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Definition: Bowler |
BowlerNoun1. Delivers the ball to the batsman in cricket. 2. Rolls balls down an alley at pins. 3. A hat that is round and black and hard with a narrow brim; worn by some British businessmen. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bowler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Bowler, Wisconsin."
Synonyms: BowlerSynonyms: bowler hat (n), derby (n), plug hat (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bowler |
| English words defined with "bowler": break ♦ Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Chinaman ♦ foul line ♦ mid-off, mid-on ♦ open frame ♦ Return crease ♦ Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bowler": COLT BOWL. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Bowler" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (bowler). |
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Screenplays | I'm also a swell bowler. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Conrad, I'm not a very good bowler, what I mean is, I'm a funny bowler (Ordinary People; writing credit: Judith Guest; Alvin Sargent) Always keep your bowler on in time of stress, and watch out for diabolical masterminds (The Avengers; writing credit: Paul Monash) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bowler (1973) | |
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 | Caption: Miller Reese Hutchison, in Bowler Hat, Observing Storage Battery "Bump" Test; West Orange, NJ; Unknown Date; {06.030/102} (jpg). |  | Hiram W. Johnson, half-length portrait, standing, facing left, wearing bowler hat] / National Photo Co., Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Man wearing tuxedo, holding bowler hat. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Bowler" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.99% of the time. "Bowler" is used about 630 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 (singular) | 96.99% | 611 | 10,546 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.01% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Total | 100.00% | 630 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bowler" 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 |
| Bowler | Last name | 2,000 | 4,977 |
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| Country | Name |
| South Africa | Bowler Metcalf Limited (Bowcalf) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Bowler, WI (village, FIPS 9025) |
Expression using "bowler": bowler hat. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bowler": bowler-hat, bowler-hatted, bowler-style. | |
Ending with "bowler": fast-bowler, pace-bowler, stock-bowler. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "bowler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kapelë republikë (bowler hat). (various references) | |
Arabic | لاعب البولنغ. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бомбе (bowler hat, plug, pot-hat). (various references) | |
Czech | buřinka (bowler hat, pot-hat), nadhazovaè. (various references) | |
Danish | bowler. (various references) | |
Dutch | bolhoed, garibaldihoed. (various references) | |
Finnish | knalli. (various references) | |
French | melon (bowler hat), joueur de quilles, joueur de pétanque, joueur de boule, chapeau. (various references) | |
German | melone (cantaloupe, Derby, melon), bowler. (various references) | |
Greek | καπέλο ντέρμπυ, ένα σκληρό, ρεπούμπλικο, σφαιριστήσ (billiard player, billiardist). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כובע בריטי ל'ברים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tekéző, kuglizó. (various references) | |
Italian | bombetta (billycock, Derby), cappa (cap, Cape, cloak, cope, cowl, hood, Kappa, mantle, Pall). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ボイル油 (boiled oil, bowl, bowl game, bowling, vocabulary), 山高帽子 (derby). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ボウラー , やまたかぼうし (derby). (various references) | |
Manx | boulleyder. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owlerbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | boné (bonnet, lid), jogador de boliche, chapéu-coco (billycock, derby). (various references) | |
Romanian | pãlãrie melon. (various references) | |
Russian | котелок (billycock, bowler hat, kettle, mess tin, pot-hat), игрок в боулинг. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | polucilindar (bowler hat), kuglaš. (various references) | |
Spanish | jugador de bolos. (various references) | |
Swedish | kubb (billycock, bowler hat, pot-hat), styv filthatt, kastare (caster, pitcher). (various references) | |
Thai | หมวกทรงกลมสี"ำมีขอบโค้ง. (various references) | |
Turkish | top atan oyuncu. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | котелок (billycock, mess tin), боулер. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người chơi ki (bowler hat), người chơi bóng gỗ (bowler hat). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bowler": bowlers. (additional references) | |
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"Bowler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bioalert, Bixler, Boaler, bogler, boler, boller, booler, Boozler, bowder, bowdler, Bowier, bowker, bowle, bowmer, bowser, Bowzer, bulwer, Bulweria, bulwerii, Cowler, dowler, Obler, Powler, towler, yowler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bowler" (pronounced bō"ler) |
| 4 | b ō" l er | bolar. |
| 3 | -ō" l er | bipolar, Comptroller, controller, polar, roller, solar, Stroller, tolar, Toller. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: blower. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-l-o-r-w" | |
-1 letter: below, bowel, bower, elbow, lower, roble, rowel. | |
-2 letters: blew, blow, bole, bore, bowl, brew, brow, lobe, lore, lowe, orle, robe, role, wore. | |
-3 letters: bel, bow, bro, lob, low, obe, ole, orb, ore, owe, owl, reb, rob, roe, row, web, woe. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, el, er, lo, oe, or, ow, re, we, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-l-o-r-w" | |
+1 letter: blowers, blowier, bowlder, bowlers, lowbred, rowable, wobbler. | |
+2 letters: beflower, bellower, bellwort, blowsier, blowzier, bowlders, browless, furbelow, growable, overblew, overblow, wellborn, wobblers, wobblier, workable. | |
+3 letters: beflowers, bellowers, bellworts, billowier, elbowroom, flowerbed, furbelows, overblown, overblows, wolfberry, worktable. | |
+4 letters: beflowered, bellflower, bowdlerise, bowdlerize, brownfield, elbowrooms, flowerbeds, furbelowed, middlebrow, mindblower, outbrawled, snowblower, unworkable, worktables. | |
+5 letters: beflowering, bellflowers, belowground, bladderwort, blameworthy, blowtorches, bowdlerised, bowdlerises, bowdlerized, bowdlerizer, bowdlerizes, brownfields, counterblow, furbelowing, glassblower, globeflower, hereinbelow, middlebrows, mindblowers, overblowing, rainbowlike, snowblowers, snowmobiler, unworkables, warmblooded, wheelbarrow, wolfberries. | |
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