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"AVALON" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an apple". |
Date "AVALON" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1863. (references) |
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Literature | Avalon An ocean island, where King Arthur resided and was buried. The word means "Apple island" (aval , apple; yn, island); and it is generally thought to mean Glastonbury, a name derived from the Saxon glastn (green like glass). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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The word is an anglicisation of the Celtic "Annwyn", the realm of fairies, or netherworld.
It is possible that Avalon, as Arthur's burial island, refers to the 'isle' of Ely, which at the time was an island amid the East Anglian fenland, which has since been drained. However Medieval monks claimed to have found Arthur's body in Glastonbury, also built on an island-like hill.
Avalon is also the name of some places in North America:
Avalon is also the title of a Hollywood feature film production from 1990. Directed by Barry Levinson, it is the autobiographically tinged story of a family of Jewish-Russian immigrants who come to the US at the beginning of the 20th century, to find a better life. It stars Leo Fuchs, Eve Gordon, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Elijah Wood in one of his earliest roles.
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Avalon is also the title of a Japanese movie directed by Mamoru Oshii.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Avalon."
Crosswords: AVALON |
| Specialty definitions using "AVALON": image formats ♦ Modred, Morgue la Faye. (references) |
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Screenplays | He will never set foot in Avalon, Viviane! (The Mists of Avalon; writing credit: Marion Zimmer Bradley; Gavin Scott) And then for the sake of Avalon I must bring him down to nothing. (The Mists of Avalon; writing credit: Marion Zimmer Bradley; Gavin Scott) You you opened a curtain into Avalon, and lifted me in. (The Mists of Avalon; writing credit: Marion Zimmer Bradley; Gavin Scott) My vows were to her, not to you. I renounce you! Do you hear me? I will never set foot in Avalon again! (The Mists of Avalon; writing credit: Marion Zimmer Bradley; Gavin Scott) | |
Lyrics | I'm waiting for the angels of Avalon, waiting for the eastern glow. (The battle of evermore; performing artist: Led Zeppelin) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Mists of Avalon (2001) Avalon (1990) | |
Song Titles | Why (performing artist: Frankie Avalon) | |
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 | The yellowtail (tuna) anglers of Avalon Bay, California; 200 to 300 boats often seen, all fishing with rod and reel. In: "Sport Fishing in California and Florida," by Charles F. Holder. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, Vol. XXVIII 1908, Part I, p. 207, Plate IV. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Three stores burn to the ground on Avalon Blvd. in the Watts area ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Harbor, Avalon, Catalina Island, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wharf and beach, Avalon, Catalina Island, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Santa Catalina, Avalon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Avalon plantation house near Patterson, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Avalon, Catalina Island. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Saint Catherine Hotel, Avalon, Calif. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Avalon Bay, Santa Catalina Island. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Avalon, July 5, 1910, Santa Catalina Island. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Connie Francis | I could mention a few people like Tony Orlando is a sweetheart, Frankie Avalon, we speak once in a while. I never really had any friends in show business, with the exception of Dick. |
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| "AVALON" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 58.33% of the time. "AVALON" is used about 12 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) | 58.33% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 41.67% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Avalon Bay Communities Incorporated |
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1. Avalon, CA (city, FIPS 3274) 2. Avalon, GA (town, FIPS 4392) 3. Avalon, MO 4. Avalon, MS 5. Avalon, NJ (borough, FIPS 2320) 6. Avalon, PA (borough, FIPS 3608) 7. Avalon, WI |
| 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 |
avalon | 1,973 | park avalon | 56 |
avalon new jersey | 1,041 | avalon anders | 56 |
toyota avalon | 474 | avalon band | 53 |
avalon california | 473 | avalon club reef | 51 |
avalon hotel | 193 | jennifer avalon | 50 |
boston avalon | 146 | avalon ballroom francisco san | 47 |
avalon apartment | 143 | avalon sale | 46 |
avalon pier | 134 | avalon grand cancun | 45 |
frankie avalon | 125 | avalon music | 44 |
avalon lyrics | 103 | avalon theater | 39 |
avalon hill | 100 | avalon nj hotel | 39 |
mist of avalon | 97 | avalon rental | 38 |
avalon community | 74 | avalon christian music | 35 |
avalon bay | 74 | avalon clinic | 34 |
siege of avalon | 71 | avalon bay community | 34 |
avalon real estate | 71 | used toyota avalon | 34 |
the mist of avalon | 66 | avalon fishing pier | 32 |
avalon ballroom | 65 | 2004 avalon toyota | 31 |
avalon resort | 64 | avalon hill game | 31 |
avalon east school board | 63 | avalon inn | 31 |
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"AVALON" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aalen, ajalan, Avala, Avalan, Avaliani, avaline, Avallen, Avaon, Ayvalik, Elvaloy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-n-o-v" | |
-1 letter: naval. | |
-2 letters: alan, anal, anoa, lava, loan, nova, oval. | |
-3 letters: aal, ala, ana, ava, avo, lav, ova, van. | |
-4 letters: aa, al, an, la, lo, na, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-n-o-v" | |
+1 letter: valonia. | |
+2 letters: anovular, flavanol, lavation, nonnaval, valonias. | |
+3 letters: flavanols, flavanone, lavations, salvation, valuation. | |
+4 letters: adenoviral, covenantal, evaluation, flavanones, lovastatin, salivation, salvations, validation, valuations, vocational. | |
+5 letters: alleviation, anovulatory, autoclaving, avocational, clairvoyant, devaluation, evaluations, invalidator, laborsaving, lovastatins, nonvascular, overanalyze, overbalance, revaluation, salivations, salvational, unavoidable, unavoidably, unfavorable, unfavorably, vacillation, vacuolation, validations, valuational, variational, vibrational. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 56 41 4C 4F 4E |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ...- .- .-.. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01010110 01000001 01001100 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A V A L O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0056 0041 004C 004F 004E |
| 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)355635464948 |
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