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"SWITHIN" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be strong". |
Date "SWITHIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Swithin (St.). If it rains on St. Swithin's day (15th July), there will be rain for forty days. (See Gervais. ) "St. Swithin's day, gif ye do rain, for forty days it will remain; St. Swithin's day, an ye be fair, for forty days `twill rain nae mair." The French have two similar proverbs- "S'il pleut le jour de St. Médan " (8th June), "il pleut quarante jours plus tard; " and "S'il pleut le jour de St. Gervais " (19th June), "il pleut quarante jours après. " The legend is that St. Swithin, Bishop of Winchester, who died 862, desired to be buried in the church-yard of the minster, that the "sweet rain of heaven might fall upon his grave." At canonisation the monks thought to honour the saint by removing his body into the choir, and fixed July 15th for the ceremony; but it rained day after day for forty days, so that the monks saw the saints were averse to their project, and wisely abandoned it. The St. Swithin of Scotland is St. Martin of Bouillons. The rainy saint in Flanders is St. Godeliéve; in Germany, the Seven Sleepers. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
River | Rain, rainfall; serein; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology, hyetography; predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin; mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash; dropping. Verb: falling weather; northeaster, hurricane, typhoon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SWITHIN |
| Specialty definitions using "SWITHIN": Gervais ♦ Martin of Bullions ♦ Weeping Saint. (references) |
| "SWITHIN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SWITHIN" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "SWITHIN" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be strong". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "SWITHIN." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Swithin | Male | N/A | N/A |
| Swithun | Male | N/A | Swithin |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
st swithin | 6 |
saint swithin | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SWITHIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Manx | Sushin. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ithinsway.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: withins. | |
| Words within the letters "h-i-i-n-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: winish, within. | |
-2 letters: hints, intis, swith, thins, twins, whins, whist, whits. | |
-3 letters: hins, hint, hisn, hist, hits, inti, iwis, nisi, nits, shin, sinh, sith, snit, thin, this, tins, twin, whin, whit, wins, wish, wist, with, wits. | |
-4 letters: hin, his, hit, ins, its, nit, nth, sin, sit, tin, tis, win, wis, wit. | |
-5 letters: hi, in, is. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-i-i-n-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: twinship, whiniest, whisting, whitings. | |
+2 letters: switching, twinships, whinniest, whishting, whistling, witchings. | |
+3 letters: inswathing, lintwhites, outwishing, swithering, whistlings, whitenings, whitewings, whittlings. | |
+4 letters: misthrowing, wainwrights, weightiness, withershins, withindoors. | |
+5 letters: downshifting, ghostwriting, handwritings, whitewashing, withstanding. | |
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