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Date "ABINGDON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Crosswords: ABINGDON |
| Specialty definitions using "ABINGDON": Cupar Justice ♦ Dirty Lane. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Birds eye view of Abingdon, Va. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "ABINGDON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.43% of the time. "ABINGDON" is used about 349 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) | 99.43% | 347 | 15,353 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 349 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Abingdon, IL (city, FIPS 113) 2. Abingdon, MD 3. Abingdon, VA (town, FIPS 148) |
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Beginning with "ABINGDON": abingdon-based. | |
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| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-g-i-n-n-o" | |
-1 letter: aboding, banding, bonding. | |
-2 letters: bagnio, bandog, baning, boding, boning, gabion, ganoid. | |
-3 letters: anion, bingo, bogan, boing, danio, dingo, doing, donga, donna, goban, gonad, gonia. | |
-4 letters: agin, agio, agon, anon, band, bang, bani, bind, bond, bong, dago, dang, ding, dona, dong, gadi, gain, goad, naoi, nodi, nona, obia. | |
-5 letters: abo, ado, ago, aid, ain, and, ani. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-g-i-n-n-o" | |
+1 letter: abounding. | |
+2 letters: abandoning, absconding, broadening. | |
+3 letters: vagabonding. | |
+4 letters: bastinadoing, carbonadoing, crossbanding, snowboarding. | |
+5 letters: backgrounding, bildungsroman, crossbandings, decarbonating, decarbonizing, snowboardings, subordinating, undiagnosable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 42 49 4E 47 44 4F 4E |
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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)01000001 01000010 01001001 01001110 01000111 01000100 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A B I N G D O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0042 0049 004E 0047 0044 004F 004E |
| 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)3536434841384948 |
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