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"KLAUS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a victory of the people". |
Date "KLAUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Klaus (Peter). The prototype of Rip Van Winkle, whose sleep lasted twenty years. Pronounce Klows. (See Santa Klaus .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: KLAUS |
| Specialty definitions using "KLAUS": Fools ♦ Owlglass. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, by the way, is old Klaus Burger still alive? (Funeral in Berlin; writing credit: Len Deighton; Evan Jones) But is old man Klaus still alive? (Funeral in Berlin; writing credit: Len Deighton; Evan Jones) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Der Kleine und der große Klaus (1972) Store Klaus og lille Klaus (1930) Lille Klaus og store Klaus (1913) Die Erika und Klaus Mann Story (2000) Store Klaus og lille Lars (1999) | |
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![]() | Figure 14. W. F. Ewald's and K. Grein's photometer. Left: view of the apparatus. Right (from top to bottom): messenger container; removable photographic plates; removable filters. This instrument was designed by Wolfgang F. Ewald with the aid of Klaus Green. It was first tested off Capri and put to the definitive tests off Monaco in up to 500 meters. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Figure 15. K. Grein's photometer invented and made by Klaus Green in 1912 as part of a series of photometers devised in collaboration with Wolfgang Ewald. This instrument was first tested from the EIDER in 1913 between 500 meters water depth. As a result of these tests, Grein began studies of the penetration of ultra-violet light into the sea. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | Figure 55. Electric lamp invented by the Austrian Klaus Grein in 1912. This lamp was used on the EIDER in 1912 to attract fish at depths from 0 to 800 meters. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Activities of the SS-Leibstandarte Adolph Hitler Division during the campaign in Poland, September 1-29, 1939] / Klaus Weill. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Lesung, Klaus Staeck liest aus Gerichtsurteilen in eigener Sache ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Klaus Theweleit : Mannerphantasien. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Klaus Staeck, Plakate abreissen verboten! : politische Plakate im Bundestagswahlkampf 72 ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Czech Republic | Most influential was the Civic Democratic Party, headed by former Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus. (references) |
Czech Republic | In the latter half of 1992, Klaus and Meciar hammered out an agreement that the two republics would go their separate ways by the end of the year. (references) | |
Denmark | Among today's Danish writers, probably the most well-known to American readers is Peter Hoeg (Smilla's Sense of Snow; Borderliners) and the most prolific is Klaus Rifbjerg--poet, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. (references) | |
Political Economy | Czech Rep | The main opposition party is the right-of-center Civic Democratic Party (ODS), headed by former Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "KLAUS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 93.33% of the time. "KLAUS" is used about 255 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) | 93.33% | 238 | 19,410 |
| Noun (plural) | 5.1% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Unclassified Items | 1.57% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 255 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "KLAUS" 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 |
| Klaus | Last name | 2,000 | 6,911 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "KLAUS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a victory of the people". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "KLAUS." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Nikolaos | Male | Ancient Greek | Nicholas |
| Nikolai | Male | Bulgarian | Nicholas |
| Nikolina | Female | Bulgarian | Nicholas |
| Nikola | Male | Croatian | Nicholas |
| Mikolás | Male | Czech | Nicholas |
| Mikulás | Male | Czech | Nicholas |
| Niels | Male | Danish | Nicholas |
| Klaas | Male | Dutch | Nicholas |
| Niels | Male | Dutch | Nicholas |
| Nikolaas | Male | Dutch | Nicholas |
| Nic | Male | English | Nicholas |
| Nicholas | Male | English | N/A |
| Nick | Male | English | Nicholas |
| Nickolas | Male | English | Nicholas |
| Nicky | Male, Female | English | Nicholas |
| Nicola | Female | English | Nicholas |
| Nicole | Female | English | Nicholas |
| Nikolas | Male | English | Nicholas |
| Nichjo | Male | Esperanto | Nicholas |
| Nikolao | Male | Esperanto | Nicholas |
| Launo | Male | Finnish | Nicholas |
| Niilo | Male | Finnish | Nicholas |
| Niko | Male | Finnish | Nicholas |
| Nicholas | Male | French | N/A |
| Nicolas | Male | French | Nicholas |
| Nicole | Female | French | Nicholas |
| Nicolette | Female | French | Nicholas |
| Klaes | Male | Frisian | Nicholas |
| Claus | Male | German | Nicholas |
| Klaas | Male | German | Nicholas |
| Klaus | Male | German | Nicholas |
| Nickolaus | Male | German | Nicholas |
| Niklaus | Male | German | Nicholas |
| Nikolaus | Male | German | Nicholas |
| Nikolaos | Male | Greek | Nicholas |
| Nikolas | Male | Greek | Nicholas |
| Nikoleta | Female | Greek | Nicholas |
| Miklós | Male | Hungarian | Nicholas |
| Nikola | Male | Hungarian | Nicholas |
| Nioclás | Male | Irish | Nicholas |
| Niccolò | Male | Italian | Nicholas |
| Nico | Male | Italian | Nicholas |
| Nicolò | Male | Italian | Nicholas |
| Nicola | Male | Italian | Nicholas |
| Nicoletta | Female | Italian | Nicholas |
| Mikolaj | Male | Polish | Nicholas |
| Nicolau | Male | Portuguese | Nicholas |
| Neculai | Male | Romanian | Nicholas |
| Nicolae | Male | Romanian | Nicholas |
| Nicoleta | Female | Romanian | Nicholas |
| Nikolai | Male | Russian | Nicholas |
| Neacel | Male | Scottish | Nicholas |
| Nicol | Male | Scottish | Nicholas |
| Nikola | Male | Serbian | Nicholas |
| Mikolás | Male | Slovak | Nicholas |
| Nicolás | Male | Spanish | Nicholas |
| Nicolao | Male | Spanish | Nicholas |
| Nicolasa | Female | Spanish | Nicholas |
| Niklas | Male | Swedish | Nicholas |
| Nils | Male | Swedish | Nicholas |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "KLAUS": Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs ♦ Klaus Fuchs. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "KLAUS": Klaus-jurgen, klaus-meciar. | |
| 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 "KLAUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Manx | Noo Niglus (Santa Klaus). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ausklay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"KLAUS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kalabu, Kalu, Kau, Kauf, Kausu, Kelihues, Kilrush, Kilusan, Klaas, Klas, Klauhs, Klees, Kljuc, Kljusev, Kloos, Klos, Knaus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-l-s-u" | |
-1 letter: auks, saul, skua, sulk. | |
-2 letters: als, ask, auk, kas, las, sal, sau, ska. | |
-3 letters: al, as, ka, la, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-l-s-u" | |
+1 letter: baulks, caulks, kulaks, saluki, taluks. | |
+2 letters: auklets, kaliums, mamluks, sackful, salukis, talukas, walkups. | |
+3 letters: blauboks, bulkages, bulwarks, caulkers, karakuls, larkspur, leukomas, mudlarks, outtalks, outwalks, rackfuls, sackfuls, sacksful, skullcap, souvlaki, tankfuls, uncloaks, unslaked, walkouts, yamulkas. | |
+4 letters: backhauls, basketful, baulkiest, blackgums, blackouts, bluejacks, bucktails, bulkheads, caulkings, ducktails, duckwalks, fullbacks, kabeljous, keelhauls, kilobauds, kilogauss, larkspurs, leukemias, lunkheads, mamelukes, maulstick, molluskan, multitask, outflanks, pullbacks, skullcaps, souvlakia, souvlakis, sparkplug, unshackle, yarmulkes. | |
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