Dover

Definition: Dover

Dover

Noun

1. The capital of the state of Delaware.

Date "Dover" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Dover (A). A réchauffé or cooked food done over again. In the professional slang of English cooks a resurrection dish is still called a dover (do over again). Dover When Dover and Calais meet - i.e. never. A jack of Dover. A "jack" is a small drinking vessel made of waxed leather, and a "jack of Dover" is a bottle of wine made up of fragments of opened bottles. It is customary to pour the refuse into a bottle, cork it up, and sell it as a fresh bottle. This is called dovering, a corruption of do-over, because the cork is done over with wax or resin. "Many a jack of Dover hast thou sold." Chaucer: Coke's Prologue. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Dover is the name of several places:

Dover, England
Dover, Arkansas, USA
Dover, Delaware, USA
Dover, Florida, USA
Dover, Massachusetts, USA
Dover, New Hampshire, USA
Dover, New Jersey, USA
Dover, Ohio, USA
Dover, Pennsylvania, USA
Dover, Tennessee, USA
Dover, Wisconsin, USA
Dover Township, Michigan, USA

There is also:

Dover Plains, New York, USA.

Synonym: Dover

Synonym: capital of Delaware (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Dover

English words defined with "Dover": Calais, Cinque Ports. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Dover": Claras ♦ Devil's Daughter's Portion ♦ Jack of Dover ♦ Merry Dun of Dover ♦ Poor Jack ♦ Railways, Roger, Roman Remains in England ♦ Sound as a Bell ♦ Watling Street. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Dover" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Hungarian (Dover), Italian (to have to), Serbo-Croatian (dover).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Come on, Dover, move yer bloomin' arse! (My Fair Lady; writing credit: George Bernard Shaw; Alan Jay Lerner) Fortify Dover! Rule the sea! (The Private Life of Henry VIII; writing credit: Lajos Bir�; Arthur Wimperis)
Movie/TV Titles	The Dover Road Mystery (1960) Dover (1942) Ben Dover 6: Ben Behaving Badly (1996)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	Dover Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Dover Downs Entertainment Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Dover Industries Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Dover Investments Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	The Shaping Forces in Music: An Inquiry into the Nature of Harmony, Melody, Counterpoint, Form (The Dover Series of Study Editions, Chamber Music, Orchestral Works, operas In Full Score) (reference) Report on HM Borstal Dover (reference) Dover and the Claret Tappers: A Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover Novel (A Chief Inspector Dover Mystery) (reference) American Indian Design and Decoration (The Dover Pictorial Archive Series) (reference) Dover Stamping Co., 1869; tinware, tin toys, tinned iron wares, tinners material, enameled stove hollow ware, tinners' tools and machines (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Cross Reference Directory - Dover & Lower Delaware (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	The White Cliffs of Dover (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Dover Downs, DE. Credit: NASA.		Dover Bluffs, Me. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Main street building. Dover, Delaware. Credit: Library of Congress.		Law building. Dover, Delaware. Credit: Library of Congress.
	State armory at Dover, Delaware. Credit: Library of Congress.		Old hotel in Dover, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Dover Book Shop, business at 2672 Broadway, New York City. Interior I. Credit: Library of Congress.		Henry B. Cabot Jr., residence in Dover, Massachusetts. Living room, to desk and books. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Dover, N.J. from Grams Hill. Credit: Library of Congress.		Blackwell Street, Dover, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	Germany renounces on her own behalf and on behalf of her nationals in favour of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers all rights, titles or privileges of whatever nature in the submarine cables set out below, or in any portions thereof: Emden-vigo: from the Straits of Dover to off vigo; Emden-Brest: from off Cherbourg to Brest; Emden-Teneriffe: from off Dunkirk to off Teneriffe; Emden-Azores (1): from the Straits of Dover to Fayal; Emden-Azores (2): from the Straits of Dover to Fayal; Azores-New York (1): from Fayal to New York; Azores-New York (2): from Fayal to the longitude of Halifax, Teneriffe-Monrovia: from off Teneriffe to off Monrovia; Monrovia-Lome: from about lat.: 2� 30' N.; long.: 7� 40' W. of Greenwich: to about lat.: 2� 20' N.; long.: 5� 30, W. of Greenwich; and from about lat.: 3� 48' N.; long.:0� 00', to Lome; Lome-Duala: from Lome to Duala; Monrovia-Pernambuco: from off Monrovia to off Pernambuco; Constantinople-Constanza: from Constantinople to Constanza; Yap-Shanghai, Yap-Guam, and Yap-Menado (Celebes): from Yap Island to Shanghai, from Yap Island to Guam Island, and from Yap Island to Menado. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The U.S. industry is represented in Singapore, most notably by Otis, Dover and General Electric. (references)
		There is still room for U.S. companies to join Otis, Dover and General Electric and participate in Singapore's buoyant market. (references)
		Mitsubishi, Fujitec, Toshiba, and Hitachi are the dominant Japanese companies, while Otis, Dover and General Electric are the premier U.S. companies. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Dover" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.79% of the time. "Dover" is used about 471 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)	99.79%	470	12,586
Noun (singular)	0.21%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	471	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "Dover" 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
Dover	Last name	3,000	3,547
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Country	Name	Country	Name
Canada	Dover Industries Limited	USA	Dover Corporation
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1. Dover, AR (city, FIPS 19600)
Location: 35.40217 N, 93.11242 W
Population (1990): 1055 (492 housing units)
Area: 4.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 72837
Country: USA

2. Dover, DE (city, FIPS 21200)
Location: 39.15869 N, 75.51744 W
Population (1990): 27630 (10488 housing units)
Area: 55.2 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 19901
Country: USA

3. Dover, FL (CDP, FIPS 18075)
Location: 27.99290 N, 82.22049 W
Population (1990): 2606 (859 housing units)
Area: 6.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 33527
Country: USA

4. Dover, ID (city, FIPS 22510)
Location: 48.25362 N, 116.60032 W
Population (1990): 294 (131 housing units)
Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

5. Dover, IL (village, FIPS 20526)
Location: 41.43421 N, 89.39570 W
Population (1990): 163 (64 housing units)
Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

6. Dover, KS
Zip Code(s): 66420
Country: USA

7. Dover, KY (city, FIPS 22222)
Location: 38.75578 N, 83.88340 W
Population (1990): 297 (116 housing units)
Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 41034
Country: USA

8. Dover, MA (CDP, FIPS 17370)
Location: 42.24753 N, 71.27585 W
Population (1990): 2163 (746 housing units)
Area: 11.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 02030
Country: USA

9. Dover, MN (city, FIPS 16264)
Location: 43.96985 N, 92.13370 W
Population (1990): 416 (157 housing units)
Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 55929
Country: USA

10. Dover, MO (town, FIPS 19918)
Location: 39.19448 N, 93.68950 W
Population (1990): 115 (65 housing units)
Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 64022
Country: USA

11. Dover, NC (town, FIPS 17660)
Location: 35.21610 N, 77.43350 W
Population (1990): 451 (189 housing units)
Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 28526
Country: USA

12. Dover, NH (city, FIPS 18820)
Location: 43.18975 N, 70.88337 W
Population (1990): 25042 (11307 housing units)
Area: 69.2 sq km (land), 6.1 sq km (water)
Country: USA

13. Dover, NJ (town, FIPS 18070)
Location: 40.88595 N, 74.55969 W
Population (1990): 15115 (5355 housing units)
Area: 7.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Country: USA

14. Dover, OH (city, FIPS 22456)
Location: 40.52976 N, 81.47980 W
Population (1990): 11329 (4620 housing units)
Area: 12.3 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 44622
Country: USA

15. Dover, OK (town, FIPS 21350)
Location: 35.98156 N, 97.91071 W
Population (1990): 376 (158 housing units)
Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 73734
Country: USA

16. Dover, PA (borough, FIPS 19696)
Location: 40.00375 N, 76.84970 W
Population (1990): 1884 (767 housing units)
Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 17315
Country: USA

17. Dover, TN (city, FIPS 21400)
Location: 36.48139 N, 87.84366 W
Population (1990): 1341 (607 housing units)
Area: 9.7 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 37058
Country: USA

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Expression: Dover

Expressions using "Dover": Dover Afb ♦ Dover Base Housing ♦ Dover Foxcroft ♦ Dover Plains ♦ East Dover ♦ strait of dover ♦ straits of dover. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Dover": Dover-calais, dover-dunkerque, Dover-dunkirk, Dover-folkestone, Dover-Foxcroft.
	Ending with "Dover": Holiday City-Dover.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dover

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
dover delaware	1,798	dover federal credit union	89
dover	667	dover calais ferry	89
dover new hampshire	491	west dover vt	86
dover down	428	dover afb de	78
ben dover	373	canada dover port	77
port dover	372	dover post	76
dover saddlery	363	dover hotel	76
dover new jersey	248	dover speedway	75
dover ohio	238	dover to calais	74
dover publication	204	dover beach	65
13th dover friday port	153	dover elevator	61
port dover ontario	133	dover tennessee	60
book dover	130	dover pool	59
dover international speedway	116	dover foxcroft	57
dover united kingdom	115	13 dover friday port	57
the white cliff of dover	99	dover england	57
dover ma	92	dover high school	55
dover air force base	92	dover castle	53
dover pennsylvania	91	dover lake park water	51
dover afb	91	dover ferry	41
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dover

Language		Translations for "Dover"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Duvër. (various references)

Chinese		多弗. (various references)

Danish		tunge (sole, tongue), søtunge (black sole, common sole, dover sole, sole, tongue), almindelig tunge (black sole, common sole, dover sole, sole, tongue). (various references)

Dutch		tong (sole, tongue), Nauw van Calais (Street of Dover). (various references)

Esperanto		Manika Kolo (Street of Dover). (various references)

Finnish		Calais'n salmi (the Straits of Dover). (various references)

French		Douvres. (various references)

German		Strasse von Dover (Strait of Dover), Gemeine Seezunge (black sole, common sole, dover sole, sole, tongue). (various references)

Hungarian		Dover. (various references)

Italian		sogliola (sole). (various references)

Korean		도버. (various references)

Manx		Yn Douvyr. (various references)

Pig Latin		overday

Portuguese		linguado legítimo (black sole, common sole, dover sole, sole, tongue), linguado (butt, fluke, halibut, sole). (various references)

Romanian		canalul mânecii (straits of dover, the english channel). (various references)

Russian		�"увр. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dover. (various references)

Spanish		lenguado común (black sole, common sole, dover sole, sole, tongue). (various references)

Swedish		pas de calais (straits of dover). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Dover

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Solea solea. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Dover

Derivations
	Words ending with "Dover": handover, holdover. (additional references)
	Words containing "Dover": handovers, holdovers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dover" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Davor, Devar, Devere, D'oger, doover, Douven, douver, Dovber, Dovers, dovier, Dovre, dver, Dvor, Oddvar, Tovar. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Dover

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: drove, roved.
	Words within the letters "d-e-o-r-v"
	-1 letter: doer, dore, dove, over, redo, rode, rove.
	-2 letters: dev, doe, dor, ode, ore, red, rev, rod, roe, voe.
	-3 letters: de, do, ed, er, od, oe, or, re.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-o-r-v"
	+1 letter: devoir, devour, droved, drover, droves, groved, overdo, overed, proved, vendor, voider.
	+2 letters: avodire, avoider, bravoed, codrive, codrove, covered, devisor, devoirs, devours, divorce, drovers, favored, grooved, hovered, louvred, overbed, overbid, overdid, overdog, overdry, overdub, overdue, overdye, overfed, oversad, provide, redrove, removed, revoked, revoted, savored, vapored, vendors, visored, vizored, vocoder, voiders, vroomed.
	+3 letters: approved, avodires, avoiders, bedcover, cavorted, coderive, codriven, codriver, codrives, coverlid, deviator, devisors, devoured, devourer, devouter, discover, disprove, divorced, divorcee, divorcer, divorces, endeavor, evildoer, favoured, flavored, frivoled, governed, groveled, handover, holdover, improved, louvered, lovebird, misdrove, observed, obverted, outdrive, outdrove, outraved, ovenbird, overaged, overawed, overbids, overbold, overbred, overcold, overdare, overdear, overdeck, overdoer, overdoes, overdogs, overdone, overdose, overdraw, overdrew, overdubs, overdyed, overdyes, overedit, overfeed, overfond, overfund, overgild, overgird, overglad, overgoad, overhand, overhard, overhead, overheld, overhold, overidle, overkind, overlade, overlaid, overland, overlend, overlewd, overload, overlord, overloud, overmild, overpaid, override, overrode, overrude, overseed, overside, oversold, oversuds, overused, overwide, overwind, overword, provided, provider, provides, provoked, reavowed, reevoked, reproved, resolved, revoiced, revolted, revolved, ringdove, savoured, unproved, vapoured, varoomed, vectored, verderor, vocoders.
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