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"CELESTE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "heavenly", "coming from the sky". |
Date "CELESTE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
Crosswords: CELESTE |
| Non-English Usage: "CELESTE" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (blue, celestial, heavenly), Portuguese (celestial, heavenly, sky-ey, supernal, unearthly), Spanish (celestial, elysian, empyreal, heavenly, sky blue). |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CELESTE | English | Cerenkov Low Energy Sampling and Timing Experiment | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Celeste, you have to have sex to be pregnant. (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan; Fredric LeBow) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Das Geheimnis der Mary Celeste (1972) Una Madeja de lana azul celeste (1964) Bianco rosso celeste - cronaca dei giorni del Palio di Siena (1963) Celeste! Honestly (1954) Eu Fui ao Jardim da Celeste (1952) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Holm, Celeste, Miss, portrait photograph. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Hilda Kassell, business. Celeste Holm room I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "CELESTE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "CELESTE" is used about 20 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) | 70% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (singular) | 30% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CELESTE" 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 |
| Celeste | First name Female | 25,000 | 521 |
| Celeste | Last name | 300 | 29,208 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "CELESTE" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "heavenly", "coming from the sky". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "CELESTE." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Celeste | Female | English | Céleste |
| Céleste | Female | French | Caelestis |
| Caelestis | Male | Late Roman | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
1. Celeste, TX (town, FIPS 13672) |
Expression using "CELESTE": voix celeste. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CELESTE": celeste-ville. | |
| 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 |
celeste | 1,051 | celeste seductive | 21 |
marie celeste | 233 | celeste xxx | 21 |
celeste porn star | 210 | celeste cohf | 21 |
celeste cid | 138 | celeste marie nude | 19 |
celeste carballo | 92 | celeste mcgee | 19 |
mary celeste | 79 | celeste texas | 18 |
celeste porn | 55 | celeste holm | 17 |
celeste cumfiesta | 52 | celeste mannis | 17 |
celeste fox | 47 | maria celeste cid | 16 |
celeste cid fotos | 47 | celeste cid desnuda | 16 |
sexy celeste | 47 | celeste gallery | 14 |
celeste pic | 45 | celeste mannis progress queens | 13 |
daphne and celeste | 45 | celeste nude | 13 |
celeste von | 44 | ultra celeste | 13 |
maria celeste arraras | 28 | celeste fig | 13 |
celeste crawford | 27 | celeste morgan | 12 |
celeste cum fiesta | 27 | celeste cum face her | 11 |
celeste cid de fotos | 24 | aileen celeste | 10 |
maria celeste | 23 | celeste hardcore | 9 |
celeste mpeg | 22 | celeste picture | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "CELESTE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | svovlsur kobberamoniak (eau celeste), kupriammonium hydroxid (eau celeste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zwavelzuurammoniak (eau celeste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | eau céleste (eau celeste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Azurinbrühe (eau celeste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εναμμώνιος θειικός χαλκός (eau celeste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | acqua celeste (eau celeste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elestecay água celeste (eau celeste). (various references) agua celeste (eau celeste). (various references) celestevatten (eau celeste), azurinvätska (eau celeste). (various references) xanh da trời (azure, cerulean, sky-blue), m u xanh da trời (sky-blue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CELESTE": celestes. (additional references) | |
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"CELESTE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calaste, Caldecote, Calisto, Calixte, Callixte, celest, celesti, celestite, Celsteel, Crelinsten, Delestre, Kalliste, Keleti, Scheleske. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CELESTE" (pronounced sule"st) |
| 5 | -u l e" s t | coalesced, molest. |
| 4 | -l e" s t | blessed, blest, lest. |
| 3 | -e" s t | abreast, acquiesced, addressed, arrest, assessed, attest, behest, bequest, best, breast, chest, compressed, confessed, congest, crest, depressed, detest, digest, digressed, dispossessed, distressed, divest, dressed, expressed, fessed, finessed, gest, guessed, guest, impressed, infest, ingest, invest, jest, messed, nest, northwest, obsessed, oppressed, pest, possessed, pressed, Prest, professed, progressed, quest, rearrest, reassessed, recessed, reinvest, repossessed, repressed, request, rest, retest, southwest, stressed, suggest, suppressed, test, transgressed, unaddressed, undressed, unimpressed, unrest, vest, West, wrest, zest. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: elects, select. | |
-2 letters: celts, cetes, elect, leets, sleet, steel, stele, teels, teles. | |
-3 letters: cees, cels, celt, cete, eels, else, lees, leet, lest, lets, sect, seel, teel, tees, tele, tels. | |
-4 letters: cee, cel, eel, els, lee, let, sec, see, sel, set, tee, tel. | |
-5 letters: el, es, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: celestes, deselect, electees, reelects, selected, selectee. | |
+2 letters: celestite, cleveites, cleverest, deselects, electives, electress, electrets, fleeciest, preelects, preselect, scheelite, selectees, selective, selectmen, telescope, tercelets. | |
+3 letters: acetylenes, celebrates, celerities, celestites, centerless, clienteles, corselette, decolletes, deescalate, deselected, electrodes, enucleates, flechettes, neglecters, pestilence, preselects, reescalate, relocatees, resectable, scheelites, selectable, selectness, telecasted, telecaster, telecourse, telescoped, telescopes, unselected. | |
+4 letters: accelerates, atelectases, ceilometers, celebrities, cellarettes, centerlines, cheesecloth, corselettes, decathletes, decelerates, deescalated, deescalates, delectables, deselecting, electorates, electresses, electrifies, electrojets, electroless, electuaries, enlacements, entelechies, enterocoels, escheatable, executables, letterspace, nonselected, pearlescent, percentiles, pestilences, preselected, receptacles, reelections, reescalated, reescalates, respectable, sclerometer, secretively, selectively, steeplejack, telecasters, telecourses, unselective. | |
| 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. | |
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