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Definition: Romulus |
RomulusNoun1. (Roman mythology) founder of Rome; suckled with his twin brother Remus by a wolf after their parents (Rhea Silvia and Mars) abandoned them; Romulus killed Remus in an argument over the building of Rome. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Romulus" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Rome". |
Date "Romulus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biographical Satire | ROMULUS, Remus' twin. Collaborated with his brother in home life and in building Rome. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Romulus We need no Romulus to account for Rome. We require no hypothetical person to account for a plain fact. Romulus and Remus were suckled by a wolf; Atalanta by a she-bear. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Romulus is a city located in Wayne County, Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 22,979.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Romulus is a town located in Seneca County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 2,036.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Romulus."
Crosswords: Romulus |
| English words defined with "Romulus": Curia ♦ Mars ♦ Remus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Romulus": Beefeaters ♦ City of the Seven Hills ♦ Nine Gods ♦ ROMULUS ♦ Sacred Way. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Romulus": Quirinal. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Romulus den store (1969) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Romulus Wielki / H. Tomaszewski. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Romulus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Romulus" is used about 28 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% | 28 | 65,706 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Romulus" 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 |
| Romulus | Last name | 100 | 79,018 |
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| "Romulus" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "someone from Rome". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Romulus." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Romola | Female | Italian | Romulus |
| Romolo | Male | Italian | Romulus |
| Romulus | Male | Roman Mythology | N/A |
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1. Romulus, MI (city, FIPS 69420) |
| 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 "Romulus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | Rómulo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Romulus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Proculus, Romolo, Romula. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "l-m-o-r-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: lours, solum. | |
-3 letters: lour, lums, mols, mors, ours, roms, rums, slum, slur, soul, sour, sulu, sumo, ulus, urus. | |
-4 letters: lum, mol, mor, mos, mus, oms, ors, our, rom, rum, sol, som, sou, sum, ulu. | |
-5 letters: lo, mo, mu, om, or, os, so, um, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "l-m-o-r-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: ramulous. | |
+2 letters: slumbrous, tremulous. | |
+3 letters: cumbrously, glamourous, glomerulus, humorously, miraculous, numerously, operculums, slumberous. | |
+4 letters: multicourse, multiparous, multisource, murderously, murmurously, tremulously, unglamorous. | |
+5 letters: accumulators, circumfluous, cirrocumulus, luminiferous, macronucleus, micronucleus, microtubules, miraculously, monocultures, mournfullest, mournfulness, multicourses, multifarious, multipurpose, semilustrous, stratocumuli, surmountable, umbrageously, unremorseful. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 6F 6D 75 6C 75 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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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).-. --- -- ..- .-.. ..- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01101111 01101101 01110101 01101100 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R o m u l u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 006F 006D 0075 006C 0075 0073 |
| 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)52817987788785 |
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