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Definitions: BOWYER |
BOWYERNoun1. One who makes or sells bows. 2. An archer; one who uses bow. |
Date "BOWYER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
Note: Bowyer \Bow"yer\, noun. [From Bow, like lawyer from law.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Slang in 1811 | BOWYER. One that draws a long bow, a dealer in the marvellous, a teller of improbable stories, a liar: perhaps from the wonderful shots frequently boasted of by archers. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BOWYER |
| Specialty definitions using "BOWYER": BOWYER, Bowyer God. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "BOWYER" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 86.52% of the time. "BOWYER" is used about 89 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) | 86.52% | 77 | 37,929 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 13.48% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 89 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "BOWYER" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bowyer | Last name | 2,000 | 7,044 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
bowyer | 17 |
bowyer jerry | 16 |
bowyer lee | 7 |
bowyer clint | 4 |
archery bowyer | 3 |
bowyer travis | 3 |
bowyer singleton | 3 |
aisling bowyer | 3 |
bowyer brendan | 3 |
michael bowyer | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BOWYER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Manx | boweyder (bowman). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | owyerbay người l m cung người bắn cung. (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BOWYER": bowyers. (additional references) | |
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"BOWYER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bouyer, bowder, Bowier, bowker, bowmer, bowser, Bowzer, browier, bwye. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "BOWYER" (pronounced 'Bow"yer'): Lovyer, Mowyer, Oyer, sawyer, Volyer. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bowery. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-o-r-w-y" | |
-1 letter: bower. | |
-2 letters: bore, brew, brow, byre, obey, orby, oyer, robe, wore, yore, yowe. | |
-3 letters: bey, bow, boy, bro, bye, obe, orb, ore, owe, reb, rob, roe, row, rye, web, woe, wry, wye, yew, yob, yow. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, by, er, oe, or, ow, oy, re, we, wo, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-o-r-w-y" | |
+1 letter: beworry, bowyers, eyebrow. | |
+2 letters: cowberry, eyebrows. | |
+3 letters: crowberry, snowberry, wolfberry. | |
+4 letters: beworrying, rowanberry. | |
+5 letters: blameworthy, jabberwocky. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4F 57 59 45 52 |
| 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)01000010 01001111 01010111 01011001 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B O W Y E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004F 0057 0059 0045 0052 |
| 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)364957593952 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Names: Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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