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Date "PIRAEUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Piraeus Now called the port Leone. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Anchored off Piraeus, Greece, April 1946. Credit: NAVY. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Until recently, one needed seven to nine hours to get to Santorini from Piraeus, the main port of Athens. (references) | |
The Piraeus Bank Group of Companies offers a secure (SSL/128bit) mechanism that is also compliant to the Electronic Secure Transactions (SET) protocol developed and promoted by Visa International and MasterCard International. (references) | ||
Economic History | Greece | Importers usually maintain their offices in Athens, Piraeus, or Thessaloniki with branch offices, subagents, and traveling sales staff covering the rest of the country. (references) |
Greece | Greece has three free-trade zones, located at Piraeus, Thessaloniki and Heraklion port areas. (references) | |
Greece | The privatization plan also includes Hellenic Petroleum (23 percent currently traded in the market), Olympic Airways, Public Power Corporation, Natural Gas Corporation, Hellenic Aerospace Industry, port operations in Piraeus and Thessaloniki and the Agricultural Bank of Greece. (references) | |
Travel | Greece | Cargo services from the United States are provided by American Export Lines, Farrell Lines, Prudential, and Sea Land Service on a regularly scheduled basis with port calls at Piraeus and Thessaloniki, and Patras. (references) |
Women | Greece | Two government shelters provide services in Athens and Piraeus, including legal and psychological advice. (references) |
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| "PIRAEUS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.30% of the time. "PIRAEUS" is used about 37 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) | 97.3% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (plural) | 2.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Greece | Bank of Piraeus S.A. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 |
piraeus greece | 187 |
piraeus | 60 |
piraeus hotel | 28 |
piraeus port | 9 |
piraeus bank | 8 |
piraeus university | 7 |
map piraeus | 7 |
authority piraeus port | 4 |
hotel piraeus greece | 4 |
olympiakos piraeus | 3 |
piraeus timber | 2 |
hotel in piraeus | 2 |
ferry piraeus | 2 |
mistral hotel piraeus | 2 |
museum piraeus | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PIRAEUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | ΠειÏαιώσ, ΠειÏαιεÏσ, ΠειÏαιάσ. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | iraeuspay Pire (flea). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"PIRAEUS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pierrefeu, Piriou, poireau, Preaux. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: upraise. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: aspire, pareus, paries, pauser, praise, spirea, uprise. | |
-2 letters: apers, apres, arise, asper, aurei, aures, auris, pairs, paise, pares, pareu, paris, parse, pause, pears, peris, piers, prase, praus, presa, pries, prise, puris, purse, raise, rapes, reaps, ripes, sepia, serai, sieur, sirup, spare, spear, speir, spier, spire, sprue, super, supra, uraei, urase, ureas, ursae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: spirulae, upraised, upraiser, upraises. | |
+2 letters: aruspices, eupatrids, euphorias, pauperism, peculiars, peripatus, plumerias, pratiques, preaudits, priapuses, septarium, superlain, trapezius, umpirages, unrepairs, upraisers. | |
+3 letters: epicureans, euphorbias, euphrasies, haruspices, pasteurise, pasteurize, pasticheur, pauperisms, pauperizes, peninsular, persuading, persuasion, persuasive, picaresque, pleasuring, plesiosaur, pluralizes, popularise, praesidium, precarious, predacious, psalterium, purgatives, quadriceps, repudiates, resupinate, spermatium, subprimate, supergiant, trapeziums, upbraiders. | |
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