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Definitions: Bandwagon |
BandwagonNoun1. A popular trend that attracts growing support; "when they saw how things were going everybody jumped on the bandwagon". 2. A large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band; "the gaudy bandwagon led the circus parade". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fashion | Custom; mode, vogue, go; rage; (desire); prevailing taste; fad, trend, bandwagon, furore, thing, in thing, craze, chic, last word. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I'm so glad I got on Jackson's bandwagon instead of Dole. (The Birdcage; writing credit: Jean Poiret; Francis Veber) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Getting on the Bandwagon (1956) Bandwagon (1996) | |
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Dennis Miller | The airlines leapt onto the Federal bailout bandwagon like a cross-dressing hunter on a wounded mink. |
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| "Bandwagon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bandwagon" is used about 170 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) | 100% | 170 | 23,898 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bandwagon": climb on the bandwagon ♦ get on the bandwagon ♦ jump on the bandwagon. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bandwagon": bandwagon-jumping. | |
| 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 |
bandwagon bonnies | 69 |
bandwagon | 23 |
bandwagon bona | 6 |
bandwagon inc | 3 |
bandwagon bonnie | 3 |
bandwagon boy | 3 |
bandwagon fallacy | 3 |
bandwagon effect | 2 |
bandwagon basil | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bandwagon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | veturë për orkestër, fitimtar (triumphant, Victor, victorious, winner). (various references) | |
Arabic | عربة فرقة الموسيقى, عربة السيرك. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | група (assortment, band, batch, body, category, clan, cluster, cohort, crowd, gang, group, knot, party, series, set, society, squad, stirps, suite, troop), банда (band, crew, gang, mob, pack, push, ring, set). (various references) | |
Chinese | 马车. (various references) | |
Czech | vùz s kapelou, příznivci politické strany. (various references) | |
Farsi | عرابه ء دسته ء موزیک سیار. (various references) | |
French | boom (floating barrier, ripper bar). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכו ית "תזמורת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | zenészek kocsija. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kereta pembawa grup ben. (various references) | |
Italian | carro della banda che precede il corteo, carro della banda. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | バンタ 級 (Bambi, bamboo, band, band collar, bandana, band-man, bandoneon, band-score, bantam-weight, bump, bumper, bundle, bunt, bunt and run, vampire, vandalism, vin rose). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バンドワゴン . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andwagonbay.(various references) | |
Russian | фургон с оркестром, победившая сторона. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | otvorena kola za orkestar tokom parade. (various references) | |
Spanish | partido político que triunfa, carro de la banda musical. (various references) | |
Swedish | orkestervagn. (various references) | |
Thai | กิจกรรมที่มีคนจำนวนมากเข้าร่วม (เช่น การแข่งขันฟุตบอลโลก). (various references) | |
Turkish | bando arabası, çoğunluk partisi. (various references) | |
Ukranian | вагон з оркестром, переможці. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bandwagon": bandwagons. (additional references) | |
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"Bandwagon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bandwaggon, Brandwagon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bandwagon" (pronounced ba"ndwa'gun) |
| 4 | -a' g u n | snapdragon. |
| 3 | -g u n | Balbriggan, bargain, Bogan, Brannigan, Brogan, cardigan, collagen, dragon, gorgon, hooligan, jargon, Lagan, Logan, longan, Morgan, Morgen, Mulligan, organ, pagan, shenanigan, shogun, slogan, Tigon, toboggan, wagon. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-g-n-n-o-w" | |
-2 letters: abandon. | |
-3 letters: bandog, dagoba, goanna, wangan. | |
-4 letters: adown, bogan, bwana, donga, donna, gnawn, goban, gonad, gowan, nawab, wagon. | |
-5 letters: agon, anga, anna, anoa, anon, band, bang, bawd, bond, bong, dago, dang, dawn, dona, dong, down, gnaw, goad, gowd, gown, naan, nada, nana, nona, wand, woad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-g-n-n-o-w" | |
+1 letter: bandwagons. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 61 6E 64 77 61 67 6F 6E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100001 01101110 01100100 01110111 01100001 01100111 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B a n d w a g o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0061 006E 0064 0077 0061 0067 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)366780708967738180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Spoken | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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