Signore

  

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Signore

Definition: Signore

Signore

Noun

1. An Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English "sir"; used separately (not prefixed to his name).

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

Date "signore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references)


Crosswords: Signore

Etymologies containing "signore": seignior. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Signore" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (esquire, gentleman, gentleman s, ladies, liege, Lord, madams, man, Mister, mr, mr., signor, Sir).

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Modern Usage: Signore

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Nel giorno del signore (1970)

Nell'anno del Signore (1969)

Le Dolci signore (1967)

Signore & signori (1965)

Le Signore (1960)

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

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Commercial Usage: Signore

DomainTitle

Books

  • 2000, nell'anno del Signore : preveggenze sulla fine del secondo millennio (reference)

  • Caro Luigi Enregio Signore Italienische (reference)

  • Diana La Tuda Del Signore Della Na (reference)

  • Gesáu il Signore : saggio di cristologia (reference)

  • Il Signore Di Berze: Viaggio Di Un Cavaliere Alla Crociata (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Signore

"Signore" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Signore" is used about 6 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)83.33%5157,705
Noun (proper)16.67%1339,140
                    Total100.00%6N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Signore

The following table summarizes the usage of "signore" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
SignoreLast name17054,210
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Signore

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

anelli degli il signore

33

signore

22

del littorio signore

4

dei porcelli signore

4

mature signore

3

pieta signore

3

atelier signore

3

ascolta signore

3

anelli degli signore

3

delle il mosche signore

3

aria ascolta signore

3

anelli signore

2

dei motocorse porcelli signore

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Signore

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

Russian 

  

ΡΠΈΠ½ΡŒΠΎΡ€ (seigneur, signor, signori). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Signore

Misspellings

"Signore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dignare, sangaree, Segnere, Seignoret, seignory, senore, signare, Sig-nora, Signoret, signoria, signorie, Signorine, Signorita, sinore. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Signore"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "signore" (pronounced sēnyô"rā)
3-ô" r āforay, Moray.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Signore

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: eringos, ignores, regions.

Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-o-r-s"

-1 letter: eringo, genros, girons, goners, grison, groins, ignore, irones, nosier, orgies, region, reigns, renigs, resign, rosing, senior, sering, signer, signor, singer, soigne, soring.

-2 letters: eosin, genro, girns, giron, giros, goers, goner, gores, gorse, grins, groin, irone, irons, noirs, noise, noris, ogres, ornis, osier, reign, reins, renig, resin, rings, rinse, risen, rosin, segni, segno.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-o-r-s"
 

+1 letter: coreigns, cosigner, eringoes, genitors, goriness, ignorers, negroids, negronis, organise, perigons, reposing, resoling, resowing, seignior, seignory, sobering, spongier.

 

+2 letters: censoring, cognizers, congeries, corseting, coshering, cosigners, coverings, desorbing, egression, eloigners, endorsing, erigerons, escorting, escrowing, florigens, foresting, forewings, fostering, frescoing, geraniols, gorgerins, grandiose, gueridons, koshering, ligroines, misgovern, morseling, necrosing, neighbors, nitrogens, nonsigner, observing, offerings, orangiest, organdies, organised, organiser, organises, organizes, orogenies, overswing, overusing, oystering, peignoirs, progenies, progestin, reasoning, recognise, regionals, rehousing, religions, rescoring, reshoeing, reshowing, resoaking, resodding, resolving, resorbing, resorting, restoking, restoring, ringbones, ringdoves, sectoring, seigniors, seigniory, showering, signories, signorine, soldering, sortieing, sovereign, stereoing, subregion, vignerons, wingovers, worsening.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Signore


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

53 69 67 6E 6F 72 65

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)

01010011 01101001 01100111 01101110 01101111 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#105 &#103 &#110 &#111 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0069 0067 006E 006F 0072 0065

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

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

53757380818471

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Signore"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Russian

ΡΠ»ΠΎΠ²Π°Ρ€ΡŒ, ΠΎΠΏΡ€Π΅Π΄Π΅Π»Π΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅, трансляция, сдвиг, ΠΏΠ΅Ρ€Π΅Π²ΠΎΠ΄, пСрСмСщСниСрусский

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationанглийский
 


INDEX

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


  

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