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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Karoon or ~~~Korah. Korah. The riches of Karoon (Arabic proverb). Korach, according to the commentators of the Koran, was the most wealthy and most beautiful of all the Israelites. It is said that he built a large palace, which he overlaid with gold, and that the doors of his palace were solid gold (Sale: Koran). He was the Croesus of the Mahometans, and guarded his wealth in a labyrinth. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
karoon | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "KAROON": pickaroon. (additional references) | |
Words containing "KAROON": pickaroons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-k-n-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: karoo, krona, kroon. | |
-2 letters: kaon, karn, knar, koan, nark, nook, okra, rank, roan, rook. | |
-3 letters: ark, koa, kor, noo, nor, oak, oar, oka, ora, ran. | |
-4 letters: an, ar, ka, na, no, on, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-k-n-o-o-r" | |
+2 letters: kangaroo. | |
+3 letters: kangaroos, pickaroon, snakeroot, workwoman. | |
+4 letters: pickaroons, snakeroots, workaround. | |
+5 letters: bookmarking, cartoonlike, godforsaken, oversoaking, workarounds, workstation, zooplankter. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 41 52 4F 4F 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- .- .-. --- --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01000001 01010010 01001111 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K A R O O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0041 0052 004F 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)453552494948 |
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