Vespucci

Definition: Vespucci

Vespucci

Noun

1. Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America; America was named in his honor (1454-1512).

Date "Vespucci" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Vespucci

Domain	Definitions
Biographical Satire	VESPUCCI, A., an enterprising journalist who arrived on the scene after the discovery had been made. V. wrote the story in such a clever manner he succeeded in cheating the discoverer out of naming the place. (See Columbus.). Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
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Synonyms: Vespucci

Synonyms: Americus Vespucius (n), Amerigo Vespucci (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Vespucci

English words defined with "Vespucci": Amerigo Vespucci. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Vespucci": Misnomers. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Vespucci

Domain	Title
Books	Amerigo Vespucci (reference) The Spanish Exploration of South America: How the Discoveries of Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci and the Conquests of Vasco Nunez De Balboa, Francisco Pizarro, and Pedro De Valdivia (Exploration & Discovery) (reference) Vespucci (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Vespucci

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Argentina	Europeans arrived in the region with the 1502 voyage of Amerigo Vespucci. (references)
Travel	Italy	The U.S. Embassy in Rome is located at Via Veneto 119/A, telephone: 06-46741, fax: 06-488-2672 or 4674-2356. There are U.S. Consulates at the following locations: Florence, at Lungarno Amerigo Vespucci 38, telephone: 055-239-8276/7/8, or 217-605+ADs- fax: 055-284088+ADs- Milan, at Via Principe Amedeo 2/10, telephone: 02-290351+ADs- fax: 02-2900-1165+ADs- Naples, at Piazza della Repubblica, telephone: 081-583-8111+ADs- fax: 081-761-1869+ADs- Palermo (consular Agent), at Via Vaccarini 1, telephone: 091-305857 or 337-793421 (cellular)+ADs- fax: 091-6256026. Trieste (consular agent), at Via Roma 15, telephone: 040-660177, fax: 040-631240+ADs- Genoa (consular agent), Via Dante 2, telephone: 010-584492+ADs- fax: 101-553-3033. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Vespucci

"Vespucci" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vespucci" is used about 2 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%	2	245,945

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

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Expression: Vespucci

Expression using "Vespucci": amerigo Vespucci. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vespucci

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
amerigo vespucci	181
vespucci	26
amerigo picture vespucci	13
simonetta vespucci	8
amerigo map vespucci	7
exploration map vespucci	4
amerigo biography vespucci	4
amerigo fact vespucci	3
amerigo ship vespucci	3
americo vespucci	3
map vespucci	2
americus vespucci	2
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Anagrams: Vespucci

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-p-s-u-v"
	-3 letters: cusec, epics, puces, sepic, spice, vices.
	-4 letters: ceps, cues, cups, cusp, ecus, epic, ices, pecs, pice, pics, pies, puce, scup, sice, sipe, spec, spic, spiv, spue, supe, vice, vies, vise.
	-5 letters: cep, cis, cue, cup, ecu, ice, pec, pes, pic, pie, pis, piu, psi, pus, sec, sei, sic, sip, sue, sup, ups, use, vie, vis.
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