overdominance, overeducating, overeducation, overissuances, overpackaging, overreactions, overreliances, prevarication, prevocational, privatdocents, provincialize, ratiocinative, reactivations, revaccination, ultraviolence, uncooperative, valedictorian, veraciousness, verifications, vermiculation, versification, vicariousness, vociferations, voraciousness. | |
| 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)56 65 72 6F 6E 69 63 61 |
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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)01010110 01100101 01110010 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100011 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V e r o n i c a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0065 0072 006F 006E 0069 0063 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)5671848180756967 |
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