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Definitions: Allegheny |
AlleghenyAdjective1. Of or relating to or located in the Allegheny Mountains. Noun1. A river that rises in Pennsylvania and flows north into New York and then back south through Pennsylvania again to join the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh which is the beginning of the Ohio River. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Allegheny" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
| 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 |
| Alleg.Pow.Syst. | English | Allegheny Power System | N/A |
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Synonym: AlleghenySynonym: Allegheny River (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Allegheny |
| English words defined with "Allegheny": Allegheny chinkapin, Allegheny mountain spurge, Allegheny Mountains, Allegheny plum, Allegheny River, Allegheny spurge, Allegheny vine ♦ Blacksburg ♦ Castanea ozarkensis, chinquapin, confluence, cottonwood ♦ fothergilla ♦ junction ♦ meeting, Monongahela, Monongahela River ♦ Ozark chinkapin, Ozark chinquapin ♦ Shenandoah Valley, sloe ♦ Tilia heterophylla ♦ white basswood, witch alder. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Allegheny Uprising (1939) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site.Credit: NPS. |  | Pennsylvania Railroad. Horse shoe curve, Allegheny Mountains.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Group dressed for wedding(?) ceremony posed outdoors] / Perry, Allegheny, Pa.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Foyer, Allegheny Co. [County] Soldiers' Memorial, Pittsburgh, Pa.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Auditorium, Allegheny Co. [County] Soldiers' Memorial, Pittsburgh, Pa.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cars parked along Allegheny River, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tourist and his wife looking at the view, Allegheny Mountains, Pennsylvania.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Drill press operator, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Ladle of molten iron is poured into an open hearth furnace for conversion into steel, Allegheny Ludlum Steel[e] Corp., Brackenridge, Pa.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | McArthur Advertising Corporation, 2480 16th Street. Allegheny Ludlum Steel display above Union News Company newsstand.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Allegheny" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Allegheny" is used about 38 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) | 100% | 38 | 55,818 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Allegheny Energy Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Allegheny, PA |
Expressions using "Allegheny": Allegheny chinkapin ♦ Allegheny County ♦ Allegheny mountain spurge ♦ Allegheny Mountains ♦ Allegheny plum ♦ Allegheny River ♦ Allegheny spurge ♦ Allegheny vine. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "Allegheny"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | Аллеганские горы (Allegheny Mountains). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
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"Allegheny" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Allaghi, Allighan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-h-l-l-n-y" | |
-2 letters: langley. | |
-3 letters: allege, galley, lanely, leanly. | |
-4 letters: agene, aglee, agley, allee, alley, anele, angel, angle, eagle, elegy, gally, ghyll, glean, hyena, legal, nelly. | |
-5 letters: agee, agly, alee, ally, eely, egal, elan, eyen, eyne, gaen, gale, gall, gane, gene, ghee, glee, glen, gley, haen, hale, hall, hang, heal, heel, hell, hyla, lane, lang, leal, lean. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-h-l-l-n-y" | |
+3 letters: changelessly. | |
+5 letters: hypoallergenic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6C 6C 65 67 68 65 6E 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. .-.. . --. .... . -. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101100 01101100 01100101 01100111 01101000 01100101 01101110 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A l l e g h e n y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006C 006C 0065 0067 0068 0065 006E 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)357878717374718091 |
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