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Currier

Definition: Currier

Currier

Noun

1. United States lithographer who (with his partner James Ives) produced thousands of prints signed `Currier & Ives' (1813-1888).

2. A craftsman who curries leather for use.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Currier

Synonym: Nathaniel Currier (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Currier

English words defined with "Currier": IvesJames Ives, James Merritt Ives. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Currier

DomainTitle

Books

  • Currier & Ives: America Imagined (reference)

  • Currier & Ives: Portraits of a Nation (reference)

  • Currier and Ives: Printmakers to the American People (America in Two Centuries Ser.) (reference)

  • Nutcracker: Currier and Ives Component Album [ABRIDGED] (reference)

  • Rural America 2003 Calendar: From the Currier & Ives Collection of the Museum of the City of New York (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: Currier

Illustrations:
Currier

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Photo Album: Currier

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Good For A Cold. / Lith. & Pub. By Currier & Ives. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The Wonderful Albino Family / Currier & Ives, Lith. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Colored lithograph by Currier and Ives, 1862, entitled "The Sinking of the 'Cumberland' by the Iron Clad 'Merrimac', off Newport News, Va., March 8th 1862. 'Cumberland' went down with all her Flags flying: -- destroyed, but not conquered. Her gallant Commander Lieut. Morris calling to his crew 'Given them a Broadside boys, as she goes'.". Credit: NAVY.

Lithograph by Currier & Ives, New York, providing a curious (and quite inaccurate) view of the action off Fort Pillow in which the Confederate River Defense Fleet, under Captain James E. Montgomery, attacked Federal gunboats. The print identifies the following ships (from left to right): CSS "Mallory" (a non-existent vessel, shown sinking); CSS Louisiana (an ironclad that had already been destroyed by this time); USS Cincinnati; USS Benton; USS Cairo; USS Carondelet; USS Saint Louis; and USS Conestoga. Credit: NAVY.

Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Currier at his desk. Credit: Library of Congress.

Trotting cracks at home, a model stable / sketched by Thos. Worth ; lith of Currier & Ives. Credit: Library of Congress.

The ferry boat / F. Palmer, del. ; N. Currier Lith. N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

The pursuit / painted by A.F. Tait ; L. Maurer, 55 ; lith. of N. Currier, N. York. Credit: Library of Congress.

Awful conflagration of the steam boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday eveg., Jany. 13th 1840, by which melancholy occurence; over 100 persons perished / drawn by W.K. Hewitt ; N. Currier. lith. & pub., N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Military College of Chapultepec, the ancient site of the halls of the Montezumas / lith. & pub. by N. Currier, from a sketch by Gualdi, and forwarded by Lieut. Larkin Smith, U.S.A. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: Currier

"Currier" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 76.92% of the time. "Currier" is used about 13 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)76.92%10111,207
Noun (singular)23.08%3202,518
                    Total100.00%13N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Currier

The following table summarizes the usage of "Currier" 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
CurrierLast name5,0002,613
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Currier

Expression using "Currier": Nathaniel Currier. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Currier

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

currier and ives

184

currier service

4

currier

81

charleston currier post

4

currier and ives print

25

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4

currier gallery art

14

currier gallery

3

currier dish ives

12

currier journal

3

currier dinnerware ives

12

currier scott

3

currier post

9

currier rv

3

currier piano

9

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3

currier ives plate

8

buck county currier times

3

currier lazier

7

lavinia currier

3

conroe currier

6

currier glasses ives

3

jameson currier

6

nathaniel currier

3

art currier museum

6

richard currier

3

currier ives lithographs

5

by currier ives royal

3

banker coldwell currier lazier

5

currier record

2

china currier ives

5

clark currier inn

2

currier noah

5

currier services

2

currier news

4

currier ives.com

2

currier mcewen

4

currier chives

2

currier museum

4

collectible currier ives

2

currier ives lamp

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Currier

Language Translations for "Currier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Lëkurëpunues. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

'υρσοδέψησ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tímár (skinner, tanner), bőrkikészítő és festő. (various references)

   

Italian

  

Conciatore (Skinner, tanner), Adetto Alla Strigliatura. (various references)

   

Manx

  

caarteyder (carder, comber). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urriercay

   

Russian 

  

курьер (courier, express, messenger, special messenger). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Tabaklanmış Deriyi Ýşleyen Kimse, Sepici (tanner). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

Конюх, Шкіряник (Skinner). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

crwynwr (skinner). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Currier

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

agab. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

coriarii, coriarium. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Currier

Derivations

Words beginning with "Currier": currieries, curriers, curriery. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Currier" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: corier, courrier, curiar, curier, currere, currior, guerrier, guerriera, guerrieri, guerriero. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Currier"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "Currier" (pronounced ker"ēer)
4k er" ē ercourier.
3-er" ē erburrier, furrier, Spurrier, worrier.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Currier

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-r-r-r-u"

-1 letter: currie.

-2 letters: crier, curer, curie, recur, ricer, ureic.

-3 letters: cire, cure, curr, ecru, rice, ruer, uric.

-4 letters: cue, cur, ecu, err, ice, ire, rec, rei, rue.

-5 letters: er, re.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-r-r-r-u"
 

+1 letter: curriers, curriery.

 

+2 letters: recruiter, recurring.

 

+3 letters: currieries, recruiters, reincurred.

 

+4 letters: reincurring, reoccurring.

 

+5 letters: intercurrent, microsurgery, nonrecurring, resurrecting, resurrection, supercarrier.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Translations: Ancient
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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