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Banff

Definition: Banff

Banff

Noun

1. A popular vacation spot in the Canadian Rockies.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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Crosswords: Banff

Specialty definitions using "Banff": Go to!. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Banff

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Banff."

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Modern Usage: Banff

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Banff (1955)

Beautiful Banff and Lake Louise (1946)

Near Banff In the Canadian Rockies (1899)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Banff

DomainTitle

Books

  • Fundamental Problems in Breast Cancer: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Fundamental Problems in Breast Cancer Held at Banff, Alb) (reference)

  • Moon Handbooks: Alberta and the Northwest Territories 4 Ed: Including Banff, Jasper, and the Canadian Rockies (reference)

  • Bothy Songs and Ballads of Aberdeen Banff (reference)

  • Convective Flow Boiling: Proceedings of Convective Flow Boiling, an International Conference Held at the Banff Center for Conferences, Banff, alberta (reference)

  • Moon Handbooks: Canadian Rockies 2 Ed: Including Banff and Jasper National Parks (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Banff

Photos:
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Usage Frequency: Banff

"Banff" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Banff" is used about 66 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%6641,290

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Banff

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

banff

5,962

banff national park

5,265

banff canada

1,049

banff hotel

993

banff alberta

301

banff springs hotel

224

banff accommodation

212

banff lodging

147

banff spring hotel

140

banff skiing

131
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Banff

Language Translations for "banff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

anffbay.(various references)

   

Scottish

  

Banbh. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Banff

Misspellings

"Banff" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aboff, baff, Bamff, Banfi, Bnaf, Braff, Hanff, Kagnoff, Nafnaf. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Banff

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-f-f-n"

-1 letter: baff.

-2 letters: aff, ban, fan, nab.

-3 letters: ab, an, ba, fa, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-f-f-n"
 

+2 letters: baffing.

 

+3 letters: baffling, bouffant.

 

+4 letters: bouffants, ineffable, ineffably.

 

+5 letters: bafflement, bafflingly, buffaloing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Banff


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 6E 66 66

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-    -.    ..-.    ..-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01101110 01100110 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#110 &#102 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 006E 0066 0066

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3667807272

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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