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Definition: Togo |
TogoNoun1. A republic on the western coast of Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; formerly part of French West Africa. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: TogoSynonym: Togolese Republic (n). (additional references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Togo."
Crosswords: Togo |
| English words defined with "Togo": capital of Togo, centime ♦ Ewe ♦ Lome ♦ Togo franc, Togolese. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Togo": Africa, Western ♦ CFA franc ♦ Lomé ♦ tg. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Togo" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Togo, Togoland), Esperanto (Togo, Togoland), French (Togo, Togoland), Portuguese (Togo). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Zhenikh s togo sveta (1958) Vo imya togo (1926) Hashimura Togo (1917) | |
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 | Offloading a cargo vessel through the surf at Togo, German colonial Africa. In: "Das Deutsche Kolonialreich," by Hans Meyer, 1909. Vol II, p. 22. Library Call Number: Cfd M612 d. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | African butter tree, Butyrospermum Parkii, in the steppe of south Togo, Africa. In: "Das Deutsche Kolonialreich," by Hans Meyer, 1909. Vol II, p. 102. Library Call Number: Cfd M612 d. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
 | One of the blood sampling techniques during an epidemiological survey in Togo. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud.. |  | A team in Togo investigating the density of mosquito larvae in streams and marshy land. / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Man from Togo sitting in display of market goods. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ledoriezy togo zhe mosta [cherez r. Ondu u st. Soroki]. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Kafedra, ostavshaiasia v Nikolaevskom soborie s togo vremeni, kogda on byl kostelom. Polotsk. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Health | Other countries with more than 1,000 cases annually are Nigeria, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Niger, Togo, and Ivory Coast. (references) | |
Business | Icon Group has field offices in San Diego, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong and Lomé, Togo (West Africa). (references) | |
Most spare-parts, which are not of good quality, are imported from neighboring countries such as Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria because of their low prices. (references) | ||
Cars are also entering the Ivoirian market through neighboring countries such as Benin, and Togo because of lower entry taxes and light clearance paperwork for customs. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Benin | Many returned to Togo; however, as of December, there were 1,182 Togolese refugees in the country and a total of 1,921 Togolese living in the country under UNHCR auspices. (references) |
Rwanda | More than 85,000 Rwandan refugees remain in the DRC, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Togo, and Benin. (references) | |
Togo | The only officially tolerated student groups, the High Council of the Student's Movement (Haut Conseil des Mouvements Etudiants) and the General Union of Students and Interns of Togo (Union General des Etudiants et Stagiares du Togo), are pro-Eyadema. (references) | |
Economic History | Togo | Togo has had a halting transition to democracy. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | It already sells electricity to Ghana, Togo and Benin. (references) | |
Togo | Togo also has substantial limestone and marble deposits. (references) | |
Human Rights | Equatorial Guinea | In previous years, these included visitors and residents from Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, and Benin. (references) |
Ghana | There were no further developments in the 1999 case in which police shot and killed a driver at his residence in Korpeyia, near the border with Togo. (references) | |
Togo | The Commission found "the existence of a systematic pattern of human rights violations in Togo in the course of 1998." The Commission received a number of accounts substantiating the reports of bodies discovered by fisherman in the water. (references) | |
Travel | Belgium | Provided that their stay does not exceed three months, nationals of the following countries do not require a visa: Western Europe, East European countries, North America, Central and Latin America (with the exception of Columbia, Bolivia, Peru, Guinea, Surinam and Guinea-Bissau), Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Republic of Korea, Hong Kong, Brunei and a number of African countries except for Burkina Faso, Niger, Togo, and Ivory Coast. (references) |
Worker Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, and Mauritania are other sources of child labor. (references) |
Benin | In addition hundreds of children are taken across the border to Togo and Cote d'Ivoire to work in plantations. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Togo" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 98.97% of the time. "Togo" is used about 97 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) | 98.97% | 96 | 33,456 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 97 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Togo, MN |
Expressions using "Togo": capital of Togo ♦ Togo franc. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
togo | 464 | icq togo | 6 |
lome togo | 92 | 2003 election togo | 5 |
republic togo | 29 | capital togo | 5 |
sex togo | 27 | air togo | 5 |
news togo | 26 | human right togo | 5 |
togo travel | 26 | africa picture togo | 5 |
africa togo | 26 | s.com togo | 5 |
togo hotel | 25 | flag of togo | 5 |
election togo | 19 | information togo | 4 |
map of togo | 18 | history togo | 4 |
sandwich togo | 17 | togo.com ufc | 4 |
togo picture | 17 | kara togo | 4 |
bingo togo | 14 | country togo | 4 |
togo ufc | 11 | du republique togo | 4 |
rooms togo | 10 | forum togo | 4 |
embassy togo | 9 | afp depeches le sur togo | 4 |
food togo | 8 | restaurant togo | 4 |
togo west africa | 7 | sida togo | 4 |
politique togo | 7 | diastode togo | 4 |
vacation togo | 7 | election in togo | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "Togo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 多". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Togo (The Togolese Republic, Togolese Republic), republikken Togo (The Togolese Republic), Den Togolesiske Republik (Togolese Republic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Togo (Togoland). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Togo (Togoland). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Togon tasavalta (Togolese Republic), Togo (Togolese Republic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Togo (Togoland). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Togo (The Togolese Republic, Togolese Republic), Republik Togo (Togolese Republic), die Republik Togo (The Togolese Republic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Τόγκο (Togolese Republic), "ημοκρατία του Τόγκο (Togolese Republic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Togo (The Togolese Republic, Togolese Republic), Repubblica Togolese (The Togolese Republic), Repubblica del Togo (Togolese Republic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | デ杯 (bathroom, Davis Cup, lavatory, prerecorded announcement, restroom, talk, talk show, talkie, Taurus, tautology, toad, toast, toaster, tochka, toe, toe dance, toe kick, toeshows, together, toilet, toilet case, toilet paper, toilet powder, toilet soap, toiletry, Tokaji, Tokamak, Tokay, token, tokenism, toll, tollgate, tonal, tonality, tone, tone down, tooth, torch, torch lamp, torch relay, tornado, torus, total, Total Energy System, total fashion, total look, total product, totalizator system, tote bag, totem, totem pole, totemism, tournament, tournament pro, toxoplasma, true, try for point, tutti). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | トーゴ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pig Latin | ogotay Togo (Togolese Republic). (various references) Того. (various references) Togo (Togolese Republic), República Togolesa (Togolese Republic). (various references) Togo (Togolese Republic), Republiken Togo (Togolese Republic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "Togo": spermatogonia, spermatogonial, spermatogonium. (additional references) | |
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"Togo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Djogo, t'go, Tigon, Toco, Tognoni, Togoi, Togos, Togou, tojo, To'o, tooooo, tugo, Tuzo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-o-o-t" | |
-1 letter: goo, got, oot, tog, too. | |
-2 letters: go, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-o-o-t" | |
+1 letter: outgo. | |
+2 letters: agorot, cogito, forgot, galoot, gentoo, grotto, hotdog, photog, stooge, trogon. | |
+3 letters: agoroth, bigfoot, booting, bootleg, cogitos, dogtrot, footage, footing, galloot, galoots, gentoos, gooiest, gosport, grottos, gumboot, hooting, hotdogs, looting, mooting, octagon, ologist, otology, outglow, outgoes, outgone, outgrow, photogs, rootage, rooting, sooting, stooged, stooges, theolog, tooling, tooting, trogons. | |
+4 letters: autogiro, autogyro, bigfoots, bongoist, boosting, bootlegs, boughpot, cetology, cognovit, coopting, cytology, dogtooth, dogtrots, ethology, etiology, fetology, footages, footgear, footings, footling, footslog, galloots, goalpost, goitrous, golgotha, gonocyte, goofiest, goopiest, goosiest, gosports, grottoes, gumboots, kotowing, logotype, logotypy, longboat, monoglot, motoring, obligato, octagons, ologists, ontogeny, ontology, oogamete, oologist, outdodge, outdoing, outglows, outgoing, outgross, outgroup, outgrown, outgrows, oxtongue, photoing, polyglot, rogation, rogatory, roosting, rootages, scooting, shooting, sitology, snooting, soothing, stegodon, stooging, stooking, stooling, stooping, tabooing, theogony, theologs, theology, thorough, toboggan, tocology, tokology, tomogram, toolings, toothing, tootling, topology, trooping, typology, unforgot, vagotomy, yoghourt. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 67 6F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01010100 01101111 01100111 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o g o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0067 006F |
| 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)54817381 |
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