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AVRIL

"AVRIL" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "April", "open".

Date "AVRIL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)

"AVRIL" is a common misspelling or typo for: aril, avail.


Crosswords: AVRIL

Etymologies containing "AVRIL": April. (references)
Non-English Usage: "AVRIL" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (April), French Canadian (April), Haitian Creole (April).

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

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Modern Usage: AVRIL

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

8 avril 1914. Revue des troupes de la garnison de Bruxelles par le général de Bonhomme (1914)

Le 23 avril 1910 Inauguration de l'exposition internationale de Bruxelles (1910)

Avril 2002 Chronique d'un siège - Ramallah (2003)

Jeudi 7 avril (1978)

The Haunting of Avril (1975)

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

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Commercial Usage: AVRIL

DomainTitle

Books

  • Du Faubourg Saint-Antoine au bois de Vincennes : promenade historique dans le 12e Arrondissement : mairie annexe du 12e Arrondissement, 26 janvier-20 février et 19 mars-20 avril 1983 : Musée Carnavalet, 26 avril-5 juin 1983 : exposition (reference)

  • Actes du XXXIIe Congrès d'études régionales : tenu à Agen et Marmande les 26 et 27 avril 1980 (reference)

  • Vie intérieure, mort et immortalité : conférences faites à Vienne en avril 1914 : conférences publiques des 6 et 8 avril, cycle de six conférences du 9 au 14 avril, allocution du 14 avril (reference)

  • Récits de chasse en Indochine : hauts plateaux de l'Annam, Ban Méthuot : 29 avril 1929 - 10 août 1931 (reference)

  • Actes du Colloque/Musique '83 : prospectives en formation auditive : du 27 au 29 avril 1983 au Collège Marguerite-Bourgeois (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: AVRIL

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Campagne du Vice-Amiral [sic] Cte. d'Estaing en Amêrique, commandant une escadre de 12 vaisseaux de 4 fregattes, sortie de Toulon le 13 avril 1778. Credit: Library of Congress.

L'Empereur Claude / dessiné par Vanderwal ; gravé par J.J. Avril. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril 1834 / H.D. Credit: Library of Congress.

Comité d'assistance en Alsace-Lorraine. Tombola artistique. Exposition du 7 au 30 avril 1916 au Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Credit: Library of Congress.

Exposition Universelle & Internationale de St. Louis (États-Unis) du 30 Avril au 30 Novembre 1904 / Mucha. Credit: Library of Congress.

Comité d'assistance en Alsace-Lorraine. Tombola artistique. Exposition du 7 au 30 avril 1916 au Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Credit: Library of Congress.

Alarobia 22 Avril 1970 : 6 ora sy sasany : Tranompokonolona--Isotry. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: AVRIL

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Haiti

Avril remained in prison, despite the original and still-valid order for his release. (references)

Tunisia

The CNLT claimed that Hassene Azouzi (18 years old) was mistreated while in the 9 Avril prison in Tunis. (references)

Tunisia

Defense attorneys reported that prisoners in the 9 Avril prison in Tunis were forced to share a single water and toilet facility with over 100 cellmates, creating serious sanitation problems. (references)

Political Economy

Haiti

Former military president Prosper Avril remains in prison despite a June 12 release order. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: AVRIL

"AVRIL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.05% of the time. "AVRIL" is used about 76 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 (proper)96.05%7339,105
Noun (singular)2.63%2245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)1.32%1339,140
                    Total100.00%76N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: AVRIL

The following table summarizes the usage of "AVRIL" 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
AvrilFirst name Female1,0004,180
AvrilLast name17048,399
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: AVRIL

"AVRIL" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "April", "open".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "AVRIL."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
AprilFemaleEnglishN/A
AvrilFemaleEnglishApril
AvrilFemaleFrenchApril
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AVRIL

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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269

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6,532

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224

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1,207

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224

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1,030

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220

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991

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213

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908

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176

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714

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155

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636

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142

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585

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139

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499

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138

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497

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496

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127

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449

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121

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437

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107

avril lavigne wallpaper

390

avril lavigne complicated

105

avril lavigne photo

362

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104

avril hershlag lavigne natalie natalie natalie natalie portman portman portman

335

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91

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282

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90

anti avril

280

avril fake lavigne nude

89

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269

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88
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: AVRIL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rival, viral.

Words within the letters "a-i-l-r-v"

-1 letter: aril, lair, lari, liar, lira, rail, rial, vail, vair, vial, virl.

-2 letters: ail, air, lar, lav, ria, var, via.

-3 letters: ai, al, ar, la, li.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-r-v"
 

+1 letter: rivals.

 

+2 letters: arrival, bolivar, caviler, clavier, leavier, olivary, ovarial, prevail, ravelin, ravioli, reavail, revisal, revival, rivaled, rivalry, travail, trivial, valeric, variola, variole, vealier, velaria, vicarly, virally, virelai, virelay, virtual.

 

+3 letters: acervuli, archival, arrivals, avicular, biovular, bolivars, calvaria, carnival, cavalier, cavilers, caviller, cervical, chivalry, claviers, corrival, cultivar, deprival, drivable, gravidly, interval, lavalier, lavisher, lawgiver, levirate, livetrap, nonrival, nonviral, outrival, ovariole, overlaid, overlain, parvolin, prevails, primeval, proviral, pulvinar, raveling, ravelins, ravingly, raviolis, reavails, relative, reviewal, revisals, revivals, rivaling, rivalled, salivary, savorily, shrieval, subviral, survival, travails, trivalve, valerian, valkyrie, valorise, valorize, variable, variably, variedly, varietal, variolar, variolas, varioles, vaultier, velarium, velarize, vertical, vexillar, vicarial, villager, violater, violator, virelais, virelays, virginal, visceral, vizirial, vortical.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AVRIL


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

41 56 52 49 4C

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)

01000001 01010110 01010010 01001001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#86 &#82 &#73 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0056 0052 0049 004C

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

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

3556524346

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Names: Derived from
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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