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"AUDREY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a noble strength". |
Date "AUDREY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Audrey A country wench, who jilted William for Touchstone. (Shakespeare: As You Like It.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Screenplays | That's an Audrey Hepburn movie. (Jerry Maguire; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) Strictly between us - neither is the Audrey One. (Little Shop of Horrors; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith; Howard Ashman) The Audrey Two is not a healthy girl. (Little Shop of Horrors; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith; Howard Ashman) Now, so was Audrey Hepburn's. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) Beth, we don't want anything from you; Audrey, Cal, Connie and Me, we just want you to be happy. (Ordinary People; writing credit: Judith Guest; Alvin Sargent) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Little Audrey Riding Hood (1953) Law and Audrey (1952) Audrey the Rainmaker (1951) | |
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 | Two Clinton County SWCD Commissioners, Wendell Jones, NRCS District Conservationist; Audrey DeScheppper, NRCS technician; and landowner and Muscatine County SWCD Secretary, discuss local conservation issues in Muscatine, IA. [Slide 97CS3059]. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Anita DeWulf, Clinton County SWCD Commissioner; Warren Cook, Clinton Co. SWCD Commissioner; Connie Ramirez, NRCS District Conservationist; Audrey DeScheppper, technician; Jerry Mall; and Helen Atkinson, Muscatine County SWCD Secretary, discuss local conse. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | WAVES Aviation Metalsmiths and Aviation Machinist's Mates (AMM) working on an SBD "Dauntless" aircraft in the air station's Assembly and Repair Department, 24 July 1943. Working on the wing, at left, are Seaman 1st Class (AMM) Annia Marie Garman and Seaman 1st Class Frances O. Culpepper. On and inside the plane are (left to right) AMM 3rd Class Audrey Anderson, AMM 3rd Class Jane Carlisle, AMM 3rd Class Betty Jo Visson, Seaman 1st Class Mary Jane Boring and Seaman 1st Class (AMM) Clara R. Bumgarner. Credit: NAVY. |  | Munson, Audrey, Miss, with Buzzer the cat, portrait photograph. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Trade | China | This report can be accessed by going to http://www.fas.usda.gov/, or contact Audrey Talley, USDA/Foreign Agricultural Service, Tel: (202) 720-9408; fax: (202) 690-0677. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "AUDREY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AUDREY" is used about 281 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) | 100% | 281 | 17,410 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "AUDREY" 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 |
| Audrey | First name Female | 127,000 | 173 |
| Audrey | Last name | 100 | 88,302 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "AUDREY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a noble strength". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "AUDREY." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| &Aelig;ðelþryð | Female | Anglo-Saxon | N/A |
| Etheldreda | Female | Anglo-Saxon (Latinized) | æðelþryð |
| Audie | Female | English | Audrey |
| Audra | Female | English | Audrey |
| Audrea | Female | English | Audrey |
| Audrey | Female | English | æðelþryð |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "AUDREY": Audrey-ann. | |
| 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. |
Misspellings | |
"AUDREY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aidley, audrain, Audran, audre, Audrie, Audries, audry, Aundray, Auray, Awdrey, baudroie, Baudry, Caudrey, Gardurey, Iudaei, Paudrat, Udry, Vaudey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-r-u-y" | |
-1 letter: deary, deray, rayed, ready. | |
-2 letters: aery, dare, dear, dray, dura, dure, dyer, eyra, read, rude, rued, urea, yard, yare, yaud, year. | |
-3 letters: are, aye, day, dey, dry, due, dye, ear, eau, era, rad, ray, red, rue, rya, rye, urd, yar, yea. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, ar, ay, de, ed, er, re, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-r-u-y" | |
+1 letter: dasyure, daubery, feudary, gaudery, unready. | |
+2 letters: adultery, ayurveda, dasyures, hurrayed, underlay, underpay, underway. | |
+3 letters: assuredly, ayurvedas, budgetary, endurably, feudatory, guardedly, medullary, outprayed, residuary, roundelay, underlays, underpays, underplay, unsprayed. | |
+4 letters: accursedly, audiometry, debauchery, dreadfully, dreamfully, laundrymen, lumberyard, measuredly, obdurately, perdurably, redundancy, residually, roundelays, underplays. | |
+5 letters: bullyragged, dangerously, delusionary, demagoguery, denumerably, documentary, hydromedusa, hydroxyurea, lumberyards, redoubtably, redundantly, regardfully, rudimentary, subdermally, underlaying, underpaying, underplayed, undesirably, unendurably, unguardedly, unweariedly. | |
| 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)41 55 44 52 45 59 |
| 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)01000001 01010101 01000100 01010010 01000101 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A U D R E Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0055 0044 0052 0045 0059 |
| 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)355538523959 |
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