Geronimo

Definitions: Geronimo

Geronimo

Noun

1. Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909).

"Geronimo" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a sacred name".

Date "Geronimo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

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Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Geronimo und die Räuber (1966)

Son of Geronimo (1952)

I Killed Geronimo (1950)

Geronimo (1939)

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

Domain	Title
Books	Gatewood & Geronimo (reference) Geronimo (reference) Geronimo!: American Paratroopers in World War II (reference) Geronimo!: U.S. Airborne Uniforms, Insignia & Equipment in World War II (Schiffer Military History) (reference) Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Geronimo - An American Legend (reference) Geronimo (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Geronimo Black (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Vessel GERONIMO. This vessel operated out of Galveston. In 1964 it was the first vessel to transmit oceanographic data via the communications satellite Syncom II to a shore.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Chief Geronimo.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Chief Geronimo.Credit: Library of Congress.		Geronimo and two other men posed standing, full length at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Honduras	On November 13, police in Ocotepeque shot and killed Isidro Geronimo, a member of the Chorti indigenous group protesting the National Agrarian Institute's refusal to grant legal title to the land they occupy. (references)
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"Geronimo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Geronimo" 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 (singular)	80%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "Geronimo" 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
Geronimo	Last name	400	20,238
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

"Geronimo" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a sacred name".

The following table summarizes names related to "Geronimo."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Jeroen	Male	Dutch	Jerome
Jerome	Male	English	N/A
Jérôme	Male	French	Jerome
Hieronymus	Male	German	Jerome
Gerolamo	Male	Italian	Jerome
Geronimo	Male	Italian	Jerome
Girolamo	Male	Italian	Jerome
Jerónimo	Male	Spanish	Jerome
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

1. Geronimo, OK (town, FIPS 29100)
Location: 34.48247 N, 98.38327 W
Population (1990): 990 (384 housing units)
Area: 1.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 73543
Country: USA

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Expression: Geronimo

Expression using "Geronimo": San Geronimo. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Geronimo

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
geronimo	341	fe geronimo restaurant santa	6
don geronimo	28	geronimo race trimaran	6
camp geronimo	21	fe geronimo santa	6
mic geronimo	18	apache geronimo piper	5
geronimo picture	17	cesar geronimo	5
geronimo pratt	16	cigarette geronimo	5
course geronimo golf san	15	geronimo partner	5
san geronimo	13	geronimo pic	5
geronimo sarah	12	geronimo restaurant	4
san geronimo ca	12	geronimo tx	4
geronimo golf san	10	san geronimo lodge	4
apache geronimo	8	indian chief geronimo	4
geronimo biography	8	don geronimo meara mike o	3
geronimo indian	7	geronimo shoes	3
geronimo movie	7	frias geronimo	3
geronimo gil	7	geronimo texas	3
geronimo piper	7	geronimo berroa	3
chief geronimo	7	capture geronimo	3
geronimo oklahoma	6	geronimo an american legend	3
geronimo photo	6	sky diving geronimo	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Geronimo

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-i-m-n-o-o-r"
	-1 letter: ionomer, moonier, mooring, rooming.
	-2 letters: eringo, gooier, goonie, ignore, merino, monger, mongoe, mooing, morgen, morion, orgone, region, roomie.
	-3 letters: enorm, genom, genro, giron, gnome, goner, grime, groin, groom, irone, miner, minor, moire, mongo, monie, moron, nomoi, oorie, reign, renig, romeo.
	-4 letters: emir, ergo, germ, gien, girn, giro, goer, gone, goon, gore, grim, grin, inro.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-i-m-n-o-o-r"
	+1 letter: ergonomic.
	+2 letters: agronomies, ergonomics, ergonomist, goniometer, goniometry, ironmonger, overcoming, reblooming, regrooming.
	+3 letters: chromogenic, coenamoring, ergonomists, foredooming, goniometers, goniometric, homeporting, homogenizer, ironmongers, ironmongery, moonlighter, morphogenic, outhomering, overemoting, oversmoking, recomposing, resmoothing, terminology, trimetrogon.
	+4 letters: boomeranging, everblooming, gastronomies, goniometries, gossipmonger, homogenizers, kremlinology, moonlighters, nomographies, nondeforming, numerologies, numerologist, primogenitor, risorgimento, trigonometry, trimetrogons, workingwomen.
	+5 letters: aggiornamento, agglomeration, angiospermous, commemorating, conglomeratic, countermoving, criminologies, ergonomically, fashionmonger, flameproofing, gossipmongers, ironmongeries, monoaminergic, monoglyceride, morphogenesis, morphogenetic, nonperforming, numerological, numerologists, oleomargarine, outperforming, overconsuming, overinforming, overpromising, overpromoting, primogenitors, risorgimentos, spermatogonia, terminologies, thermoforming, trigonometric.
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