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Definition: Aurelius |
AureliusNoun1. Emperor of Rome; nephew and son-in-law and adoptive son of Antonius Pius; Stoic philosopher; the decline of the Roman Empire began under Marcus Aurelius (121-180). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Aurelius" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be golden", "gilded". |
Date "Aurelius" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biographical Satire | AURELIUS, Marcus, one of the few Romans who is not remembered for crossing a river, for being murdered, for murdering somebody, for making speeches, or building triumphant arches or ruins. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
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Synonyms: AureliusSynonyms: Antoninus (n), Marcus Annius Verus (n), Marcus Aurelius (n), Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Aurelius |
| English words defined with "Aurelius": Antoninus ♦ Marcus Annius Verus, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Aurelius": Blanchefleur ♦ Caracalla ♦ Pagan Works of Art. (references) |
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Screenplays | Marcus Aurelius is a lioness. (Saturnin; writing credit: Zdenek Jirotka; Jirí Vercák) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Bust statue of Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus, viewed from front. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Marcus Aurelius | Poverty is the mother of crime. |
| Confine yourself to the present. | |
| Men exist for the sake of one another. | |
| Your life is what your thoughts make it. | |
| Where a man can live, he can also live well. | |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | Live with the gods. |
| Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. | |
Sextus Aurelius Propertius | Absence makes the heart grow fonder. |
| Never change when love has found its home. | |
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| "Aurelius" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aurelius" is used about 23 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% | 23 | 72,767 |
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| "Aurelius" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be golden", "gilded". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Aurelius." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Oral | Male | N/A | Aurelius |
| Aurelia | Female | Ancient Roman | Aurelius |
| Aurelius | Male | Ancient Roman | N/A |
| Aurélie | Female | French | Aurelius |
| Aurèle | Male | French | Aurelius |
| Aurel | Male | German | Aurelius |
| Orel | Male | German | Aurelius |
| Aurelia | Female | Italian | Aurelius |
| Aurelio | Male | Italian | Aurelius |
| Aurelio | Male | Portuguese | Aurelius |
| Aurel | Male | Romanian | Aurelius |
| Aurelia | Female | Romanian | Aurelius |
| Aureliano | Male | Spanish | Aurelius |
| Aurelio | Male | Spanish | Aurelius |
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Expressions using "Aurelius": Marcus Aurelius ♦ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Aurelius"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | Airhey (gild, gilt, gilt-edged, golden). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | aureliusay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-r-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: ariels, aureus, resail, sailer, saurel, serail, serial, uraeus, urials. | |
-3 letters: aisle, ariel, arils, arise, arles, aurei, aures, auris, earls, ileus, lairs, lares, laris, laser, lears, liars, liers, lieus, liras, luaus, lures, rails, raise, rales, reals, rials, riels, riles, rules, serai, seral, sieur, slier, sural, uraei, urase, ureal, ureas, urial, ursae, usual. | |
-4 letters: ails. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-r-s-u-u" | |
+2 letters: luxuriates. | |
+3 letters: apicultures, avicultures, luxuriances, uninsurable. | |
+4 letters: agricultures, aquicultures, maricultures, neurulations, salutiferous, sericultural, superquality, ultraserious, voluptuaries. | |
+5 letters: elucubrations, glucuronidase, muscularities, neurosurgical, structuralize, subliterature. | |
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