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Definition: SPENCE |
SPENCENoun1. The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat. 2. A place where provisions are kept; a buttery; a larder; a pantry. |
Date "SPENCE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Spence A salle à manger, the room in which meals are taken, a dining-room; also a store-room or pantry. (Dispensorium, Old French dispense, a buttery.) "The rest of the family held counsel in the spence."- Sir W. Scott: The Monastery, chap. xxx. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Store | Storehouse, storeroom, storecloset; depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory; repertorium; promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine; buttery, larder, spence; garner, granary; cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom; thesaurus; bank; (treasury); armory; arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery, menagerie. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SPENCE |
| Specialty definitions using "SPENCE": Keller furnace. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Aerial view of Colorado River at Needles, California] / Spence Airplane Photos. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Formosa. Chewing tobacco. Spence Brothers and Co., Cincinnati, O. / Strobridge Co. lith, Cin., O. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | One of the sons of Roger Spence, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Near Princess Anne, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Former home of George F. Spence of Brookside, Alabama. Mr. Spence now lives at Gardendale Homesteads, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Roger Spence, FSA (Farm Security Administration) client, near Princess Anne, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Interior of Roger Spence home. Deal Island, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "SPENCE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.52% of the time. "SPENCE" is used about 209 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) | 99.52% | 208 | 21,075 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.48% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 209 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "SPENCE" 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 |
| Spence | Last name | 15,000 | 808 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Sri Lanka | Aitken Spence & Co. Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "SPENCE": Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr.. 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
spence diamond | 149 | kate spence | 5 |
spence | 60 | jo spence | 5 |
bruce spence | 57 | thomas spence | 5 |
gerry spence | 44 | lake spence | 5 |
chapin spence | 29 | bruce picture spence | 5 |
school spence | 28 | lewis spence | 5 |
sebastian spence | 24 | mark spence | 5 |
jerry spence | 23 | publishing spence | 5 |
rick spence | 21 | jim spence | 4 |
spence valve | 12 | spence tail | 4 |
engineering spence | 10 | sam spence | 4 |
skip spence | 10 | aitken spence | 4 |
jeweler spence | 9 | adam spence | 4 |
judson spence | 8 | jack spence | 4 |
michael spence | 7 | luke spence | 4 |
joseph spence | 6 | attorney jerry spence | 4 |
john spence | 6 | catherine helen spence | 4 |
annora spence | 6 | peter spence | 4 |
spence tee | 5 | spence victoria | 4 |
david spence | 5 | field spence | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "SPENCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Bulgarian | Килер За Храна. (various references) | ||||
Danish | Spence's metallegering (Spence metal). (various references) | ||||
Farsi | اتاق ناهارخوری . (various references) | ||||
French | alliage de Spence (Spence metal). (various references) | ||||
German | Spence-Metall (Spence metal). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | encespay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SPENCE": spencer, spencers, spences. (additional references) | |
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"SPENCE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ppence, Seznec, spenced, Spense. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SPENCE" (pronounced spe"ns) |
| 5 | s p e" n s | dispense, expense, suspense. |
| 4 | -p e" n s | pence. |
| 3 | -e" n s | commence, commonsense, condense, defence, defense, dense, fence, hence, immense, incense, intense, nondefense, offense, pretense, sense, tense, thence, whence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: cense, cepes, neeps, peens, pence, penes, scene. | |
-2 letters: cees, cepe, ceps, neep, pecs, peen, pees, pens, seen, seep, sene, spec. | |
-3 letters: cee, cep, ens, nee, pec, pee, pen, pes, sec, see, sen. | |
-4 letters: en, es, ne, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-n-p-s" | |
+1 letter: pectens, pencels, spencer, spences. | |
+2 letters: cheapens, epicenes, henpecks, kneecaps, pectines, penances, penoches, penuches, percents, plenches, potences, precents, presence, sapience, sixpence, spacemen, specimen, spencers. | |
+3 letters: camphenes, centuples, cheapness, conepates, copestone, copresent, crispened, encapsule, enciphers, enclasped, endoscope, epicenism, esperance, euphenics, inspected, kinescope, lycopenes, nonspeech, nosepiece, opulences, parceners, patencies, patiences, peaceniks, peduncles, pencilers, penoncels, pentacles, penuchles, penuckles, phenetics, pinecones, pleasance, potencies, precensor, precleans, preenacts, prentices, prescient, prescreen, presences, pretences, princesse, prudences, pubescent, pudencies, reinspect, sapiences, sixpences, spanceled, specimens, splenetic, tenpences, tuppences, twopences. | |
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