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Dawes

Definition: Dawes

Dawes

Noun

1. American patriot who rode with Paul Revere to warn that the British were advancing on Lexington and Concord (1745-1799).

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

Date "Dawes" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references)

Synonym: Dawes

Synonym: William Dawes (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Dawes

English words defined with "Dawes": William Dawes. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Dawes": Mock-beggar HallVienna Development Method Specification Language. (references)

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Modern Usage: Dawes

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Life of Rufus Dawes (1911)

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

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Commercial Usage: Dawes

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Dawes Act and the Allotment of Indian Lands (reference)

  • The Dawes Commission and the Allotment of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1893-1914 (reference)

  • Index to the Cherokee Freedmen Enrollment Cards of the Dawes Commission 1901-1906 (reference)

  • Abstraction : Marion Borgelt, Stephen Bram, Liz Coats, Debra Dawes, A.D.S. Donaldon, Clinton Garofano, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Janet Laurence, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Carole Roberts, Peter Skipper, Rover Thomas, Aida Tomescu, John Young : Art Gallery of Ne (reference)

  • The End of French Predominance in Europe: The Financial Crisis of 1924 and the Adoption of the Dawes Plan (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Dawes

Illustrations:
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Usage Frequency: Dawes

"Dawes" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.37% of the time. "Dawes" is used about 71 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)94.37%6740,952
Noun (plural)5.63%4175,879
                    Total100.00%71N/A

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Dawes

The following table summarizes the usage of "Dawes" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
DawesLast name2,0005,278
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Dawes

Expressions using "Dawes": Dawes County William Dawes. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dawes

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

dawes roll

199

dawes

79

dawes transport

64

act dawes

64

domonique dawes

49

dominique dawes

44

dawes william

25

dawes trucking

21

commission dawes

20

dawes arboretum

20
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Dawes

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

Pig Latin

  

awesday.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dawes

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sawed, wades.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-s-w"

-1 letter: awed, awes, daws, dews, sade, wade, wads, waes, weds.

-2 letters: ads, awe, daw, dew, eds, sad, sae, saw, sea, sew, wad, wae, was, wed.

-3 letters: ad, ae, as, aw, de, ed, es, we.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-s-w"
 

+1 letter: dewans, dewars, shawed, snawed, swaged, swayed, tawsed, waders, wadies, wadset, washed, wasted, wealds.

 

+2 letters: bawdies, dawdles, dawties, declaws, deewans, dewaxes, dewlaps, drawees, drawers, dwarves, endways, meadows, pshawed, redowas, redraws, resawed, rewards, seaward, seaweed, shawled, sideway, spawned, steward, strawed, swabbed, swacked, swaddle, swagged, swamped, swanked, swanned, swapped, swarded, swarmed, swashed, swathed, swatted, sweated, unsawed, wadders, waddies, waddles, wadmels, wadsets, waisted, waldoes, wanders, wardens, warders, warsled, wayside, weasand, wessand.

 

+3 letters: answered, asswaged, awardees, awarders, bawdiest, bawdries, bedstraw, bedwards, bedwarfs, bendways, beshadow, bowheads, dawdlers, dewaters, dewclaws, dewfalls, dishware, dowagers, dowsabel, drawlers, dwarfest, eastward, edgeways, handsewn, headways, jigsawed, leewards, mayweeds, predawns, radwaste, ragweeds, rawhides, redwares, rewashed, sallowed, scrawled, seawards, seaweeds, seesawed, selfward, shadowed, shadower, sidewalk, sidewall, sideward, sideways, skewbald, slideway, snapweed, sowbread, speedway, sprawled, squawked, stewards, subwayed, swaddled, swaddles, swanherd, tarweeds, tawdries, tideways, towheads, twaddles, unswayed, unwashed, unwasted, waddlers, wardress, warheads, warstled, waxweeds, waysides, weakside, weasands, weaseled, weazands, weekdays, wessands, westward, wetlands, windages, wordages, wrassled, wrastled.

 

+4 letters: agueweeds, bawdiness, beadworks, bearwoods, becowards, bedstraws, beshadows, beswarmed, dameworts, daneweeds, daneworts, dawsonite, deadwoods, disavowed, dishwares, dishwater, downbeats, downscale, downstage, downstate, dowsabels, drawbores, drawliest, drawshave, drawtubes, driveways, dwarfness, eastwards, enswathed, facedowns, fadeaways, guideways, hardwares, hardwires, hawkweeds, headwinds, headwords, headworks, hideaways, homewards, inswathed, knapweeds, lacewoods, latewoods, leadscrew, leadworks, leadworts, leftwards, newsstand, outwasted, overdraws, pastedown, phasedown, plowheads, prewashed, radwastes, rearwards, redrawers, rerewards, rewarders, saddlebow, semidwarf, shadowers, shadowier, shakedown, shallowed, shewbread, shoreward, showbread, showcased, sidewalks, sidewalls, sidewards, skewbalds, slideways, smartweed, snakeweed, snapweeds, sowbreads, spaceward, spadework, speedways, statewide, sternward, stewarded, swaggered, swallowed, swanherds, swearword, sweatband, swellhead, takedowns, tawdriest, teakwoods, teardowns, twaddlers, underjaws, unswathed, unwasheds, viewdatas, wadsetted, wampished, wanderers, wanderoos, wardrobes, wassailed, wasteland, waterbeds, waterdogs, watershed, waterside, wavebands, weaksides, weaselled, welladays, wellheads, westwards, whipsawed, wiredraws, woadwaxes, womanised, woodwaxes.

 

+5 letters: aardwolves, afterwards, afterwords, arrowheads, awkwardest, backwashed, bawdyhouse, beshadowed, breakdowns, causewayed, cedarwoods, chainsawed, cowardices, coxswained, crawfished, crazyweeds, dawsonites, dayflowers, deathblows, delftwares, dewaterers, disallowed, dishwasher, dishwaters, dogwatches, downgrades, downscaled, downscales, downstages, downstater, downstates, downstream, downwashes, drawerfuls, drawknives, drawplates, drawshaves, earlywoods, earthwards, foreshadow, forwarders, forwardest, greasewood, greensward, handwheels, handwrites, headwaters, heartwoods, inwardness, lancewoods, landowners, leadscrews, lowercased, lowlanders, lowliheads, midwatches, misawarded, newsdealer, newsreader, newsstands, overshadow, pandowdies, pastedowns, phasedowns, rainwashed, rawinsonde, riverwards, saddlebows, sandwiched, sandwiches, semidwarfs, shadowiest, shadowless, shadowlike, shakedowns, shewbreads, shorewards, showboated, showbreads, showerhead, smartweeds, snakeweeds, snowballed, snowcapped, spadeworks, sternwards, stewardess, stewarding, swaybacked, swearwords, sweatbands, sweetbread, swellheads, tawdriness, tidewaters, twayblades, unanswered, upwardness, wadsetting, wainscoted, waitressed, wanderings, wanderlust, wardenries, wardenship, wardresses, warehoused, wastelands, waterbirds, watersheds, watersides, waterweeds, waveguides, whiteheads, wholesaled, wideawakes, widespread, windbreaks, windlassed, windlasses, wingspread, wizardries, wyandottes, zebrawoods.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Dawes


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

44 61 77 65 73

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)

01000100 01100001 01110111 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#97 &#119 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0061 0077 0065 0073

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

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

3867897185

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INDEX

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


  

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