AWA

Date "AWA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

"AWA" is a common misspelling or typo for: away, awe, awed, awl, awn.

Specialty Definition: AWA

Domain	Definition
Agriculture	Animal Welfare Act. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Awa

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Awa, Chiba and Awa, Tokishuma are districts in Japan.

The Awá are an endangered indigenous people of Amazonia.

Awa is also the common name for the polynesian plant Piper methystecium, the principal ingredient of the narcotic drink known as kava.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: AWA

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
AWA	English	Arjo Wiggins Appleton	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: AWA

Non-English Usage: "AWA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Maori (river), Papiamen (water).

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Modern Usage: AWA

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

AWA All-Star Wrestling (1960)

Layali ibn awa (1988)

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Commercial Usage: AWA

Domain	Title
References	Awa Bank, Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) AWA Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)
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Image Slideshow: AWA

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Photo Album: AWA

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Awa. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Usage Frequency: AWA

"AWA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 42.31% of the time. "AWA" is used about 26 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)	42.31%	11	106,044
Noun (singular)	34.62%	9	117,287
Unclassified Items	15.38%	4	175,879
Noun (common)	7.69%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	26	N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: AWA

Country	Name	Country	Name
Australia	AWA Limited	Japan	Awa Bank, Ltd.
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: AWA

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "AWA": awa-a-a-y, Awa-guaja.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: AWA

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
awa	285
awa wrestling	61
awa wrestling figure	7
awa imports.net	7
awa remco	6
awa manneh	6
awa pro wrestling	6
awa today	5
airline awa	3
awa awa	3
awa collection	3
awa gagne greg	3
awa today.com	3
ad awa	2
awa firearm	2
awa history title	2
awa superstars	2
awa nj	2
awa mc	2
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Derivations: AWA

Derivations
	Words beginning with "AWA": await, awaited, awaiter, awaiters, awaiting, awaits, awake, awaked, awaken, awakened, awakener, awakeners, awakening, awakens, awakes, awaking, award, awardable, awarded, awardee, awardees, awarder, awarders, awarding, awards, aware, awareness, awarenesses, awash, away, awayness, awaynesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "AWA": baklawa. (additional references)
	Words containing "AWA": areaway, areaways, baklawas, breakaway, breakaways, breaksaway, caraway, caraways, castaway, castaways, chinaware, chinawares, chuckawalla, chuckawallas, cutaway, cutaways, drawable, fadeaway, fadeaways, fallaway, fallaways, faraway, flyaway, flyaways, foldaway, getaway, getaways, gigawatt, gigawatts, giveaway, giveaways, gnawable, hereaway, hereaways, hideaway, hideaways, hyperaware, hyperawareness, hyperawarenesses, jawan, jawans, layaway, layaways, megawatt, megawatts, misaward, misawarded, misawarding, misawards, multimegawatt, multimegawatts. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: AWA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-w"
	-1 letter: aa, aw.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-w"
	+1 letter: away.
	+2 letters: alway, await, awake, award, aware, awash, bwana, fatwa, jawan, macaw, nawab, papaw, walla, watap.
	+3 letters: abwatt, airway, ajowan, always, anyway, aswarm, atwain, avowal, awaits, awaked, awaken, awakes, awards, aweary, bashaw, bwanas, cashaw, earwax, fatwas, haniwa, jawans, kwacha, kwanza, lawman, macaws, narwal, nawabs, papaws, pawpaw, paxwax, seawan, seaway, swaraj, vaward, wadmal, wallah, wallas, wangan, warsaw, wasabi, watape, wataps, waylay.
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