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AUDREY

"AUDREY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a noble strength".

Date "AUDREY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references)


Specialty Definition: AUDREY

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Literature

Audrey A country wench, who jilted William for Touchstone. (Shakespeare: As You Like It.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Modern Usage: AUDREY

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Screenplays

That's an Audrey Hepburn movie. (Jerry Maguire; writing credit: Cameron Crowe)

Strictly between us - neither is the Audrey One. (Little Shop of Horrors; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith; Howard Ashman)

The Audrey Two is not a healthy girl. (Little Shop of Horrors; writing credit: Charles B. Griffith; Howard Ashman)

Now, so was Audrey Hepburn's. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

Beth, we don't want anything from you; Audrey, Cal, Connie and Me, we just want you to be happy. (Ordinary People; writing credit: Judith Guest; Alvin Sargent)

Movie/TV Titles

Little Audrey Riding Hood (1953)

Law and Audrey (1952)

Audrey the Rainmaker (1951)

Intimate Portrait: Audrey Hepburn (1996)

Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn (1993)

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

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Commercial Usage: AUDREY

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Books

  • Accrual Way to Die: An Audrey Wilson Mystery (reference)

  • Rafael Moneo: Audrey Jones Beck Building, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (reference)

  • Audrey Flack on Painting (reference)

  • Audrey Flack: Sketchbook, 1985-1989 (reference)

  • Breaking the Rules: Audrey Flack, a Retrospective, 1950-1990 (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Hollywood Collection - Audrey Hepburn: Remembered (reference)

  • The Audrey Hepburn DVD Collection (Roman Holiday / Sabrina / Breakfast at Tiffany's) (reference)

  • Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn: Formal Gardens (reference)

  • Little Audrey and Friends: Tarts and Flowers, Goofy Goofy Gander, All's Well, Somewhere in Dreamland (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Photo Album: AUDREY

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Two Clinton County SWCD Commissioners, Wendell Jones, NRCS District Conservationist; Audrey DeScheppper, NRCS technician; and landowner and Muscatine County SWCD Secretary, discuss local conservation issues in Muscatine, IA. [Slide 97CS3059]. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Anita DeWulf, Clinton County SWCD Commissioner; Warren Cook, Clinton Co. SWCD Commissioner; Connie Ramirez, NRCS District Conservationist; Audrey DeScheppper, technician; Jerry Mall; and Helen Atkinson, Muscatine County SWCD Secretary, discuss local conse. Credit: Tim McCabe.

WAVES Aviation Metalsmiths and Aviation Machinist's Mates (AMM) working on an SBD "Dauntless" aircraft in the air station's Assembly and Repair Department, 24 July 1943. Working on the wing, at left, are Seaman 1st Class (AMM) Annia Marie Garman and Seaman 1st Class Frances O. Culpepper. On and inside the plane are (left to right) AMM 3rd Class Audrey Anderson, AMM 3rd Class Jane Carlisle, AMM 3rd Class Betty Jo Visson, Seaman 1st Class Mary Jane Boring and Seaman 1st Class (AMM) Clara R. Bumgarner. Credit: NAVY.

Munson, Audrey, Miss, with Buzzer the cat, portrait photograph. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: AUDREY

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Trade

China

This report can be accessed by going to http://www.fas.usda.gov/, or contact Audrey Talley, USDA/Foreign Agricultural Service, Tel: (202) 720-9408; fax: (202) 690-0677. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: AUDREY

"AUDREY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AUDREY" is used about 281 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%28117,410

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

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Name Usage Frequency: AUDREY

The following table summarizes the usage of "AUDREY" 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
AudreyFirst name Female127,000173
AudreyLast name10088,302
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: AUDREY

"AUDREY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a noble strength".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "AUDREY."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
&Aelig;ðelþryðFemaleAnglo-SaxonN/A
EtheldredaFemaleAnglo-Saxon (Latinized)æðelþryð
AudieFemaleEnglishAudrey
AudraFemaleEnglishAudrey
AudreaFemaleEnglishAudrey
AudreyFemaleEnglishæðelþryð
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: AUDREY

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "AUDREY": Audrey-ann.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AUDREY

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

audrey hepburn

2,227

audrey cohen college

35

audrey tautou

420

audrey pipin

32

audrey mestre

249

audrey hepburn pic

30

audrey quock

247

audrey hepburn hepburn katherine

27

audrey

221

audrey hepburn poster

24

audrey hurricane

147

audrey magazine

23

audrey hepburn picture

118

audrey bio hepburn

23

audrey tatou

112

audrey hepburn holiday roman

23

audrey landers

75

audrey flack

22

audrey hepburn stamp

67

audrey wood

21

audrey hepburn katherine

66

audrey nude quock

20

audrey hepburn photo

57

audrey picture tautou

19

audrey nude tautou

55

audrey hepburn hepburn katharine

19

audrey hepburn katharine

52

audrey edelman

18

audrey hepburn purse

50

audrey meadow

18

audrey hepburn biography

46

audrey hepburn handbag

18

audrey hepburn movie

45

audrey marnay

16

audrey hepburn nude

43

audrey ferreras

16

audrey hepburn wallpaper

42

audrey rose

16

audrey hepburn quote

42

audrey hair hepburn style

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: AUDREY

Misspellings

"AUDREY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aidley, audrain, Audran, audre, Audrie, Audries, audry, Aundray, Auray, Awdrey, baudroie, Baudry, Caudrey, Gardurey, Iudaei, Paudrat, Udry, Vaudey. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: AUDREY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-r-u-y"

-1 letter: deary, deray, rayed, ready.

-2 letters: aery, dare, dear, dray, dura, dure, dyer, eyra, read, rude, rued, urea, yard, yare, yaud, year.

-3 letters: are, aye, day, dey, dry, due, dye, ear, eau, era, rad, ray, red, rue, rya, rye, urd, yar, yea.

-4 letters: ad, ae, ar, ay, de, ed, er, re, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-r-u-y"
 

+1 letter: dasyure, daubery, feudary, gaudery, unready.

 

+2 letters: adultery, ayurveda, dasyures, hurrayed, underlay, underpay, underway.

 

+3 letters: assuredly, ayurvedas, budgetary, endurably, feudatory, guardedly, medullary, outprayed, residuary, roundelay, underlays, underpays, underplay, unsprayed.

 

+4 letters: accursedly, audiometry, debauchery, dreadfully, dreamfully, laundrymen, lumberyard, measuredly, obdurately, perdurably, redundancy, residually, roundelays, underplays.

 

+5 letters: bullyragged, dangerously, delusionary, demagoguery, denumerably, documentary, hydromedusa, hydroxyurea, lumberyards, redoubtably, redundantly, regardfully, rudimentary, subdermally, underlaying, underpaying, underplayed, undesirably, unendurably, unguardedly, unweariedly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AUDREY


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

41 55 44 52 45 59

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 01010101 01000100 01010010 01000101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#85 &#68 &#82 &#69 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0055 0044 0052 0045 0059

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

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

355538523959

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Frequency
8. Names: Derived from
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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