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ADELA

"ADELA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be noble".

Date "ADELA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1879. (references)


Modern Usage: ADELA

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Adela (1986)

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

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Commercial Usage: ADELA

DomainTitle

Books

  • Adela, the Octoroon (Black Heritage Library Colleciton) (reference)

  • Adela Pankhurst: The Wayward Suffragette 1885-1961 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: ADELA

Computer Images:
ADELA

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Photo Album: ADELA

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Drawing by George H. Rogers, depicting the ship "on blockading service off the coast of Florida, winter of 1863". The artist served on board Adela as a Pharmacist's Mate. Credit: NAVY.

Adela Rogers St. Johns, half-length portrait, facing right, reading through a lorgnette. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: ADELA

"ADELA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "ADELA" is used about 4 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)75%3202,518
Noun (singular)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: ADELA

The following table summarizes the usage of "ADELA" 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
AdelaFirst name Female14,000723
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: ADELA

"ADELA" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be noble".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "ADELA."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
AdelaFemaleEnglishN/A
DellaFemaleEnglishAdela
AdèleFemaleFrenchAdela
AdelinaFemaleItalianAdela
AdelinaFemalePortugueseAdela
AdelinaFemaleSpanishAdela
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ADELA

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

adela noriega

132

adela rogers st johns

6

adela

52

adela montoya pintor

4

adela micha

22

adela stephens

4

adela cortina

14

adela rogers st john

4

adela friedmansky

9

adela de fotos noriega

3

adela hotmail.com

7

adela noriega nude

3

adela rediffmail.com

7

adela kola

2

adela yahoo.com

7

adela garcia

2

adela colunga fernando noriega y

7

adela el manantial

2

adela secall

6

adela noriega picture

2

adela desnuda noriega

6

adela dalto

2

adela friedmansky garcia

6

adela amor noriega real

2

adela cortina de el los mundo valores

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

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Anagrams: ADELA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-l"

-1 letter: alae, dale, deal, lade, lead.

-2 letters: aal, ala, ale, dal, del, eld, lad, lea, led.

-3 letters: aa, ad, ae, al, de, ed, el, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-l"
 

+1 letter: alated, alcade, daedal, gelada.

 

+2 letters: ablated, addable, adnexal, adrenal, adulate, alameda, alamode, alarmed, alcades, alcaide, alcalde, alcayde, alidade, allayed, already, availed, ballade, caldera, canaled, candela, craaled, datable, dealate, decadal, decanal, fadable, geladas, kraaled, lanated, laterad, leadman, palaced, radiale, radulae, scalade, vedalia, wadable.

 

+3 letters: abasedly, accolade, aceldama, acylated, adorable, adrenals, adulated, adulates, aecidial, alamedas, alamodes, alarumed, alcaides, alcaldes, alcaydes, alderman, aldolase, alidades, amazedly, amygdale, analysed, analyzed, annealed, appalled, appealed, ashlared, assailed, balanced, baldhead, baldpate, ballades, balsamed, caballed, calderas, calendal, calendar, camailed, canalled, candelas, caseload, cephalad, dalesman, damnable, dateable, deadfall, dealated, dealates, defrayal, dentalia, diallage, dilatate, djellaba, drapable, drawable, escalade, evadable, fairlead, falcated, falderal, flathead, galeated, galopade, gladiate, gradable, halloaed, headlamp, headland, headsail, kaleyard, laagered, labiated, lactated, lapidate, lariated, laudable, leadsman, magdalen, maladies, manacled, megadeal, nailhead, napalmed, oxalated, palisade, palmated, palpated, parlayed, placated, playdate, praedial, quaalude, radiable, railhead, readable, readably, salaamed, salaried, salvaged, sandaled, scalades, seladang, tallaged, tradable, valanced, validate, valuated, vedalias, wadeable, welladay.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ADELA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 44 45 4C 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -..    .    .-..    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000100 01000101 01001100 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#69 &#76 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0045 004C 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3538394635

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Names: Derived from
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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