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Definition: Cleopatra |
CleopatraNoun1. Beautiful and charismatic queen of Egypt; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Cleopatra" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the glory of the Father". |
Date "Cleopatra" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biographical Satire | CLEOPATRA, of Egypt. A queen who presented England with a threadless needle, fell in love with some foreigners, was unsuccessful in her love and naval affairs, and finally became a mummy through the auspices of an adder. Ambition: An Egyptian St. Patrick. Also Royal lovers. Recreation: Barging with Anthony. Epitaph: Pyramid. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Cleopatra was introduced to Julius Caesar by Apollodorus in a bale of rich Syrian rugs. When the bale was unbound, there was discovered the fairest and wittiest girl of all the earth, and Caesar became her captive slave. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CLEOPATRA | English | City laboratories enabling organisation of particularly advanced telematics research and assessment | Computing, Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: Cleopatra |
| English words defined with "Cleopatra": Actium, Agrippa, Anthony, Antonius, Antony ♦ Haye ♦ Marcus Antonius, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Mark Anthony, Mark Antony. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Cleopatra": Arabian Bird ♦ CLEOPATRA, Cooks ♦ Danaides ♦ Gresham and the Pearl ♦ I'sis ♦ Mareotic Luxury, Misnomers ♦ Salad Days. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cleopatra" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Cleopatra), Latin (Cleopatra). |
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Screenplays | Antony and Cleopatra. (3rd Rock from the Sun; writing credit: Leslie Danon; Austin Reid) | |
Lyrics | She's so high, like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite (She's So High; performing artist: Tal Bachman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Antony and Cleopatra (1974) De Neus van Cleopatra (1974) Cleopatra Jones (1973) Antony and Cleopatra (1973) OK Cleopatra (1970) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Cleopatra brought before Caesar in a carpet. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lillie Langtry as Cleopatra, full-length portrait, lying on sofa and looking in mirror. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cleopatra. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Side wheelers Cleopatra and Empress at pier, Catalina Island, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Margaret Anglin as Cleopatra. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cleopatra morta, a vista dé soui ornamenti Reali / Pinelli inv. e inc. Roma 1821. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ottaviano visita Cleopatra, mentre lei abbatuta dalle sue sciagrue, gli si prostra dinnanzi / Pinelli inv. e inc. Roma 1821. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
John Dryden | Your Cleopatra; Dolabella's Cleopatra; every man's Cleopatra. |
Pascal | If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter, it would have changed the history of the world. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | |
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| "Cleopatra" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cleopatra" is used about 110 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% | 110 | 30,952 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Cleopatra" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cleopatra | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,655 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Cleopatra" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the glory of the Father". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Cleopatra." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Cleopatra | Female | Ancient Greek (Latinized) | N/A |
| Cleo | Female | English | Cleopatra |
| Cleopatra | Female | English | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Cleopatra"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Dutch | Cleopatra. (various references) | ||||
Esperanto | Kleopatro. (various references) | ||||
French | Cléopâtre. (various references) | ||||
German | Kleopatra. (various references) | ||||
Greek | ίλεοπάτρα. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eopatraclay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cleopatra, cleopatram. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Esther Chapter 11, Verse 1 |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The ferthe yer, regnende Ptholome and Cleopatra, Dositheus, that a prest and of Leuy kinrede seide hymself to be, and Ptholome, his sone, broyten this epistil of furim, the whiche thei seiden, Silimacum, the sone of Ptholome, in Jerusalem to han remened. This forsothe was the begynnyng in the comun translacioun, that nouther in Ebru, ne anent any of the remenours is told. |
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| Language | Esther Chapter 11, Verse 1 |
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Misspellings | |
"Cleopatra" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kleopatra. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: acropetal. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-o-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: pectoral, placater. | |
-2 letters: acerola, apteral, caltrap, caltrop, caporal, carpale, locater, peacoat, placate, plectra, polecat, prolate. | |
-3 letters: acetal, aortae, aortal, areola, caplet, capote, captor, carate, carpal, carpel, carpet, cartel, cartop, catalo, claret, coaler, coater, colter, copter, earlap, lector, locate, oracle, palace, palate, palter, parcel, parole, patrol, pelota, petrol, placer, placet, plater, portal, preact, protea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-o-p-r-t" | |
+2 letters: acropetally. | |
+3 letters: metaphorical, operatically, procathedral, spectatorial. | |
+4 letters: campylobacter, cephalothorax, comparatively, compartmental, convertaplane, coplanarities, parfocalities, particleboard, plantocracies, polycarbonate, prevocational, problematical, procathedrals, reapplication. | |
+5 letters: campylobacters, convertaplanes, ergastoplasmic, ethnographical, extracorporeal, hepatocellular, interparochial, metallographic, metaphorically, nonspectacular, overcapitalize, overparticular, particleboards, petrographical, polycarbonates, preconsonantal, reapplications, recapitulation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 65 6F 70 61 74 72 61 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. . --- .--. .- - .-. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01100101 01101111 01110000 01100001 01110100 01110010 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l e o p a t r a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0065 006F 0070 0061 0074 0072 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)377871818267868467 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ |
Esperanto | vortaro, difino, traduko | esperanton, espéranto, εσπεράντο |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | Duitse, allemand, "ερμανός |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglan, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ |
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