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WEALDEN

Definitions: WEALDEN

WEALDEN

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceous formation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the Oolitic series.

Noun

1. The Wealden group or strata.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WEALDEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references)


Crosswords: WEALDEN

English words defined with "WEALDEN": Hastings sands, HylaeosaurusPetworth marbleWeald clay. (references)

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Usage Frequency: WEALDEN

"WEALDEN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "WEALDEN" is used about 42 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)85.71%3657,479
Noun (proper)14.29%6143,867
                    Total100.00%42N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WEALDEN

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

  council district wealden

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: WEALDEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-n-w"

-1 letter: aneled, deewan, leaden, leaned, wandle, weaned, wedeln.

-2 letters: anele, awned, dawen, dewan, eland, laden, lawed, naled, newel, waled, waned, weald, wedel.

-3 letters: alee, anew, awed, awee, dale, dawn, deal, dean, dele, dene, elan, lade, land, lane, lawn, lead, lean, lend, lewd, need, wade, wale, wand, wane, weal, wean, weed, weel, ween, weld, wend.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-l-n-w"
 

+2 letters: handwheel.

 

+3 letters: alderwomen, handwheels, newfangled, newsdealer, planetwide.

 

+4 letters: acknowledge, candlepower, needlewoman, newsdealers, stonewalled, unweariedly.

 

+5 letters: acknowledged, acknowledges, candlepowers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WEALDEN


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

57 45 41 4C 44 45 4E

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)

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

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Bibliographic Items: "WEALDEN"


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Amazon.com BOOKS: Search for: "WEALDEN"

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Public Service or Web Sites Triggered by: WEALDEN