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Definition: Cotswolds |
CotswoldsNoun1. A range of low hills in southwestern England. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Cotswolds" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references) |
Synonym: CotswoldsSynonym: Cotswold Hills (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Cotswolds was designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1966; this designated area was expanded in 1991 to 2046 square kilometres.
The underlying rock is a yellow limestone, and the area is characterised by attractive small towns and villages built of this local stone. The area is particularly good for sheep grazing: in the Middle Ages, the Cotswolds were extremely prosperous from the wool trade. Some of this money was put into the building of churches, so the area has a number of large, handsome "wool churches", built of Cotswold stone. The area remains affluent, e.g. it has attracted wealthy Londoners who either own second homes in the area or have chosen to retire to the Cotswolds.
Typical towns in the area are Burford, Chipping Norton, Moreton-in-Marsh and Stow-on-the-Wold. The Cotswold village of Chipping Campden is notable for being the home of the Arts and Crafts movement, founded by William Morris around the beginning of the Twentieth Century.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cotswolds."
Crosswords: Cotswolds |
| English words defined with "Cotswolds": Cotswold. (references) |
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| "Cotswolds" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.45% of the time. "Cotswolds" is used about 183 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) | 99.45% | 182 | 22,870 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.55% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 183 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "Cotswolds": cotswolds-based. | |
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| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-l-o-o-s-s-t-w" | |
-3 letters: cloots, scolds, scoots, scowls, sotols, stools. | |
-4 letters: clods, cloot, clots, colds, colts, cools, coots, costs, cowls, dolts, locos, loots, lotos, scold, scoot, scots, scowl, scows, slots, slows, soldo, solos, soots, sotol, stood, stool, stows, swots, tools, wolds, woods, wools. | |
-5 letters: clod, clot, cods, cold, cols, colt, cool, coos, coot, coss, cost, cots, cowl. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 74 73 77 6F 6C 64 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- - ... .--. --- .-.. -.. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01110100 01110011 01110111 01101111 01101100 01100100 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o t s w o l d s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0074 0073 0077 006F 006C 0064 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)378186858981787085 |
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