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Cowpens

Definition: Cowpens

Cowpens

Noun

1. Battle in the American Revolutionary War; Americans under Daniel Morgan defeated the British.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Cowpens" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1906. (references)


Synonym: Cowpens

Synonym: battle of Cowpens (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Cowpens, South Carolina

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Cowpens is a town located in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 2,279.

Geography


Cowpens is located at 35°0'58" North, 81°48'15" West (35.016181, -81.804240)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 6.0 km² (2.3 mi²). 6.0 km² (2.3 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 2,279 people, 922 households, and 639 families residing in the town. The population density is 377.7/km² (979.3/mi²). There are 991 housing units at an average density of 164.2/km² (425.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 75.65% White, 21.37% African American, 0.13% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 2.06% from other races, and 0.79% from two or more races. 3.25% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 922 households out of which 32.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.9% are married couples living together, 17.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 30.6% are non-families. 28.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 15.4% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.45 and the average family size is 3.00. In the town the population is spread out with 26.7% under the age of 18, 8.4% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 15.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 37 years. For every 100 females there are 88.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 81.6 males. The median income for a household in the town is $30,815, and the median income for a family is $39,387. Males have a median income of $35,978 versus $22,778 for females. The per capita income for the town is $14,847. 17.8% of the population and 15.6% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 19.4% are under the age of 18 and 16.4% are 65 or older.

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

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Crosswords: Cowpens

English words defined with "Cowpens": Daniel Morgan ♦ Morgan. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Cowpens

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cowpens: "Downright Fighting," the Story of Cowpens (024-005-01030-1) (reference)

  • Spartanburg County: Greer, Woodruff, Cowpens, Inman, Landrum, Chesnee (reference)

  • A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Cowpens

Illustrations:
Cowpens

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Photo Album: Cowpens

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Cowpens National Battlefield. Credit: NPS.

Refueling at sea from a Navy oiler, during the Marshall Islands operation, January 1944. Photographed from USS Cowpens (CVL-25). The oiler is one of the few that were fitted with a Mark 37 gun director, visible atop her bridge. Note the red navigation light on the oiler's port bridge wing. Credit: NAVY.

Photographed from USS Cowpens (CVL-25) during raids in the Marshalls and Gilberts Islands, November-December 1943. She is painted in camouflage Measure 21. Credit: NAVY.

Pilot evacuates his burning F6F-3 fighter after landing unaware that it was on fire, during the Gilberts Operation, 24 November 1943. Firefighters are rushing to the plane, and put out the flames in a minute and a half, with no casualties. The fire started as the "Hellcat" approached Cowpens for an emergency landing. The pilot was Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Alfred W. Magee, Jr., USNR. The plane was Bureau # 66101. Credit: NAVY.

U.S.S. Cowpens. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Cities: Cowpens


1. Cowpens, SC (town, FIPS 17260)
Location: 35.01885 N, 81.80360 W
Population (1990): 2176 (966 housing units)
Area: 5.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 29330
Country: USA

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Expression: Cowpens

Expression using "Cowpens": battle of Cowpens. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cowpens

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cowpens

31

battle of cowpens

29

cowpens south carolina

21

uss cowpens

16

cowpens battlefield

7

cowpens national battlefield

4

cowpens national park

2

battleground cowpens

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: Cowpens

Misspellings

"Cowpens" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Colprensa, Copans, Cowpers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Cowpens

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-n-o-p-s-w"

-1 letter: copens, ponces.

-2 letters: cones, copen, copes, copse, enows, onces, opens, owsen, peons, ponce, pones, scone, scope.

-3 letters: ceps, cone, cons, cope, cops, cows, enow, eons, epos, news, noes, nope, nose, nows, once, ones, open, opes, owes, owns, owse, pecs, pens, peon, peso, pews, pone, pons, pose, pows, scop, scow, sewn, snow, sone, sown.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-n-o-p-s-w"
 

+2 letters: snowscape, townscape, twopences.

 

+3 letters: snowcapped, snowscapes, townscapes.

 

+4 letters: cowpunchers.

 

+5 letters: candlepowers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Cowpens


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 77 70 65 6E 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ---    .--.    .--.    .    -.    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01110111 01110000 01100101 01101110 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#119 &#112 &#101 &#110 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0077 0070 0065 006E 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37818982718085

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Cities
8. Expressions 		9. Expressions: Internet
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography 		13. Bibliography


  

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