Athelstan

Definition: Athelstan

Athelstan

Noun

1. The first Saxon ruler who extended his kingdom to include nearly all of England (895-939).

"Athelstan" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a noble stone".

Date "Athelstan" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references)

Crosswords: Athelstan

English words defined with "Athelstan": battle of Brunanburh, Brunanburh ♦ Edmund I, Edward the Elder. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Athelstan": Kingston-on-Thames. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Red Slayer: Being the Second of the Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan (reference) The Nightingale Gallery: Being the First of the Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan (reference) (more book examples)
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	Figure 67. The bathythermograph first conceived by Athelstan Spilhaus in 1936 and produced in 1937. This instrument measured a continuous profile of sea- temperature versus depth. It was the prototype of many types of instruments used either for studies of physical oceanography or for use by the undersea warfare community. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
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"Athelstan" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.47% of the time. "Athelstan" is used about 277 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)	97.47%	270	17,892
Noun (singular)	2.53%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	277	N/A

"Athelstan" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a noble stone".

The following table summarizes names related to "Athelstan."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Athelstan	Male	N/A	æðelstan
&Aelig;ðelstan	Male	Anglo-Saxon	N/A
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1. Athelstan, IA (city, FIPS 3430)
Location: 40.57267 N, 94.54224 W
Population (1990): 31 (19 housing units)
Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Expression: Athelstan

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "Athelstan": With-athelstan.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Athelstan

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
athelstan	2
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Anagrams: Athelstan

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-l-n-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: atlantes.
	-2 letters: altheas, hantles, hastate, latents, lattens, saltant, sealant, stealth, talents, tetanal.
	-3 letters: alants, alates, althea, ansate, aslant, halest, hansel, hantle, haslet, hasten, lanate, latens, latent, latest, lathes, latten, lattes, shelta, shtetl, snathe, statal, talent, tenths, thanes, thenal, thetas.
	-4 letters: alane, alans, alant, alate, anlas, ansae, antae, antas, antes, ashen, atlas, elans, etnas, haets.
	-5 letters: aahs.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-h-l-n-s-t-t"
	+4 letters: anthranilates, pantheistical, rehabilitants, thanatologies.
	+5 letters: anesthetically, cyanoethylates.
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