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ASOKA

Specialty Definition: ASOKA

DomainDefinition

Literature

Asoka of Magadha. In the third century the "nursing father" of Buddhism, as Constantine was of Christianity. He is called "the king beloved of the gods." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Modern Usage: ASOKA

DomainUsage

Clever

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honor to whatever in them is worthy of honor. (references; author: Asoka)

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

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Commercial Usage: ASOKA

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hathigumpha Inscription of Kharavela and The Bhabru Edict of Asoka (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Familiar Quotations: ASOKA

AuthorQuotation

Asoka

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honor to whatever in them is worthy of honor.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: ASOKA

"ASOKA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ASOKA" 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)100%4175,879

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ASOKA

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

asoka

197

asoka movie

8

asoka kapoor kareena song

6

asoka king

6

asoka kareenakapoor song

6

asoka hindi

5

asoka picture

4

asoka wallpaper

4

asoka the great

3

asoka song

3

asoka lyrics

3

asoka soundtrack

2

asoka in kapoor kareena

2

asoka emperor

2

asoka yusuf.com

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

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Anagrams: ASOKA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-k-o-s"

-1 letter: kaas, koas, oaks, okas, soak.

-2 letters: aas, ask, kas, koa, kos, oak, oka, ska.

-3 letters: aa, as, ka, os, so.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-k-o-s"
 

+1 letter: koalas.

 

+2 letters: anoraks, kakapos, soakage.

 

+3 letters: angakoks, bazookas, coalsack, karaokes, moussaka, oatcakes, palookas, soakages, soapbark, talookas, tokamaks.

 

+4 letters: alkaloids, alkaloses, alkalosis, coalsacks, coatracks, jackaroos, kangaroos, kaoliangs, keratomas, mazourkas, moussakas, portapaks, rockaways, saskatoon, soapbarks, souvlakia, tomahawks.

 

+5 letters: aerobrakes, ankylosaur, automakers, backboards, boardwalks, hackamores, kalanchoes, kilopascal, markswoman, packboards, portapacks, postattack, razorbacks, saskatoons, skateboard, souvlakias, tackboards, talkathons, walkabouts, walkathons.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ASOKA


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

41 53 4F 4B 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 01010011 01001111 01001011 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#83 &#79 &#75 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0053 004F 004B 0041

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

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

3553494535

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Familiar
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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