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Date "BENVOLIO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Benvolio Nephew to Montague, a testy, litigious gentleman, who would "quarrel with a man that had a hair more or a hair less in his beard than he had." Mercutio says to him, "Thou hast quarrelled with a man for coughing in the street, because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun." (Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, iii. 1.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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 |
benvolio | 13 |
benvolio picture | 3 |
benvolio juliet romeo | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-l-n-o-o-v" | |
-1 letter: violone. | |
-2 letters: blooie, bovine. | |
-3 letters: eloin, envoi, levin, liven, looie, noble, novel, obeli, obole, oboli, olein, olive, ovine, ovoli, voile. | |
-4 letters: bile, bine, blin, boil, bole, bolo, bone, boon, ebon, enol, evil, leno, levo, lien, line, lino, lion, live, lobe, lobo, loin, lone, loon, love, nevi, noel, noil, nolo, oboe, obol, oleo, olio, oven. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-l-n-o-o-v" | |
+3 letters: overblowing, overboiling. | |
+4 letters: everblooming, overlaboring. | |
+5 letters: nonbehavioral, obliviousness, observational. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 4E 56 4F 4C 49 4F |
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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)01000010 01000101 01001110 01010110 01001111 01001100 01001001 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E N V O L I O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 004E 0056 004F 004C 0049 004F |
| 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)3639485649464349 |
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