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Definition: Shankar |
ShankarNoun1. Indian sitar player who popularized classical Indian music in the West (born in 1920). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Shankar" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to make auspicious". |
Synonym: ShankarSynonym: Ravi Shankar (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Shankar |
| English words defined with "Shankar": Ravi Shankar. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ravi Shankar (1970) Shankar Khan (1966) Gauri Shankar (1958) Shankar Narayan Bank (1956) Jai Shankar (1951) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Theater & Movies | |
Music |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Ravi Shankar, full-length portrait, seated, gazing down at sitar he is playing] / Jitendra Arya, London. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Shankar" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Shankar" is used about 26 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% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "Shankar" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to make auspicious". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Shankar." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Sankar | Male | Indian | Shankara |
| Shankar | Male | Indian | Shankara |
| Shankara | Male | Indian | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expression using "Shankar": Ravi Shankar. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-h-k-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: shrank. | |
-2 letters: ankhs, araks, haars, hanks, hansa, harks, kanas, karns, kasha, khans, knars, narks, ranks, saran, shank, shark, sharn, snark. | |
-3 letters: aahs, anas, ankh, ansa, arak, arks, haar, hank, hark, kaas, kana, karn, khan, knar, nark, rank, rash, sank, sark. | |
-4 letters: aah, aas, aha, ana, ark, ars, ash, ask, has, kas, nah, rah, ran. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-h-k-n-r-s" | |
+2 letters: antishark, astrakhan. | |
+3 letters: astrakhans, crankshaft. | |
+4 letters: backhanders, crankshafts. | |
+5 letters: blackhanders, earthshaking, marksmanship, phrasemaking. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 68 61 6E 6B 61 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .... .- -. -.- .- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101000 01100001 01101110 01101011 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S h a n k a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0068 0061 006E 006B 0061 0072 |
| 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)53746780776784 |
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